Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-03
FARM INFORMATION.


! land, and give attention to those.
/ AN occasional painful of apples fed to the
/ horses will be found equal to condition
! powders.
| REGULARITY as to time of milking should
| be observed, and the milk drawn quickly.
/ Irregularity and slowness dry up a COW.
| WHEN a board gets loose on any farm
/ building, fasten 1t at once. A nail in time
saves nine, and perhaps as many feet Of
/ lumber.
REMOVE punches of smut from the corn
fodder whenever you see 1t. 1t is injurious
to stock, either eaten or drawn into the
| nostrils.
| CRg1E petroleum, when applied to
fences and portions Of buildings that rest
upon the ground, will be found an excel
| lent preservative.
Much is said of the advantages Of the use
Of cotton seed in the feeding of cows. The
addition of one quart per day of cotton
seed meal to their regular feed will be
found beneficial.
THAT wet farm land can be improved by
understanding is true. 1t is also true that
moist land Will produce more grass than
dry land; hence, due caution should be ez.
ercised in the matter OF drainage.
a BUSINESS farmer should make markets
as well as supply them. Markets for farm
products may be made in every village and
town, at which the earlier vegetables VII
be found to bring the highest prices.
A DURABLE foundation for farm buildings
may be constructed of pieces of sawed
timber two inches thick, two feet long and
six inches wide, laid up like open brick
work. A little paint will aid 10 the ap-
pearance and durability.
LAND that has been extensively fertil-
ezed with commercial fertilizers will be
found inferior TO that which has received q
liberal turning under with vegetable mat
ter. The lani requires decayed vegetation,
without which it viii become exhausted.
ONE busheI of finely sifted dirt and one
pound of chlor d of lime will make cheap
and convenient disinfectant. The addition
of line tobacco dust viii destroy lice. This
prep ration may be SC TERED about the
do5rs and o-4er portions OF the poultry
house.
IL setting out Or erls farmers fre quent-
ly gnOre 4 few mpie rules which are
INDISPENSABLE to success The location,
condition of the sol. the aking out of each
tree, the depth OF The hole and the arrange
ment Of the roots al being matters that
require careful attention.
To RAISE good broom corn the ground
should be plowel ten iacles deep, and the
soil should be pu.V rized by the narrow
and roller. Plant IN drills eighteen inches
apart and three feet and eight inches be-
tween the rows, leaving three to five
stalks in hill. Cultivating should be the
same as in field corn.
To MAKE a paint for out-buildings, use
five pInts crude petroleum, one pint re-
fined petroleum, one quart raw linseed
oil, six pounds Venetian red, or the same
quantity of some other color. Use Veneti-
an red for body and metallic for trimming.
Metallic comes only in one color, a rich
maroon This Is cheap and durable
paint.
THE more stirring butter receives while
ripening, the better t will be. The proc
ess of ripening by which high flavor and
long keeping are promoted goes on better
when cream is warm than when it is cold.
and better when it is sweet than when
sour. Hence, it is desirable to keep it
sweet as long as we can, and while it re-
mains sweet and warm to give it all the
airing we can. When cream begins to
sour It begins to deteriorate, and hence
when souring is apparent the sooner it is
churned the better.
CONTRACTION of the hoofs of horses is
not disease in itself but result of I'M
healthy changes which have been occa-
stoned by various causes the principal of
which is the opening of the heels in the
adjusting of the shoe. By cutting into the
buttress at the heel the natural defense
against contraction is weakened and
through its mutiiation the shape and size
of the hoof is altered. Mechanical appli-
ances are of no avail where contraction
has already taken place. The removal of
the shoe and run in the grass is the thing.