The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-26
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN

-LleDlg says: POOR ana S1ckly SEEDS
will produce stunted plants, which again
will yield seeds bearing. in a great meas
ure, the same character.
"A meadow irrigated by running wa
ter is said to he double the value of one
irrigated by flooding; a flooded one
double the value of a rich loan not irri-
gated.
w. W. Place fed eighteen hens with
sour milk mixed with meal Tin winter
scalded). They produced in the year a
profit of $50, besides eggs and chickens
used in the family,
"A farmer who sponged his horse in
the morning with water in which smart
weed had been soaking over night, says
the animal was not troubled with flies
during the entire day
If grass is abundant, let the horses
run out, but if regularly worked they
should be allowed grain and hay in addi-
ton. 1t costs so much to keep horses
that the rule should be to keep only such
as are capable of doinga good day g work.
Feed literally, work steadily and groom
thoroughly.
H. III. Stoddard, in the american
Rural Home, mentions curved back as one
of the inevitable bad results Of checking
young horses high, and he very properly
thinks that this peculiarly old horse-look
which we put into the back can never be
balanced by any amount of cranky show
we may put into the head and neck.
"A correspondent of the Farmers I'D
O0cGte, Ontario, in letter on Wintering
bees, says he digs trench two feet deep
and lays two poles in. the bottom, so as to
admit air under the hives. On the poles
he places the hives, and puts boards along
the sides and over the top, to prevent the
earth from coming in contact with the
bees. Vent holes he supplies by pieces of
stove pipe. He has practiced this four
years without any losses, but always lost
more or less previous to trying this plan.
-Erastus Ellsworth, an East Windsor,
Conn.,, farmer, has been trying the ex-
pertinent of feeding sour apples to his
cows, this season, with very encouraging
results. Taking cow from a summer
pasture, he commenced feeding her on
half peck of sour apples day, increas-
ing gradually to one bushel a day, with
the result of increasing her milk fifty per
cent. in quantity, while that of other COWS
in the same pasture decreased slightly.
He afterward took another COW, nearly
dry, and commenced with half a peck
per day, increasing as in the former case,
and this cows milk was increased six
quarts per day W0onsocket (R. ~ Pa
m'iot.
The use of charcoal as well as salt
has been highly recommended for cattle,
as tending to keep them in good condition
and help their general improvement. Salt
acts healthily on the blood. Charcoal
strengthens and heals the mucous mem
branes throughout the alimentary canal,
and increases the power of the digestive
organs, healing any unhealthy condition
existing there. 1t prevents worms gener-
ating in the stomach, ETC., it absorbs the
putrescent gases by which worms are gen
Grated, and they subsequently die. The
free use of salt and charcoal will con
tribute to protect cattle from epidemics
and will counterfeit the effects OF putres
cent or septic water.
To cause pears to color up handsome
| ly.-Josiah Hopes, in the dgTTcattturast
| says: Cali that is necessary will be t6
spread blanket on the floor of coo
room, and then thinly and evenly place
| the fruit on the floor. A second blanke
must be spread over them, and shortly
the effect of this treatment will be appar
| ent in the most golden colored Bartlett:
anu rich, ruddy-looking Seckels imagina
| BILE. Pears perfected in this manner
rarely have the mealiness of their natu
rally ripened companions, nor do they
prematurely decay at the core as Whe1
| left on the tree This of course implie
that they must be picked in advance O
ripening on the tree, the time for which
is partly indicated by slight change O.
color and partly by a readiness to par
from the stem when gently lifted, so thai
some strain is made at the point of juno
ton. The Bartlett will ripen if picked
some weeks in advance of Tipening on the
tree. and even when its growth is moi
fully attained"
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