Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-02-28
FACTS FOR FARMERS.


Buttermilk can always find an ex.
celent market at home if fed to pig
and poultry.
"A successful grower Of trees claims
never 10 fail to dispose of the black
knot finally If il is cut of in an early
stage and turpentine applied.
Glover sod leaves much larger
amount Of plant food in the soil than
timothyi in seeding down TO build al
the fertility clover should be used in
preference to any thing else.
When trimming grape-vines LEI
them be cut and trained so as TO admit
of the air and sunshine. Too much
shade IS sometimes the cause of rot,
as it invites moisture. Trim the vines
while the weather is cold.
The food for horses should be
varied occasionally. They are not fond
Of monotonous diet, week after week,
and an occasional feed of carrots. bran
or oil-calxe helps to maintain appetite
and condition. American Agricultur.
list.
The old-fashioned practice of win
tering calves at the straw stack, with
only an occasional feed of cornstalks
or hay. is wasteful. Young stock,
well fed, will show more gain for their
feed than they will when older.
Two excellent results of life on the
farm, compared with life on the street,
are the humanity and economy engen-
dered in young people who help to
feed the many dependents on the farm,
and who find no other way of gather
ing needed pennies but by that of slow
earnings and careful saving N. Y.
Tribune.
While winter pruning can very
often be done, and thus lessen the nee
essary work TO be done in the spring,
at the same time it is important to do
the work properly, as many good
tree has been seriously injured by i'm
proper pruning. BY pruning annual
ly. at least TO considerable extent,
the taking off OF large limbs is easily
avoided, and time OF itself is quite inn
portant. Western Plowman.
= There is no doubt about it that
nine-tenths Of the farm-made butter is
spoiled, especially in winter, from
keeping the cream too long before it is
churned. This is usually because so
little milk is gotten in the winter, but
add water to it so as to one-third fill
the churn, and go to work on it. The
water will help the winter cream and
greatly improve the quality of the but
ter. American Dairyman.
The ridges made by the drill in de-
posting seed-wheat are no inconsider-
able protection to the plant in winter
Besides shielding it from the winds,
they serve to hold the snow, which,
being moist, is still better protection
against the cold. Some farmers even
take pains to drill wheat fields so that
the ridges shall run east and west.
Only the midday sun will thaw in win
ter, and at midday the snow is thus be-
hind the ridges and protected from its
rays
For farmers in general the South
down is perhaps the most profitable
sheep, because its mutton is of a SUI
perior quality, and brings so high a
price in the market. that these sheep
can be profitably reared for meat alone,
without reference TO the fleece. But
there is good profit also in the wool,
which stands next in fineness to that of
the merino, and the fiber is so strong
that for some kinds of cloth it is pre-
ferred by the manufacturer to all other
sorts. These sheep are hardy and so
active that they thrive well even on
the short pastures of hilly land Thou
sands of them ought to be rapidly i'm
ported for the increase Of our fiocks.