Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-24
AGRICULTURAL BRIEFS.

! THE word corn, which in this country ap-
plies only to Indian corn, is, in the British
Isles, used to designate grain in general
FODDER has most admirable effect on
the respiratory and circulatory systems.
A horse may be cured of a mild case Of
heaves by the substitution Of fodder for
hay in the manger.
A GREAT MAN. people suppose that the
frequent mixing of the varieties in pota-
toes takes place after planting. This may
Be true in some instances, but more fire.
quently it occurs in the selection Of pota-
toes for seed
BUcKwHEAT put in as a late crop, after
the deficiencies of the other grain crops
appears, is useful as supplementary crop
in a Northern climate where the growing
season does not admit of resolving imper-
feet stands of grain.
FooT rot in cattle is occasioned by their
standing il mud or wet stables. If the
feet are sore, place them in dry stable,
wash the sore with pure CASTLE soap and
water and apply pine tar after having re-
moved all ragged bits from the hoof.
VERY fat and apparently healthy cattle
are more likely to be attacked by dis
ease known as bloody murrain than those
not so well favored. The disease often runs
its course so quickly that its victims are
found dead in the stable or field as the first
indications of its presence.
YOUNG calves may be fed to advantage
upon mixture of water, two spoonfuls of
linseed meal and milk enough to flavor.
After few weeks little sifted oatmeal
may be added. Corn meal should not be
used, as it is productive OF the scours. Lin
seed or oatmeal may be fed until the calves
are ten weeks old.
A THEORY has been advanced by a farmer
that the disease known AS hog cholera is
spread over the country by carrion birds.
1t is fact that crows will eat the flesh of
hogs that have died Of disease, which fact
lends plausibility TO this theory. This may
serve to illustrate the Importance Of bury
ing or destroying all hogs that have died
OF this disease.
CHRONIC sore throat in horses may be
determined by paroxysms of coughing
brought on by the contact Of cold water.
AS remedy, place the animal in a stable
free from dust and steam the nose daily
with warm bran mash IN nose-bag, and
bandage the neck with sheep-skin or heavy
flannel -Four drachms OF aloes raSy be
given as physic.
The work of farm cleaning is not CON-
plete until those stumps and stones are re-
moved which can be taken out with rea-
sonable amount Of labor: until the trees
about the house and IN the orchard are
pruned; until the old growth IS taken from
raspberries, gooseberries, currants, etc;
until the under brush Is cleared out of
the wood-lot; until all the bitches are
opened and pools drained; IN short, until
the farm is clean and neat,
IL using mari for potatoes, brosdcaSt
manure over the ground and plow it under.
Mark out the rows three feet apart and
scatter mari along the row. Cut the pota-
toes TO two eyes, drop the pieces fourteen
inches apart, and Use two hundred
pounds of superphoshate IN the rows for
two acres, in order 20 give the plants an
early start. and the mari and manure viii
supply food later during growth Ridge
the potatoes, and when well up harrow
the rows level. and If the crop be then
wei worked the yield VIII be highly salts
factory. For:corn shovelfui OF mari 10
every four hills a. time Of planting is
excellent
IT was formally the custom 70 grow corn
and other farm crops with Only stable
manure as fertilizer, and many farmers
aimed 70 make short supply Of manure 20
as far as possible, so they composted il
and put very small shovelful in the hill
II the land was naturally fertile good
crops were often grown without spreading
any manure broadcast, as is the more com
mon custom now But IL the Land had
been severely run down, the corn some
lines only made . fair growth OF stalk
early m the season, while the strength OF
the manure held cut. there not being
feruItT enough IN the sell nor manure IN