The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1870-03-02
New SGFieS--,V0l 2. No. g.
FARm-yARD SCRAPS.
Don't neglect manuring.

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Keep your manure under cover.
Milking and talking are impossible.
N Attend your stock, now, more than ever.
Farmers keep your stock well fed il you
don't want to sustain . loss in the spring.
Clean out your fence rows BY grubbing
up all bushes and briars and cutting down
all traes whose shade injuries the adjacent
solt&
See that all needfnl repairs are made to
your farm implements as are to be brought
into use during the spring operations.
Feed your hogs regularly. Keep their
sleeping apartments comfortable and dry,
and supply the pens occasionally with fresh
litter to be worked up into manure.
Attend carly to the preparation Of seed
beds for cabbage so that if any injury hap
pen to the young plants, another seeding
may take place in time for the plants to be
picked out for open field planting at the pro-
per season.
Clay soils or soils in which clay predomi-
mates, it would be injudicious to plough
whilst they ere at all wet, as they will clod
badly under suca circumstance when,
however, clayior partly clay soils crumble
in the hands they may be ploughsi 70 ad-
vantage.
February is frequently an excellent
month for seeding down to clover and or
chard grass in fields that are in winter grain.
These seeds may either be sowed on the
snow--if there should happen TO be any--
or if the frost is out Of the ground, the seed
may be soWn among the grain aud lightly
narrowed in following immediately with
the roller. Sow not less than IL lbs Of
clover to the acre.
A first class feed cutter should be found
in every farmers barn The cost is but
snail compared with its usefulness. The
saving Of food by its use will soon pay for
il !; the time and labor Of using it is well
spent, and the result viii be seen both in
the saving Of food and in the improved con-
diti0n Of the stock.
Hay, straw, and corn fodder all should
be cut before being fed. Feed in troughs,
never on the ground. --Am. Stock. Jour.
sE- Our farmers would DO we'll 70 take
ahint from the Journal, as he knows the
value Of cutting feed for stock, all will adj
init thatit Is economy. The best cutter car
be procured in this town, at living rates,
.C.s. Cooley, is putting them up all right
call on him and see the machine. This i
a Southern cutter. and no humbug
SORE MOUTH IN GATTLE.-A CORES
pondent in Arlington county. No., write.
that disease is there prevalent GALES
Blaek-tongue, Sore-tongue and Sore-mouth
Several Of his neighbors have lost cattle
The symptoms described are foaming at th'
mouth, and inability to eat. Our friendi
Of the Veterinary College advise aweak SO
luton Of carbolic acid--say TO 5, drop
70 the ounce Of water washing the moutl
every few horrs. allowihga little 70 b
swallowed. and following this with mil,
tonics and food that viii not irritatc th
mouth, Fluid preparations Of gentian am
irvn in small doses, given with the feed,
good tonic; for food give warm gruc
Of oil meal Or wheaton -four.
A bas ATicultarisf.
Are we drawing our stable manure ou
upon our fields during the winter, or AZ
we neglecting II until work in Tue Summe
crowds uss II has been found that NOR
strength is obtained from manure apple
in the winter fresh from the stables tina
when applied at later date in oil case
It should be spread as il Is drawn.
We thus get clean surroundings, g,
work done that Is always a considerabl
item in the farmers expenses, and we get
indeed, all the strength Of the manures
Are our animals in comfortable quarters
or are they shiyering--sbiyering in col
stables often a. much as though out
doorsy A wet stable Is worse than dr
barn yard. Are our stables. then bedded
This bedding becomes good absorber
manure. IL should be sawdust, or FL
shayings. or chat, or any fine substan'
that will take up readily the moistur
This will 90 along with the manure 70 Y
fields, and will make manure, yegetab
manure mixed with animal--which is gen
rally wanted.
Are our sheep being hooked and hurt
the COWS, or have they separate, plea
ant placer The poultry, no doubt, b
access to everything. fouling the Tnows al
the barn floor. and even the cattle. Th
are not laying many eggs but are destrO
ing much grain.
How is il with feeling our stock? A
We feeding often and little at time, III
securing clean raeh and appetite, or a
We feeling less often and throwing lar
quantities % be breathed over. and III
causing disrelish for food and loss
fodder.
= Il Is not expected that we shall cur
OR cows, for our horses get IL too seldom
If you neglect your young gtock--of
kinds--it will DO loss that can never
recovered. The stock will becomparatil
III small. and will never do no we'll.