The record-union., 1893-10-31
Royal Ba!1fn9 31ntpner.

attention will no fail to manage prop
erly in other departments Of the farm.
The manure heap is the riches of the
farm that have been unsold, andwhich
are to be converted into readily salable
products next season.
Every farm should have a well-kept
lawn and flower garden. 1t costs little
work and less money, and will be
source Of JOY to all.
Whether cortland should be plowed
shallow or deeply is unsettled. 1t is gener-
ally accepted that the land should be thor
Oughly worked over at first, being plowed
deeply and narrowed, but the cultivation
of the crop should be shallow. Expert
ments at the Indiana station this year
show that the highest yields were when
shallow cultivation was given, and that
corn is a plant which requires but a
slight stirring of the soil.
The best breed of cattle for producing
oxen is the Devon. 1t is red IN color,
very active, can subsist where some
breeds are not adapted. and for hardness
is unexcelled. 1t does not compare IA
vOrably with some breeds for producing
milk, butter or beet, however, but it is q
favOrite with some, owing to its adapta-
bility to hillside pastures.
Corn huskers, which husl1 the corn and
Standing corn is also cut by corn har-
vesters. With the riding plow, riding
cultivator, corn harvester and corn
husker and cutter, growing a corn crop is
not SO difficult as formerly. Potatoes
are now cut by the use OF implements,
and potato planters, potato harvesters
and potato ''SOrterS' are no longer novel
ties. Even beans are now harvested by
machinery, and the farmers labor is
being reduced to a minimum.
Farmers frequently overstock them
selves with sheep, and then complain
that they do not pay. They will not
thrive ii crowded, and this is primary
cause of disease. The aim should be to
keep a small flock of good blood, and
give those good feed, good shelter and
wise care. This will insure more and
better wool and mutton than a larger
flock kept under poorer conditions.
Skim milk is too little valued as an ac-
cessory for stock feeding. Chemically
considered, it contains all the elements
necessary for the support of life and re-
building the tissue. Young animals es-
pecially Will use it to great advantage in
combination with other foods, and there
should be plenty of such kept on every
dairy farm, so that this byproduct could
be employed to the fullest extent to sup
plement the profit.
1t is hard to get Flint corn to yield
bushel for bushel Of shelled grain as it
comes in the ear. The eight-rowed kinds
will do it if the neck of the cob is not too
long and thick and the ear is well filled
to its tips. But the deeper-grained West
ern Dent corn ought always TO yield a
bushel Of grain for one of ears. Ii it does
not 1t is a sign that the variety has a thick
cob and Is too late maturing to be of much
value. Some Of the earlier Dent varieties
have very deep grains and cob SO small
that a bushel Of ears will make con-
siderably more than bushel of shelled
graiu.
Some men seem TO pride themselves
upon the fact that they are practical farm
ers, and know nothing about agriculture
except that which they have learned by
hard knocks. But this is hardly as much
credit to them as they seem to think, be-
cause the very best farmers in these latter
days are the ones who combine theory
with practice.
A correspondent of the Rural NeV
Yorker thinks that white fleshed peaches
are usually Of better flavor than the yell
low, and cling stones keep better and ship
better than free stones. In other respects
there is little difference between the diff
ferent kinds.