The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-07
farm, Garden and Household.
The Feeding es Young Turkeys.

OF ten, without mucn respect to wet or |
dry seasons, while another loses from
half to three-quarters with about the |
same uniformity? We know of men with
whom success is the established rule. |
They are very systematic in this, as in |
all their other business. We visited |
one of these thrifty farmers, who raised |
165 turkeys last year from nine hens, |
and upon inquiry found he did about |
the same thing every year. We dssired |
to know just how ho managed to secure |
this uniform result, and found him CON-
municative. He insists upon good |
stock to begin with-tbe best always se- |
lected to breed from. Then he places |
great reliance upon regular feeding dur
ing the fall and winter, so that the flock |
becomes very gentle, and the hens make |
their nests Immediately about the sheds
and barns in places prepared for them,
This is q great safeguard against fox
es, skunks, crows, hawks, and other crea-
lures that destroy the birds or their
eggs. When the young first come off
their nest they are confined in pens for
few days until they are strong enough
to fly over board enclosure one foot
high. He feeds frequently with coarse
corn meal and sour milk until four
o'clock in the afternoon. He found in
his experience that he lost good many
chicks from the food hardening In the
crop. There is danger from overfeed-
ing. AS the chicks grow, the sour milk
diet is increased, and during the sum-
mer it is kept constantly in trough for
them, They are exceedingly fond of
sour milk and buttermill1, and they
grow very rapidly upon this diet. An
incidental advantage, and very impor-
tant one, he thinks, is that the young
birds are prevented from straying very
far from the house. They return many
times during the day to the buttermilk
trough for their favorite food. This,
with Indian meal, constitutes their
principal food until about midsummer,
when insects are more abundant, and
they wander further from the house.
This method can easily be tried on
dairy farms.-American AgrtculturiSt.
Farm Notes.
The grasshoppers went through q
portion of Minnesota, cutting a swath
thirty miles wide.
The best bearing orchards we have
seen this year are surrounded on all
sides with forest trees.
Good vinegar can be made from the
juice of watermelons by letting it stand
as If it were cider.
A new way to learn calves to drink is
to nail the finger of an old glove in the
bottom of trough.
Tho Quarterly Review, an English
publication, says that 81 the soil of Eng
land is in state of exhaustion"
The wool crop of Iowa is larger than
ever before, for the farmers have dis
covered that sheep are much more profit
able than grain or cattle.
Set it down as fact that hay. corn.
oats, and fodder of all kinds are worth
5O per cent more if fed out on the farm
than II sold to be fed elsewhere.
One of our friends is saving all the
egg-shells he can get to give his hens
next winter to make them lay; he did
80 last winter, and had success.
A good summer drink is made bv
pouring hot water on cream of tartar.
A sprinllling of lemon peel helps the
imagination, and the finished article is
nearly as good as cold water.
During all the dry weather some
farmers had green CROPS. Their wheat
and clover were tirst-rate, and their DO
tatoes still grew. This is because they
plowed deep and manured well.
To Boil RIcE.-Take four times as
much water by measure as rice let it
boil very fast, then put it on the back
part of the stove and let it dry off.
Don't forget to put salt in it,
At Talma City, Iowa, a horse was
found PROSTATE, with his left hind foot
IN his mouth, the heel of the shoe so
caught in the teeth that the poor ami
NAL was utterly helpless. 1t took three
men TO get the foot out of that horses
mouth.
Whitewash applied to walls, ceilings,
fences, etc, has highly sanitary infu-
ence at this time of year. In the coun-
try this covering is applied with good
e11ect to the sides of barns and farm
outhouses. 1t is cheap, easily applied,
freshens and improves the Appearance
OF things, and is salutary in its influence
upon the health.
The Sugar Beet.
Herr Horsky, the well-known Bohe-
mia farmer, correspondent who visited
MS farm says, has always been n firm
advocate OF the beet-root sugar, and
since his acquisition of the farm the
number OF sugar manufactures in Bo-
hemia has raised from SO to 16O. His
extensive establishment in Kolin was
erected and fitted up at cost of $780,
600, and it pays annually large inter
est although it must lieidle good part
OF the year. The process of making
the sugar as practiced in this manu-
factory may be thus briefly described :
The roots are washed and elevated to
the upper story, where they are finally
sliced and are macerated with water un-
til the sugar is dissolved out, and the
fibre is afterward pressed to extract the
liquid to this liquid is added lime,
which forms with the sugar sacchyrate
OF lime, and all impurities fall to the
bottom and are removed. Carbonic
acid is next introduced, which precipi-
tates the lime, and the solution of sugar
remaining is subjected to the ordinary
method OF evaporation and bleaching.
Arresting Decay in Potatoes.
Various plans for arresting decay in
potatoes after digging have from time
to time been made public, such as dust
ing with quick-lime, gypsum, charcoal
dust, etc. Prof. Church, of Cirencester,
England, the eminent agricultural
chemist, announces that sulphite of
lime appears to exercise a very remark
able influence in arresting the spread of