The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-01-23
FARM NOTES.

at night, we'll Uttered with leaves or
cut straw.
Keep the barnyard we'll supplied
, with material for absorbing the
!, liquids, thereby rendering the yards
dry and comfortable.
Chop up the corn stalks and put
them In the manure heap. If cut and
crushed they may be used as absorb
cnts in the pig.pens.
1t is not the fulfilled COW or horse
that kills itself Sy ov~creatlDg when it
happens to break loose and get at the
meal or oat bin.
Early in the spring a top-dressing
of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per
acre on wheat will make it grow rsp-
idly and yield better grain.
Spinach that came up from seed
last fall will make some growth du-
ring the mild weather, which may DC
prevented by mulching the bed.
Dairy salt stored in the vicinity Of
Goldfish or kerosene, OR turpentine is
apt TO contract flavors which injure
til c butter Ia which it is used.I
The garden, the truck patch and
the orchard should furnish the farmer
with fully one.half Of his living, il
proper care is taken with each to Sc
cure the best products in good sea-
son.
If rye has grown more than usual
Craze it down with the stock. 1t
serves az \ change of green food,
and, as it is not advisable to have
rye make more growth than the cattle
can prevent, the rye will be benc-
Gted.
If q horse intends to be vicious,
the tail is carried low and the ears
are laid back. If in good humor md
eager to go, the tail is carried high.
If nervous or inclined to kick, bite
or s rlke, the tail is switched from
side to side.
1t may save labor to allow the
cattle to have free access to the straw
stack, but it may be more profitable
to cut the straw and feed it With the
hay. If you have more hay than you
can use procure more stock, so as to
feed the hay on the farm.
"Buy thc,Bcst and Breed Better"
is the heading TO an editorial in the
jersey Bulletin. 1t is exiomatic and
good enough for a motto, without
comment. The man who obeys the
injunction is on the great highway Of
progress and cannot fail to succeed.
Every animal needs plenty of
water. Water fushes out the organs
through which it passes, thus aiding
the cffctc matter. Water, then,
when given to the COW, besides aiding
her in milk production, performs the
other oflce.-Western Rural.
Put white butter and yellow butter
side by side and telIithe consumer
that one is artiicially colored, and he
will take the colored article 999 800
times in the 1000, 900. Let nobody
worry about the consumer being de-
ceived. He Is after the '~'yaller."
Western Rural.
The mild weather is of advantage
to the farmer in reducing the amount
of food necessary for stock. Young
stock should thrive and grow and
adult animals should fatten very
readily. The regularity of fesding
and care Of the stock should not,
however, be in any manner neglect
ed.
1t is more important TO mulch the
strawberry bed in a mild winter sea-
son than during the severe cold
weather, as the ground is subject to
more frequent freezing than thawins.
4 mulch does not keep plants warm,
but assists in keeping them ut an even
temperature, rendering them less
liable to changes.
Lime has the advantage of being
beneficial al all seasons, though its
effects in the soil may not lie inne-
diate. 1t V Injuries land il prop.
erly applied, and though its results
may be unsatisfactory at first, yet the
effects arc lasting, the lime supplied
this year proving beneficial ia the fu-
ture. Lime is cheap and should be
used freely. 49,.
The saving OF the various substan.
ces that are supposed to possess no
value, by adding them to the manur
heap, amounts to a large item in the
course of n vpar There Ia nothing