The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-01-29
VOL. 64.-WH0LE No. 5,476.
HOUSE AND FARM.

! depend on where the farm is located
and the purpose of the farUer to sup
ply a particular market, whether a
milk, butter, or cheese diary; whether
for raising stock for working oxen, or
feeding for the butcher. These differ
ent purposes require different breeds
of stock.
Within a convenient distance of
town or city, the milk business will
yield the most money, clear profit.
The butter business fresh, in pound or
half pound lumps,l next Cheese and
tirkin butter can be made at a greater
distance from the market and brought
in at any time.
For these purposes we recommend
the Aldeyney and Ayrshires as real
milk-producing machines, converting
all the producing food they are
able to digest into the lacteal eleme-
ment. it is impossible to fatten them
without first drying them up, and this
is no easy matter. Their milk, too,
is Of the richest quality for either
cream; butter or cheese.
In some sections Of the country.
where the farms are large, and stock
raising are feeding is made a business,
the short horn Durham and the De-
vonshire will be the most profitable:
for taking on fat and weight of carcass,
no other breed can compare with short
horn, either for pure blood or grades.
For working oxen the Devons are su-
perior on account of their activity
they are good feeders. We would bv
no means underrate the Devons and
short-horn as mixers. Many of both
breeds, as we'll as their crosses, prove
to be excellent mixers; but we still
adhere to the foregoing opinion, that
the Attorneys and Ayrshires are their
superiors in manufacturing milk out of
a given amount of food. Some of our
most discriminating dairymen differ
in opinion as to which of these two
breeds are the best mixers; on this ac-
count we have classed them together
but our preference, based upon our own
judgment, is in favor of the Aldernevs.
HOto to make Hens Lay IN WInter.-
]. l.. Peabody, in the Prairie Farmer.
says:
"Let me inform your readers of a
plan to get hens 10 lay in winter, that
learned from a Kansas man, some
thing over year ago, and which [
tried last winter with good success
He told me if L would let my hens
huddie together in some warm corner,
and not let them roost, I should get
plenty of eggs. l had about twenty
hens; my hen-house was a rough shed,
eight feet square, with a small window
and door on the east. | took down
all the roosting poles, leaving the nest
boxes only. With few short boards
| made small shed about four feet
square, on the south-side of the larger
one, and covered it with cornfodder,
STRAW is better.) l made a hole for
the hens to pass from the large house
into the small one. The result was,
my hens continued to lay all through
the cold weather. You will have to
drive them in a few times at first;
they will soon learn to go in them
selves. Put in wood ashes occasional
ly to keep them from vermin. There
are great many who are not able to
build an expensive hennery, but any
one can fix up place like this in an
hour or two, with very little expense
F20acers in Winter.-If you would fes-
t0on your windows, scoop out tow
middle-sized turnips, fill them with
rich earth, and SOW the seeds of the
Thumbergia, bearing yellow flowers,
and the L0belia (compacta) bearing
blue, and hang one on each side of the
window. The former will run up and
cling to the strings which support your
hanging basket, while the latter will
fall gracefully down, and you will
have the pleasure of noting day by day
just how each green leafiet appears and
grows and spreads itself out to the air
and light.
Scarlet F6Uer.-A correspondent of
the Wilmington Commercial, writing
from Kent county, where the scarlet
fever has prevailed to an alarming de-
gree, recommends as q cure for this
terrible disease, that "the patient be
creased with fat bacon, over the entire
1rfo Of 10 ha IT,
the diseases to be cured by enveloping
the patient in warm poultice made
of Indian meal. Both these remedies
may be old, but a trial of either, or
both, can do no harm, while your ply
sician is hesitating as to what expert
ment he shall try to save the life of
your child,
A Good Plum Pudding eoithom Eggs.
One pound of raisins, half pound
of suet, one pound Of flour, four ounces
of bread crnmbs, two table-spoonsful
of molasses, one pint of milk, nutmeg
and grated ginger to taste. Chop the
suet very fire, mix it with the flour,
add the bread crumbs, ginger and the
raisins stoned, and mix the whole well
together with the milk and moIasses.
Put into pan or Toured cloth, and
boil it four hours.
Warm Bed for PiGs.-Ifpigs are kept
warm and dry during the winter
they will do much better for it. In
building straw stack, tits very we'll
to provide shelter at one side or end
of the same. A pen may be built up
at one side or end of the stack around