The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-14
Farm, Garden and Household.


1t has been aSceTtAlned that u costs
farming community two dollars week
for every head Of stock running in the
road.
A farmer in Tennessee keeps 100
goats, with which he contracts to clear
land Of nnderbrush, at given sum per
acre.
Three hundred acres under thorough
culture better deserve TO DO called q
large farm than three thousand acres
poorly titled.
Whoever is to SOW grass seed should
test the same by placing it for few
days between two locks OF cotton kept
warm and moist.
The British Parliamenthas appointed
committees to inquire aboutlabor, about
diseases Of animals, about game, about
cattle and sheep, and about horses.
The total agricultural production OF
Great Britain is estimated ut 81, 0OO,.
100000, showing general yield from
the 80, 900, 900 OF acres under cultivation
Of only $40 per acre.
Those farmers who used to haul their
wheat from 80 to 60 miles to the Miss
issippi river say they do not make as
much money, now that the railroads
have come, as they did formerly, for
the reason that elevators, railroads, and
commission men charge rs much rs 1t
used TO cost to haul tho grain with
teams, Meanwhile they are taxed heaY-
lily to pay interest on bonds they have
got in debt, and altogether their second
condition is worse than the first.
In these days cows need careful ut
tentiOn. They should DO well fed, and
the last thing to DO done before going
to bed is TO sec that they are all right.
When cows meet with "bad luck at
this season, among the things to be
avoided by all means is the giving Of the
many nostrums recommended. The
more intelligent farmers become thcless
will they torture their animals by fore
ing medicine down their throats. An
outward application Of healing nature
is quite different thing.
The farmers OF Fnnklin county, N.
Y, lately held a meeting to consider
which kind VI stock is best, and It was
agreed that for milk and butter the
Jerseys are decidedly to be preferred,
but their milk will not make good
cheese, which is new idea. The milk
Of the short horns is not rich. To raise
good calf the milk Of three cows is re-
quired, aud unless these cattle are well
fed they are every way Improbable.
Still, for beef they excel, providing they
are fed high, and they will outsell the
cattle brought from the West because
the meat is better. For breeding pur.
poses the best animals should be select.
ed; aud better grades arc obtained
from large herds because better oppor'
tunity for crossing is afforded.
The Agricultural Gazette of Londor
states that in England about 80 pounds
OF mixed grass.seed is the usual guam
tity sown with thin seeding of barley
OF buckwheat about bushel OF seet
per acre may be drilled, or rather more
sown broadcast in the end Of May. Pc
tato tubers OF fair size, planted two fee
apart, will amount TO nino cwt. pei
acre. The ordinary planting is now 81
inches apart, and 10 or IL inches apar
in the rows require about II or Is cwt
per acre.
Washing Sheep.
In late number OF the Irish Farm
erS' Gazette u plan for sheep washing il
proposed which precludes the necessit,
Of going into the water TO perform thil
operation. A clear running section o
water should be selected, and boncl
or platform OF suitable dimension
placed in the water next totlle shore ant
about even with the surface. Place an
other one further out in the stream par
allel to the first place planks acrosl
both, ut the ends reaching to the bank
on these, in line with the stream, place
other plRnks to walk on and far enough
apart to paSs'the body Of a sheep read
ily between them. A sheep is brough
forward and two men, placed there fol
the purpose, one on each plank, taxi
the animal by the legs and turn il, bacl
downward, into the water and float /
rapidly back and forth between til,
planks, finishing of by sousing dowr
and up till the fleece Is cleaned. TIL,
sheep Is then restored 10 It's footing OF
. the end platform and suffered 10 wall
ashore.
Make Map.
Nothing will so much conduce to I'll,
adoption Of system Of working thu
farm rs well.prepared map, hunt
where the farmer can see IL every day
It will be sure to set him to thinking
and planning how best to pitch hi
crops, and how best TO work to saw
work. And once the farmer adopts
system Of farming he starts on the roa,
to success. Itmatters not that the Bys
TEN is not the best that could be devils
ed; so long as it is a system, it is infin
itely to be preferred to the haphazar
practice OF many farmers. We there
fore advise every reader who owns
farm TO make at once, or have made,
map Of it, and hang it up where he ca
sec It every day. And having made il
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