Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-12-15
RURAL REAPiNGS.

FRUIT growers can utilize their hot-bed
sash for drying surplus fruit in the sun.
KEEP the hen-house floor covered with
woods mold through the warm summer
months. This will hold the escaping gases.
A POOR horse eats as much as good one /;
scrub cattle as much as grades Or thorough
breds; mongrel poultry as much as grades
or pure breeds. Then why keep inferior
stock!
By cutting, the feed can all be mixed well
together, made more palatable, and is moro
easily and thoroughly digested, and tho
stock will eat it up clean, avoiding unneces-
sary waste.
IT has been remarked that the farmers
who best succeed n this country are those
who devote their chief attention to some ono
product which is favored by their special
soil and climate.
If you sow your garden seed during mild,
genial weather and in well prepared soil,
not too deep, keeping the surface moist by
sprinlsling it over as often as necessary and
sheltering 1t in the event of frost or from
scorching sun, very few seeds will fail to
gernlnate.
THE more important tho feeding of stock
upon the farm becomes, tho greater the ne
eessity of saving feed. Cutting feed is one
way of cconomizing, as well as increasing in
value, by combining one and another sort,
SO the whole shall constitute as near q per-
feet food as possible.
DON'T break, but train the colt. Begin the
lessons with tho halter carly, and let the e.
ucation continue until you have perfectly
trained horse. Do rot wcan the colt too
soon. Feed the dam and colt freely but with
care. Corn should be used sparingly, as it
is fatrproducing. The colt will carly learn
to eat oats with tho dam.
If sprouts appear ON new set trees you
can now easily pinch them of with your
thumb and finger, and throw the growth
where it is wanted. But do not cut off ell
the growth. If you dE.a-f tho top of young
new set tree that jS making {, rapid growth,
you are dwarfng the roots. If you allow
too much top cil a feeble tree you will kill
the tree.
As CORN can no. properly be given in very
large proportion in Inc milk ration, 1t would
be profitable to exchange q ton of corn for
ton of roller bran. If corn is to be fed to
sheep, separately from the fodder, as sheep
masticate more perfectly than cattle, it
would be better to feed shelled corn with
bran. But for horseS and cattle, corn should
be ground and mixed with the coarse fod-
der.
Corn fodder can be considerably in
creased in value by being cut and mixed
with other materials, and the stock thus be
able to derive q much larger benefit than
if fed whole. The size Of the cutter should
be determined by the number Of stock kept.
II it can be arranged SO that supply can
be cut ahead, especially during busy
season, it will interfere less with the more
pressing farm work.
Tn quantity CT cir breathed by cattle,
although varying much with their size, is
probably about five times as great as that
breathed by adult persons, who breathe a
cubic foot in about three and q half minutes.
An adult person brcethes about 400 cubic
fest in 81 hours But for healthy respira.
ton he should have from . to 50 times ~
much air. So with cattle, one Of which
breathes about 1900 cubic feet in q hours.
which should be increased many times fc1
continued pure, healthy air in the stable,
eafhongh cattle spe les affected By mVuH'
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