Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-21
Farm AND ORCHARD.
HUsBANDING ALL THE RESOURCES OF
THE FARM.

Disease of Hogs-Antidote for Ants
Buying Manure Jersey in
EngIand-Poultry.
An important part of good farming con-
sists in outstanding all the resources OF
the farm. One important resource of fer
tility is found in the stubble and use OF
plants. The roots of all plants serve to
support the plants themselves and to
gather food and water from the soil; they
contain woody fiber and so are useful in
providing vegetable matter to the soil, for
which reason clover, being a full grower
and plant that extends its roots deeply
into the soil, becomes a recognized agent
In producing an improved condition in a
partially impoverished SOIL In some ex-
periments at the Storrs School Expert
ment Station with COW peas, it was found
that so much of the roots as could be
pulled from light loan with yellow and
compact subsoil would give yield of 55S
pounds per acre. Another section of the
same field would give of stubble and FIRST
six inches of roots 1928 pounds, and that
to depth of ~ inches the yield would be
1207.S pounds per acre. We therefore get
some idea of the quantity of matter that
under ordinary circumstances can be Sc
cured from an acre of ground 1t is also
ft,ot Il
grown will leave in the soil by virtue of
the roots and stubble, 145 pounds of nitro
gen, s pounds of phosphoric acid and Ga
pounds of clover roots will leave in the
soil $50 pounds of nitrogen, 10 pounds of
phosphoric acid and Is pounds Of potash,
and with the stubble 180 pounds of nitro
gen, II pounds of phosphoric acid and II
pounds of potash, or value equivalent to
that paid for some of the commercial fer
tilizers in the market per ton. Thus it is
seen the important part played by the
roots of plants in the matter of adding to
fertility.
DISEASE OF HOGS
Information is wanted by several farm.
ers concerning breaking down of hogs. A
! correspondent of the Farmers Repietg gives
his views on this subject as follows: "I
| think hogs allowed to run on pasture and
fed on mixed feed q mean some muscle
and bonemaking materially will not be
troubled that way. At home we were
often troubled by hogs and pigs breaking
down behind and dragging their hind
parts. The hogs were always fed on corr
and kept great deal on plank floor. ]
have lived on my own place for the last
! ten years, and have never been bothered
at all. But my hogs have always run IL
timber pasture, and had every once in a
| while feed of oats. One of my neighbor:
| here that | never heard of having case
of the kind, though he raises about 10C
head OF hogs every year, always allow.
his to turn on grass; in fact, never pens
| them up, even to fatten, and always has
/ the herd to average over 800 pounds al
one year old. Have seen hogs break
down behind in pen on plank floor, but
when turned out so they could get grass
and rustic around be all right in a short
| time. For reasons above stated, think
good grass pasture they will never break
down, and be as large at one year old as
| by any other treatment which they can
| receive"
ANTIDoTE FOR ANTS.
tried several methods to prevent ans
molesting bees, writes Professor A. j
! Cook, and found the following far the
| most satisfactory: By the use of crowbar
make hole in the middle of the anthill
| down to the bottom, which is easily found
by the more open or less compact earth
Then turn into the hole gill of bisul.
phide of carbon and fill and crowd down
with earth. As the liquid is very volatile
! and cannot pass out of the now compactly
filled hole, it quickly evaporates and kills
all the ants. If clay be near, always use
this to crowd into the hole, as it is more
impervious than is sand, though by firmly
! pressing with the foot, the sand can be
made to hold the liquid. Kerosene may
be used instead of the carbon, but it is far
less effective. So, too, of carbolic acid
By means Of syrup, SO covered by gauze
| that bees are excluded, the ants can be
trapped in great numbers and destroyed
| have often done this, and by adding
Paris green have poisoned the ants.
THE JERSEY IN ENGLAND.
Jersey cattle-breeding seems to have re.
ceived quite an impetus Of late in England
says the Breeders Gazette. A writer in one
of the London journals prefaces an article
on the subject by the following statement
Travelling one day from Norwich | was
agreeably surprised to hear a Norfolk
farmer, having about two thousand acres
in hand, admit that the greatest profit he
had last year out of his farm was from his
herd of Jersey COWS. This remark, coupled
with that over 400 Jerseys are entered for
| the Royal Agricultural Society's Jubilee
| meeting at Windsor, affords food for rehec-
| tion." A good Jersey will make pound
of butter per day the year round, and in
many localities the Channel Islanders can
unquestionably be maintained at good
profit. They have out grown the ''boom''
period on this side, and as our system OF
testing values largely on actual perform
ance is far preferable to the prevailing
practice in this respect in Britain-or even
on the Island itself, for that matter-there
can be no gainsaying the fact that the
Jersey COW is destined to reach her highest
development and greatest ultimate popu-
larity in America.
BUYING MANURE.
Summer is the best time to get manure
cheaply for those near enough to cities
and villages to make the expense of haul
ing not too serious matter. At this sea-
son, in many places, manure piles become
a nuisance, and their owners are glad to
give them away, while the same piles in
winter, when competition is sharp, COM
mand 81 or more per load. OF course this
is the farmers busiest time, and he cannot
afford to spare men or team help exclu-
sively for drawing manure no matter how
cheap it may be- But if he is obliged by
business to go with team to city or vii
lage, the farmer can now pick up a load of
manure which in winter he would find it
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