The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-07-06
Farm Notes.

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ewes in 26 hocks have produced 1902
lambs-a return of 155 per cent.
The pigs will be most thrifty IL kept
in clean, dry pens and well littered,bu
will make m)re weight ii they have
run on a clover lot.
A sheep breeder up in Manitoba re-
ports a eve which never has lees than
three lambs at time. And he says
her daughters keep up the record.
Feeding in sheep husbandry is like
any other problem in live stock. How
ever good the breed without good care
and feeding they must necessarily dc.
generate.
Professor Roberts says there is no
such thing as "native cattle" The
term is a misnomer. Our so-5alled
natives are a conglomeration OF all the
best blood of Europe.
Jerseys and Holsteins are to be sharp
contestants for first place in the dairy
world. Neither will ever fiji the place
of the other, and perhaps there is
plenty of room for both.
A fruit grower who draped plum
tree with mosquito net to keep off the
curculio, obtained twenty-five quarts
of fine fruit Another covered single
branch with equal success.
| An enthusiastic writer says that the
silo will make dimples on the faces of
good many dairymen, and that if
they FIJI the silo according to the latest
light on the subject they will never re-
gret it. -........
A tree that is making too much
height without corresponding branches
should be trimmed off at the top in
the fall, which will encourage greater
| growth in the branches next spring
In feeding calves we should remem-
Der nature, and feed often and warm
the milk to 80 or 900. 1t is only when
calves are fed only once or twice day
that there is any danger OF over feed
ing. D. r u
| A very successful breeder of Poland
Chinas never feeds old sour swill to his
swine, contendiug that it is poisonous
to them. All milk, steamed food, ETC.,
is fed within Jwenty-four hours of mix
ling. ii
The Rural Neo Yorker says: One
thing seems to have been quite well
demonstrated, that larger quantity
|of potatoes, as well as potatoes of q
better quality, can be raised with
/ chemical fertilizers than with manure.
When the farmer shall begin to es-
innate the value fof sheep from the
standpoints of meat, fertility and gen.
lerai advantage to the farm, he will not
I allow the market price of wool to de-
termine whether or. not he will ralse
them. .iu r.s..r.fa-. .....r 81 ....
|, "A New York dairyman says he can
get more milk from cows fed on beets,
two bushels per diem to the COW, than
from ensilage. The milk yield ran up
to twenty quarts. He asserts that he
can produce beets at cost of A cents
bushel, 1000 bushels to the acre.
Young corn makes an excellent
i green manurial crop for plowing UNDER
but the seed is expensive. Sorghum
may be used also, and the seed for a
few acres will cost but little. Sow it
thickly, and plow it under when the
tplants re about two feet high. -.
| Allow tho stock free access to salt
at this season, as it. assists in counter
acting the effects of grass diet.
Should seours appear keep the stock
up for d dayeor two and give each ami
NAL warm ban mash. Salt ia nee
essary at all seasons, but more particu-
larly in summer. eco .1 '
l5T Glover can be grown, on any soil
that is in good conditioui lIt may be
seeded down in the fall as well as in the
t spring 2. For this latitude September
is the proper per cd for all seeding,
al which time it will need no shading
crop, as is required by some soils for
spring clover. ~ ID
Do not try to force young peach
trees by the use of strong nitrogenous
, manure. Too much liquid manure will
kill them. This best material to use as
a fertilizer around young peach trees is
! wood ashes. After they are two years
! old an application of ground bone may
|, be given. rl I'd. u-. -.......
5 Much that is often allowed to go to
t waste upon the farm could proftably
e be gathered up and made into good
. fertilizer and applied to the land to aid
u aud increase the yield of the crops
; Give, as far as possible, the kind to
j each crop best adapted to secure the
d best growth and yield.
q Many cases of milk fever may be
!, traced to the manner in which the
= cows are fed before calving. If the
T. COW is waiting to come in, and has
been dried off, she will require bu
7 livery little grain. The best food il
: grass, with light mess Of moistenet
e bran at night II too fat the chance
} are that she will have milk fever.
is Beets or mangels can be raised ii
,e great abundance and at low cost
3 With our best lands and in all season
|. it is possible to ra,se ten bushels o
beets to the same ground space tina
al will produce one of corn. The cost o
d raising is only about three times tha
ul of corn per acre, and the feeding valu
e. of an acre of beets ash a supplements
D, feed to corn is equal to five or NOR
I'd acres OF corn.