Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-03-03
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
agriculture, Scientific and Household.

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Take good care of the house plants
these cold nights.
Pigeons are Matched in eighteen
DAYS chickens, twenty-one turkeys,
twenty-six ducks and geese, thirty.
Farmers can with profit give a por-
ton of the long winter evenings to. adj
iusting and systematizing their accounts,
making inventories and calculations for
future operations all matters too gen.
orally neglected.
Keep all farm implements under
cover during these winter months; the
SHOWS and thaws of January and Febru-
airy will take off large percentage OF
their value if left exposed to the chang
able weather.
Don't let the winter pass without
securing years supply of wood. 1t is
poor economy to burn green wood
loss of time and patience to the housewife.
No prudent farmer will be without a
years stock ahead.
Keep work horses and cattle well
shod and well sheltered. Good shelter
will prevent your stock coming out
''Spring poor" as well as good food.
Feed well and card often.
Keep brood mares in box stables, or
loose in roomy stables. When possible,
give each sunny yard. Be careful of
their slipping on the ice.
Keep poultry supplied with clean
gravel and powdered bones. Give some
animal food with grain. If kept in
warm and well lighted quarters they will
lay, and with eggs at present prices give
L Co.. God
The more uniformly fruit can be
kept at "a . or $50 temperature the
longer and better it will keep.
Tools may be repaired and put in
order during the leisure days of winter.
Iron and steel tools should be kept
creased.
"A farmer who is handy with tools
making frames and glazing sash for hot
beds.
Plants kept over in greenhouses
will do well with the temperature at 40 ,.
Few will flower well at less than 600.
-Turnips can be fed to horses whole
for cattle or sheep they should be cut or
mashed. The former have incisor teeth
in both jaws, the latter in the lower jaw
only.
Too heavy feeding of stock is bad,
Give only what animals will eat up clean,
and appear to want little more. In
fattening stock commence moderately
and increase gradually according to the
animals capacity.
Flowers are crystalized by suspend
ing or repeatedly dipping them in water
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can only be done with dried specimens.
The freshness and beauty of flowers can
be preserved by dipping them in glycer-
inc.
Two settings of eggs were sent last
spring long distance in England. Both
were packed with care, one in bran, the
other in hay. OF thosein bran not one egg
Matched, while every one packed in hay
produced a chick.
1t is a cruel and injurious practice to
catch sheep by the wool, as much so as
to pull child around by the hair. Ii
you could look under the skin after a
sheep has been hauled about by the
wool you would be surprised to see how
much the dumb, accomplishing animal
has suffered.
-Confine the ewes that are to bring
you early lambs in apartments protected
from cold and storms. Feed good hay
and corn stalks and give access to salt
and water. Grain and roots previous to
parturition prodlne garget. As soon as
the lambs are thrifty and strong and
take all the milk, give one pound of
roots and half pound of meal daily to
each eve, and you will get your pay for
it when You market your lambs in the
spring.
An Attorney COW owned in New Ro-
chelle, N. ". has good record From
March 1st, 1864, to March LIST, 1866, it
is as follows She raised her calf, pro-
duced 351 lbs. of butter, 7S quarts of
milk sold, and 447 quarts used in the
family. There was no extra effort made,
her only food during the grazing season
was grass, and in winter half a bushel of
coarse bran per day, besides coarse fod-
der. No roots were fed.
Mich cows should not be MIXED |
too close upon their calving. If dried |
off within five weeks it iswen enough for |
both ccw and calf.