The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-01-07
0llESTIC ECONOMY.
lE1OLD AND AGRICULTURAI,
TOPICS DlO0USSKN
49, Farm, Orehard. stable, Fazssg, -
THE HA9M


. 1eThom, Wisconsin. writes: Il
would like to ask some experienced
farmer in Wisconsin, how Kentucky
blue grass will thrive in this northern
country, and if it would be good msn-
agement to SOW it upon snow, and is it
- good hay as timothy, and as pasture
and as hay after cut. Mr.. George Nc
kelf0v answers:
Blue grass in Wisconsin is one of our
best pasture grasses and seems to be
naturally adapted to all our clay soils.
possession after . time. It makes .
good hay when cut and cured early, but
- both clover and timothy are heavier
troopers We prefer them. As pasture
grass it leads all our grasses in the
spring and holds out longer in the fall.
An old blue grass pasture allowed to
make . good growth in the fall. is an
excellent place for brood mares and
breeding ewes to take exercise in dur
ing the winter, and will be found pay
ing investment when colts and lambs
are coming strong and healthy in the
spring, instead of weak and sickly, as
they often do when their dams are con-
fined to yards and stables during the
winter. The seed can safely be sown
In early spring, either On the last snow
Or in the mud. When used in . mixed
seeding, for either hsy or pasture. it fills
N important place, and Wisconsin
1aDers are fast plonouncing in it's
favoE-Farns, Field and St0ckmdn.
Farm Fences.
xtom IN article upon this important
subject by Z. L. Gabrilson in the Farm
ere Review, We clip the following:
The old style of wire, used before the
baESing process was introduced, was
siDply an aggravation of the meanest
Kind. Put it up taut as possible, and
0ofoee the season was over it hung in
eroooents and crinkles, which did not re-
mind one of Hogarth's lines of beauty.
Whils new it was ductile and not easily
broken, but in few years, from ex-
posture to the climate, the annealing
disappeared, and then the wires would
snap like pipestems; and the soothing
~ notes of that autumn song, The
cows are in tine corn" would often be
heard. IL not the amount of injury to
stock from barbed wire overestimated?
And should not much of it be attributed
20 causes that are preventable? For
large stock it is not necessary to have
the bottom wire nearer the ground than
two feet from it. Our observation Of
injury to horses from barbed wire is that
Il seldom occurs except when a partition
fence separates different lots OF horses.
They come together at the fence line,
gossip awhile, bite, and then strike with
the forefoot. If the bottom wire is slack
or too Low, the hoof goes over the wire
and gets caught. An ugly wound is the
result, while the barbareus fence is jiss-
cussed We have been told that there is
statute in Wisconsin-perhaps it is
simply an unwritten ,aw-which permits
. man, who joins fences with one that
u slack in this matter. to construct a
fence on his own land, leaving an un-
oecupied strip with the ends open.
Devils lane" is the soubriquet by which
Aave adopted this plan, without the open
eAds, where our fences join fields occu-
ptNd by o neighbors stock, leaving a
strip six feet wide and stringipg a sim
gle wire three feet high on posts set
four rods apart. And, although cattle
ofsll ages, except calves, together with
horses, run in q pasture having this
safeguard, We have never found an ami
nal inside. They see the other fence
and make NO attempt to get under. The
idea that cattle are easily fenced against
when they have an abundance to eat is
sound; for We have cattle that have
9yaxed all summer beside fields of grass,
oats, and corn separated by fence made
OF two strands of barbed wire fastened
to posts set four rods apart. In regard
20 fence posts, We are planting ash
fysee, the surplus Of a considerable
grove, on the boundary lines as rapidly
q other springs work will permit. an d
intend to continue until living posts are
in place on most partition fences; while
the climatic and identifying effect will
amply repay the trouble and expense OF
setting out.