The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1870-01-26

JANUARy.-To great extent, month
sof leisure for the farmer.
Yet arrangements are now maturing for
the practical and efficient agriculturist for
the coming year.
Keep a Ecorrect account during the year
of all that is necessary to be done. Keep
an account fall expenditure.
A little attention to this suggestion will
afford much satisfaction at the close Of the
YEAR Collect all that is due, pay off all
your indebtedness If possible.
CnoPs.- The system Of rotation in crops
is very Important, and requires eonsidera-
tion aud Judgment to determine what crops
may be cultivated TO the best Advantage on
the different portions Of the farm.
The Western Stock Journal says the We
ry best food for milch cows is wheat bran.
Don't over feed, but just what they will
lick up with relish, and you will be re-
warded with supply Of milk, and yonr
COWS will keep in good condition.
STocK. All kinds Of stock should be
well cared for at this season. Any of the
different root crops can now be fed TO stock
to great advantage Remember that water
is needed for all stock, and if properly sit
uated will be used by them as needed.
FARM.-If any improvements in build
ing are to be made the coming year, now is
J the time to make preparation. See that the
farm implements are in working order, if
not. put them 50. The manure pile should
be looked to and see if it is safe from fire.
fang.
ORcnARD. Trees can be protected from
the mice by treading the snow about them.
Those not thrifty may be mulched to great
advantage at this season. The eggs OF ca
terpillars may be cut off from the ends of
the twigs and burned. Thyme is great
fertilizer for old trees.
PoULTRy.-Hens love light, and the
warm sun in Winter; hence the doors Of
the henery should face the South. Scraps
Of fmeat, the ofEal from the table, bits Of
cabbage. with lime and access to the ground,
they will lay all winter. Pullets lay bet
ter than old hens. A male bird should be
introduced every year from some new kind.
REcREATfoN.-All work and no play is
y. -La,i --sAait.. fer as. fArmar Farmers.
their wives, sons, and daughters should take
advantage Of this season Of the year to visit
relatives, friends and neighbors. Labor
should be forgotten for time, and even
ings devoted to reading, social conyersa-
ton. discussions, &c. Parents. children,
and neighbors should be intimate, thereby
making the home Of the farmer enticing fol
his sons, cheerful for his daughters, pleas
ant for the parents, and all connected with
the household. ink.
The question was asked in the last Jour.
nal, whether it is possible for bees to re-
move an egg from one cell to another. Ger.
tainly they do. | have examined the part
Unfinished queen cells in the morning wher
the queen had been taken out four days be.
fore, and found no egEs; and in the even.
ing Of the same day, found the young in thc
cell, apparently several days old.
BESJ. LoNG.
The Philadelphia Ledger gives the fol
lowing recipe, which Is said to be surf
cure for that terrible disease, cancer:
A we'll known citizen Of Philadelphia
who had been using weak solution Of car
b0lic acid as wash TO correct the offensive
odor arising from a canccrous affection, dis
covered that the application also entirel.
removed the cancer. One-fourth Of al
ounce Of carbolic acid Is diluted with quar-
(thirty-two fluid oz. Of water, and the 10
tion is applied three times day. a wea
ker solution, containing one-eight Of al
ounce Of carbolic acid to the quart Of wa
ter, would probably be q safer application