Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-15
FARM NOTES .

In using seed corn that which shows
the slightest degree of injury should be
avoided. Smut can easily be carried
from one year to the other.
The bright spring days will cause the
young pigs to grow rapidly. Turn them
on grass as soon as they are 10 weeks
old, but gradually at first, or they may
have the scours. 1t will cost but very lit
tie to raise a few pigs if they be given
the privilege of small grass plot and
| fed twice day.
As green manurial crop SOW four
bushels of the Southern COW pea in May
on au acre of ground. After it shall have
begun to blossom, and become green and
bushy, turn the crop under, using a two
horse plow, with chain, for pressing
down the vines. 1t decomposes quickly,
and if twenty bushels of lime be then APP
Piled the land will be suitable for grass.
Young peach trees that made rapid
growth last season have been apparently
killed in some places the past winter Do
not remove them as yet, bat wait for the
buds to appear along the trunks, as will
be the case if only the tops be dead. Cut
off the tops down to the nearest buds and
| permit the trees to make new tops. The
{ peach tree can stand any amount of cut
ting back.
The cheapest and best mode OF keep
ing lice out of the poultry house is to
add quart of kerosene Oil to each bucket
of strong soapsuds on washing days and
thoroughly saturate the floor, walls, roosts
and every portion of the poultry house
| forcing the liquid into the cracks and
crevices 1t will kill the vermin as soon
as it shall touch them, being one of the
| best insecticides known.
1t Is important that the sheep sheds be
well supplied with racks ard feed
troughs, so that the sheep will not crowd
each other in their endeavorer to get
! their share of feed. Often the smaller
and weaker ones are crowded away en-
tlrely and do not get any grain and only
the refuse hay. Abundance of room
should be given, so that each animal may
eat its fill at its leisure and without
crowding.
Within the past five years many flock
| masters have abandoned wool as the
source of profit from sheep and given
more attention to mutton, the result be-
iEg that sheep have paid large profits.
1t is being demonstrated that farmers
wool, which is mistaken policy. The
sheep will give larger profit than any
other animal on the farm, but not only
the wool hut the mutton, lamb aud ma
nure must contribute.
Only one quart of milk per COW for
each day may be the turning point be
tween profit and less in the dairy As
some COWS will yield twice as much as
others, it become the duty of the dairy
man to raise his COWS and use only those
from good milking families. No dairy
man can succeed who buys fresh cows to
replace those that dry off, as the chances
are against him. No COW can be depend.
| ed upon as mixer until she shall have
| been tested.
! Scatter ashes along tie rows of the
young strawberry plants as soon as they
shall be large enough to work. Stir the
earth, take out all grass and then apply
the ashes on the surface, and the rains
will carry them down to the roots. Fer
tilizers for Strawberries give the best
results when applied near the surface and
not worked into the soil, as the roots feed
near the surface instead of penetrating
deeply.