The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1870-02-02

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Keep your farm Implements in proper
repair.
Frequent stirring Of the soil prevents
drought.
Land is often injured for years by plow-
ing while wet.
Your milk must be clean, healthy. and
rich to make good butter.
Tomatoes grown on high trellises, are
much better than when low.
The way Il keep farm poor. aot take
your local paper, and plant ovt Of season.
Celery will always bianch if packed
away in the earth where il will not freeze.
Prune your fruit trees annually, between
January and April, carefully preserving an
open head.
Trees produced from the seed grow very
SLOW. The best plan is to. take them up and
cut of the tap roots.
That "A thorough combing is worth half
the feed not only applies to horses but to
oxen and cows US WE'LL
We believe it is economy for. farmers to
cultivate roots. They are very useful as a
change Of feed in winter. l.T
The frequent exchange Of seeds between
farmers living some distance apart makes a
great difference in their crops.
Z To make your horses fat give them 6
quarts day Of Indian meal sprinkled on
hay cut fine. Feed times day.
An invention has been brought forward
in England by which, it is claimed, bread
can be made directly from grain without
grinding.
Sulphate Of lime, or plaster. one Of the
most easily dissolved minerals, requires
about four hundred times its weight Of wa
ter TO dissolve it.
To make your horses fast give them long
hay sprinkled with water; Oats. II quarts,
always dry, 5 feeds . day, and occasionally
teaspoonful Of salt.
Keep your sheep dry. They need close
dry shelter above any other stock. An
open bowel facing Southis better than moth
ing for your sheep.
The way 10 accomplish the most on. n
farm Is 70 know beforehand precisely what
ysu want TO do, and the ratio Of means in
possession to accomplish it.
When you wish to rob the calf Of part Of
the milk, just put one or two fresh eggs in
TO its breakfast. Stir the eggs into warm
rater and then into its milk.
Timber Of any kind. IL sawed out, or
split into rails or fence posts. in the month
Of February, will last quite as long as Il
cut any other season Of the year. z
AS soon AZ your trees begin 20 beer fruit
use animal dressing with manEre Of any
kind. and keep all weeds, grass, and ex.
hausting vegetation from the ground.
A housekeeper caugL.s forty-two rats IN
one night BY exch.aging barrel Of DAT,
Tor a barrel Of water. covering the surface
sith chan. The victims unconsciously
PATCHED in and mot q watery grave.
Always chun each cows milk BY itself
Then you'll Get the characteristics of eacl
COW. Some turn to butter FIRST. And the
butter Is often thrown away when the mill
Of different COWS Is ehurned together.
Whenever we find a country divided hl
into small estates, each and every owner
working his lands, we find brave. patriot.
10, aud free people. enjoying competence
and domestic comfort with manly dignity.
To preserve your beef: Soak the blood
out and pnt in pickle for Ur 10 days
Make brine Of fine salt aud have il strong
enough 70 bear up an egg or potato. Add
salt and sugar and change brine as often a.
the scum appears on the surface.
The opinion Is being accepted BY man,
good farmers that close manure cellars un
der barns have h,d bad effect upon the ami
pials, as well as upon the hay and grail
above. A manure shed is better arrange
ment. Is s.ss ll,s ssfl sl
The stock hogs should be sufficiently fct
with grain 70 keep them in order, an.
should have dry beds and comfortable shell
tcr. apart from other stock. Especiall
keep them away from heaps Of manure
which give them cough and disease Of th
sskhFifAAey deep in them,
Now that tbe cold weather Is upon Us
We hope every farmer will take care TO say,
all wood ashes that come FROM The 6rcs Q
the house. II there are any nov 1t band
put them around the fruit trees or upon th
garden.a They win serve good purpose i
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