The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1870-02-24
FARMERS, eoLUmN.

N'O oOoe iShtiiIcE lOT TOMATOES Is
well-rotted stable manure on poor
soils, on rich soils no manure.
Sore Moatths.-For sore mouths, Ell
ther in human beings or animals, no
application is equal to tannin, which
should always be kept in the aouse for
that purpose. A little of the powder
sprinkled on the inflamed or sore spots
will cnre almost Immediately.
No farmer should build house, or
make any other improvement, with
out ascertaining beforehand the proba-
bic cost of the same. The prelimina-
ry counting of the expense of every
thing is essential to all agricultural
! thrift and he who neglects it, will be
apt to discover his error after it IS too
late.
an Ohio ounce grower has been
very successful for two years past with
his fruit. His treatment OF the trees
Is very simple: He spades the ground
OF his orchard every spring, and scat
ters peck of coal ashes around each
tree. He finds the salt the best ma
nure on the ounce, and applies one
quart to the ground under each tree,
after the soil has been spaded, and an
other quart when the ounces are a.
bout halfgrown. Last year he sold
three hundred bushels Of qulnces from
his orchard of the three-quarters of an
acre.
Ho,0 TO Obtain Rich Itfilk.--If you
desire to obtain rich milk and in a.
bundance, give your cows three times
a day a mixture of salt and water,
slightlyl warmed, in the proportion of
one pint of salt to two gallons of wa
ter. La practising this operation reg
ularly, you will remark that your
cows will give Immediately, from the
effects of this drink, twenty-five per
cent. more milk than before; and at
the same time they will become at
tached SO strongly to it, that unless
very thirsty viii! refuse clear cold wa
ter. A bucketful, morning, noon and
~ WAL NC Sd4hNAOn5S
II has long been a practice among
farmers to commence pruning apple
trees in February, mainly, we sup
pose, because there il leisure time
There are some reasons Why this should
not be done. There will not be suffi>
cient action in the tree to harden the
surface, where a limb is taken off, be-
fore the sap ascends in the SPRING
When this action does take place, the
sap flows out and spreads over the sur
rounding bark, and by some chemical
action which takes place in it, is chan
ged to poisonous fluid, which greatly
Injuries the tree. 1t is very unsafe TO
prune before the middle of June
Soon after the leaves fall In au-
tumn, and in midsummer is the safe
time to do this work.
Wea3aing CdLres. We generally take
the calf from the COW at the end Of
twenty-four hours, and fasten it with
about six feet of rope in box stall -
then milk the COW, and standing off
far enough for the calf to reach you,
wet your finger with milk, put it in
to its mouth, and gently lower your
hand until it is immersed in the milk
in the pallet it continue to have the
finger until you have given it enough.
The next time dip the finger in the
| milk and place it in its mouth in con-
tact with feed, gradually withdraw
your finger and the thing is done. It
may be necessary to repeat this the
third me. The secret is that you
must stand just far enough so the calf
can just reach the pail of feed, as the
rope may be taut, and hence he can
not reach you or butt over or spill his
milk or feed. We have practiced this
f,r number of years, and have 10
trouble to teach calves to drink A.
nseTicda Stock Journal.
Filming Man,We.-A very successful
English gardener lays good deal of
stress upon what he calls filming" ma
nure, and attributes much of his sue
cess to this process. By "fining,"
he means, breaking up the Jumps,
tearing in pieces the long strawy
parts, and bringing all into such
fine state that it can be thor
oughly mixed with the particles of
the soil. Having broken it up he
mikes ii with ashes, leaves, saw dust,
! tan bark, and all the refuse of his gar
den, laying it up in thin layers. When
it has become partly decomposed, he
overhauls it, turning it over with the
shovel, and making it one h0mogenc>
Gus mass. Farmers may learn a les
| son from his example. 1t is plain that
coarse, lumpy manure cannot benefit
as much as that which is broken UP
and equally diffused through it. Liq-
uid manure and guano act efficacious-
ly, for this, among other reasons, that
they are minutely divided among the
particles of the earth.
The Situation Of an Orchard and The
| S1H. - The situation of an orchard
should be one that has the advantage
of a free circulation of air, and is ex-
posed to the south, with Slight incli-
nation to the east and south west.-
When the situation is low and close,
the trees are very liable to become
messy, which always Injuries them, by
closing up the pores of the wood; they
| are also more liable to be affected by
blight. Although having an orchard
closely pent by many trees, etc., is in
| furious, nevertheless, a screen of for
e5t-trees, at such distance from the