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contain lessen their value with farmers
as compared with grain, but 23.1 tons of
| sugar beetS, containing 1882 per cent. of
dry matter is equivalent to 3.19 tons of
actual dry matter, free from water. The
3l.4 tons of mangels yielded only 9.6S per
cent. OF dry matter, or at the rate of 3.04
TONS per acre. The sugar beets, though
yielding less than mangels, were more
| valuable, but, as stated, lose some of
| their value in the extra labor required to
harvest them, compared with mangels.
| Leaving out the sugar, which may be
extracted from beets without lessening
| their value materially as stock food, the
| three tons OF dry matter more than equal
that from clover or any of the grasses,
| and also largely excel any of the grain
| crops. There is large proportion of
| mineral matter and protein in this dry
| matter, and but small amount of grain
| or other food is necessary to complete the
| ration. The only difficulty is that an
| animal is compelled to eat a large quantity
| of beets, owing to the large proportion of
water, thus necessitating the partial use
| OF more concentrated foods; but the time
| may come when the beet pulp from the
| sugar factories will be evaporated, and
| thus be better preserved for winter feed
| ing, as well as requiring less water in the
aid OF digestion on the part of the animals.
| -Phitadelphio Record.
ORCHARD AND FARM NOTES.
Spinach may be sown early in the
| spring. Sow in drills twelve inches
apart, and thin out the young plants
where they may be too thick.
| If every farmer would aim to increase
the yield of every acre, instead of increas-
! ing the number of acres, the expenses
would be less and the receipts greater.
Potatoes are recommended for feed
cows for four OF five weeks before calving
| a g u of IL A
of feeding that will prevent costiveness is
! good.
water in the cellar means disease in the
family. 1t is better to fill the cellar and
do without one than to have it with a foot
or more Of water covering the floor every
spring.
| If nitrate of soda will increase the yield
of fruit one-half of what is claimed for it,
| 1t is worth trying. The claim is that it
will double the yield, especially of straw
| berries and raspberries,
The greatest problem on the farm at the
present day is the weed problem. More
time, labor and money are spent on
weeds than on crops, yet much of this
expense could be avoided.
Wool must be equally strong the en-
tire, length OF the fiber, or necessarily it
| will be OF less value to the manufacturer;
and wool of that kind cannot be grown
unless the sheep is kept in good condition
all the time.
If you live within reasonable distance
OF a town where barnyard manure NAV
be obtained for the drawing, or small
price per good two-horse wagon load, it
will pay you to put in some of the winter
getting it to your farm.
Ii the pig insists on roofing up the pig
pen make him do SO in dry litter, and not
in pen that is wet and filthy. Keep the
pig-pen well supplied with leaves, cut
straw, weeds or anything that will help
to make manure.
The farmer who does not preserve his
implements infiicts great loss on him
self. An account of the sum annually
expended for repairs would show that q
great leak in the expenses exists from
carelessness in the care of tools and i'm
plementS.
A farm near manufacturing town is
worth large percentage more than one
distant from it. Why? Because the town
furnishes aready cash market for perisha-
Bile crops that cannot be shipped far or
held for sale, but that are the most profit
able crops to raise.
If your COW, after behaving like lady
for months, surprises you with a kick,
don't kick back, but find out why she
kicked; she had good reason for it, else
she wouldn't have done it. Perhaps one
of her teats may be cracked or scratched
and very sore, or her udder may be in
famed.
Costiveness in sheep is pretty apt to
occur in winter when no roots or ensilage
are fed. In such case the value of oil
meal can scarcely be overestimated. If
the flockmaster has no green food, we
believe that it will pay him to buy some
oil meal at any cost that anybody will
likely have to pay.
In an experiment with sugar in Kansas
hn Wi oil on,
of sugar per acre, which polarized over 96
per cent. OF pure crystallized sugar.
About $50 gallons of syrup We're also OBJ
tained from the four acres. The sugar
was made from beets, the seed of which
was imported from the sugar factories of
Germany.
Those persons who think they cannot
milk COW without wetting their fingers
may try as substitute for this objection
able practice the use of little fine salt
rubbed on their hands. This will suffi-
GENTLY moisten a dry hand, by absorption
of moisture from the air, to make the
milking easy. But really there is no need
for it, as dry milking is easy enough.
Orchards are not considered worth the
manure made. on the farm. Many old
apple orchards have never received an
ounce of manure or fertilizer. The result
is knotted fruit, disease, an improbable
orchard and waste Of land. An orchard
will pay well, but it must receive its
share of manure. A good orchar dshould
give larger profit than any crop that can
be grown on the farm.
The mutton of our country is being so
rapidly improved by the use of good NUT
ton SireS and better feeding that our peo-
pie are rapidly becoming mutton-eaters.
The nice, juicy lamb-chop, cut from
well-bred, properly, fed Down lamb,
when nicely cooked, makes a convert
Srlah ftc,,
we can produce and put on the market.
the more call we Will have for it,
The asparagus beds should be well
manured now with manure free from
litter. 1t cannot be applied too literally.
Asparagus is the earliest vegetable that
appears, and its quality largely depends
on the soil and the manure. If the
ground is not frozen the soil should be
lightly forked up, the manure applied
and the bed again forked over which
may prevent loss of the manure by wash
ing during heavy rains,
A lady, writing in an exchange, says:
II have method of cleansing rancid and
poor butter that makes it better and more
economical to use in making pastry than
lard. l melt it, and then boil sliced raw
potatoes in it. When the potatoes are
brown | know the butter is cleansed and
that they have absorbed the butyric acid
that chiefly makes the butter rancid. /
skim off the surface, and pour the pure
oil in jars to store it till time of use.''
Professor Weed, of the Ohio Expert
ment Station, recommends highly the !
spraying of fruit and other trees with |
highly diluted poisoned water -four |
ounces of London purple, or Paris green, |
to fifty gallons of water) for the destruc- |
ton of insects injurious to fruit or foliage. |
He found it eficaeious in the destruction !
or driving away of the curculio, us well as |
the killing. without any doubt, of the !