Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-16

oats, barley or mill-feed, perfects tn
clover and milk system of feeding
i When milk is fed, it is better, we think
to wean tie pigs when they are TIVE
months old, and then give them TIA,
whole benefit of the food. Some farm
ers talk of shutting their hogs up Il
fat, in the fall; they should fatten then
all summer-keep them fat for tn,
butcher all the while. This is the wa,
pigs are grown which dress $50 or 40i
pounds at ten months old.
FIELD CULTURE OF STRAWBERRIES.
The following plan is practiced il
Burlington county, New Jersey, as Civ
en- in the report of the West jersey
Fruit Growers Assoc alton: ''Ihe ole
plan of planting and cultivating is still
| the only one which meets with arprov
al here. 1t is that OF setting In rows
five feet apart, and from ten TO eighteen
inches in the row, according to the Wig
or of the variety, and training into beds
from three and half to four feet wide,
and covering in the early part of the
winter with fine stable manure. AT.
ter picking they are sometimes cleaned
and allowed to fruit a second season,
though it is becoming common to pick
them but second year, 1T being CON
sidered less expensive to raise anew,
than to clean an old bed, and that the
former will yield a larger crop; though
the Lady Finger is reported IN Beverly
to pick far better at its fourth fruiting,
if well cared for, than in any previous
year.
FOWLS EATING THEIR FEATHERS.
This is one of the most annoying
| habits to which domestic fowls are adj
dicted. 1t is morbid appetite, appar-
emily induced by the impotence of the
fowl under confinement. The best pre-
ventives are animal food, raw bones,
oyster shells and charcoal, broken fine,
and variety of grains, with clean wa
ter and clean apartment. Sometimes
particular fowl shows a more inveter-
ate disposition to eat feathers than the
rest of the flock; it is best in such cases
to remove or kill such fowls. 1t Is sup
posed that this habit is first induced
while the fowls are mounting, aud their
pin feathers are filled with blood of
which they are very fond.
CHEAP PAINTS FOR FENCES AND OUT
BUILDINGS.
Take a bushel of well burnt lime,
white and unslaked, twenty pounds of
Spanish whiting, seventeen pounds OF
rock salt, and twelve pounds of sugar.
Stake the lime and sift out any coarse
humps, aud mix it into good white
wash with about forty gallons of water,
and then add the other ingredients, and
stir the whole together thoroughly, and
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mon brush. This is a cheap paint
Five dollars worth ought to make the
buildings look hundred dollars worth
better. This makes a coat that does
not wash off or easily rub off, and it
looks well, while it will go far to pre-
serve the wood. 1t Is, therefore, espe-
cially adapted to the outside OF build
ings that are exposed to the weather.
Three coats are needed on brick and
two on wood. If you want to get a
line cream color, add three pounds of
yellow Ochre to the above. If you pre-
fer a fawn color, add four pounds OF UNI
Der. one pound OF Indian red, and one
pound of la1npblack. This will be more
durable thar common Whltewash,
Ihe following cheap and excellent
paint for cottages Is recommended by
Downing. 1t forms hard surface and
is tar more durable than common paint.
1t will be found pref, rable to common
paint for picturesque country houses
of all kinds:
Take freshly burned unslaked lime
and reduce it TO powder. To one peck
or one bushel CT this add the same
quantity of fine white sand or fine coal
ashes, and twice as much fine wood
ashes, all these being gifted through a
fine sieve. They should then be thor
oughly mixeI together while dry. After
ward mix them with as mnch common
linseed oil as will make the whole thin
enough to work freely with painters
brush. This will make paint OF hight
grey stone color, nearly white. To
make it fawn or drab, ada yellow ocbre
and Indian red; ii drab IS desired, add
burnt lumber, Indian red and little
black; If dark stone color, add lamp
black; or if brown stone, then add Span
ish brown. Ali these colOrs should, of
course, be first mixed IN oil and then
added This paint IS much cheaper
than common oil paint. 1t is equally
we'll suited to wood, brick OF stoue. 1t
is better to apply it in two coats; the
first thin, the other thick.