The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-04-06
FARM NOTES.

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Shropshire eve ought TO earn from 81
to $40 year" He says ''they bea
his cows all to death, and outdue hii
Percheron mares 100 per cent"
Proprietors Of first class hotels ant
restaurants state that there is NOR,
difficulty in obtaining superior muttor
than any other kind of meat, poultr,
or game. If this be true il should bt
a hint TO farmers in all sections Of the
country.
Commissioner Colman has estimated
that the introduction of one bull with
pleuro-pneumonia into Missouri cost
the people of that State 81, 1000, 200
And the introduction of one into Ken
tucky cost that State $2,000,UOO. The
outbreak at Chicago cost Illinois more
than $7,000,0O0.
BY tying a small corn cob to one leg,
allowing IL to dangle at distance OF
about six inches, a Maine poultry fan
cier is said to succeed in keeping her
chickens at home. "The fowl can
scratch and get about with ease, but
will not attempt to fly over pailings or
squeeze through crack
II will not cost more than 81 elch
TO buy vigorous young cocks or cocker
els, of pure blood, to cross on your
flock next season. And whatever you
may do, do not use anything but pure
males, no matter how your flock may
be made up. Get whatever variety
you please, but let it oe strictly pure.
Rotation of crops battles, in a meas
ure, the root enemies, both insect and
fungus, that prey upon them Each
plant has its own peculiar enemies, and
changing of plants removes them to
fields unocoupied by such enemies
This is true of the enemies OF the above
ground growth of plants to an impor-
tant degree.
The most porous land will stand the
drought best. The increased earlness
of fruits and vegetables on well-drain
ed land is well understood. They will
be at least tour days earlier on soil Of
the same condition and exposure where
it is we'll drained. This means better
prices, larger yield, longer season
and better margin of profit.
The annual report of the Commits
sioner of Agriculture, recently issued,
states that pleuro-pueumonia is now
restricted to smaller areas than at any
previous time in many years. There
is now every assurance that the present
policy of the Federal and State author
tiles, continued for another season, will
entirely exterminate this disease.
The various cereal crops are depict
ing and rapidly exhausting the soil,
but crop of mutton or wool takes but
an imperceptible fraction, and, under
the best management, adds to its fer
tility. Large cities are new growing
up all over tho country, and mutton
production is to be one of the most
profitable of farm industries in the
near future.
The following occurs in recent ad-
dress before farmers institutes: "Be
assured that when the roll-call of
successful farmers is ordered, he who
refuses to experiment. who will not
expend dollar unless he sees two at
the door knocking for admittance,
whose movements for regular mono
tony outrival the seasons, whose foot |
prints of this year fit snugly into those
Of the past, who occasionally puts
1oubt at rest by pricking himself to
make sure that he is yet in the flesh,
will fail to respond"
No man who owns COW can afford
% have her afraid of him, for it would
'e a loss to the owner every time the
low should be in any way frightened,
While to run COW to pasture is like
hrowing money away. The COW is
imply milk making machine, and
hould be kept in the bes, working con-
lition, and for her this condition, is
me of quiet. A COW that should be in
ny way worried will not do her best.
lake pets of the cows, and they will ,
make money for the owner.
There can he no possible objection
o feeding straw, but care should be
AIKEN to derive as large an amount of
'eneft at possible. 1t must be fed in
uch way that good gain can be
pcured with the stock. Wintering
tock to keep it alive is ons thing; win
ering so that good steady growth
7ill be made is another. In the one
traw can be made to answer; in the
Their something else is necessary. In
he one there is no profits; with the
ther very fine profit may be Sc
ured.