St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
FARM NOTES.

Grow only such crops as have been
found best adapted to your soil and eli
mate. Any attempt to grow something
that is not well adapted to the soil in
creases the cost of production and
lessons the profit. All new varieties
should first be tested in small plots be-
fore attempting to grow a general crop
therefrom.
Plant potatoes most freely when thew
are cheapest. Prepare the ground the
fall before, and cover it literally Gf sod
with whatever manure can be spared.
AS the land is plowed in the spring the
manure and grass roots will cause
rapid fermentation, which will keep the
soil moist all summer. Cheap growing,
not high prices, insures profits with pO-
tatoeS.
Of Undertaking an Oregon farmer
says: With me it has added at least
two months to the average length of the
working season and made the deStruc-
ton of weeds much easier, but it does
not serve as a substitute for manure,
nor has it impaired fertility to clay
Sub-soil, though it has been claimed
that it will do both these things.
There is no crop on the farm but will
run out in time is care is not taken to
obtain new seed occasionally, or unless
carefully selected; but no other crop
seems SO short-lived as potatoes, nor
Can new varieties of any other be so
easily produced. 1t will pay OCCASION
ally to try for new one.
Among the points of good dairy
cow mentioned by DIR. Law in recent
paper were development of abdomen,
depth and breadth OF body posteriorly,
evidences of large blood vessels, fine
ness of the bony structure, loOseness,
pliancy and elasticity of the skin,
abundance of sebaceous secretions.
A hen that lays 100 eggs per year, the
eggs averaging eight to the pound. pro-
duces more in weight than does hen
that lays 120 eggs year that weigh
twelve to the pound. Eggs should be
hen that lays the greater number of
eggs that is the more serviceable.
1t is about time to SOW clover seed,
and it is more important to test the
seed to see if it will grow than it is to
test corn. Get specimens a4fSed estab-
lishments and put it in gGx flannel
and keep it moist and warl&j1Sed if it is
good it will soon sprout. Then you can
tell what per cent is good.
The milk of cow is made from her
blood, and her blood is made from the
food she eats and the water she drinks.
For the purity of her milk it is i'm
portant she should possess good filter
when fed on distillery Stops or drinks
from some of the pools provided by
farmers for their cows.
A correspondent of the New York
Times who wrapped his young orchard
trees with newspapers to prevent mice,
rabbits or sheep from gnawing them,
tying the papers at the top. bottom and
middle, found the simple precaution in
sured absolute safety.
Feed the brood sows that have filters
of pigs literally On warm, sloppy food.
Skim milk or buttermilk is excellent;
but if this is difficult to obtain give her
all the scalded ground grain she can
eat, with a mess of cooked turnips or
potatoes to which has been added pint
of linseed meal.
Increased attention is now given to
the disease of tuberculosis in cattle,
with view of cautioning persons to
avoid using the meat, milk or butter of
such animals, from the danger of pull
monary consumption from the bovine
disease. Too much care cannot be OBJ
served.
Be ready to plant just as soon as the
soil is warm enough. There is no profit
in doing it before. Seeds cannot grow
without warmth.