The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1870-01-06
FARMERS COLUMN.


in England, and it said, always with
great economy and perfect success. In
this method the custom is to put the
fowls into coops as usual, but where
they can get no gravel. Keep corn in
feed boxes all the time, and also give
them corn-meal dough, well cooked,
once day. For drinking give them
fresh skinned milk, with sprinkling
of charcoal well pulverized. Fed in
this way, it is said they will fattan
nicely in from ten to twelve days. If
kept beyond that time, it is customary
to furnish them with the gravel to pre-
vent them from falling away. One
extensive English fowl breeder states
that he has tried this method for years,
and has never known it to fail. In
this method ,as in all others, it is of
course necessary that the fowls should
occupy coops protected from the cold,
and kept perfectly clean and dry.
A Correspondent of the New England
Farmer relates the experience of a
neighbor in destroying apple tree bor-
ers by plugging up the holes they make
in the tree. He says that his friend,
while making an examination this
spring of some of his trees, found sew
eral holes with signs of borers at work.
He soon found it too much of job to
follow them with wire or chisel so he
dug around the roots, scraped off the
rough bark from the roots and trunk,
and found all the holes. Then he took
common putty and plugged them per-
fectly tight. On the third,day after do
ing this he visited the tree, and on re-
moving the putty found, to his sur
prise, four borers dead, all of which
came out with the plugging. BY this
process he destroyed the borers without
cutting the roots or trunk of the tree,
which is as injurious as the work of the
borer, as l have often found it necessa-
ry to cut quite deep in order to reach
the rascals. From the irregularity
the direction of their course, have al
so found much difficulty in fishing
them out with barbed wire.
a correspondent of the Small Fruit
+ Recorder says: An experiment made
last year by myself may not come a.
miss at this time with those who grow
strawberries. procured half hogs
head, filled il with rain water, and put
| into it one-quarter Of pound of am
monia, and one-quarter pound Of COM
mon nitre. When the strawberry
plants were blossoming out, L gave
| them a sprinkling of the solution at
evening twice week, until the fruit
was nearly full size. The result was
| double the amount of fruit on those
where the liquid was applied to what
was obtained from those vines right a.
long side of those where none of the
liquid was applied.
Mash five or six boiled p.tat0es
while hot with teacupful of -four, add
boiling water tillit becomes a batter,
put in a tablespoonful of brown sugar
and one of salt. When luke warm,
add half pint of yeast, let it stand
| behind the stove till it begins to fer
ment, then cork tightly and set in a
| cool place. Half a teacupful is suf-
| ficient to raise four or five loaves,
If one cannot get yeast to start with,
she can make it herself by taking
teaspoonful of flour, molasses
and water, mixing it we'll and let
ting it stand in place day or two.
This will raise the yeast without any
trouble.
4 member of the Hermiker County
Farmers Club, states that last spring
he plowed an old sod in which there
was an immense number of grubs.-
He sowed upon three acres an6 three
quarters, soon after plowing, two
bushels of coarse salt. This was dis
solved by rain which came day or
two later. The ground was then thor
oughly narrowed and planted to corn,
about half pint of leached ashes be-
ing placed with each hill. The yield
was very large, ,iand there was not the
slightest injury by worms. He has no
doubt that the crop would have been
quite destroyed had there been no az
plication of salt.
II has been settled by numberless exc
periments that cooking food for cattle
or hogs adds about fifty per cent. TO its
value. If man has but few animals
to feed it will cost him but little to get
his corn ground, and then thoroughly
| cook or steam, before feeding. If he is
a large stock feeder then he should
have his own machinery for griding
corn and cooking it on a scale COM
mensurate with his wants. No out
lay on a stock farm will pay better
than a grinding and cooking appara-
tus. Try it on small scale and tie
convinced.
A reliable gentleman in Mississippi
furnishes one of our citizens the fol-
lowing receipt for the hog cholera
He tried this remedy successfully on
| three different occasions. The receipt
is this: Take one pound chloride OF
lime and one pound bluestone; dis
solve in water; let it stand for twelve
hours, then pour over one bushel of
corn; let it soak for ten or twelve
hours after which give it as feed three
days in succession. If the hog is hun
CRY he will eat the feed freely.
The New York Farmers Club say
the following fertilizers are best for
the respective crops; White beans
Barnyard manure. Onions-H Hen ma
/! lure, salt and lime. Irish Potatoes