The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-06

Evaporation of water dlSpGlS heat
more rapidly than anything else. So
long as the surplus water in soil has to
be evapOrated to escape, then the soil
will remain cold. Even hot sunshine
does not warm it to any considerable
depth. Winds and sun cause the evapO-
ration to progress o rapidly, and
may sometimes make the soil beneath
the surface colder than before.
THE SNYDER BLACKBERRY.
The Snyder blackberry for hardness
and prOduCtiveness can hardly be ex-
celled. 1t succeeds where other varie-
ties have been winter-killed, and these
characteristics make it popular. It's
fault is in turning red after marketing,
which Injuries its sale, though not for
canning, for which it can hardly be
excel ed. The Ancient Briton black
berry IS said to be equally hardy with
the Snyder, and to retain it's black
color. Another variety, the Early
Barnard, is identical with the Ancient
BritOn.
WHOLE WHEAT FOR CHICKENS.
1t is not natural for young chicks to
adapted to breaking up and digesting
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something to do this the power is lost.
After the chick is a week old whole
wheat is as good a food as can be given,
and before that cracked wheat should
form at least part of their ration.
Whole corn should not be fed to grow
ing chicks at any time. Corn is not a
very good feed for chickens, anyway,
but if given it is better to be cracked
than fed whole or ground into fine
meal.
FEEDING FLESH TO HOGS.
1t is a common practice where extern
slve butchering business is carried on
to feed the Otfal to hogs. Pork thus
made is not 80 good as that made from
grains, and if there are any indications
of disease in animals slaughtered, even
though undevelOped, it may break out
in hogs eating such material. The rule
that only herb and grain-feeding aui
mails are fit for food is a good one, The
hog was by the Mosaic law pronounced
unClean, and left to himself he will be.
1t is only as extra care is taken to pre-
vent the hog from eating offensive food
that its flesh is good to eat.
CULTIvATING AFTER EVERY RAIN.
The process of nitrificasion in the
soil goes on most rapidly while it is
a and moist, Nitrate deposits are
often left on the surface after heavy
rains, the water holding nitrogen united
with some mineral base passing off into
air, and the mineral nitrate forming a
crust. Whenever this is turned under.
as it must beby cultivation, FURNISHES
exactly the kind of plant food for which
crops are most eager. New roots put
forth, and a few hours time after the
cultivatOr goes through, a cornfield
shows a difference in color of leaf as
compared with that not cultivated.
TIMOTHY BREEDING CUT WORMS.
The common white grub is most often
found in timothy meadows the second,
third or fourth year. The parent beetle
lays her egg just under the bulb of the
timothy plant at the surface of the
ground. Here the young grub finds
his first food, and soon becomes large
and vOraciOus enough to destroy any
crop planted on an up-turned timothy
sod. It is just then, too, that the old
meadow is plowed up, because the
farmer sees that the timothy has run
out, but does not suspect the cause.
Crop such land the first and second
year with buckwheat and seed with
clover. THAI will starve out the white
grubs more quickly than anything else.
THINNING APPLES.
The codling moth and other enemies
of the apple crop usually thin them
enough, and possibly too much, for
profit. There are, however, localities
where no apples grew last year, and
here the trees may be liable to over
bear. Nature never thins enough.
though the tree will automatically cast
some of it's fruit just before the time
for forming seed. These rejected