Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-07-13
FARM NOTES.

An English paper reports that 2,S46
ewes in twenty six hocks have produced
4,402 lambs-a return of 155 per cent.
Hoard's Dairyman thinks that the con-
slant breeding for beef and talking about
milk is one of the glaring Inconsistencies
of the day.
Ewes that have weaned their lambs
may be fatted very easily if given two
meals day of grain with plenty of grass
in the pasture.
Radishes may be had in succession at
all periods. Use plenty of manure, and
grow them quickly, so as to have them
crisp and tender
The pigs will be more thrifty if kept in
clean, dry pens and well Uttered, but will
make more weight if they have rup on
a clover lot.
sheep breeder up in Manitoba reports
a eve which never has less than three
lambs at time. And he says her daught
ers keep up the record.
All young animals quickly learn to eat
ground oats, and there is no grain better
for them. They will grow and thrive
upon oats even when drawing milk from
the dams.
tree that is making too much height
without CORES onding branches should
be trimmed off at thu top in the fall,
which will encourage greater growth in
the branches next spring.
Keep squashes and pumpkins away
from cantalOupes and watermelons. In
fact, it is best to grow no pumpkins on
farm where melons are raised, as bees
carry pollen from one plant to another.
The hoe may be used with advantage,
both on beets and carrots. The spaces
between the rows can be cleared with
cIltivator, but the hoe should be used to
clean out grass and weeds between the
plants.
1t requires more labor to engage in
gardening as compared with farming, but
less land is required. The most profit
able crops are not those that give the
largest yields, but which bring the highest
prices compared with the cost.
There is yet room for some one to dis.
cover sure simple remedy for the cab
bage worm. The emedy must be non
poisonous, cheap, easily applied and free
from odor to the cabbage. Kerosene oil
is en- excellent remedy, but it imparts its
odor to the cabbage, which is objection
able.
Rye will begin to grow on the first ap-
proach of spring. 1t provides the first
early pasturage. If kept moderately
grazed, provided the land has been we'll
MANFRED at the time of seeding, the crop
will continue to afford green material as
long as desired. No crop can compare
with it for early pasturage.
All grass crops make the best hay if
cut before the seed-heads form. When a
plant produces seed it has performed its
mission and stored much of its nutritious
matter in the seed. To secure the larg-
est amount of nutrition in hay ths grass
should be cut while the stalks and blades
contain the elements that would other
wise be directed to the formation of
seed.
Crab grass, which so pe-sistently takes
possession of the ground after rain, is
warm weather crop, and will cause ex-
ira labor unless kept down. 1t is very
easily killed with harrow or cuitivator
when young, but if the work be delayed
for a week or ten days it is difficult
matter to get rid of it. 1t is the pest of
corn fields, and in order to keep it down
the rows should be cultivated often.
Old strawberry fields soon become over
run with weeds. This can only be pre-
vented by pulling the weeds out between
the plants as soon rs the crop of berries
is picked, at the same time working be-
tween the rows well with cuitivatOr. If
all weeds are pulled out as fast as they
appear, SO as to prevent them from seed
ing, there will be but few of them the
next season.