The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-12
THE FARM.
Agricultural Notes.

"A machine has been invented for
COMPRISING bran into cakes for con-
venlence of transportation and feeding
Its nutritious quality is not injured by
the process, and in time bran cakes may
become staple articles of commerce.
In the Eastern States the question is
being raised, rs corn o failure?" At
the West the only source of anxiety is
what shall be done with the immense
surplus of corn.
My experience during several years, ="
says Professor Stewart, has shown that
sweet corn in the roasting ear stage is
the richest butter making green food
that can be given to COWS; next comes
peas and oats grown together and cut
when the pods are just beginning to
form and the oats are in the earliest
bloom; later, millet cut when the head
is just emerging from the sheath will
make the early fall green feeding.
With all this fodder of the richest kind
available, should be added some rich
grain food. Corn meal is the standard
for quality of butter, and, in small
quantity only on account of it's richness
IN nitrogen. Any COW that will not pay
In the extra yield of butter for four
quarts of corn meal daily, given in two
meals should be discarded from the
herd. There are some COWS, however,
which will proftably repay the cost of
half this quantity of food, and are I'M
able to digest more than that, which
may be excepted from this general rule;
but every cow in the butter dairy should
yield ten pounds of butter a week for
the first twelve weeks of her milking to
be considered o good cow"
Our exports of butter do not increase
IN the ratio of production for the rea-
son that Americans are becoming pro-
d1glous butter consumers, and there is
a growing demand for the best quality
that can be made. The home market is
the best in the world, and it is continu-
ally becoming better.
Little Denmark annually exports TO-
100000 dozen eggs, mostly to England.
And America annually imports millions,
though there is no country in the world
where eggs can be produced so cheaply.
Give the American hen fair chance
and she will supply all our home needs
and produce surplus.
Farm implements not properly housed
and cared for are vastly more damaged
by exposure than by use.,
Professor Budd says: ITO grow big
currants and lots of them a system
should be adopted of renewing the bear
ing wood each year by cutting out the
old exhausted canes close to the ground
and trainings like number of new canes
that sprout up from the roots. thus
transferring the bearing fruit to a young
and vigorous growth. Two or three
crops of fruit are as many as the canes
should bear before renewed. Not more
than six canes should grow from the
same plant"
HOards Dairymmn says: 1--WE have
one set of agricultural journals that are
continually posing as the self sacritic-
ing martyrs of the peeled, gouged, and
left half for dead farmers. If a car
toon was made to fit the thought they
parade each week, it would represent
pair Of jaws just ready to close on and
crunch the poor, robbed and peeled
farmer, and themselves trying to pull
the poor people away ere the jaws shut
and crushed the farmers and farming
forever. We have a mild suspicion that
such journals are demagogic."
Throughout the great corn belt many
farmers of the more thrifty sort have
adopted the practice of cutting and
shocking a portion of their corn for the
sake of the fodder. When seasonably
cut it affords large amount of nutri-
tious fodder, worth very nearly as much
as clover or prairie hay. To supplement
any shortage of the haymow corn fodder
is very valuable.
Secretary Rusk, it is said, is preparing
to write book on diseases of horses
and cattle, and he promises that it will
be practical rather than theoretical.
The Sussex, N. Y, Agricultural
Society offers premium of 800 for the
fastest walking farm team-single half
mile, to be driven to common farm
wagon. The coming farm horse will
have get there" walking gait.
we'll known sheep farmer says: u
have seen a field which has been used
as a pasture for colts and calves till
about one-third of it was covered with
golden-rod and blackberry vines,
changed to fine grassy sward in three
years by putting in o few more sheep
than it would keep in good condition,
giving them extra food to make up the
deficiency"
Sheep will thrive on plants that cattle
do not like and horses will not eat. It
pays to keep flock of sheep of the
breed best adapted to the land.