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Around The Farm

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
April
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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Onions given as food to horses in the first stages of the epizootic are said to be very beueflcial. They cause the anii mal to cough and snecze and discharge i freely from the mouth. Try them. A correspondent of the Neiv England Farmer says that he has seen the application of a liberal dressing of muck give that part of the field to which it is I applied a decided appearance of fertility over the rest of it, thirty years after the application was made. The following gives the contents of circular cisterns for each foot in depth : i Diawwter. Barrel. j Five feet 4.66 Sir feet 7.71 Seven feet 9.13 [ Eight fret 11.93 I Nmcfet 16.10 Ten feet 18.65 One feature of fruit growing by the farmers, who are mainly the fruit growerf, is the neglect to thin out the erop when the frnit is about half grown. The rêfnse taken from the tree at that time, being one or two of the smallest from a cluster, and all the email and knotty ones on the weak twigs, etc, are profitable food for all classes of stock. To pbevbnt an ox or steer from going ahead of his yoke-mate when attached to a sled or cart, put a chain around his end of the yoke and fasten it to the pole or tongue of the sled or cart, just back of his fore leg, allowing him to come up even with his mate. He will soon give up the habit as a bad job. - H. W. F., in Main Farmer. Hungabian Grass. - The Lancaster (Pa.) farmers lately discussed the merits and demerits of this grass. The majority of the speakers believed it an exhaustive erop. Several had found that wheat did not do well on land sown to Hungarian the previous year. It was recommended to cut it before the seed had ripened, and even then to feed it sparingly to horaes. A highiiï respeetable and wealthy farmer in Connecticut gives the following as his experience : AVhen I first came here to settle, about forty yea-s ago, I told my wife I wanted to be rich. She said she didn't want to be rich- all she wanted was enough to makeher comfortable. I went to work and cleared up my land, I'vo worked hard ever since and got rich - -as I wanted to be. Most of my children have settled about me, and they have all got farms, butray wife ain't comfortable yet. A 0OKBISP0NDENT of the Rural Home recommends the following mode of protecting fruit trees from mice: Take common roofing tin 1420 inches, have the tinner cut it into two equal parts, leaving 10x14 inches, and rolling it lengthwise, which leaves it ten inches high. If made smaller they will not be large enough to protect the trees untü the iatter are out of danger. It is not essential to have them close to the trees, but they should be close to the ground, so that the mioe cannot get under them. A correspondent of the London Agricultural Oazette traced the change of opimon with regard to hay in his own neighborhood. ' ' ïears ago the practice here was almost invnriably to feed the milking cow on hay alone ; then somo few dairymen began to give those cows that had lately calved two or three pounds óf linseed cake per day ; then some of the poor grass land on the dairy farms would be broken up, and some mangels were grown. Now the rule is often to cut up partly straw and partly hay, and mix with pulped mangels, and give each cow four or five pounds of cake or meal, or both." An Iowa correspondent says: Tellyour friends who plant broom-corn that no one ever had prime brush by keeping it down before cutting, as I have twice seen recommended lately, as the louse that infests this plant turns reu, when it dies, and colors the brush. If it hangs down, there is no sprargling or BpïWvfling brush; and if it is eleanpd of Beed wheii it should be, just after blossoming, the value of the seed will not equal tba diiTerence in the vahw oï the brush if ivllowed to ripen before cutting. The best broom-corn is secured by curing partly or wholly in the shade. Great nare should be used to avoid heutinp, to which broom-corn is very liablo. It is folly to break down brooracorn do mako its crooked ways straight, us auy fooi knows that if he bieaks it down it dies ali above the break, and for one crooked he:ul he will get a dozen litlle sprawling, wortlilt ss ones coming out of the stalk just above each leg.

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