The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-01-19
Farm and Garden.

never remove calf in bitter cold
weather, as its future welfare depends
in a great measure upon the start it
gets and if it is worth raising at all, it
is worth giving good start. At first
it is offered warm skim milk. This it
generally refuses the first meal, and
sometimes the second, but rarely often
er. We never allow them to suck the
fingers, and save many cold and ach-
ing hand. They readily learn to eat by
themselves, thriving better and cost
ing much less trouble. AS soon as pos
! sible a little bran is mixed with the
skim milk. and shortly afterward thick
milk is substituted for the skim milk.
The quantity is increased until the calf
receives about five quarts of milk and
pint Of meal twice a day. We use equal
parts of bran and corn meal, or corn
and oats. The drink is always warmed
in cold weather by mixing with hot
water.
Calves fed in this manner, and hav-
ing plenty of good hay, will weigh from
500 to $50 pounds at eight months old.
They are then wean d, and continue to
thrive on good hay and grass alone, the
heifers having calf of their own at %
or % months old, and being fully
able to do so. This method is used on
an ordinary farm, with medium sized,
good milking, native and grade cattle.
-RuraI NeW Yorker.
Cure for Mange.-Equal parts of sui
phur and cream of tartar, made into
ball with syrup or honey administer
daily for three or four days. Wash the
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anoint with paste of lard, sulphur,
an powdered charcoal ground to-
Sc T.
,SDavin.-The treatment of SPAWN is
simple enough, but far from being al
ways successful. The owner Of the
horse will neither consult his own in
terests nor the dictates of humanity if
he suffers the chsel and mallet or the
gimlet, or the pointed iron or arsenic to
be used yet measures Of considerable
severity must be resorted to. Repeated
blistering will usually cause either the
absorption of the bony deposit or the
abatement or removal of the inflamma-
ton of the ligaments or, as last re-
source, the heated iron may be applied.
-IaJ, Field and Farm.
HollO,0 Horn Remedy.-The following
remedy can be relief upon First, put
a little turpentine between and back Of
the horns then take two teacups half
full of salt and water, and pour one in
each ear-both at the same time-once
day for three successive days. This
cures the hollow horn every time.
Vermia on Stock.-A correspondent
says he feeds his stock a teaspoonful of
sulphur to each animal, with their
salt, once in two weeks. When he has
done so, no vermin has troubled them,
and his dairy COWS have not been af-
fected with garget, nor his sheep with
grub in the head. He has practiced
this for twenty years.
Breeding S0Ws.-A correspondent of
the Prairie Farmer says, that it is not
safe to pen up breeding sows and feed
them heavily on corn alone. Those left
to ruiz at large may be fed on corn eX-
clusively, as much as they can consume,
without injury.
SCOT as Though almost ever
since agriculture has been practiced,
and that we believe is ever since the
creation of the world, SCOT has been
known to be a valuable manure, and
yet in the 10th century there are hun.
dreds of farmers who cannot be per-
suaded to believe this. 1t is really as
valuable as guano. Take hogshead OF
water, and dissolve in it twelve quarts
of SCOT, and you will have a splendid
liquid manure for plants. Apply it to
the root of course, and then watch the
results.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
1t is said that hay can be made fire
proof by sprinkling layer of salt be-
tween each layer OF hay. This process
is recommended as serving the double
purpose of preventive against fire and
rendering the hay more conducive to
the health of cattle and more agreeable
to their palates.
If tree is felled while in leaf, and
allowed to lie until the foliage withers,
the wood will be the soonest seasoned,
as the leaves will draw all the sap be-
fore they die.
1t is related of an English farmer
that he condensed his practical expert
ence into this rule: Feed your land
before it is hungry, rest it before it is
weary, and weed it before it is foul.
A bee farmer says: " find by ex.
perIence that hives painted with Vene
tian red or Prussan blue are in man
ner exempt from the ravages of the
moth, and that white hives are the ones
that suffer"
A Western farmer says any remedy
for scratches on horses or COWS is an
ointment made of equal parts of tar
sulphur and lard, applied every day
| have never failed of effecting speedy
cure"
The highest farm in the world is said
to be situated four miles from Sherman
station, on the Union Pacific railroad
IL has an elevation Of eight thousand
feet above the sea level. Vegetables
and grain thrive well on the farm, and
two hundred young apple trees have
been set out as an experiment.
The manure of birds is richer than
that of animals as the solid and liquid
excrements are mixed together, it il