Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

One of the best farmers IN the town
of Canterbury has a habit of commence
ing to feed his cows with corn meal as
soon as grass begins to get short in the
fall. He gives them at the beginning
about two quarts each IL day, and in
creases it to three as the food in the
fields grows less.
BUTTER We think with butter at 30
cents, the practice pays. The little
grass which the cows get gives color to
the product, and the meal not unfre
quently doubles it. We hope the farm
ers will try the experiment this fall, and
if it proves profitable be prepared to go
into extensively next August.
Hoes. Hogs to fatten should have,
especially, comfortable place to sleep.
We recently saw in a respectable farm
er's pen six stalwart animals of this
species, with no place to rest themselves
except in mud from two to four inches
Deep At least one-half of what was
fed to them was entirely lost by this
utter want of attention 70 one of the
prime necessities in this department of
farming.
DoN'T SELL THE PELTs The skin of
an ANIMAL whether COW, calf, colt, or
horse, that dies on the farm is worth
more at home than at the tanners. Cut
into narrow strips, and shave off the
hair with sharp knife before the
kitchen fire, or in your workshop on
stormy days and evenings. You may
make them soft by rubbing.
A rawhide halter strap an inch wide,
will hold a horse better and last longer
than an inch rope. 1t is stronger than
hoopirOn and more durable, and can be
used to hoop dry casks and boxes, and
for hinges. Try it on broken thill, or
any wood work that has been split.
Put on wet and nail fast. Thin skins
make the best to use in its natural
state. For other purposes it may be
dressed.
WATERING CATTLE. Ohio Fayna-
or says Anyone who does not believe
that the manner of watering ANIMALS
has anything to do with the health and
prosperity of the same, providing they
have enough, has only to tly an expert
ment with mich cows. Take two cows
in equal health and flesh, and which
give about the same quantities of milk,
and while one is watered regularly early
every morning out of doors, give the
other in the stable, water at the same
hour from which the chill has been
taken, and our word for it no further
argument will be necessary to convince
the one who makes the test that the
latter course pays. Cattle which re-
main out of doors day and night are not
so susceptible to the chill of cold water,
and, of course, are not affected SO I'M
faverably by it.
SAVING POTATOES J. Cotton
writes from Bureau county, ILL.,, to the
Prairie Farmer. "In view of the
scarcity of potatoes in this part of the
country, l would suggest that by cut
ting off the seed end, and then cutting
that i'll two pieces, and putting one of
those in for hill, the balance of the
potatoes can be used for food Or by a
little labor, for those having few po-
tatoes, they can sprout them like sweet
potatoes, and then pull off the sprouts
and set them out, and by continuing to
do so, much more can be produced from
the few used up in producing the
sprouts. One man in our village says
he in this way gets earlier potatoes than
he can by planting the whole potatoe
If readers will give these two ways a
fair trial and report through your paper
next fall, they may serve their country
in this way.
PROFIT FROM TWELVE Cows IN ONE
YEAR.-My cows are all breeds, II mix
trre of natives, Devons, Durhams, and
Jerseys. 1t took for pound of butter
in June twenty two pounds of milk
the last of summer about twenty -one
l now make Il pound of butter from
twenty pounds of milk, and skim it
twenty-six to twenty-eight hours after
strainng. My account for the year
stands as follows:
CREDITOR
Sold 2, i50 lbs of butter. ........ 81 152.O2
Used i'll family 1GS lbs, worth
at 30 cents. ...............- 65.lO
Sold calves, pigs and pork. ..... 1000
Pork sailed, 800 lbs at 7 cents. $500
Killed one calf werth. .......... 800 1,377,l2
DEBTOR.
Cost of meal fed to cows.......S 1900
Cost of meal fed to hogs......... 1000
Paid freight and express on
butter. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 6o.O0- 261.00
Leaving 500 so per COW to pay for
work, hay and pasture. Now let us hear
from the farmers and know what each
are doing. AS dairymen cannot get far
from, bomo yory ofto, wa ,,,,,ct Ell