The Arizona sentinel., 1889-02-09
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

that apple pomace fed to hogs is pre-
ventive of hog cholera.
"A medical writer denounces the
"milk-shake" as productive of internal
cramps, collie and Indigestion.
Too much grain is more detri.
mental to breeding stock than not
enough. The food should be bulky,
with small allowance of grain.
"A dairy writer says that if COW
just pays for her feed in milk and but
ter she is kept at loss, and that this
loss is greater with every succeeding
year.
Horses and oxen should be fed
upon fair maintenance and not al
lowed to run down. Those which are
quite idle will do well on hay alone,
but all animals kept at work should
have moderate feeds of grain.
"A daily growth in swine Of a little
more than a pound is more profitable
than less or more This daily growth
increases with age until the maturing
period is nearly hed.-American
Agriculturist.
Plants require their food in solu-
BILE condition. No matter how much
manure is added to the soil, only the
soluble portions are used. The solids
can not be of benefit until they de-
compose and are dissolved by the
moisture.
Poultry need good, dry busting
place. They like it better on level
with the floor of the poultry house
than to climb into a box. Over-feed-
ing or keeping on corn and other fat
tening food is quite as frequent cause
for hens failing to lay as lack of food.
DO roots and tubers (Irish pota.
toes, sweet potatoes, yams, artichOkes,
etc. incr ease in the ground after the
vines are dead? is question which is
exciting considerable interest among
farmers in all sections of the country.
There is popular belief that if the
tubers are left in the ground till
spring, they will continue to grow in
size all winter; but the question has
not been satisfactorily tested.
Bees will come out of their hives
on warm days. In so doing they clean
the hives and carry out the dead bees.
Every day some of the bees die, and
advantage is taken of all favorable OPP
portunities by the survivors to put the
hive in the best condition for winter.
The hives should not be placed in per-
manent winter quarters until the
weather becomes cold.
Horses should be kept well shod
and sharp while they are worked on
roads slippery with ice and snow. In
attention to this point often costs lame
ness and suffering to the horse and loss
to its owner. Rub the legs, and par
ticularly the heels, dry with wisps of
straw when the horses come in from
work in rain or snow. Obstinate cases
of scratches come from neglect of this.
One great difficulty that has ex-
listed in sheep-raising is that of sup
posing the sheep should be partly self
sustaining by picking over the old
fields and foraging through the woods.
To make sheep pay as they should
they require care and attention like
other stock, and the Introduction of
superior mutton breeds has given sheep
higher standing on the farm and
called for better management
Some of the leading agriculturists
differ as to the utility of fall blowing
for spring crops, and are discussing
the question with good deal of ami
nation. Those who oppose fall plow-
ing say that the rains of autumn and
winter soak out and carry off a large
portion of the fertility of the plowed
soil; whereas, if the ground is left I'M
plown, or covered with growth of
some fall-sown crop, the fertility OF the
soil is retained, and enriched by the
rains.
The scarcity of feed in the fall is
often the cause of great losses to farm
ers, mainly because it tempts them to
pasture young clover. This is the
dearest of all feeds. A clover plant
cropped in August or September has
its growth so checked that it can not
stand the winter, and will not grow so
vigorously next spring. 1t is better to
buy grain for COWS, and feed pretty lib
orally of the growing corn-crop, rather
than turn stock on young clover.