Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-07-15
THE LEDGER
THURSDAY, JULY l5, 1886.
Farm Notes,

, uhe to liie lniuuie OF July.
Nothing adds more to the value of
4 farm more than good roads in the
country adjoining it.
Encourage toads in your hotbed
and garden. They will destroy more
than their weight in insect pests.
Give the boys chance to develop
their judgment in regard to horses.
1t may be money in their pockets in
the future.
Now is all excellent time to push
young pigs, as they grow very rapid
ly after the weather commences to
become warm.
The advice TO put COW before
calving on short rations to prevent
milk fever is bad. The food should
be regular, not forced.
Dust melon vines with paris green
or London purple to keep off the
bugs. Dust with one part Of the
powder to twenty-five parts of flour.
Calves kept gaining vigorously
through the first year are worth at
the end twice as much as Others that
have been retarded in growth.
A second brood of current worms
usually makes its appearance just as
the fruit begins to ripen, and is quite
as injurious to the crop as the first
if not promptly destroyed.
A soil but five inches deep cannot
he worth IS much as another that
gives free scope to the roots of plants
to whatever depth they may penetrate
in search of nutriment.
By keeping land in clover, cutting
the first crop and plowing under the
second, q New York farmer produced
100 bushels of shelled corn per acre.
The fertilizer used was handful of
hen manure around each hill of corn.
Now is the time to prepare for
blue grass winter pasture. Let it
grow from this time on undisturbed,
and for fall, winter and early spring
pasture it will be worth more per
acre that the everlasting cropping of
grain.
Permanent pasture lands are the
main anchor of agriculture, and the
farmers of this country will find this
out after while, as they already
have in England, and will commence
seeding their land with permanent
grasses.
If farmer makes but little effort,
and is content to drive an old scrub
by team, and scatter a little fodder
to sold Brindle," while sunfsh hogs
and hairy, worthless sheep complete
the live stock outfit, that man is a
miserable failure.
The cherry is about the only fruit
tree which can be recommended for
shade in pasture along roadsides, as
the hardy varieties of cherries are
not affected by the tramping of stock
or passing of vehicles, which would
prove injurious to most other fruit
trees.
Separated early and raised up by
themselves, pullets are worth at least
q quarter more for use than if allow
ed to run with lot of cockerels. In
the large, late-maturing breeds the
evil is less, though even with then
the practice of keeping them separate
is most profitable.
As most of soils are deficient il
potash, wood ashes may be applied
unmixed with other materials, Il
good advantage; spread broadcas
and narrowed in at the rate of ont
peck to the rod will prove beneficial
to almost any hoed crop; or thu
same quantity spread on moving
land soon after moving will yer,
much increase the crop another year
Potatoes do we'll on corn land tha
has been manured for the corn crop
Good sod land can also be used. 1
deep. mellow seed bed should be Sc
cured by deep ploughing and thor
ough pulverizing. Manure and moist
ure are essentials. Old manure cal
be ploughed in. Some of the bes
crops are raised with commercial fer
tilizers.
Battle the horses shoulder will
cold water or brine as quick as tn
collar comes off, before the sweat he
gins to dry, and rub off the collar
and saddle pieces with O moist cloth
This will prevent sore shoulders. Al
changes of food should be gradual
but in proportion to the work. Heav
lily taxed muscles makes demands Of
the stomach hence, increase the foo
after work begins, never in anticips
tion. A horse fed up before he i
called to work gets soft and fat.
The farms of America equal tn
entire territory of the United King
dom, France, Belgium, Germany
Austria, Hungary and Portugal. Th
corn fields equal the extent of Eng
land, Scotland and Belgium, Will
the grain fields generally would ovel
lap Spain. The cotton fields cove
an area larger than Holland an
twice as large as Belgium. The ric
fields, sugar and tobacco plantation
would also form kingdoms of no il