The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1867-01-18
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If COW has q cough, never sell hcr
wi,hou, telling the purchaser Of tho fact.
1t is tho same In principle rs hiding de-
feet In horse. t.....
Pay hand, if he Is a poor hand, all you
promise him; if no is good hand pay him
little more; Il will encourage him TO do
better. ... ..
skiIlfhl cooking ID n readily discovered
in nicely baked potato, . slice of fried
pork, or respectable johnny-csks, as in .
nu,-brown sirloin or a brace Of canvass
hack ducks.
Mr.. J. Howard, an English gentleman
who visited this country last summer, said
at late meeting Of the London Farmers
Club. that tho most beautiful section he
saw in America, for farming. was in Iowa,
across the Mississippi, one Of the most pic.
turesque countries he ever looked upon.
When fences become old, and the boards
bigin to come off, nail upright facing strips
upon them against each post, and tho boards
will be held to their place, and tho fence
will last sevsral years longer.
Time and labor devoted to the collection
Of materials to be converted into manure,
are the most fruitful sources Of profit In the
whole range Of farm economy.
Remove every stone from tho track in
the highway. A single projection, which
might have been removed in one minute,
has battered and injured thousand wag.
ons. ut damage equal to hundred days
abor.
Mr.. Z. NJ. Hartman, Of Pi,tsfold, Otse-
20 County, N. Y, who has tried short poles
and twine for hops, writes to the New
York Farmers' Club that II Is not natural
for them to run horizontally, and tho crop
was no. worth picking alongside Of good
hops on long poles in his yard.
When It comes stormy weather, 90 that
YOU cannot work ont Of doors. do not al.
ways 60 fishing, but clean up the barn,
the barn cellar especially, cut the fodder
pile wood in tho wood house, and be sure
to inquire Of the women what they would
like to have done about the house.
In late article in this paper, we alluded
to the difference in tho amount Of cream
that differen, cows will yield. In butter
making. It is poor policy to keep cows
whose milk has the cheese quality and not
the butter. Test the milk with the lac
tomc,er; one Of the old, long cologne bot.
ties will do, or even tupbler.
DR.. Lewis A. Sawyer, on his journey
from New York to San Francisco, found a
q great show Of fruit at Salt Lake. A
specimen Of gloria mundi apple, exhibited
to the New York Farmers Club, weighed
% ounces. He says: II picked % perfect
apples from stick 70 inches long, and the
whole tree was almost as full in every part
of It."
On tho first Of last Say, J. c. McGinnis
Of ST. Louis, NO., sot out common carly
cabbage on new ground. Early in July,
began to cut them for table use. Tho stubs
sprouted. and during November The sprouts
formed perfect solid heads, weighing from
one to two pounds, and from three to FIVE
on each stub, making the second crop hea.
vier than the first.
The town of Glover, w., boasts Of hav-
ing paid its war debt in full, and painted its
Westinghouse.
The Tribune says that II has been proved
In Central New York that three bushels Of
salt per acre hastened the ripening Of the
wheat two or three weeks.
Alexander Dale, Allegan, Mich, recon-
mends, and DR.. Snodgnss Of tho New
York Farmers Club indorscs tho recon-.
ncndo,ion n poul,;ce Of ,,owed pumnkin
renewed every fif,een minutes, for inaam.
matory rheumatism.
A correspondent Of the Pnirie Farmer,
who kept dairy, kro - !, to he a fact that
ri. cov. x.rs m, ,ol,.d M of,en a. nv.
49, r., -, c,u .a,, ri.
y ~ 80 wy -. -
, '
dissolve ono ounce OF coIIo'Ne suoh'
mate III one p"' o, 0'co"o'. 10 one ounce
Of tins "'s."ro aad ono '"" a ha,, p'nt Of
wa'er' anu appy e"'ena'y' vermont
WOOL growers 'ays ." e.cna"se' arc very
gencra'S 's"s m's "''"'u,' T" P,e'e"'
'"e'' '"eeP r'"' ''""s ''' "'e'' "o'''
d. Dryor, Victor, N. ", says no can hill
Canada thistles In ono season by summer
fallowing Turn the swari In autumn,
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