The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-05-16
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Platform soslss ies weighing ssttlA would pay
every nsighbs,AoeA q tarnsrs, Blyers who,ss-
innate veigAta cad ars sIpsrienosd in weighing
OF the seller r.t
Odd moments cannot b speAt to better psev-
mary advantage than in setting eat vines, shrubs
etc. 1t 10 wonderful how mush can be DONE
without feeling it." by those who take advantage
Of saeh opportunities fer homestead improve
ments. T
Butter keeps up 10 war prices, almost. Farm
srs with good grazing lands ought to take the
hint.
The Victoria AMI White Grape are perhaps the
best varieties of currants for homo cultivation.
1t is foolish to set out tho old Dutch varieties
when these can be obtained.
Milking hints Have the came mixer regularly
fer each cow milk rapidly; talk as little as pcs
sible; let the milking times be as equi-distant as
may be-twelve hours between; have regular
hours in any event.
The only LOT of the Early Rose Potato now in
market is selling ut the rate of 50 pound or $54O
barrel! They are not found at the restaurants
yet.
A gentleman in Fredonia, r. Y, claims to have
originated thornless blackberry, nearly or quite
equal to the Lawton and hardy grower.
Two bushels of blue grass, two bushels OF red
top, one bushel Of creeping Der grass and twenty
pounds of white clover, to the acre, is f. u. FL
liott's recipe for seeding down lawn. He fills
the ground with grass seed to crowd oat the
weeds ..-..
Rsspberries appreciate deep mulching.
Grapes do splendidly when allowed to climb
among trees. It's nature.
Fruit vines eau hardly have too high Inanuring,
but cherry trees are often killed by it. They do
better in lots devoted TO grass than in cultivated
orchards
1t is said that pigeons prefer weed seeds to cul-
tivsted grain and really do great service in
keeping down chess and coekle.
a poor fence is defense but serious oftense
to good farming.
The last recipe for keeping eggs, is to place
them in boiling water twelve seconds; this thick
ems the inside skin, and keeps out the air.
Onions chopped fine and mixed with corn meal
are an excellent medicinal food fer poultry oc-
casionally.
There is large profit, fer farmers who can sell
milk, in contriving to have a number Of new
mich cows in the fall The cows in winter
dairy need good food, for which there should be
previous preparation.
The Jonrna! IF Horticulture pronouncss against
the robin as an enemy to the fruit grower and ad-
visss a war ofexternination.
All the wedding for straw berry beds should DO
done before the plants bloom.
The Country Gentleman says that if COWS are
fed on early cut timothy, put up in good order,
the butter will come with little trouble.
Sliding railroad DOORS hung On iron trucks
or wheels, at tn. top, arc the best for barns
they open mere easily, they are tighter, they will
not sag and are less in the way. But the wheels
should never be at the bottom.
Other things being equal the more moisture
cows take with their food, and the more water
they drink, the more milk they will give
An Oneida County n. y farmer writes that
the hop business is lottery and that, with the
ground now devoted to it, full crop this year
would drag prices below aremunerative point.
An Agricultural Society in Mass. has appoint
ed an agent 10 buy farm utensils, seeds etc. for
members, they to have the benefit of the wole-
sale rates, beyond the commission allowed the
agent Good application OF cooperative principle.
Red apples sell better than any other color in
markst-in other words their sale is red-dier
On clay soils manure literally and pillow under,
on light soils top-dress less freely but apply it
oftener.
Always loosen check rein before watering a
horse-the position is an unnatural one in which
TO drink, even if water be held upin pail. Bet.
ter yet would it be to keep tho check rein loose
ali the time. It's an instrumen. Of torture at tn
best.