Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-05-04
FARM NOTES.

- 1890
FARM NOTES.
The official report numbers the sheep
In the United States at 45,00O,0 600.
Boiled peas and beans-if fed warm
so much the better-make excellent
winter egg food.
1t is more profitable to keep a few
hens IN rOOmy quarters than many III
close, small rooms.
Haul out the manure and spread it If
the ground be frozen, 1t viii save
time and labor later on.
Fish refuse contains not only nitro
gen IN large proportion, but also phOs-
phorIc acid, due to the bones.
There have been but few improve
ments IN hOt-beds. They are nearly the
same to-day as they We're 100 years ago.
There is no danger of growing too
much fruit of good quality, but it is an
dasy matter to OverstOck the market
with an inferior article.
Stagnant water on the farm is the
hot-bed of disease, and annually causes
ten times the loss equal to an amount
appropriated for draining it off
The sheep must have dry location
at night. Dampness is fatal to sheep,
being the cause of distemper, while wet
pasture fields cOnduce to foot rot.
Turk eys pay in vermont-when ev-
erything goes well. A Green Noun
tain farmer made a net profit of $48. 50
from a single hen turkey during the
past season.
Wheat straw, cut fine and moistened
with water slightly sailed, then sprink-
led with cord meal, viii be eaten by
sheep and viii answer for them if they
De also fed literally on grain.
a queen bee viii lay ?, 600 eggs daily
for fifty days, and the eggs are Matched
in three days. A swarm Of bees con
tain from 10000 to 1000 in a natural
state; IN hive from 10000 to 10000
bees.
Idleness ON the farm as we'll as else
where Is the refuge of weak minds and
the holiday of fools. Do not SOW wild
oats unless you wish to reap that kind
OF harvest. Worry is the mildew of life.
There is no dignity to idIeness.
When the rye shall be ready for
feeding do not turn the stock upon it,
especially if the ground should be
damp, as more damage would be there
by done the rye from being trampIed
under the feet of stock than from graz
ing it.
Every attention should be given the
young lambs as they are born, and the
warmest place on the farm is not too
hot for them now, as they should be
forced IN growth, so as to reach the
curly so as to realize the high
prices.
a sheep breeder up IN Manitoba re-
ports eve, says the Live sc ok
Indicator, that never has less t ian
three lambs at a time, And he saws
her daughters kept up the record. One
OF them had three lambs in October,
1885; two IN April, 1886; two in Octo-
Der, 1886, and three in April, 1887. /
raising all but one which died when
month old, thus bearing ten lambs In
twenty-three months.
If rich milk be wanted, feed cakes
and meals to the COWS along with
hay and straw, says a British
exchange. If quantity rather than
quality be the object, give them plenty
"a DAO" CAS BItt1nS5 matt Cu1nS and
roots. A mixture of corn, rice and
bran, or pea meals, with a moderate
quantity Of grains and some bran and
cake, all blended nicely with chafied
straw and hay, and supplemented by q
few roots, particularly mangoids, viii
give large yield of good milk, if the
COWS be of the right sort and properly
cared for.
Mares in fOaI should have exercise
and moderate work, but under no cir
cumstances should be subject to harsh
treatment, nor should they ever be al
lowed to so where they would be In
danger OF being frightened. Under
such circumstances the unborn colt Is
quite likely to be influenced, and may
for its whole life be a nervous, timid
horse, shying at every trife, inclined
to run from every new and strange OBJ
ject It should meet. This quality, If in
herited, cannot be overcome, hence
the necessity of avoiding these things
that might cause 1t.