Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-05-25
! RURAL REAPiNcS

...s growers can utilize their hot-bed
'of eryng surplus fruit in the sun.
f The hen-house floor covered with
~os mold through the warm summer
Ins viii hold the escaping gases.
"A fooR Worse eats as much as a good one;
scr9o cattle as much as grades or thorough
oleos; mongrel poultry as much as grades
.t. Iu.e breeds. Then why keep inferior
BIZ cutting, 6 feed can all be mixed well
sStner, made more palatable, andis more
10y and thoroughly digested, and the
s0cA wlii eat it up clean, avoiding unneces-
IT has been remarked that the farmers
WHO pest succeed m this country are those
WHO devote their chief attention to some one
PlUouct which is favored by their special
soil and climate.
Uyou sow your garden seed during mild,
genia weather and in well prepared soil,
not 700 deep, keeping the surface moist by
sPrnkllng it over as often as necessary and
snertermg 1t in the event Of frost or from
screening sun, very few seeds will fail to
terminate.
iHE more important tho feeding Of stock
upon the farm becomes, tho greater the ne
eesslty OF saving feed. Cutting feed is one
way OF economizing, as well as increasing in
value, by combining one and another sort,
SO the whole shall constitute as near per-
feet food as possible.
DON'T break, but train the colt. Begin the
lessons with the halter carly, and Let the c.
.ucation continue until you have perfectly
trained horse. Do not wean the colt too
soon. Feed the dam and colt freely but with
care. Corn should be used sparin gly, as it
Is fat-producing. The colt will early learn
to eat oats with the dam.
If sprouts appear on new set trees YOU
can now easily pinch them of with your
thumb and finger, and throw the growth
where it is wanted. But do not cut off all
the growth. If you dwarf the top of young
new set tree that is making rapid growth,
you are dwarfing the roots. If you allow
too much top on feeble tree you will kill
the tree.
As CORN can not properly be given in very
large proportion in the milk ration, 1t would
be profitable to exchange ton of corn for
q ton of roller bran. If corn is to be fed to
sheep, separately from the fodder, as sheep
masticate more perfectly than cattle, it
would be better to feed shelled corn with
bran. But for horses and cattle, corn should
be ground and mixed with tho coarse fod-
der.
Corn fodder can be considerably in
creased in value by being cut and mixed
with other materials, and the stock thus be
able to derive much larger benefit than
if fed whole. The size of the cutter should
be determined by the number of stock kept.
If it can be arranged so that a supply can
be cut ahead, especially during q busy
season, it will interfere less with the more
pressing farm work.
TIE quantity of air breathed by cattle,
although varying much with their size, is
probably about five times as great as that
breathed by adult persons, who breathe a
cubic foot in about three and half minutes.
An adult person breathes about 400 cubic
feet in "a hours. But for healthy respirar
ton he should have from 25 to so times as
much air. So with cattle, one of which
breathes about z, 600 cubic feet in "a hours,
which should be increased many times foy
continued pure, healthy air in the stable,
although cattle are less affected by impur-
ity than man.