The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-12
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD

I curing nay mas been adopted and FOLLOWED
by several farmers OF my acquaintance
which, as far as can learn, has proved
very satisfactory for several years. Tn,
hay is all cut in the afternoon, when en-
tirely free from external moisture. Mex
! day, after the dew is all of, it is turned
After dinner 10 is raked and got in with
( out delay. There is no cooking at nigh
and opening next day. All such labor il
saved. One man who has ipracticed thiI
several years IL justly considered one ot
the best farmers in town. His stock loOl
well, and produce as much as any, Hi!
farm improves yearly, and he makes al
annual investment every year outside
He considers his hay to be better thar
when cured the Old-fashiOned way. and il
certainly looks and smells as well as any
J ever saw. .sf bots fJ sZI =
CRANBERRIEs FOR PoTs AND HANGING
BASKETS. "A correspondent of the Califor
MIA Farmer makes the following exeellenf
suggestions; do not see hewI any one who
has ever noticed the delicate foliage auC
| flowers of the cranberry, even when wild
and uncultivated, could fail to. be STRUCK
with its beauty. But my object now is tc
call the attention of your readers to its val
ue when cultivated in pots, in the house
or still better, in hanging baskets. When
thus grown, the long, slender stems, ,droop-
ing from the basket, together with the rieE
! fruit, form a most beautiful object. Lei
those who mourn that they cannot afford
! to purchase foreign novelties, make rustic
basket and put few cranberry plants into
1t, and hang it In thewiDdow, and they will
say they never saw anything more beauti-
! full.
SHEEP WEST OF THE Missouri RIVER
We have recently conversed with highly
intelligent gentleman just returned from 6
business trip through some of the central
and southwestern counties of Missouri
and are sorry to learn from him that large
majority Of the ffocks of fine wooled sheeE
driven into that state are doing badly. He
reports mortality of from 20 to so pei
cent. as the extremes, with probable av.
erage of 80 or 35 per cent. But a small pei
cent. of lambs have been raised; and ht
predicts that the wool clip of that state
will be materially less this season than il
1869. Our informant attributes this unde
sirable state of affairs, primarily, to the
| depressed and unremuneratiYe price Of
woods, which has begotten among the
farmers neglect of their hocks, allowing
diseases, dogs, and all the other enemies tC
I
among them Western Rural. o.. d.. ..,.,.
WATER FOR HoRsEs.-In the English
| Farmers Journal, Mr.. Benjamin Cartledge,
of Sheffield, member of the Royal Veter-
mary College, calls atte ention to the very
common mistake made by keepers of horses
in limiting the supply Of water to their ami
mails Many ownersSof horses, most
grooms, and others who have the charge oi
1,
water horse ought to be allowed, and,
when poor, thirsty, over-driven animal
arrives at his journeys end, he is treated
to very limited supply, and the pail is taken
away before its necessity is half met. 1t is
a mistaken notion that cold water frequent
| ly produces collie I have often known
it cure the disease When cold water does
cause abdominal pain, it is from long ab-
stinenee, and when the horse drinks to ex-
cess But even this is rare. I allow my
horse to drink from every trough meet
on the road, if the water be clean, and, in
my own stable, 1 never had q case of colo.
at home, my horses always have water be-
fore them. A friend OF mine, to whom,
the other day, gave this advice, directed
his servant to adopt it. The servant shook
hislhead, and said he thought he knew as
well as Mr.. Cartledge when his horses re-
l'quired water, and how much The owner,
in reply, told the servant that might be so,
but he must allow his horses to drink as
often and as freely as he did himself
How TO MANAGE Spring PIGs.-In an
swer to this question, put by one of It's
contributors. the American Agricultur1st
has the, following: 1. depends on the
breed, the food at command, the conve-
niences for feeding, the probable price for
pork next fall, and the price year hence.
We should premise, however, that in any
case the pigs should have all thev will eat
of some kind of food. The only difference
to be made between growing pigs and fat
tening pigs is in the character of the food.
A fattening pig requires rich, concentrated
food; growing pig more bulky AMI less
nutritious food; but in either case. the
pig to do well, must have all it will
eat. If you have small boned we'll bred
pig, such as grade Essex or Berkshire OF
Suffolk, We think it would be far more prof
liable as a rule to fatten spring pigs than to
winter them over. Let them have the run
I of a clover pasture. all the milk and slop
from the house, and all the corn and other
grain in water "a hours before feeding. II
well bred, such treatment shoHld give you
/ pigs that will dress 800 pounds by the first
of December. On the other hand, if you
have coarse, large-boned breed of pigs,
/ the better plan viii be to winter them over.
In this case, give them the run of good
clover pasture, plenty of water, what waste
| from the house you have to spare, and a
title grain to keep them growing as rapid
ly as possible. 'lf 81 ...
/ CoRN STALKS AS FoDDER. Levi Bartlett,
writing ON this subject in the Republican
| IN. H. Statesman, says: Corn grown
in hills, three feet by two, for fodder, is
much mere nutritious than when grown
thickly in drills or broadcast, as is usually
/ the case. Some of the early varieties OF
sweet corn Gre more valuable for cattle
than the large, late southern, or even our
| common kind of corn. The sweet corn
contains much larger percentage of sac
charine matter than the two kinds above
mentioned, and consequently has more OF
the butter-forming constituents. Last year
l grew Eve or six varieties of sweet corn
early, middling or late Of the several
sorts think Olcott's preferable, both for
table use and for cattle feeding. The late
/ twelve rowed sweet corn grew very large,
and the plants when fed required cutting
into six-inch pieces, while the smaller
sorts were readily eaten the whole length
of the plant This fodder was freely fed al
night for many weeks, to my cows IN milk,
/ from early September. The remainder
was cut and stocked before injury from
frost, and lasted until some time in No
vember. l am satisfied that the result oi
this extra food to cows more than paid fol
all the trouble.
The quantity of green foliage that can be
grown in drills on good land with proper
culture is enormous. Mr.. Nathaniel
White, few years since, on his highly
cultivated farm, about one mile from the
State House, Concord, grew at the rate o
sixty tons an acre of green corn of the large
southern kind. 1 do not know how much
the shrinkage on such fodder would be
when well dried in the shock or barn; bu
dc1btless the dry fodder would afford many
tons more to the acre than the heavies
crop Of grass grown on our best farms
Some farmers say that ton of well saved
corn fodder is worth as much as a ton o
fair stock hay.
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gained access to the Clarendon PRINTING OF