St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-26
FARM NOTES.

The brood SOW that has weaned her
pigs will do well Oh grass alone. If
compelled to work for her food she will
be i'm better condition for breeding pur-
poses than when heavily fed and made
fat. Too much fat is detrimental to all
breeding stock.
While skim-milk and whey make eX-
cellent feed for hogs, they yield better
returns fed in summer than in winter.
By planning to raise winter calves,
some farmers feed in the summer pigs
to sell at eight months old, and then, in
the place Of raising fall pigs to eat
winter Stops, feed the Stops to calves
with greater profit.
An excellent mode of planting carrot
and parsnip seed is to drop the seed in
small quantity six inches apart in the
| rows, instead of scattering the seed in
the row. By this method the plants
will come up in stools, and can be
thinned out if too thick, whereas if the
seed is scattered the plants may come
| up struggling, as the seed does not
terminate we'll under adverse con-
ditions. Extra plants taken from the
rows may be transplanted elsewhere.
An inquirer asks for remedy for
worms in horses. For the small rectum
| worms Prof. Stewart recommends the
injection of Il decoction made by boil
ing equal parts of quassia chips and gen
tian in water. When large worms
Numbrici) are present the treatment
recommended is boiling water one pint,
aSsaf9tida one-fourth ounce. aloeS one
fourth ounce. When cool add an ounce
each of sulphuric ether and spirits tur-
pentine. Feed sparingly and give at
one dose, repeating the dose every three
or four days.
Usage orange makes poor hedge I'M
! less carefully trimmed. Everything de-
ponds on the management of the hedge
for the first three years. To make a
| close hedge the plants are bent down
| (partially cut for that spurpose) and
twisted or woven into the standing
plants close to the ground. These bent
branches send up sprouts that serve to
| thicken the hedge at its base. A good
| hedge should prevent rabbit passing
| through, and such hedge can be Sc
cured if properly trained and trimmed.
| A breed cannot well be tested by
| selecting an individual of that breed to
compare with an individual of some
| other breed, as all animals differ. no
| two being alike in every respect. Only
a few cows in herd may secure a
record. yet the other members may be
! as we'll bred as the better ones. But
each breed has its special characteristics
which make 1t valuable for the purposes
required, and the breed, as whole, will
excel in that direction.
A drain that is stopped up is one that
is not only unservceable. but menace
to health. When foul there is always
disagreeable stencil therefrom; and,
| l. al, lnr ,Irfn
pose quickly. Nothing is more impOr
! lets of the drain pipes aud bitches in
order to have free flow of water in
them.
1t pays to feed meal to cows giving
milk, and if cow insists on having it
every time. she does good turn by fore
|. ing us to be regular. Of all losses in
Cured by American farmers, scarcely
any one is greater than that which
! comes from allowing cows to fail in their
milk for want of sufficient food of kind
that answers their requirements.
If farmers would take one good breed
of fowls and carefully study their char
acteristics they would make double the
profit than if they keep trying to orig
mate some new breed. 1t sounds nice
to hear yourself spoken OF as the orig
inator Of some new and valuable breed.
but very few ever succeed in starting a
variety of fowls that ever amount to
| anything.
Look over the seed corn. There is
but little danger of any of it being
| frozen this season, but the best ears
should be selected. By carefully select
ing seed every year the yield of the corn
crop can be gradually increased. No
plants are more easily improved by Sc
lection than corn and wheat.
When buying an animal in order to
improve the stock, it will be of but little
value unless it is better than the stock
that is to be improved. Many animals
! are brought into herd OR flock that do
more injury than if no ATTEMPTED i'm
provement was made. Always aim to-
select something better than the stock
you have.
John Harmon, Deerfeld, Oneida
| county, N. Y. says he has COW which
in ten months, from March 10, 1889, to
January, 1890, made $40 pounds of but
ter. besides what milk and cream were
used in "a family of four. She was "a
common cow" We think she must
| have been an uncommon cow.
Warm the cream up to &c or IS de-
| grees and add as mnch water as cream.
| Warm the cream with water tempera-
| ture ITO degrees. Stir the cream lively
when the water is put in. When cream
| is cold the butter globules cannot unite.
| They will not stick together, nor can
| they unite when the cream is too thick.
Small breeds of fowls lay as large eggs
as do the large breeds. The Black
Spanish produces the largest eggs. The
Leghorn, which is small fowl. lays
large white eggs. The Brahma and
Cochin, which arc the largest breeds of
fowls, lay dark eggs They are also ex-
cellent winter layers, but are slow in
reaching maturity.
Many people are prevented from rails
ing asparagus by an exaggerated notion
of the labor involved. Its requirements
are simple.
Grow roots for your stock. Beets,
carrots and turnips are highly relished
by all animals in the winter as an agree
able change from the dry food. Put in
| your beetS and carrots early. Turnips
can go in later in the season, but the
manure may be spread on the plot at
any time during the spring.
The American Beauty Rose continues
to find favor, and it is now claimed that
it will grow as well in highly fertil-
lied, light, sandy soil as in the very
| StlH SOIL HiSI coHSiueleu W NC ueccSShIy
for it.
Large seed is better than small. They
| furnish more nutriment to the young
| plants than the small seeds do, which
gives them vigorous start early i'll the
season. and enables them to keep ahead
of the plants grown from smaller seeds.
If hen will leave her nest when
any one approaches, she should not be
used for setting purposes. She will
generally prove an unsteady sitter and
breaker of eggs.
1t is the appreciation of the incom-
! parable value Of corn as fodder crop
that has given the silo its value among
farmers. The silo affords practicable
method of storing and preserving the
crop.
Eat hens that do not Law will not PRO.