The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21

starving the animal at any Tune OF /
its growth you loose the cream-the |
covering of flesh 20 much priced by /
all our retail butchers. Where do |
all the scraggy, bad-feshed beasts |
come from that we see daily IN our !
market, and what IS the cause OF
their sclagginess? IL is because they !
have been s,inted and starved at |
some portion Of their growth. II
the calf flesh IS once lost 1t can never |
be recained. Z great deal Of tallow |
NAV be got internally by high feed |
mo. but the animal can never again |
be made one that VIII be priced 10y !
the great retail butcher Coleman !
Rural IioTld.
eAPEs IL CHICKENS
An ounce of preventive IS better I
than pound Of cure, Is an old /
adase, ana with regard to this fatal |
disease If a spoonful OF sulphur Is |
mixed two or three times q week /
into two quarts of dough and fed
TO the poultry, there VIII be no need
of medicine administered to kill the
worms in the windpipe. 1t has an
other beneficial effect; it prevents
tho chicks rom becoming lousy, and
nothing is more detrimental TO the
we'll doing of fowl than lice. l
formerly was much troubled with
both eapes and lice, but l find sui
( 8 bur a sure cure for both evils, and
/ for the past three years have had no
/. trouble IN raising them. My theory
Ia regard 10 the gapes IS that the
larvae Of various insects are picked
/ up and eaten, the warmth of the
/ stomach OF course matches the eggs
aed they are allowed full time 10
crow. and at last fairly choke the
breath OF The fowl By an occa-
+ slonal dose Of sulphur the stomach
/ is cleaused Of them, and they pass
OF with 40 injury. Cor. Country
+ Gentlemen.
SWINE IN THE BARNARD.
The plan of allowing pigs to run
in large open manure yard and
tread straw into manure answers
better for young or growing pigs
+ than for those that are fatteniDg
/ Neither is it inconsistent with the
T best modern methods of making
and preserving manure for while
( there is not better understood fact
In philosophy than that animals
must be kept still and quiet during
/ the process of fattening, and must
/ have their rambling iusGnts re
strained, yet with animals which are
young and growing very different
I course must be adopted If much
confined they viii get misshapen
and rickety, viii lose the bloom OF
health and vigor and remain small
+ in size and tender IN constitution
+ Exercise is as necessary for them as
/ it is fer horses, and the manure
heap in the yard VIII be benefited
/ by their roofing. The old corn viii
be picked pp and the fermenting
mass viii form q warm and healthy
I bed, highly suited to the somnoleut
habits OF the pig in winter.
MANURE TIE FRUIT TREEs.
Advices from Bucks, BerLs aud
Montgomery counties, among the
best OF our fruit-producing regions,
tell Us that The apple crop is likely
to be one of the heaviest known.
And yet there have been already
two pretty full crops IN the last two
years. We expect to hear IN future
years that the apple Is unsuited IT,
the soil Of Pennsylvania, unless
something IS dcne to sustain the
strain on vitality which such con
/ tinuous bearing SO often results ia.
1t must not be forgotten that all tins
mass OF fruit IS not made up OF
nothing but that the matter of
their substance Is IN q large degree
taken from the soil We never think /
20 get crops Of corn and potatoes /
without continuous and regular ma /
nuring, nor can we get apples /.
Jefierls, one of the best OF the Ches- /
ter-county apple-raisers, as was
stated at the last winters meeting /.
of the Pennsylvania iruit-growers, |
held in Pennsylvania, manures his /
apple trees regularly every year. /
Whenever he has little Use TO do, or I
has any refuse that he can get, be /
hauls 1t as a top dressing for his /
apple orchard.
So many seem to feel that manure
given to their fruit trees Is so much |
robbed from the farm-so much
taken from the regular farm crops
but experience has shown that it is
not essential that the fruit-trees get |
the best stable manure. Indeed, I
some good fruit growers would
rather not have rank, strong matter.
Road-scrapings, ditch-washings, or
even kithen ashes have been found, /
when spread under the trees, to pro
duce a world OF good.
Oftimes during the summ mer there |
may be chances of hauling some 1
thing to dress trees with and e DO /
not know but it is as useful in July /
aud august as any other time. The /.
roots are then st work actively lay /
ing up matter for next year while /
the swelling fruit makes an active /
demand for all t1at the roots can /
possibly supply.
We believe that If orchards were
properly fed we should hear very
little about alternate bearing years I
IN the apple-tree.- GeTmqntoirR Iele-
graph.
a sHoET LESSON II STOCK HUsBANDBY.
1t takes eleven p uHds Of milk to
add one pound live weight 20 a calf
and an ox that weighs three hundred
pounds VIII consume twenty-five
pounds OF hay IN TWEEN, y-four hours,
TO keep from loosing weight. Ii he
Is to fatten, he must have just twice
that quantity, when he viii gain two
pounds day. This is one pound
live weight for eleven pounds OF
good hay. To obtain fifty cents a
hundred for this has, farmer must
sell fat steers at five dollars and fifty
cents per hundred pounds.
The writer sold fat hogs IN Knox
vile at four dollars per hundred
pounds, live weight which is about
forty cents a busbel for com that
might have been sold at Christmas
for fifty cents bushel.
Hogs raised on clover, buttermill,,
peaches, rlums, blackberries and
malt, cost less than those reared and
fattened on corn. To keep lice
off their bodies and worms ont of