Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1892-03-19
ALL AROUND THE FARM.
Mutton Sheep and Wool Sheep Garden
ing Notes.

ing Notes.
Only thin covering is necessary
for the horse in the stable. When
outside. on cold days. the blanket is
something that should never be over
looked.
Put out the onion sets On rich
soil. and allow plenty OF room be-
tween the Sc s. SO as to permit of
the use of a rsrrow hoe between
them, which will largely assist in
lessening the hand labor usually nee
essary.
1t is an old maxim that every
thing goes into the milk.' Milk is
favored by turnips and also by wild
onions. Water that is not fit for a
human being to drink is not fit for
the COW. Disease can be transmit
ted through the agency OF milk
A dairyman rho makes bust
ness OF selling milk at good price
reports that from a Holstein COW he
sold $3.50 quarts Of milk, a. cents
quart, making $26s.45, while from
a grade COW he sold 1886 quarts 1T
the same price, making $164 so,
showing a difference in favor OF the
Holstein Of Sl24.l5.
Do without fences wherever it is
possible. A fence is costly lux
ury, as it is useless unless kept inre-
pair, but when it is q harboring
place for insects and yermin of all
kinds, which find refuge 10 the col
lections of refuse in the corners, it
causes the farmer more labor to re-
pair the damage to the farm than
the advantages gained from the
fence.
In experiments made in feeding
COWS at the Iowa experiment station
il was demonstrated that COW will
eat Is pounds of green food daily, if
kept in the stable, and grain ra-
ton added, and that COWS when fed
on corn, peas and clover in the sta
BILE, will give more milk than when
fed on a good blue grass pasture.
Beet sugar is receiving more at
tention every year. Clay soil gives
the highest percentage of sugar. The
average yield of sugar from
beets is about IA per cent, and over
90 tons of beets can be grown on an
acre, the cost of which, for seed, la
Dor, etc., is about $40. Over 1000
pounds of sugar can be realized from
an acre, but this yield depends on
the soil, the fertilizers used and the
season.
The amount Of green food that can
be grown on an acre, should the soil
ing system be practiced, is given by
Professor Wilson, who experiment.
ed in that direction, as follows:
Peas, cut green, 1876 tons; peas and
oats, grown together, cut green, "a
tons; green corn. 1876 tons; and the
second cut of green clover, 81 tons.
1t is not necessary to cut green feed
oftener than twice week if it is
spread out, in order to avoid its
heating.
1t is not advisable to feed young
pigs on fattening food, nor should
they be kept in fat condition. The
pig should be kept growing, and it
is time enough to fattcn him after
the frame has been produced. Some
| farmers keep their pigs fat all the
year, which not only affiicts them,
especially in summer, but too much
fat retards growth, A clover pas
ture is better than feeding largely
on grain.
There is always amarket for some
thing better than the market affords.
By producing only the best quality
of meat, butter. milk or fruit, plenty
of room will be found for it, even in
a crowded market. The surplus re-
naming unsold is that which is in
ferior. By carefully asserting all
articles that can be examined and
"culled,p lees transportation costs
will result, and the prices attained
will be much larger.
The mutton breeds are gradually
pushing the wool-prodacing breeds
of sheep aside. Where formerly the
merino was the leading breed of
sheep in this country. there has been
greater attention directed the South
downs, Hampshires, Oxfords and
Sh.opshires. The advantages with
the merino is its ability to exis. 10
iarges focks, and to forage over hills
and waste lands, but in this respect
1t has strong rival in the South
down, which is far superior to the
merino as mutton-producing sheep,
and it also grows fair fleece of
middle wool
Women Who Die Early.