St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-19
FARM NOTES,
Hints and Facts That May Be of
Value to Tillers Of the Soil.


of his corn land. and has so treated it
! that he expects to make 500 bushels of
corn on it, and thus secure an offered
prize. The soil is high, sandy, porous
and we'll drained, was covered with
| stable manure, on which was broad
casted three barrels slaked lime and 400
pounds cotton seed; then broken up
with a turn-plow, beginning on the OUT
side, following in the same furrow with
four-inch shovel plOws, turning the soil
to the depth of twelve to fifteen inches.
driving around the outside and finish
ing up in the middle. turning well un-
der all its manure. March % eighty
four bushels cotton seed, 500 pounds
cotton seed meal and 400 pounds KANT
were put on the ground and narrowed
in with a disk harrow. The soil was
then leveled off with rakes. Corn
planted April l. and 8, in double rows,
three feet from center to center. and
six inches apart. May plOwed with a
garden pillow, 1000 cotton seed added,
and then hoed over nicely. A part of
the field had to be replanted. The corn
was of the Geddings variety, and will
produce from three to five large ears
per stalk.
As plants vary in their desire for
foods. 1t is not impossible for piece of
ground to fail in the production of GER
tain kinds of crops and yield largely of
others, owing to the composition of the
soil and the plant food contained
therein.
According to the Louisville Courier
Journal, the worlds annual output of
tobacco is increasing, perhaps more
rapidly than that of either wheat or corn.
| The tobacco product of Kentucky and
Virginia, the principal tobacco growing
states, multiplies as the seasons adj
vance. "The weed'' is also cultivated
| in Ohio, Connecticut and other North
ern states. Cuba, as of old, is attend
| ing to the culture, finding it more prof
table than sugar. Germany, of the
| European states. is trying to raise it,;
but the greatest efforts to extend its
cultivation are in the East Indies-the
oil and climate of the great islands on
| the Asiatic coast being admirably
adapted to tobacco-growing. Very pros
| porous tobacco companies are located in
Batavia and Sumatra, the stock of
which is quoted at from $50 to $50 per
cent.
There is a good deal of literature ex-
tant on the subject of siloS and ensilage
Since the publication of Bailey's work,
decade ago, thousands of pages have
been devoted to explaining and Illus
trating the philosophy and operations
of preserving green food for winter
use," and still the work goes on. Occa-
siOnally the process is sneered at and
decried by an unbelieving conservative,
but proofs Of the advantages of the re-
sort are steadily adduced. The agricul-
tural experiment station of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin has Just published
'sNOtes on Ensilage," which describe
various processes of silo building and
filling and indicate the most judicious
ways of feeding the preserved material.
Maj. Powell, of the government geo.
logical bureau, claims thgt much of the
arid land in the Rocky mountain region
can be readily reclaimed by irrigation
and made suitable for agriculture. The
future of Montana, he says, depends al
most wholly upon the success with
which irrigation can be applied to its
arid lands. We predict that irrigation
is destined to play more important
part in land reclamation than ever be-
fore. Let wars cease and all mankind
60 to work to practically develop and
replenish the earth.
If a calf is at all dainty about its food
do not keep it for cow. No pedigree
can Offset the disadvantage of poor APP
petite and poorer digestion. Giving the
calf as great variety Of food as posi-
BILE is the best plan we know OF to make
1t hearty eater. The greater the va
this, If continued, means increaS di-
gestive powers, on which in any animal,
man not expected, future usefulness
must depend.
A correspondent of the Massachusetts
PlOughman says: Il once saw row of
currant bushes some ten rods long,
where one-half the row was completely
bare of leaves. while the other half was
in full foliage. Where the leaves were
the ground was sOwed with coal ashes,
and there were no worms on the buSheS.-
Where there were no ashes there were
no leaves on the bushes. The use of
ashes is cheap way to secure a crop of
currantS."
Col. Hinton, an expert of the Powell
irrigation survey, estimates that the if
rigable lands of the central West, now
wholly barren, will make eight states
like Indiana, and that twenty acres of
this land. cultivated under irrigation,
will produce as much as 100 acres under
the Indiana eulture-enOugh to support
100000 people. Where are the old
fOgieS who declared all the good land in
years ago?
calves. Milk below 80 deg. to 81 deg.
Fahrenheit should never be fed: and
for very young calves 80 deg. are bet
ter. The calf should be fed whole milk
till at least ten days old. In hot weather
and fly time Keep calves in cool, dark
stables during the day, but turn then
out on grass plots for exercise, nights
and mornings.
To eXpel mosquitoes, take of gum of
camphor piece about One-third the
size of hens egg and eVapOrate it by
placing it in tin vessel and holding it
over lamp, taking care that it does not
ignite. The smoke will soon fill the
room and eXpel the mosquitoes, and
they will not return, even though the
windows should be left open all night.
In majority of cases it rarely pays to
attempt to cure hen that has fallen
into the habit of eating eggs, and for
the reason that she is almost certain to
learn others the same trick, often al
most before you are aware of it the
best plan is to kill as soon as the trick
Is discovered. 1t hardly pays to run
the risk.
Bradstreet's Journal, one of the best
autn0rltleS, estimates tnat the probable
import requirement of wheat by Europe
for the twelve months beginning Sept.
1, 1889, will be about 0,000, 900 bushels,
as compared with 1S6, 100000 within the
past year. Russia, India and Hungary
have less to sell, but the United States
has more.
The past winter was highly favorable
to the sheep raisers of Montana. The
xuaather was mild and the sheen had
daily pasture. A fine, strong fleece of
excellent quality is the result. In the
early part of this year there were 2,000,-
600 sheep in Montana, from which 12.-
600, 900 pounds of wool will be shipped.
''If 'sheets, coverlets, pillow and boil
ster on both sides, edges of bed cur
tains, and wall next the bed'' be sprink-
led with "a small quantity of two per
cent, carbolic acid solution and the
face and neck slightly wetted with the
same. sit is said that not gnat or mos