Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-27
FARM NOTES.

By blowing early thefrost will kill the
cut worms and pulverize the soil.
A rat-proof corn-bin may be made BY
lining the inside of an ordinary bin will
No. wire.
It is stated that 154 bushels of corr
have been hauled and cribbed within
eleven and one-quarter hours
It has been determined that 500
pounds of corn products, including grain
cobs, and stalks, is equal in nutritive
value to 9,612 pounds Of hay.
Strong brine is reported to be taking
the place Of alcohol for preserving speci.
men fruits. They keep size as well, and
preserve their color better.
The Burlington company that is max.
ing milk sugar from whey finds the de.
mand out-growing the supply, and has
sent west for material to make the sugar
| of.
At the Union stock yards during the
year 1885 almost ten million animals OF
all kinds were received-to be exact, g.
927, 5O7. About two-thirds of the whole
number were hogs.
A farmer of North Belgrade, Me-, says
three bushels of plaster on grass land is
as good as six. He would apply it Just
after the ground becomes bare in the
spring, and just before rain, if possible.
The Chinese mix night soil with dry
argyle; form it into blocks or '.loaves,'
and sell these at fairs. The Chinese pull
verize these before using, and attribute
the exemption of their land from weeds
to their employment.
The Pipestone Star reports farmer
as saying that he can ''keep one stove
going" six months on the sunfower
stalks produced on one acre of land. The
seed produced is feed to the fowls, which
pays for cultivation.
The barbed-wire manufacturers have
agreed upon an advance in price of ]
cent per pound, the rate now to be
cents per pound free on board at Chicago
and east st. Louis, for fifty-ton lots, and
Il cents for smaller lots.
The wages of farm hands in Switzer-
land, exclusive of board and lodging,
average for males about $5625 a year;
for females, $20.50. In the United States
the wages of the farm hands including
board and lodging, average from $500
to $3.50 year.
Diversified farming means fields of
grain, meadows and pasture; kitchen
garden and orchard; lawn with trees
and flowers; breeding mares and milk
cows; sheep, swine and poultry. Live
stock is the groundwork and will hold
the soil fertile.
The Chicago Tribnne says: 1t is I'M
questionable that the present generation
is leaving the farm in large numbers and
that the next will leave in still greater,
and that were it not for the accretion of
foreign agricultural labor our farms would
suffer very heavily.
The wheat record for last year is as
follows: Minnesota, 34,S25, 900 bushels;
Michigan, 81, 261, 900 bushels; iowa, 3d.
332, 600 bushels; then Dakota, 27,913,-
600 bushels of wheat. Last year Dakota
increased her wheat area by over 100000
acres beyond that of the year previous.
Mill maize should be planted in a good,
rich soil, and given good cultivation. 1t
will make a good growth, and furnish
considerable green food if cut off and fed,
or if allowed to stand longerit can be cut
and cured for fodder. Yet it will not
furnish any more feed than good Kansas
orange cane which will easily ripen seed,
and is that much better.
Mr.. Edward NJ. Teall, in the Breeders
Gazette, upon feeding ensilage cattle,
says: 'When fed to bulls it makes them
sluggish and Indifferent, and in the ma
iority of cases of service the bull fails to
get the COW in calf. When fed to COWS
long in calf, say one to two months be-
fore calving, the calves have the worst
kind of scours, and in large majority of
cases the calf dies
A farmer in Norfolk county hired a
pasture last year for $1.25 an acre. 1t
seemed very cheap, but he thinks the re-
suit does not bear out this appearance.
The pasture is three-quarters of a mile
from his barn. To 60 and come costs
each COW mile and a half of travel each
day, and the man who drives them three
miles. A dozen COWS make eighteen
miles of distance covered by them all.
This does not pay. The COW gets exer-
else enough in feeding over the pasture,
and the journey, to and fro, is at the ex-
pense of the milk and muscle. OF course
the man has exercise enough in regular
farm work, and three miles travel is about
one-tenth of days work.
Charles Abbot showed us Jefferson
county Union) a bucketful of willow
roots taken from the well of Charles Gar
rison, near the high school, at depth OF
forty-one feet. The pump was SO thor
oughly wound about with the fibres as
to require the use of sharp-edged tool
before it could be drawn out. About
three bushels of the roots, none OF them
larger than wheat straw, were taken out.
A large willow tree stood a few feet from
the well, and the tap root which sent
forth the fbres did not break through
the stone curbing to the well until it
reached depth of thirty-six feet, which
point was at the usual surface of the
water. This is the most remarkable case
of root growth we have heard OF. The
well was dug twelve years ago. The
couple making daily use Of it are one of