Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-29
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

ScoURs in calves may be corrected by the
Introduction Of lime water or raw egg INTO
their food.
GREEN CORN ensilage, in the place Of one
half to two-thirds the usual hay ration,
will produce as much and as good milk as
hay.
WELCOMED corn fodder from field corn,
after the ears are removed, compares well
in feeding value with average English hay.
THE quality of milk-that is, the amount
Of milk solids and fat that it contalns-is
controlled more by the constitutional char
acteristics of the cow than by the feed.
IN feeding cut fodder to stock an average
gain Of twenty-five per cent is noted over
the feeding of the same uncut. This gain
Is perceived in the yield Of milk and butter.
An excellent application for the preserva-
ton of boots and harness is a mixture Of
one part castor oil, one part lard, q little
beeswax, and lamp black sufficient to make
it black.
IT has been demonstrated that il pays to
warm the water for hogs. Cold water hast
ems the consumption Of food particles, and
necessitates thereby greater food supply.
The rule applies as well TO cows.
RECENT tests have proven that greater
benefits are derived from feeding beef cat
tie ground corn than from whole grain A
small excess Of hay is required with this feed,
yet the gain is sufficient TO more than cover
this excess.
THE practice of dehorning cattle is be-
coming more common as time advances.
An instance is given of the removal of the
horns of seven hundred head by one man
alone. He operated on one hundred in
four hours, or two and half minutes per
head.
ODoN'T deny the boys and girls an occa-
sional holiday. Don't be so mean as to
thresh or husk corn on Thanksgiving or
Christmas. Let the boys and girls have a
good frolic away from home once in a while
1t will give them cheerful countenances,
which are better than medicine. Then,
when you are too old TO farm yourself, it is
probable that your boys will not all be in the
city.
CARELEssNEss in Swimming cream will
produce white specks in the butter. Great
care should be taken to skim the cream of
the milk entirely free from the least bit of
milk, for milk will sour with the cream and
If kept two or three days will become thick.
When churned, the curd separates from the
whey in fine granules, and adheres or mixes
with the butter, and it is impossible to get
THROUGH the Investigations Of entomolo-
gists we learn that the hop louise lays its
eggs at the close of summer in plum trees,
where the insect matches in the spring, and
resides until at the third generation. The
third brood is winged, and Immediately aft
er development abandons the plum tree and
attacks the hop vine. In the autumn il
leaves the vine and returns to the plum
tree, where it deposits it's eggs for the win
ter, and the cycle Of life goes ON.
A NEW industry has been opened up in the
manufacture of sugar from sorghum, which
is thought to be an assured success. Many
branches of farming that are now over
crowded can go into the sorghum sugar
business, thus relieving over-production in
other lines at profit to the whole country.
This viii retain in the country the one hun
dred millions Of dollars that are now annual
ly sent abroad to purchase our sugar sup
ply, sum that will be doubled in twenty
five years at the present rate of develop
ment.
BARLEY meal as feed for hogs is not ap-
preciated at its full value. Recent expert
ments show that $50 pounds of pncool1ed
barley meal were required to produce 10C
pounds of pork, live weight, while of corn
meal 1853 pounds were required, of corn meal
and shorts half-and-half 574 pounds, and OF
whole corn and shorts half-and-half 49,
pounds were required. This is not very
striking showing in favor of barley meal
but 1t demonstrates most conclusively that
pork can be profitably produced ON barley in
northern regions where corn can not be
grown at profit.