The record-union., 1892-06-23
Inc cane sugar was the PRODUCT Of the
tropical portion OF the earth in lSS9-90, as
The beet sugar was produced in por-
ION of Europe as follows:
FARM NOTES.

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are being used for tattening cattle in the
South. 1t is mixed with cottonseed meal
and hullS, and is said TO make superior
ration.
When you have picked off your old bed
! OF straw berries. pillow the plot and grow
upon 1t a crop of potatoes or cabbages.
BY SO doing the ground will be cultivated
and the weeds destroyed.
Hogs require good deal of water, and
1t would be wiser to give them good,
pure, cool water than to stuff them with
foul sWlll as so many farmers do. Pure
water, clean quarters and food make the
! best pork.
! Nothing is more disagreeable on farm
than to have the hog-pens near the house.
! The odor is disagreeable. A pen and sty
out in the field is better, even if the loca-
t!on renuerS the management a little
more laborious.
Charcoal is valuable feed for hens,
! having cleansing influence on the sys-
| tenn. 1t is good at all seasons of the year.
! II placed where they can get at it and
have what they want, they will eat it in
large quantities. The results will more
than pay for all the trouble and cost.
Keep an eye on the manure pile or it
will become overheated. If YOU are too
busy to turn the heap over make holes in it
with pole or crowhar and deluge it with
water. Do not fail TO work the heap over
as soon as 1t can be done, and when so
doing add more absorbing material.
One of the best things in the world to
| give horse after he has been driven is q
quart of oatmeal stirred In pail of water.
1t refreshes and strengthens him. relieves
| his immediate thirst and prepares his
stomach for more solid food. So says Jo-
seph harris, after twenty years trial of it.
Small farms make near neighbors; they
make good roads; they make plenty OF
good schools and churches; there is more
money IN proportion TO the labor;
less labor is wanted; more is raised TO the
acre, beside it is titled better; there is no
watching of hired help; the mind is not
Kept III a worry, stew and fret all the
time.
A Del Norte, Colorado, chicken fancier
was troubled exceedingly by the propen-
sity OF his brood to scratch up his garden.
SO he set to work to solve the problem of
prevention. After elaborate experiments
he succeeded in crossing a breed of long
legged Brahmas with short-legged Ban
tams in such way that the chicG ems mad
one long and one short one. When thew
attempted TO scratch they lost their bal
ance and fell over, which, after a few
trials, was sufficient to show that scratch
ing was impossible and they gave it up.
alt is possible that farmers have been led
into error in being taught that to be sue
CtSSlul WI SuSGp d dIulGr must nave n
wide range and cheap land. Sheen will
give profit on land that can be devoted
to any kind OF stock, as is demonstrated
on the h1gh-prlced farms of England. If
American farmers depend wholly on
wool, they will find that they are limiting
their opportunities. If mutton is made q
specially, there is a large profit to him
who Will keep the improved breeds and
give them rich pasturage with high feed
ing at the barn.
Fanny Field says: Corn will caEse
diseases in poultry. I once killed fine
flock OF chickens with it, and can repeat
the disaster any day. Probably nine out OF
ten persons who feed corn to fowls shell
it; corn FED thus is not eaten but simply
swallowed. Each fowl then goes about
looking like small boy with peck of
green apples in his midst. The crop is
/ packed solid and very often fermentation
sets III long before the grain is dige5ted
and the result is what might have been
expected. When fed on the ear it takes a
full hour to satisfy her appetite.
A man has appeared in Washington
and taken out patent on an artificial
egg. The inventor says that his eggs are.
chemically speaking, q precise reproduce
! ton of nature. CornmeaI is the basis OF
their material. The white is pure albu-
men, of course, while the yelk is moro
complicated mixture OF albumen and
{ S6NGral OInOT el9UlcIIS. IllSlue TIE smell
Is q lining OF what looks somewhat like
the delicate, filmy membrane formed by
the hen, while the egg itself is stated to
be made III two halves, stuck together so
/ artfully that no one can discover the
/ joining. The very germ OF the chicken,
J with unnecessary faithTalnCss OF imita-
ton, as enc might think, is counter
feited.
1t has been shown by analysis and
/ proved by experiment that sheep manure
! Is one OF the most valuable of fertilizers.
/ 1t contains l per cent. OF nitrogen, hich
( is double the amount contained in horse
or COW manure. 1t is very soluble and,
therefore, readily absorbed by plants 1t
| NAV be applied to the land at any time,
but most probably in the fall and winter.
! Unlike all other animal manureS IL does
not carry noxious seeds. they being
ground up by the masticating machinery
of the animal. The superior fertilizing
properties in sheep manure arise from
the varied forms Of vegetation on which
the animals live. Sheep will seldom eat
grass when supply of tender weeds or
tender shrub leaves are in reach.
Diversified farming is the surest, even
if it is not the most rapid, road to indie
pendence. 1t is pretty comprehensive,
and if followed out to the fullest extent
and to the full meaning of the term 1t
will demand man who has the ability to
both plan and execute. 1t is rarely in
deed that one who follows this method
Will fail to be self-suStaining, even the
poorest years. and he will not be apt to be
heavily burdened with debts, contracted
to carry him through year Of crop fail
ure. His effort will be directed toward
the production of everything neaded fol
the sustenance of himself, his family and
his working stock, SO far as his soil and
location will permit. Such q man will
fatten his own beef, pork and mutton
upon his own homegrown hay and corn
and you can rely upon his table being
} supplied the whole year round with
beautiful and nutritious food.