The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-25
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
nIntters of Interest for the InteilIgencCr'r
Farmer Readers.

sIatters OF Interest for the InteiligencCr's
Farmer Readers.
Road dust is an excellent absorbent
tor manure cellars and privies, and dur
ing dry season can be gathered in
quantity by the aid OF scraper 1t
usually contains also considerable per-
ccntage OF horse manure.
One of the mysteries OF nature as seen
in fruit is realized in the delicate differ.
ences OF flavor The combination and
proportion OF Ingredients that make
certain navor-that make a peach q
peach and blackberry blackberry-is
u study for scientists.
Any cultivation which disturbs the
fine roots OF growing plants is an injury.
Deep cultivation, therefore, after the
roots have spread through the soil
should be avoided. This applies to
everything that you grow. Clean,
shallow culture and plenty Of it should
be the rule.
Dairymen should remember that less-
ening the cost in producing milk is
quite as short cut to the profits, and
equally as certain, as an advance in
price per gallon. Improvement in the
COW, the feed and the management will
insure the first condition, and will most
likely be followed by the second.
Those who are obliged to keep their
poultry confined all the time may, by
giving an hours liberty just at night,
provide daily grass ration and quite
supply OF animal food without expense.
The amount Of scratching hen can do
in one hour in the morning is surpris-
ing, but at night this may be avoided.
Live stock constitutes a most impor-
tant branch OF farming, ii not the most
important. But the Conservatism
SO called-of fnr1Rers in adhering TO old
and Anticipated methods Tor the care OF
farm animals greatly aids in creating
the depression OF which farmers COM
plain. PGsturing, for instance, is leg
acy of barbarism.
The birds which have suffered most
from the English sparrow, and those we
miss the most from our lawns, parks
and fields are the robin, bluebird, wren,
song sparrow, chipping sparrow, yellow
bird, oriole and catbird. The sparrow
not only drives away and sometimes
kills the adult bird but destroys the
nests and throws out the eggs and
young.
Mr.. Jackson Dawson is reported as
having said before meeting OF the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
that Epigga repens (the well known
trailing arbutus or Maytower). can be
grown successfully II nice clumps arc
selected and grown in frame or green
house one season. It does best in IL
northern aspect, or will do we'll il plant
cd on the edge OF rhododendron beds.
To have the least trouble with a
Young cali never let 1t suck its mother,
or, il it has sucked before finding, re-
move at once. By use of the finger at
first in pail OF milk suitably warmed,
the calf will learn to drink. II the calf
is to be fattened continue to let it suck
the finger in tue milk as long as it will.
The calf gets the milk moro slowly that
way and mixes more saliva with It.
J.H. Hale, who has wide experience
with Strawberries, writes to the Farm
Journal that he obtains the greatest
possible yield OF fine fruit blythe narrow
system, and not from hills or from the
wide or matted.row system. The mat.
ted row does well when quanty OF
new plants are wanted in addition to
the fruit, but they cannot be kept clear
OF weeds and grass without great labor.
The length of time COW should go
dry depends upon the breed and the
animal, so that no definite rule can be
given. Il is hardly possible to dry Off
some cows, but all should have period
OF rest before Calving, when it can be
effected. Four weeks may be regarded
as long enough for any COW to 90 dry; a
longer period than this interferes seri-
ously with the profit TO be attained
from her.
Pickles to be marketable must not be
itoo large. Care must be taken in pick
ing them to watch the patch closely,
for they will, under favorable cireum-
stances, grow n great deal in one night.
As soon as they reach the length Of
three or four inches pick them. Some
firms use them much smaller than that;
but in this it will be necessary to con-
suit the desires Of those to whom they
are to be sold.
Sir ]. B. Lawes puts 200 pounds each
OF phosphate and nitrate OF soda per
acre on barley and oats. For winter
wheat he top dresses in spring with
from about $50 to 800 pounds OF nitrate
Of soda per acre. This should be sowed
early while there. is plenty OF moisture.
He prefers nitrate OF soda to salts OF
ammonia. 1t is good for the grass, even
in dry season. Grass roots we're found
four feet deep following the nitrate.
Among the vegetable foods, even,
with which animals are extensively
fed in this country, the woody matter is
indigestible, and is evacuated in nearly
the same physical condition as eaten.
The skin OF potatoes, all husks, cones
and stones; and the mcmbranous COW
erings OF nuts are not digestGd by the
swine's strong stomach, and the outer
husks OF all cereals are never digested,
and, OF course, are incapable OF assimi-
latinn
Uniformity OF color, weight and size
arc valuable conditions in lot OF hogs
offered in the market; other things he
ing equal, an even lot sells first and at
higher rates per pound. In some mar
kets color itself has great deal to do
with demand; many buyers ut central
points have standing orders from large
Eastern packers to buy everything that
will pass OF certain color. White is
popular in some markets, in others
black is preferred.
The Ktefcr pear can be grown in
abundance In many sections where
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