Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-01-19
FARM NOTES.

poultry, promotes early moulting and
too much may cause the feathers TO
fall off.
1t is reckoned that ii costs $50 TO
keep each one of the 100, 600 families Of
Minnesota warmed and fed during q
single Winter.
Cleanliness and condition will not
prevent hog cholera when animals are
exposed to it, but they will decrease
the risk of disease.
Reports from the flock in all parts
of Australia are more favorable than
they have been for years, the fall OF
lambs being much over the average,
and feed being plentiful.
Canada has a good law which re.
quires every person on whose plum
trees the black knot appears to cut IL
out or otherwise destroy 1t. the
penalty being not less than IS for each
offense.
Southwestern Oregon is recommend
ed as a remarkable good district fol-
apples, pears. prunes and general
fruit growing. Watermelons also
thrive there in great abundance and
perfection.
The culture OF annette has been in
troduced into several of the west India
islands. In ricn land the bushes will
make large growth If planted in sod,
and will produce berries in three or
four years.
An English gardener has discovered
that the peculiar, strong, and to most
persons disagreeable flavor Of parsnips
may be avoided by sowing the seed
quite late in the season so as to have
the roots attain most of their size In
the fall instead of in the summer.
Professor Budd, of the Iowa Agri-
cultural college, says what we we'll
know to be true. that he lis running
the largest line of experimental work
vet attempted in the West" as he has
literally hundreds of sub-trial stations
to which he sends trees and shrubs for
trial.
The Boston advertiser reports that
Iowa farmers are writing to Vermont
with regard to purchasing farms there,
and it says that already movement
has set in from various directions that
bids fair TO settle the problem of the
hill towns of New England by repeople.
ing them.
Hop-raising is said to be more
profitable in Oregon and Washington
territory than in any of the eastern
states. The seasons are long, insects
are scarce, poles are cheap and plenty,
while the crop is harvested by Indians,
who work for small wages and are re-
ported as being very reliable.
Phylloxera have appeared in several
VINEYARDS near Biebrich, and the ut.
most CONSERVATION naturally prevails
! in the Rheingau, as the affected vines
are within few miles of the Johnnis.
berg, Steinberg. Rauentilal, and Mar.
cobrunn vineyards, which produce
the finest of all the wines of the
| Rhine.
/ Some of the older states are renew
1 ing their growth of timber, thus tend
ing to allay the fears of an eventual
exhaustion of the timber supply. In
New England there is vigorous
second growth of white pine. where
the forests are already yielding between
200, 100000 and SOC, 100000 feet O
! timber annually.
| Sachs says that the cultivated varie
ties of Indian corn are probably de
seconded from a single, primitive wilC
form, but it seems doubtful whether thu
native Brazilian species-the only on'
| known in the wild State--is the print
tive form. If it is not, then no plant |:
now known which can be considered
as the ancestral form of our numerous
varieties.
Professor Z. Stewart says that on,
ounce, or less, of oil meal TO a gallon
of warm, sweet whey will make j
nearly equal in feeding value to whole
milk for the raising of calf to three
weeks old, and Safter that another
quarter of an ounce may be safely
added. The oil meal should be dis
solved In hot whey before mixing
with that of the right temperature Il
feed.
Popcorn is sold by weight and com
mands ready sale. As poultry fooC
it is better than any other kind of corn
as it is not so rich in the fat and con
| tainS larger pfopOrtioH oi aIpulniH
oids. Although the cars arc small, ye
crop of popcorn produces nearly a
much as the larger varieties, as 1t con
tains larger number of ears to thu
stalk, while more stalks can ais
be- grown on hill.
The yillage-settlement scheme il
New Zealand is reported to be work
ing well. Under it small farms of on
acre to fifty acres are sold or Lease
on easy terms by the government, anC
money is advanced at per cent. Il
the occupiers for building house ant
clearing the land. the limit TO any on
person being E40. The price of thu
land. if sold, is f5 each for allotment
not exceeding one acre. and I'll al
acre for the small farms. Where tn
land is leased, the rent is only pc
cent. on the capital sum. or shillin!
an acre. Thus man may hire twent,
acres of land for Fl year, and if h
borrows EGO for house and EGO TO
clearing eight acres of land, his tota
yearly payment will be only Is.