The morning news., 1889-03-04
Farm and Stock Notes.

al LA eSLA OboSN ANOSSos
A blanket for the horse is cheap article
considering the food it saves and the colds
and sickness it avoids. 1t is Indispensable
in well regulated stables.
Always incorporate the manure thorough
ly with the soil in applying round the roots
of trees. 1t is luxurious to the roots to
apply manure of any kind directly to them.
The largest known flower is the rafflesia,
a native of Sumatra. 1t measures 3 feet
in diameter, weighs 10 pounds and has a
calyx holding six quarts. The odor is Of
fensive.
1t is surprising how few farmers fully un-
derstand the making of good butter. They
may have all the appliances necessary, but
it requires skill as we'll, and the younger
members Of the family should be educated
in the art.
just when the frost is coming out of the
ground all stock should be kept Off the
fields, as single days occupancy of the
fields by stock when the ground is soft will
destroy the grass and leave great holes and
bare places on it, The fields that are tram
pied never recover from its injurious ef-
fects except at the expense of much labor.
The man who begins right now stocking
up the farm with good grade or purexpred
cows and heifers and turns respectable
registered bull in at their head will in two
or three years time fairly reap dollars for
all dimes invested.
There will be a change in the system of
breeding and feeding swine in few years,
says an exchange. People are tlrlng of fat
pork. They are calling for more lean and
less fat, and corn will not answer the call.
Other foods will need be fed, foods that will
give growth and lean meat.
There are few things that add more to the
value of farm and home, considering the
cost, than a full supply of fruits, small and
large, and sufficient number OF shade and
ornamental trees to supply necessary shade
and protection. Care should be taken noJ
to crowd. Make calculations for growth,
as it may be necessary to thin out later j.
A better appearance can be secured by Civ
ing them plenty of room at the start.
Do not allow the birds to be destroyed.
They are of too much enefit in destroying
insects, worms and pests, that prey upon
the fruit and trees. the cat-bird eats and
destroys pear bugs: the woodpecker digs in
and destroys the borer; while the jay bird,
chickadee, wren, thrush, robin and blue
bird all do good work in the orchard.
Prominent dairymen claim that by al
lowing the cows salt freely it produces q
flow OF milk. This is explained by the fact
that salt promotes thirst, and causes the COW
to drink more water. 1t is claimed that
cows drinking less than twenty-seven quarts
of water daily are poor mixers, water conf
posing about SO per cent. of the milk. Such
experiments, however, do not determine the
quality of the milk, and in one respect show
tna5 the milk may be watered through the
agency of the COW.
Seed corn should be saved from some va .
riety that has given good results IN the
section where it was grown. To change
the seed without first experimenting In
order to learn If the variety is adapted to
the soil aud climate may entail loss of the
crop. There is no cereal that combines so
many different varieties as corn, and the
crop that flourisheS in one section may be
early and prolific, but when transferred
through the seed elsewhere often proves the
poorest tuat can be grown.
The object of the national and state agri-
cultural departme4 is and experiment sta
tions is the promotion of agriculture by
sue b scientific Investigations and careful ex-
perimentS as farmers cannot make for
themselves, and which require the skill of
trained specialists. At the various stations
that now exist in almost every state,
analyses of commercial fertilizers are made,
as well as experiments with growing crops
and best methods Of combating the numer-
GUS species of destructive Insects. In short
everything pertaining to the success of ag-
riculture is considered and reported on.
Careful experiments by Prof. Babcock
seem to snow preference for sour cream
in the quantity OF butter yield. But, says
an exchange, is he able to tell as at what
temperature he gets the best yield from
sweet cream as we'll as from sour! Ii he
cannot, tuen his experiments as yet decide
nothing-unless it be the TACT that cream In
both conditions cannot be prohCabIy
churned at the same temperature.
Prof. J. W. Robertson Of the Ontario
Agricultural College says: "A silo is sim
ply place whore FODDER is preserved in a
succulent condition. 1t may be a pit, a
box, NOV, a building, or trench in the
earth. Sllage is the word denoting folder
SO preserved. Ensilage is the term applied
to the process or system. Ensile Is the word
expressive of the action of making silage,
Eusilor stands for the person using silo to
enslle fodder for silage by the process Of en-
sllage.
The acting entomologist of the depart
ment of agriculture repJrtS that reaches Of
all kinds may be etfectually destroyed by
the application OF pyrethrum powder or
California buhach. This may be obtained
from any druggist. 1t should be sprlAkled
where the roacnes run, and though it may
not kill them at once, it will sooner or later
destroy any of the insects which have been
touched by it.
Pumpkins are good feed for lambs in the
fall, especially when they are troubled with
paper-skin, caused by worms in the intes-
tines. They will eat them tolerably well if
broken up on very clean aud close
sward, but it is better 10 provide hat-bot-
toned troughs with compartments, each be-
lug large enough to receive the half of a
pumpkin split 10 such fashion as to lie fiat,
with the inside uppermost.
Every farmer should experiment, in order
to learn by practical experience tue kind of
e,.,1a ~ ION, aA. ta1
for mis- farm. Soils vary, and the expert
eAce Of one farmer is not always a guide
for another. Experiments on small plots
cost but very little, and may lead TO an i'm
provement tnat is permanent. Well tried
varieties and systems that have before
given good results should never be aban-
doned for those that are newer until care
fully conducted experiments prove them in-
ferior to those that have been tested in COM
parison with them.
Household.