The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-09-26
FOR THE FARMER.
Farm Notes.


Signing your name beforea strang-
er is not "bread cast upon the
waters" but it is very sure to ere
turn after many days"
Poor butter and poor cheese, for
the low quality of which the maker
cannot account, may sometimes be
traced to impure water.
Cornstalks in the silo occupy but
one-fifth the space they do in NOW or
stack; this is very important con-
sideration in favor of the silO.
If ensilage is no better feed than
dry stalks still it has much to COM
mend it on the score of economy, it is
more easily and cheaply stored and
fed.
How about the supply of road dust
for hen house, COW stable; privy, ETC.?
AS a deodorizer, disinfectant and alb
sOrbent it would be regarded as al
most invaluable if it were not so plen-
ty and so cheap.
In reply TO & request for a report
ON the condition of his crops, from a
wheat specializing firm, a farmer
writes: 1.-The Lord and l are in part
nerShip this year; it is nobody's bus
mess what or how we are doing"
Farmers in Central Missouri, &C
cording to Colman's Rural World,
nearly abandoned tobacco-raising.
/ 1t is estimated that the acreage
planted this year will be the smallest
since the State was admitted to the
! Union.
During very warm weather the pigs
will suffer if they have no fresh wa
ter and shade. Some breeds of hogs,
such as the Yorkshires, have very
! tender skins, and it will benefit them
/ to give them a good washing occas-
iOnally.
Cleaning the wheat and keeping
the Offal at home to be fed to sheep
and chickens is a short road to chick
en- pot-pies, fresh eggs, choice NUT
ton, and dOwLy fleece, and innumer-
able little household comforts and
Injuries. Try it once.
The pig and the COW in conjunction
make a great pair; as co-operators
they are a success; harnessed togeth-
err they would not make a stylish
team but they can nevertheless pull
the farmer towards prosperity at a
very gratifying pace.
More farmers should possess the
art of nicely slaughtering a lamb,
calf or pig, so that it will make an
entiCing article of trade when he
takes it to his nearest town for sale.
And more farmers should have such
animals to slaughter.
An Ohio court has decided that
the owner of a dog which sprang in
to the road and caused a team OF
horses to run away, crippling them
selves, bruising the driver, and de-
stroying the carriage, was RESPONSE
bic for all damage done. This is a
just decision.
No class of citizens keep q sharper
eye on the country's crops, none
know better the localities of the best
yields than the sharper whose bust
ness it is to devise schemes for
swindling farmers. The country will
soon be iull of them, and where the
crops were best there will they be
thickest.
No succulent food is more greeiily
eaten by pigs at any age than beets
They may be fed any time from the
first Trimmings during the growing
season to the fully grown roots in
Winter. They are especially valua-
bic as a part of the Winter food fol
breeding sows, and some beets should
, always be saved for that purpose.
J.F. Ryder, of Franklin County
Pa, writes to the Weekly Tribune
that ten or twelve years ago be
transferred the bell from a sheep to 6
: Young dog which manifested great
fondness for sleeps blood, and il
, broke up the habit completely. Why
not, he asks, make it compulsory
) that every dog wear a bell, and i
caught without it that he be shot?
A scythe will pull the buckwheat
together in bundles that will need nc
binding except a slight twist of straw
: around the head, setting each bun
= die by itself on it's butt. When drieC
! bycold weather, the fail on smooth
, floor will take out the grain better
| cheaper and nearly as quickly as i
, can be done by threshing machines
This is the old fashioned way, and i
is as good as any.
, Inreply to an inquiry, the American
: Cultivator says that little tar OF
sleeps noses in Summer is yer,
I I necessary toprotect them from tn
I fly that lays the egg that produce
grub in the head. Sheep will Otter
dig holes in the ground into which tt
: thrust their noses to protect them
selves from the attacks of the fly
: but it is far better to tar the nose
q and thus save them from trouble.
D We do not understand why chees
4 is not more generally used as foo
/ by all classes. In England itlargely
n takes the place of meat, which it su
r persedes, notonly because ofits cheap
: ness, but it's superiority. The poo
quality of much cheese offered il
maketis probably the reason for tn
popular prejudice against it. We ca
n more meat in this country than an,
II people in Europe, and cheese ough
Il largely to take its place.
d Sometimes when q heavy grail
a crop has been grown the field is NOR
l. easily prepared tor wheat seeding b,
l. burning over the stubble. A few fun
|, rows should be plowed next tn
b fences, to prevent the fire spreading
where not wanted. Dat stubblt
i however large, does not burn as cas-