The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-11-18
FARM AND GARDEN.

FARM AND GARDEN.
6easonab1e Suggestions Cleaned
From American Agri-
culturist.
Raising eeedling Potatoes.
In no line of agricultural research
can the experimenter find more varied
field for interesting study than in the
growing of cross-bred, or, as they are
often incorrectly termed, hybridized
potato seedlings. It is remarkable
how persistently a potato will retain
many of its original characteristics and
how marked these will be often in it's
seedlings, although tho parent variety
be old and ''run out" BLOOD will
tell" as surely in potatoes as in ami
mails.
True hybrids-that is. the result of
crosses between two species-generally
partake more of the character of the
male than of the female parent, but
this is not the case with crosses between
two varieties of the same species of po-
tatoes. Seedlings of the Early Rose,
no matter from what variety the pollen
has been taken, almost invariably bear
a marked general resemblance to the
mother variety.
Winter Care of Lambs and Sheep.
From autumn to winter, from grass
to hay (Which probably the young ami
NAL has never seen before, the transit
ton must be somewhat shaded of:
think it advisable to remove lambs from
the pasture early enough depending on
the .season). to leave some green feed
in the field for them to be returned to a
few hours day, for week or a fort
night. 1t is far better to take them up
in this way than to wait until snow
storm has covered the grass beyond
reach, for then the commencement Of
housing will be so abrupt as to be
likely to produce collie or stretches,
Turn them out in the morning for few
minutes airing, and sprinkle in their
racks little of the greenest, most aro-
matte hay at command. like it as
green as English breakfast tea for
lambs. When turned back, they will
eat the greater portion before noon, and
then they may be driven afield for a
few hours.
Watering Sheep.
Too much stress can hardly be laid
on the Importance of looking we'll to
the matter of watering sheep in winter.
You can lead horse to water, but
you cannot make him drink" This
adage would hardly be true of the
sheep. 1t will drink after a while.
When sheep comes out of a stable a
triae chilly, with its blood stagnant af-
ter twenty-four hours quiet, it feels
touchy, and it will sniff and sample here
and there in way which is aggravating
to the shepherd who is waiting on its
motions. 1t may be fifteen minutes be-
fore it can suit itself. 1t may utterly
refuse to drink, whereas, if it could 90
off and take a run of an hour or so, it
would return and drink surprising
quantity. If that sheep had been has
tily shut up by an impatient shepherd,
it would have suffered before twenty
four hours elapsed, and would not have
eaten as freely as it ought, and conse-
quently would have begun to loose con-
dition.
Don't Turn Them into the Corn Field.
1t is the common practice among
many of our western readers to feed
down the corn fields with cattle and
hogs. While the conditions of agricul-
ture with them may make defence for
this during the early winter, we must
warn our readers that from this time
feeding cattle and pigs in corn fields
can be only losing operation. Very
little nutritious food can be found. In
fact, the animals are often allowed to
roam over them, simply because the
farmer has become accustomed to
turning them into the field in the
morning, not because he expects them
to find any food. While the ground is
frozen solid, pasturing is harmless at
least But now thaws are frequent,
and the tramping of hogs, not less than
of cattle. will do the fields great dam
age, which can be repaired only bv
much labor on them in the spring: A
hog or steer will make five thousand
good, hard clods every day it tramps
over soft corn field, and at the same
time tramp off considerable flesh, while
it gains nothing. Keep the stock in the
lots, and give them what hay and straw
they will eat. The animals should not
be allowed on the pastures and mead
ows at THIS season.
Bees in November.
Every observing bee-keeper has no.
ticed the effect upon our calling of un-
profitable seasons, like that just closed.
Many will become discouraged, others
will be indifferent and careless, and the
result will be a great loss in bees,
combs and fixtures. 1t is noticeable
fact that such poor season is almost
sure to be followed by a good one.
This being the case, every prudent and
far-sighted bee-keepcr will see the de-
STABILITY of keeping his stock in the
best possible shape. and of holding him.
self in readiness to make the most of a
better season when it comes. We
should remember that this is but a tenn
porary embarrassment We should
avail ourselves of every advantage to
winter our bees successfully. Preserve