Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-07-02
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

them to lay or hatch, and no range or roost
for them. The eggs get chilled, the nests
are broken up by verrnin, or, if the eggs
hatch, the young ones are exposed to the
long cold storms, and the most of them die.
Fall comes, and the flock is barely doubled.
This doessnot pay. But good stock and
careful handling pays about as well as any
thing on the farm.
The following is the balance sheet of
Connecticut farmer: He had turkeys, from
which he raised 101 birds He sold SO of
them, weighing dressed 1,426 pounds, at
the close of the year. for ~ cents pound,
making 1885, and the remaining three he
valued at SO, making the gross proceeds of
the flock, 1894. He fed to them 10 BUSH
els of corn, worth $165, and the dressing
cost s10 making S175. This gives $216
profit, if we reckon the feathers and manure
as an Offset to the attendance This is a
handsome item in the operations of the year.
1t does not take great deal of labor to raise
flock. but a little timely attention must be
given every day during the Spring, which
is the critical time with them. After the
chicks are two months old, they require less
care than any other kind af poultry.
The nest should be sheltered, and for this
an old BARREL covered with brush, is better
than more expensive and tidy covering
IF you can make them think they are steal
ing their nests, it is all the better Bya
little timely attention they can be made to
lay and rear their broods near the house.
The eggs should be brought into the house,
to guard them from frost, and be turned half
way over every day, until the hen is ready
for them. Make pen of boards about afoot
high, in some sheltered sunny spot for the
young brood, and keep them there until they
can fly over. Feed chopped eggs, liver or
some fresh animal food, with scalded homi-
ny. Have roost of poles in some sheltered
spot, and as soon as they incline to forsake
the shelter Of their mother, train them to
mount the poles. They will soon come home
as regularly as the chickens to their roost,
and much labor will be saved in looking af-
ter them Turkeys. like other farm crops,
are profitable according to the attention be-
slowed upon them.
M1LK-CANs.--When can is to be washed
do not put hot water in it at first but put in
water not above milk warm, which will read
lily dissolve the milk if any is dried on the
tin, and it works off very easily: while if
hot water is applied at first, it has tenden-
cy to cook the milk on the tin, in which con-
dition water will not very readily dissolve it,
but warm milk will. tits, therefore, very
important to give strict heed to this matter
and see that the milk is thoroughly removed
by washing before any boiling water is ap-
piled. Care must be taken to remove every
vestige of the milk about the seams of the
cans and covers, as here is where the trouble
always begins. The seams demand especial
attention. The little tube in the center of
the cover is also place to be especially
looked after in cleaning the can.
Very many people who consider them
selves, and are considered by others patterns
of neatness, fail to keep their milk cans per-
fectly cleansed; many times no doubt through
ignorance of how to do it, and many times
from lack of appreciation of the extreme
neatness of that scrupulous care necessary to
keep every thing used about milk immacu-
lately clean.
HINTs.-1. If "a man faints place him flat
on his back and let him alone,
2. If any poison is swallowed. drink in
stantly glass of cool water, with a heaping
teaspoonful each of common salt and ground
mustard stirred into it, This vomits as
soon as it reaches the stomach; but for fear
some of the poison might remain, swallow
the whites of one or two eggs or drink cup
of strong coffee, these two being antidotes
for greater number of poisons than any
dozen other articles known, with the advan-
tage oftheir always being at hand; if not,
pint of sweet oil, or lamp oil, "dripping"
of melted butter Or lard, are good substitutes
specially if they vomit quickly.
g. The best thing to stop the bleeding of
moderate cut instantly is to cover it pro-
fuse with cobweb, -four and salt, half and
half.
COOP M1LK.-The following rules were
unanimously adopted by the Illinois and
Wisconsin Dairypen's Association, "to in
sure the delivery of pure sweet milk"
1. That no milk is good, which is made
from filthy, sinking water, of sloughs and
frog ponds.
2. That no milk is good that comes from
COWS logged, Or oyerdriven in hot weather,
from the pastures to the stable.
3. That no milk is good that comes from
cows pounded or kicked and cruelty treated
by brutal men,
4. No milk is good that comes from dis
eased cows---cows that have sores filled with
pus, or that have udders broken and run
ming with corruption.
Remedy FOR BLACK KNor.-Take paint
brush, dip in spirits of turpentine, and thor
oughly saturate the knot, being careful not
to touch the tree except in the diseased part.
It stops the knot, and the tree puts on
healthy branches below it. Burn all branches
removed in pruning. AS the Summer is the
time the mischief is done, every fresh ex-
crescence should be pared off, the turpen-
tine applied, and it will harden in week.
ELDER OINTMENT of lard, inner
bark of sweet elder, and inner bark of bit
tersweet roots, equal parts in bulk add
two spoonfuls Of Balm Gilead buds; simmer
for half an hour. This is about the same
as the celebrated Golden Ointment, for
which thousands have been paid by the far
mers of this State. Good fol- chapped hands,
burns, cows teats that become sore in the
spring of the year, &c,-Country Gentleman,
CULTIVATE Your FENCE CORNERS cor.
respondent says that he knows a first class
farmer who cultivated his fence corners, or
rather land which the pillow would not reach
along the fences, in grass, and he found that
the product met all the EXPENSES. and his
fields suffered very little from weeds. Fence
corners are generally nurseries for weeds,
which can now be destroyed with profit.