Year: 1879

WHITE AND YELLOW CORN.-There exists strong impression among feeders, East and West, that white corn is not so valuable fattening food as yellow corn, while they think white corn better for work-horses and better for bread. The National Live Stock Journal says A table giving the mean of two analyses of yellow corn of New England and sam pie of Southern white corn makes it appear that the former has 2.5 per cent. more carbo -hydratis (starch, gum, sugar, etc. and nearly one per cent. more fat (these are all fattening elements) than white corn, and white corn in turn has one per cent. more albumincids or mus cular forming clements. So far as this one analysis of white corn goes it shows the popular view to be correct, though hardly sufficient to base any very strong conclusions upon. If the general i'm pression strengthed by this analysis is correct, the white corn, coming nearer to oats, is better for working animals than yellow corn. It will also make stronger bread for the same reason that wheat, having the largest percentage of gluten, sells for higher price because it makes the best bread.

 CHATTING WAX. A grafting- wax, which may be used immediately or laid away and kept for years, is made by melting and stirring together four parts of rosin, one of tallow and one of bees- wax; then pour into bucket of cold water. As soon as cool enough to be handled, work the mass over and draw it like shoemaker's wax until it is en- tirely pliable. The best way to teach boys how to graft or bud is to send them into the orchard under the instructions of any farmer who knows how to graft They will learn more in an hour in this way than during an entire season trying to follow written rules without practical illustration.

 BERMUDA GRASS. ss.-Bermuda grass has no seed, but is propagated by pieces of sod as already described. Bermuda grass endures any amount of heat and damp, but is killed out by severe cold weather. Sod for setting can be .ob- tained doubtless from farmers who already grow this grass and possibly through Southern seeders. As there are frequent calls for Bermuda grass turf those having tito dispose of will do well to advertise the fact.

 SPRING LAMBs.-H the ewes arc well fed the lambs will usually be fat enough on their dams milk. The ewes may be fed on a mixture of corn, rye, buck wheat, and oats, and one pint day, o1 twice day if necessary, may be given. The lambs will soon take Ii tile finely. ground oatmeal, and if place is pro vided where they can get access by them selves to a small feeding-trough con taiping supply of the meal they vii soon take considerable quantity of it Some early grass in warm spot fol ewes and lambs will help very much.

 BEANs.-The best bean soil is mel low clay or sandy loam, and it should be of uniform quality, so that the crop will ripen so uniformly that there will be nt green or over-ripe spots at harvesting either of which will be liable to stair and injure the quality. The prepara tion of land is the same as that for corn fitted in the incest manner, and ire, flom weeds or grass that might grow u1 and choke the crop. Weedy ground re quires too much hand hoeing for profit for it must be kept clean or it will no return fair yield. Weeds are nor, damaging to this crop than to corn O. potatoes, and it requires more hand Ia bor to extirpate them. The proper tim for planting is from ten days to tw, weeks after corn planting. The quan tity of seed necessary for marrow bean is one and one-third bushels per acre for mediums, three-fourths of bushel and for pea beans, one-half bushel pc acre. Kidney and other large beans re quire more-in proportion to size.

 AsHEs.-The quantity of ashes to l. applied to the acre depends, as doe that of all fertilizers, on the character 0 the soil and crop cultivated. Crop which exhaust the salts, as potatoes turnips and all roots, clover, lucern peas, beans and the grasses, are bene fitted by ashes. The crops named thriv well under an application of ashes wit bone-dust, and their effects are als strengthened when mixed with gypsum Light soils call for light dressings, sa from ten to fourteen bushels of un leached and twice that quantity C leached ashes per acre. Rich lands c clays bear heavier dressings. Repeate dressings of ashes like repeated dress ings of lime or gypsum, without a col responding addition of vegetable c barnyard manures are not admissible for they will eventually exhaust land when applied alone. Where the enti1 surface of the soil is covered with vege table growth either of the three mate rials mentioned acts with great effect For this reason ashes may be applie unmixed with other fertilizers to mes dow lands for longer time than to an other crop.

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