Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-05
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Short Paragraphs on Timely Topics of
Interest

Short Paragraphs on Timely Topics OF
Interest
The loss from insect ravsges in this
country may appsar small, bat Professor
Riley estimates tae annual damage as hiph
as $500, 600 600. This is enormous and
equals the entire product of some Of the
cereal crops. This dosspo OF include the cost
of labor devoted to the destruction of in.
sects, or for methods OF preventing depre-
daiiop, but the value of the amount de-
strOyed.
The crops on the farm should be grown
to suit the market. II wheat does nor nav.
some other crop should take lis place. The
crops that bring the highest prices in pro-
portion 10 cost of production should be
grown, and to do this every farmer should
be familiar with the market reports By
comparing prices for year much valuable
information can be derived.
The lambs coming in this month will
not be carly, but they can be rapidly
pushed in growth and made 10 overtake
the February lambs by giving them plen-
ty of food and warm quarters. An impor.
tant point ia to keep up the flow OF milk
from the ewes, and to do this their food
should be raised, cooked turnips being an
excellent addition.
The work of inducing the farmers 10 dis
card common stock, and grade up by the
use Of pure-bred males, has been in pro.
gress for half century or more, and yet
the farms are filed with common stock
1t Is satisfactory to progressive farmers that
they have improved, however, and they do
not again resort 10 the inferior kinds.
Cat the young apple trees back now in
stead of waiting few years, only to saw
off the stronger limbs. All the wood
grown now, TO bs taken off in the future,
is only 80 much loss of time and fertility.
The young tree eau be made to assume
any shape preferred. In fact, a tree, is
Just what the ge0wer makes.
II is conceded by some that good year
for cherries is not favorable to peaches, and
a favorable year for peaches is not bene-
fetal TO cherries. the two kinds of fruit not
being subject TO ths same conditions. Some
fruit growers, Owever, deny the claim.
Asparagus is a very early vegetable, and
any work to be done to the bed must be
done early. IL is gross feeder, and can
appropriate any amount of manure, which
should be brOadcass.d on the beds now, TO
be worked in as soon as the ground per
mits
Use onion sets rather than the seed in
this climate FOR a garden supply. A quart
of sets shOnld produce about bushel of
20 II IN
those of larger siz5 They can 90 in the
ground just as soon az the frost leaves.
There will be no danger of variety of
potatoes running ont" If the best tubers
are saved for seed every year. Every one
who plants potatoes can improve the
variety by carefully selecting the seed and
giving good cultivation.
For early potatoes prepare special plot,
and after the plants are well up thin them
so as 10 have only one plant to the hill.
The potatoes grown this way will be mere
uniform in size and also earlier.
The brood-mare that is expected to foal
this season should not be spared from work.
If given moderate exercise she will be
benefited. II is unwise to keep brood
mare in her stall and overfeed her.
An abandoned well, half covered ditch,
or even a snag, may cause injury to colt
in the pasture that damages it hundred
or more dollars.
Scalded bran makes an excel emf food for
pigs. A little corn meal added improves
it. Thin it down with skim milk or but
ter-milk.
Put your poultry droppings on the plot
intended for onions, and have the bed as
fine as possible before putting out the seed
or sets.
Burn all the old wood that is cut out of
blackberries and rsspberries, and thus de-
stroy the eggs OF insects.
Grade up around the we'll before the
spring rains bsgin, in order TO turn thu
surface water of.
Coal ashes csn be scattered around the
trunks of peach trees with advantage.
Peach trees may bs locked after now.
Cut away the old wood literally.