The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-06-11
VOL. 64.--WH0LE No. 5,494.
HoUsE Ann FARM.

seems amazing that people succeed
half so well as they do. Young chick
ems and tender turkeys require soft
and rich food for the first two weeks,
just as newborn infant needs milk,
1t would be just as consistent to gorge
the delicate stomach of an infant with
popped corn and candy as tn attempt
to rear young chickens and turkeys on
coarse and raw meal and small ker-
mails of grain. And yet sueh feed is
often employed for that purpose where
large numbers of fowls are pro-
duced. But the losses of young
chickens would be much less were
soft food employed until the young
birds have acquired sufficient strength
to digest coarse and hard food. In
many instances more than half the
turkeys that are hatched are SO se-
riously injured by improper food that
they die before they are one week
old. Indeed, many people will not att
tempt to rear turkeys, simply because
the young birds will die, in spite of all
their efforts to raise them. The first
food that young birds of any kind
should receive is boiled eggs. After
an egg is boiled, cut the shell in two e.
quail parts and place them where the
young chickens can have access to the
soft and rich food. After they have
eaten the egg, mush made of equal
parts of Indian meal and wheat -four
should constitute their chief food. Ii
milk can be obtained, let it be made in
to curd. Great care should be taken,
in the preparation of chicken feed, to
exclude everything that contains salt,
only small quantity will surely kill
young chickens and turkeys.-A5tairae
Farmer.
Hard Work and Hurd Driving. -Hor-
ses were designed as beasts of burden,
to relieve mankind of fatiguing druid
gerry. 1t does not hurt them to work
hard, if they are treated kindly. 1t is
not the hard drawing and ponderous
loads that wear out horses an make
them poor, baulky, worthless it is
the hard driving, the worry by
rough inhuman, drivers, that uses up
more horse flesh, fat, and muscle than
all the labor the team performs.
Consider the ponderous loads that
teams are required to cart every day,
they appear to grow fatter and stron-
ger every year. They are treated kind
ly. On the other hand, other horses
that do not perform half the labor soon
grow poor and give out, and the next
thing we hear of them is, they die
with the harness on. Hard work does
not kill them; but the worrying, fret
ting and abuse did the job.
Horses will dc all the moving and
reaping on large farm, thrash the
grain, pitch the hay, turn the grind
stone, saw the wood, and perform al
most all the heavy labor that farmers
have been accustomed TO do, and grow
fat, if they are not worried and jeEked
and kicked about as if they were a liv-
ing football.
Keeping Hams in Farm Wegther.--
Make bags of unhleached cotton cloth
put the hams in, and then put a layer
Of fine soft hay all around them, so 8
to make stratum of hay between the
cloth aRd the hams. If merely bagged
the flies will thrust their ovipositors
through the cloth and sting the meat
but the interposed hay keeps them off.
1t is a common practice to whitewash
the bags, but this is not so neat,
and the bags cannot be we'll used again.
Another mode is to bury them in oats
or some other grain but they are more
apt to become injured from want of ven
tilation. Charcoal dust keeps the
hams well, but it is black and disagree
able, and hard to get off. Whichever
mode is adopted, 1t is of vital impoI-
tance that the work is done early in
the spring, before the flies are stirring.
Country Gentleman.
A farmer correspondent, speaking of
the difficulty of swine driving, says it is
"as whistling, after you know how"
to wit to the end of a stout cord, tie
an ear of corn drop it in front of the
pig within five or six inches from his
nose, and commence dragging it slowly
away, in the direction you wish him
to propel. IF his pigship shows evil
dence of blited hopes, or arberration Of
mind, from the singular conduct of the
corn, seduce him into the belief that it
is sail right" by letting him have
brief nibble at it, and then resuming t. e
line of march. In this (says our infoE.
mant) the most obdurate pig may be
decoyed any reasonable distance. He
says he has deduced this from the fact
that "men require motives for action
and why not pigs?n
Gaps in Chickens. When you find
them showing symptoms of this mala5
dy, you will find it most simple and
successful remedy to mix with one
quart of corn meal one table spoonful
of black mustard seed, and feed them.
They will be healthy, havea vigorous
and lively growth. speak from three
years experience, and without the
loss of one chicken.
The first milk of COW after calving
is purgative, and might have bad eff
feet on hogs, but we should think it
would not be very dangerous unless
fed regularly day after day. 1t is used
as human food ia Europe without evil
effects.