Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-01-24
Gbe Stauntun Din0ifator.
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POULTRY MANAGEMENT IN WINTER. ALI
fanciers ought to bear in mind that during
this season much Of the natural food of fowls
is securely bound up by frost or covered
with snow. What in other portions of the
year fowls with an ordinary run could readi-
ly pick up for themselves, must now be sup.
piled.
If the stock is not very numerous, the
scraps from the kitchen table may be suff-
Gent for their wants; if not, procure from
the butcher piece of coarse meat-a bull
! locks liver-two or three times week, and
cut it up fine aud give it to them or in
suitable weather pin it securely to the
ground with 1. skewer through the center,
in the middle of their yard and remark how
greedily they will devour it, Green food
also should be supplied. and not sparingly;
head of cabbage, not chopped up fine, but
either whole or cut into squares according
to the number of fowls 10 the yard, ought to
form portion of their daily repast
feggs be the chief object in keeping
fowls. then every morning slight breakfast
of soft food. ought to be- given, and during
very cold weather stimulant mixed with
it. Care must, however. be taken not to
supply iVu DuCu, CiSb tll6 DlTub may DpCOmG
over fat, and thus defeat the object in view;
hard food ought to be given the remainder
of the day :; this should consist of grains of
! different kinds; it is not we'll to keep poul-
try continually confined to one kind of grain.
Ii Indian corn is used, it ought to be very
sparingly; it is fattening not an egg. pro-
ducing diet Fresh water ought to be sup.
piled daily, and during severe weather the
ice should be frequently broken.
How TO BREAK YOKE OF STEERS.
first thing is to have them as tame as posi-
BILE, and taught to lead singly by rope
around the horns Make light yoke and
bows to fit them easily. Tie the brushes of
their tails together to prevent them turning
round and turning the yoke. Teach them to
stand quietly. Tie short rope round the
horns Of each steer. With the rope of the
nigh one lead them about, teaching them to
stop at woh and start at get up, or go
along. If necessary, teach them at the word
with slight switch. Stand before them and
| teach them to back at the word back Then
teach thom to haw and gee, using the rope
and teaching them gently with the switch
or CAD on the opposite side to that to which
they are desired to turn. In all this be
kind and patient. but firm; if they are told
to do anything don't stop until it is done.
Give short and easy lessons, Don't get an
cry or they are in sure way to get spoiled
leach them to stand until they are told to
move When they know all this we'll yoke
them to light sled and let them become
used to it by short spells before adding any
load to it. Proceed very gradually and ed
ucate them to mind the word instantly. II
is surprising how rapidly they learn with
gentleness, and how stupid and obstinate
they can be made by basty.tempered per.
son who beats and curses them. Above all
things, don't shout to them but speak qui-
city There is no more need to roar out to
a yoke of oxen properly broken than there
is to year old baby.
LINING LAND.-At recent meeting of
the Elmira, N. Y, Farmers Club there
were some statements of experience in the
use of lime Mr.. Fitch said that thirteen
years ago be had field so wretchedIy poor
that it would produce nothing but sorrel,
with which it at last became overrun He
plowed it. planted potatoes, and of course
got DO crop. The next season he spread
800 bushels of lime on about acres-or
half the fed-this being sufficient to give
quite thick covering, He expected thus
to overcome the sorrel, regarding lime as
antidote to this plant He again put in DO.
tatoes. was rewarded with 6ue harvest,
and the sorrel has never since reappeared.
The land was completely renovated by this
single application, and even to this day
traces OF the lime come up with each repeat.
ed turning of the soil. The next year,
without further fertiizipg, he had an excel.
lent harvest of oats. With this crop the
field was laid down to grass, which made
good catch and grew luxuriantly where
grass would not grow before At subse-
quent plowings other manures were used,
and the piece has always proved reliable for
whatever crop Mr.. Fitch has cared to
raise.
CONCENTRATED MANUREs IN COMPOST
Mr.. Louis Froelich. of Kenansville, North
Carolina, states that he has found, by re.
peated experlm Mt in different modes of ap-
plication, that concentrated fertilizers used
alone on the light, sandy soils of his section
are Injurious instead of beneficial, serving to
stimulate plants in the early parts of the
season but afterward leaving them in sick
ly condition. Even on clay soils and on
low moist lands he did not realize the worth
of his fertilizers But usiug them in com.
post with stable manure, good muck, and
mari, forest leaves. &C., he has obtained
very remunerative results.
FEED FOR Cows "A correspondent of the
Country Gentleman writes: The most profita.
BILE feed for cows giving milk during the
winter, and that used in nearly all the best
dairies producing milk for the New York
market, is good quality of wheat bran and
corn meal, mixed as follows: Eight pounds
of bran and two of corn meal for each cow
daily If the above can be thoroughly
cooked with cut hay, it increases its value
about one-6tth by actual experiment. I
produced from fifty COWS 500 quarts of milk
daily on ten pounds of feed mixed as above
and thoroughly cooked.
The ORcHARD.-May be gone through.
and dead wood or broken limbs removed
the enclosures around both garden and
orchard can be repaired if needed. Wash
| the young trees near the ground for two
| feet IN. with beef or hoes blood or 1rro,