The Colfax chronicle., 1888-12-15
HERE AND THERE.

uGnE ANU InEnEs
Raw carrots, sliced, are appreciate
ed by horses and cows at all times.
Turn the sod under after the frost
appears if you wish to kill out the cut
worms.
Never allow Seeding tree to
grow unless you intend to graft it. 1t
is a waste of time. as no dependence
can be placed on the quality of fruit
from seedlings.
Sweet potatoes will fatten pig
sooner than will corn. The small
tubers can be used, as well as those
that may be damaged. by cooking
them for that purpose.
The cost of colt at three years
old is said by a correspondent of the
Rural NeU Yorker, who has computed
it, to be $84 He also states that such
colts should sell for $3.50.
-Toads are the policemen of the
garden. They speedily transport in
sect depredatiors to place where they
will do no harm. And this interior is
quite capacious.
MIR. Havmeyer, ofNew Jersey, h as
twenty-four silos of 1000 tons capacity.
He recently opened one that was filed
seven years ago and found its contents
In excellent condition.
The great preponderance of testi-
mony shows that soft food is better for
cattle than is dry feed, and that in the
dairy it is no trouble, with plenty of
ensilage, to keep up summer flow of
milk all the year.
"A wheat farmer should be a stock
raiser. The coarse crops raised on the
farm can most profitably be fed to
cattle, sheep or swine; the manure used
to grow wheat, which in turn is con-
sumed, as are the fattened' stock, by
man.
The polled breeds of cattle are
excellent beef producers, and should
answer well on farms where hornless
cattle are desired. There is no neces-
sity for dehorning the stock when only
few seasons are required for breed
ing the horns of.
Let the seed-corn remain on the
stalks until thoroughly dry and hard.
When harvested store it in dry place.
Moisture is injurious to seed-corn. A
corner of the kitchen loft, where il
will receive warmth, is an excellent To-
cation to store it.
The rock on which many who en-
ter the ranks of breeders of good stock
split is that of stinted feeding. The
Shropshire, Percheron and Short-horn
owe their excellence to the fact that
they can make good paying use of a
large amount of food.
The feeding places of poultry
should be spaded up and put in some
kind of crop. They are excellent To-
cations for small gardens, and usually
produce we'll. but if they are not con,
venient for garden purposes, SOW oats
on the ground, then turn on the fowls
when the oats are six inches high.
The asparagus bed should be pre-.
pared on the trench system. Use plenty
of manure, and over the manure place
rich dirt to few inches depth. Give
the roots plenty Of room. As a rule
asparagus. roots are placed too closely
together, as they thicken and multiply
in the bed every year. Once obtained,
an asparagus bed will last many years.
Grain crops should never be raised
in an orchard. or serious and perma-
nent injury to the trees will be the
certain result. After the orchard has
come into bearing there is only one
crop that can be grown on the land
without detriment to tho fruit and trees.
and that is some kind of grass (clover.
orchard grass, etc.
Strawberries will throw out but
few runners now, and a good cleaning
Of the beds by removing all the late
runners will be an advantage. Mulch
ing should be attended to with the ap-
proach of colu weather. Good, we'll
rotted manure is an excellent mulch.
and will largely increase the quantity y
and quality Of the crop in the spr ing.
The rows should be made clean, and
the vines kept in growth as long as ths
condition of the ground will permit
and the bed should be well drained II
winter.