Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-09-14
Pointers for the Farmer.
Farm No

Regularity in feeding, in milking
and perfect gentleness and kindness
in dealing with the COWS are essential
to success. Any breach of these de
slderata is inevitably marked bv
falling of in the yield and a cOnse-
quent diminution Of profits.
Naked faLOws are more exhaust1ng
on the nitrogen Of the soil than a
summer crop. A crop ofragweed on
q sUubble field is a blessing in protect
ing the soil from the scOrching sun
shine Of August, which is the season
that the process OfnitrificatiOns shows
the greatest activity.
The great Improvement in the
breeds of horses and of all farm ami
mails has come through the selection
Of males of the best quality. a means
Of Improvement within the reach of
all. The relative influence of sire and
dam upon the progeny, is a point of
great Importance.
The success Of European farmers
with all the forces of nature against
them should be an inspiring lesson to
our tillers of the soil. The American
small farmer has only to unite brain
work with hand work to make him
self independent and comfortable if
not rich. But without this union of
the brain and hand there can be no
great permanent success.
A noted English breeder in enumer-
ating what he considered the good
points Of ShOrthOrned cattle, stated
that among other things the eve of
the animal always influenced his
choice to q great extent. A quiet.
gOOd-natured eye was that of the an
imal likely to suit his purpose; but
the keen eye, in constant motion, he
avoided, because it indicated an irri-
table, uneasy temperament, and an
animal Of such temperament would
not readily fatten.
The Sheep Breeder remarks: 'eThe
large sheep are only adapted to rich
land. They are great feeders, and
the old rule Of eight sheep requiring
as much pastures as one COW does
not apply to them. They viii not
stand excessive pasturing like fine
wooded sheep; they will grow poor
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must generally be kept m small fOcks,
so each can get enough to eat.
The Farm, Field and StOckman says
that if the farm horse is shOd only
when working on hard roads cOntin-
uOusly, the hOOfs seldom wear too
/ thin for the ordinary work or the
farm. When shOd, except for icy
roads, the shoes are better without
caIkins, and for pretty much all work
on the road, summer and inwter, toe
pieces, or rather what are known as
! three-quarter pieces, are better for
| the horse than full shoes.
A Dakota farmer is practicing on
mixed feed. In letter to the North
western Farmer he says he mixed 4
! bushels Of barley, 2 bushels of wheat
/ and II bushels Of oats, and sOWed
the mixture on 9 acres of land *
bushels per acre. in May 1887. He
cut the crop "When green, as soon as
the barley was ripe" tied in small
/ sheaVes, shocked and stored away in
] the barn. He says he never had bet
ter feed, and he and his neighbOrs will
/ adopt that plan this year, for, he
| says, ebay is scarce in these parts. -
One Of the most troublesome gar
den enemies at this season is the cut
worm, whose designs upon the vege-
tables can only be thwarted. by
| prompt and vigilant Manipulating
| Evidences of their presence should be
/ looked for every morning, and when
| ever q plant has been cut, hunt for
the enemy till you find him. He will
/ probably be discovered just beneath
the soil, near the plants he has been
cutting.
In some localities in Switzerland
the traveller on the plains or in the
7alleys looks up to a towering preci-
/ pice 1000 feet above his head When
/ he labOriOusly climbs to the summit.
/ expecting to find nothing but a bare
rock, he sees before him the smiling
eXpanse Of productive fields, with
/ pretty cottages dOtting the land
sCape. The peasant prOprietOrs
started with only the naked rock IN
+ der them. They carried the rich soil
of the valleys in baskets on their
backs up the steep mountain side,
and went to work with a viii until
they transformed their sterile patches
into blooming gardens.
A Spider And a Frog.
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