St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-26
FARM NOTES.
Hints and Facts That May Be OF
Value to Tillers of the Soil.

moist, to choke down weeds and retain
| IN the soil more even temperature. AT
a farmers institute i'm PENNSYLVANIA re-
Gently, member gave his plan for feed
ing cows, viz: He laid in his stock of
feed the last of June, ten tons of sugar
feed and four tens of oil cake. Pe fed
one quart OF meal cake per COW morning
and evening, and one quart of sugar
feed twice each day. Also one quart of
cob meal-.this is about three quarts a
day. morning and evening, mixed with
cut-up cornstalks. making about a
bushel of mixed mess.
The Nebraska Farmer says that the
heresy of attempting to fatten an old
COW that for dozen years or more has
been great performer to the dairy, is
costing money that ought to be stopped.
The old COW sells within S. or IS as
much to the soap boiler man as the fat
tened % one does to the butcher for a
packer. 1t takes from SO to SIS III eX-
ira feed and meal to make their ribs
slippery" If this COW was sold for
$40 or even IS, and this extra feed given
| to the balance of the herd between
| grass and hay, the farmer would have
81 in the end where he don't come out
| even by the other method. 1t don't pay
to be two speculative on COW beef after
1t is fifteen years old
| Ten thousand OF dollars have been
| wasted in 1883 by the farmers of Wis
| cOnSin, and the end is not yet, by stack
ing and husking corn, instead of putting
| 1T in a good silO, says Hoard'S Dairyman.
They will waste large per cent of the
| stalks yet. The corn in the crib will
waste a good deal, and the threshIng
| and grinding toll is TO be paid yet. Who
pays for all this toll and foOlshness?
| NObOdy-nOt one red cent. The labor
is dead loss, and the loss in feeding
value varies with the weather and the
quality of the shelter.
If a calf is at all dainty about its food
do not keep it for COW. No pedigree
can offset the disadvantages of poor APP
petite and poorer digestion, Giving the
calf as great variety of food as posi-
| bic is the best plan we know of to make
riety the more food can be eaten. and
this, if continued. means increased di-
| geStlve powers, on which, i'll any ami
| NAL man not excepted, future useful
ness must depend.
Farmer Coffin, in an article in the
| Breeders Gazette, stirs up the dry
bones of Profs. Henry, Watson and AL
word about their ideas and systems Of
feeding stock. This is the friction be-
tween the practical and scientific. And
| it is the way to get the truth. When
President Chamberlain gets through
with his ideas and rules for specific feed
rations. we shall be ready to SEE legiti-
| mate criticism.
| A Wisconsin man writes Hoard's
| Dairyman saying that he headed off
| abortion after it had commenced in his
| herd of over eighty cows by the use of
asafetlda. He fed to all cows that were
from two to six months advanced with
calf, at the rate of doses as large as
| filbert twice day, for a time. He
| bought twenty pounds and fed it out to
| his large herd. He thus wholly eradi-
Gated the trouble.
Good butter COWS will make pound
| of butter to every fourteen or eighteen
pounds of milk, says the Mirror and
| Farmer. General purpose cows" want
| from twenty-one to thirty-one pounds,
| and some cows would require fifty
pounds of milk to make a pound of but
ter. Average diaries require somewhere
about twenty-five pounds of milk to
make pound of butter.
| Prof Short, of the Wisconsin sta,
| ton. lately said in an ''institute meet
| ing that no churn with paddles inside
! should be used, as the butter glObuleS
would be broken. We should like to
| have the professor explain the process,
| as we suppose the butter globules from
| good COWS are smaller than the point of
| cambria needle.
| Sunflower seed is coming to the fore
as an article of commercial value. AS
an admixture to chicken food its merits
are indisputable. Veterinarians use it
! in medical way in the treatment of
horses. Its growth is considered of use
| in the prevention of malaria, and the
! extraction of valuable oil from it is
| lookedfor result.
Farmers who raise sheep should bear
| in mind that wool of sheep, as we'll as
the mutton, depends on liberal feeding,
says the Northwestern Agriculturist.
| No poorly fed or poorly cared for sheep
will produce what it is capable of in
quantity or quality. Wool is a product
| of feeding in as great q degree of flesh
| or fat.
Absolute peace, quiet and content
ment must he maintained among mich
COWS to insure profitable dairying. Any
excitement or expenditure of nerve
| force costs in milk. -. 1.-The more seed
| potato planted the better the CROP" is
| the result of experimenting in that line.
Exchanges bring an account of man
| in Nebraska who vaccinated his hogs
| for cholera. He experimental on 307
head, 300 of which took the disease in
mild form and died. The cholera, it is
| said, keeps spreading, and the farmers
now wish they hadn't.
The Mirror and Farmer tells how to
lead even the most stubborn COW: Put
rope around her horns, and then pass
| it back of and around an ear. then for
ward and under the rope which goes
around the horns, pulling the ear tight
against the horn.
An exchange well says: mo man on
earth can make money by half starving
stock; while he can make money by
liberal feeding. 1t is skepticism on
this point that keeps so many stock and
dairy farmers poor. discouraged and
diSc0nSolate."
Brood mares should not be fed on
millet or Hungarian grass seed, espec-
tally the latter. Hay made of either be-
fore the seed is formed will probably be
harmless. But Hungarian hay with the
seed ripe and still in it, is not fit for
horse feed.
In addition to fine quality of their
flesh, the Southdowns have the great
merit of early maturity. Rams of this
breed cross well with all the long
wooded sorts, producing excellent
lambs, says the Northwestern Agrieul-
turiSt.
Of the 100000 of cattle in this coun,
try but 100000 are allowed to be of the
pure breeds. 1t has been demonstrated
that the same care which is given to val
liable pure breeds will very greatly im-
prove the quality of native cattle.
1t is said that free use of soft soap
inside the shoe, on the sole and frog, is
a good preventive of horses balling in
snow time. Perhaps a good daubing
with lard or some rOugher grease would
last longer and do better.