Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-01-22
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Items.


Poultry, to fatten rapidly, must be 4
like hogs, restricted to a limited space :
Freedom and fat are incompa tible.
On many.farm it costs as much to
keep the rats as to keep COW. he
who can clear farms Of rats will get
rich. II
Mich COWS should have suecuIent
food and meal, Feed generously, and
keep the flesh increasing, as we'll as
the milk.
A citizen of Brunswick, Maine. has1
within three years taken 5000 worth
of squashes from little more than an
acre of land.
Managers should be low and stables
well ventilated and lighted. Many
horses are made blind by being kept
in the dark.
It is poor policy at this season to
stint tie Issd of dry COWS Good keep
milk pail next summer
A horse man says he has cured the
worst kind of scratches he ever saw
with two applications of white pine
turpentine thoroughly rubbed on.
Handle COWS gently if you don't want /
them to kick when being MIXED.
They won't kick unless sOmeting hurts /
them or they fear something will.
Two things not to be had arc wan
ted in England. One is an act of
Parliament for putting down rabbits I
and the other, privilege for the poor
man to brew his own beer.
A California paper recommends all
producers to meet the market at once,
that the crops may be got out of the
country, and that there may be better
prices for what remains.
In the care of cattle nothing keeps
them in better order than the light of
the eye of the owner several times
day. The eyes of boys and hired men
are sometimes covered with film.
Mr.. SethBoyden. Of Newark, N. j.,
says that with twenty years eultiva
tion he can raise strawberries as large
as pine apples, and have them retain
all the delicacy of the fruit now
grown,
When the cattle are fed on straw,
the boys on skinned milk, the old
man on fat pork, and the hens are
obliged to scratch gravel, the breath
of the beaux Of the girls will smell of
whisky. SO
A farmer has liberty to pay ten per
cent. for money, that he may shelter
his stock and liberty, also to work
seven days FHnRing for this purposes
If he can prove that he will do more
than IN six
During the war the rebels made
horse-collars Of bass wood, and now
are Recommending Tor general use
for they are light, they do not get
heavy with ram, nor freeze, nor wear
out, nor gall
On settling the Cape de Verde Islands
the people cut away the timber, when
several dHodths sometimes of three
years duration followed, and more
than 10000 people have perished with
famine.
An agricultural writer in Tennessee
says that the east part Of the States
o ffers great inducements for Northern
men to go into the sheep business, but
he adds, they should bring a good
stock, Of grasslseed.
The English are getting enterpris-
ing, and have caught the grape fever,
seedlings, surprising all others, are
for sale If they keep on they will
have a new potato, and sell the seed a t
81 pound.
A rock maple was recently cut near
West Concord N H, whose scircum-
ference when chopped was fourteen
feet nine inches It was at least one
hundred feet high, and had been tap
ped for sugaring one hundred and six
years.
Young cattle, if you would have
them keep growing through the win
ter, should have as good treatment as
oxen and cows. It is poor economy
to keep them exposed to severe wealth
er, and supplied only with bog hay
A writer on understanding says he
should not hesitate a moment to
mortgage land of his own to raise
money for draining if could get the
money IN no more convenient way.
The mortgage would be an insignif-
cant one compared with the uncertain
ty of getting crops from wet land with
out drainage.
Some farmers are so stupid as to
laugh at their neighbors who practice
carding their COWS, Yet the good re-
suits of this practice are seen, uot only
in the better appearance of the animals
that are carded daily, but in fuller
milk pails. -