Memos for the Farmers.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 134, 6 May 1884, Page 2

Memos for the Farmers.

Do not feed much m warm weather Green food is necessary. Plenty of salt and red pepper m boiled pig feed is recommended by American authorities. A light sprinkling o f lime upon potatoes when stored is an excellent preven- • tive of rot. I he season that a heifer drops a bull calf will be as good as any m her milk yield, no matter what her age. Rub on and around warts on animals with salt ham greece every day for two weeks. They will conic off without pain and leave the place smooth and soft. A nut that has got rusty on a waggon or plough will start easily if kerosene- "\ is poured on it and allowed to stand a short time. If it does not start at onco give the nut a sharp blow and pour on a little more oil. The " Coachmakers' Magazine" says ; : that lard' should never be used on a waggon wheel, for it will penetrate the hub and work its way out around the tenons of the spokes, thus spoiling the wheel. Tallow is the best lubricator for wooden axletrtes. As a general thing it is not a g00d ... plan to mix salt with the food of sloclc, as a ravenous appetite might cause them to eat more salt than is healthy for them. Keep the salt by itself m a trough or box -where they ; can Jick . when they please to do so. Pag weed is very uncommon m many fields of graiu stubble after harvest. It can bo set back considerably by cutting with a mower two or three'weeks after the wheat is got off. In such cases the clover catch, if a good one, s will take (he lead and keep the rag weed down so that none will appear the following season. The carcases of animals dying on the* farm, and as many more as can be secured from other sources, should be : utilised for manure, not buried or drawn away to the words, but kept where they can at once be used as available manure. Nothing more is needed for this than to cover them with sulphuric acid — oil of vitriol.* ,- This will convert the carcase into a thick syrupy substance, with little offensive odour, and which may be advantageously thrown on any. compost , heap. The oil of vitriol alone is excel- '■ lent for the compost heap as ie has a strong affinity for ammonia. i : . A Kentucky paper tells the story of a farmer m that vicinity who lost his! t crop of wheat m a most remarkable* manner. The wheat had come "up. and \ was looking, finely, wheu there came a heavy sleet, which covered the field. Before this melted the floods rose, and the water lifted the sleet bodily from the grqund, pulling up the wheat with it. The last the farmer «aw of bis crop it was following his, fences down the Ohio on its way to the- Gulf, and the field is now as bare as a concrete pavement.