Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-05-17
FARM NOTES.

For nome use the WnlCo onions are pre-
ferred, US they are mild in flavor. For mar
ket use the red and yellow Kinds are The
most desirable.
Wheat has doomed and doomed in Chi
cago until it got up to ~ cents. 1t has beer
| worth that in Jasper County for month
where we have thirteen mills.-Sarcori
(4AO) Vindicator.
In addition to the usual thickness of
tarred paper IN wooden silos a coating OF
hot tar on both thcknesses OF boards is
now used. This, it is claimed, will preserve
the boards from rotting.
The number of farmers who arc making
good silage in the barn bays is certainly
surprising. Prof. Gulley's plan of filling
the silos aud using the hay for weighing is
practiced by many very successfully.
The common white clover grows wher-
ever our red clover is foun,, and makes an
excellent pasture grass. Where bees are
kept it is invaluable, as it furnishes large
amount of honey of excellent quality.
The increased use of the silo will tend to
make oats more popular with dairy farm
ers. Crushed or ground oats will make
an excellent grain ration to 60 with the
silage and the oat straw will make the
needed dry food.
Potato beetles will attack young egg
plants in preference to any thing else, and
they are also partial to tomato plants when
the latter are young and tender. Hence
when egg and tomato plants are trans
planted they must be searched over every
day and the beetles destroyed.
Go over the orchard at least once a
month and search for the borers or they
will bore in too far to be reached. Remove
the earth from each tree and examine the
trunk carefully. The borer may be known
Dy the exudations Of the tree where it
cutters aud also by the "chips'' it throws
out.
Early melons may be started by plant
Jag the seed In rich earth. iu egg
shells. AS soon as the young plants shall
throw out leaves plant the shells contain
ing the plants in the proper hills intended
for them. The roots of the melons will
break the shells after they shall have been
put in the ground.
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, but wait for the
buds to appear along the trunks, as Will
he the case If only the tops are 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.
Scatter ashes along the rows Of the young
straw berry 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. Fertilizers for straw.
berries give the best results when applied
near the surface and not worked into The
soil, as the roots feed near the surface III
stead Of penetrating deeply.
In the West, where the ensilage system
is being extensively pushed, the system Of
hiring cutters as threshing machines are
hired is very popular. The cutter and
engine 60 about from house to house with
men enough to take care OF the fodder as
fast as it is presented. Thus many smaller
farmers who could not afford to own a
cutter and power are euabled to fill their
silos at q reasonable cost