St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-25
SOME POINTERS
Gathered and Expressed by the
American A GricuIturist.


The best way to renovate an old row
of currant bushes is to set out new ones
where you can cultivate on both sides
of the row. Give the old ones severe
pruning, fork the ground to kill the
or four ounces of equal parts of
nitrate of soda and superphosphate
to each bush. -. Trees about the
house make it more homelike and
attractive and shield it from the cold
winds of winter and the hot sun of sum-
mer.... The best, which is not always
the highest-priced, is the cheapest. 80.
The wife OF your youth is clearly ent-
tied to to the easiest pump in the house
well, and a covered walk to it from the
kitshen door. The further you are
from market the greater is your need
OF condensing products by feeding
grain and slower to animals -.
Rye sown last fall gives the first
should give a second cutting later.
When the weather is warm enough
fodder corn is SOwn almost to the eX-
cluSiOn of everything else as a sOiling
crop. The best feed for young turkeys
and ducks is yelks of hard-boiled eggs,
and after they are several days old the
white may be added. Continue this two
or three weeks, occasionally chopping
onions fine, and sometimes sprink-
ling the boiled eggs with black pepper;
then give rice, teacupful, with enough
milk just to cover it, and boil it slowly
until the milk is evaporated "A good
sow will soon give farmer all the pigs
he wants. We have in mind a young
man who purchased sow and pigs for
a high price. The barrow and sow sold
for enough the next autumn to
pay the first cost, and the stock
increased the next summer to
nineteen brood sows. -. Wean lambs
when four or five months old.
Place them on fresh, tender pasture.
Ii clover has been sOwn with small
grain, and rain brings the clover along
nicely, it makes fine pasture for wean-
ing lambs. Give the lambs-and all
sheep, for that matter-easy access to
salt and water. Some are proverbially
greedy, but it is the duty of
the owner of an animal to con-
troll its natural habits when
-. When young pigs are weaned they
should be fed i'll a shallow trough, from
which they can take their food only
slowly. A pint of milk and two ounces
OF boiled corn meal mixed with the milk
will be enough for daily ration the
first week, and gradual increase NAV
be made, substituting raw meal, not eX-
ceeding the limit above mentioned for
slx-weeks or eight-weeks-old pig
of the best kind. and less in
The best food for ewes is that
which is somewhat laxative and
we'll supplied with heterogeneous ele-
ments. Such foods are wheat. bran.
oats, pea meal, beans and linseed meal.
Corn is unsuitable for breeding ewes,
as it produces fat and heat. There is
no animal which responds with better
results tOSucculent foods than sheep and
ewes with lamb. :. Yields of potatoes
approaching the capabilities of the soil
are only obtainable by planting in drills
not more than three feet apart. with
distance between seed pieces varying
from six to eighteen inches, according
to size OF potatoes, variety of potato. and
strength of soil. . For wheat, next
to good seed we should have we'll,
prepared soil. Rich, stiff cal
careous soils are best for wheat.
Corn stubble and potato land
slightly narrowed and without manure.
make very fine land for good crops of
wheat. Glover soil turned in the fail for
spring wheat is excellent, but alfalfa
sod eXcels them all. -. To succeed with
asparagus with good drainage and
plenty of water and plant food. the
character of soil, as to whether it is
sandy, or clayey, or mucky. is not es-
Sential to success.