The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-05-14
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

clover hay are reported Dy wagner, {
German. In field of red clover thre,
contiguous parcels of equal size wer
measured off, From one the clover wa
cut May %, just before the beginning o
the blossom from the second, June Is
in the full blossom; and from the third
July 1, toward the end of the blossom
The amounts Of hay obtained were SO
ia and l28 pounds respectively. Tn,
hay was analysed, and its nutritive valu,
thus estimated. 1t appeared that tn,
amounts of heterogeneous substances wer,
about the same in all, and that the olde
hay contained also much larger percent
age of crude fibre, and that its ingredi
ents were so much less digestible, that it.
nutritive value was less than that of tn,
smaller but younger crop. The author
recommends, therefore, that clover be Gu,
either when In full blossom, or even be
fore the beginning of the blossom.
MANAGING SMALL FRUITS. If the
currants are more than year old, cut
the tops off close to the roots With
grapes, If the top is of the previous year,
growth, and has buds near the roots, leave
one or two. If not of last years growth
cut It all away. The top of raspberrie,
should be all removed. Then, when the
roots gets their machinery at work, they
will send up canes that will fruit well the
next season. But if the top is left ON, il
VIII require all the energy of the roots to
support 1t, and If the plant does not die
the first winter, it will be feeble and sickly
the next summer, and linger along year
after year, until the planter condemns
the variety and throws them away in
disgust. Last spring I filled an order
from Boston for raspberries, and before
sending them, / cut the tops back to two
rect, and came near having them returned
for doing 50. told the dealer that they
should be all cut off when planted out.
he said he knew that very we'll, but his
customers did not; they would have
plants that would bear the first wear. and
1t was the tops that sold them, not the
roots. But my advice is, see that YOU
get good roots without any regard to tops.
BEEs.-Tne Rural New Yorker has the
following hints with regard to bees: In
answering the question, How soon after
Matching is queen capable of laying p
Mr.. Quimby has known them to Law in
seven days; Mr.. Mills thought the aver
age in the working season was nine DAYS
Mr.. Doolittle four to six days; Mr.. Bctt.
singer four to six days, and he would kill
queens that did not lay in ten DAYS. E.
Gailup says he has seen twenty-five stocks
OF bees wintered in dry, warm room In
a cellar with cement floor, and kept 80
warm that they bred all winter. These
were box hives, turned bottom up, with
bottom board removed. There was no
dysentery among these bees. w. F.
Clarke, editor Of the american Bee Jour
nat thus sums up the superior merits of
the Italian over the common or black bee
1. They are better honey gatherers. Q
more quiet and peaceible; 8. less liable
70 be infested with the moth: 4. more
handsome. E. Kretchmer, of Coburp
Iowa, says he has an Italian queen bee
that has both of her wings clipped close
70 her body, as special mark, these five
seasons, and last year she was one of the
most prolific queens he had.
How TO PLANT AND MANAGE A HEDGE.
NO plant used in hedging, perhaps, is
as easy to transplant as the honey locust.
III the plants are in good shape, with
common care in setting, not one in a
thousand will miss doing we'll. Set in
hedge rows about ten inches apart Let
the plants grow all they will the first
summer. In the fall mulch with coarse |
manure. have found this to be great |
gain, in saving the newly-set plants from
being thrown out and injured by frost.
ana also 1t promotes healthy, vigorous |
growth the next summer If YOU re-
solve on growing hedge upon the pyra-
midal cutting-back plan, cut the plants
back severely each spring, Just before the
t,me OF starting Of the sap, for the first
three years after setting. The fourth and
NTH summers cut back in spring and
again in midsummer, to more Completely
thicken up the hedge and to develop
thorns. AT the end of five years. with
good care, you will have hedge that will
literally turn man and beast. If fence
ls needed sooner, 1t can be turned ont
against any stock at the end of the fourth
summer by stretching one wire over the
top, attached to stakes driven down in
the line of the hedge. These stakes sbould
not be 30 long as to interfere with the
after trimming of the hedge, if the stakes
and wires are left in the hedge Western
Farm Journal. ~
RAISING TURKEYs.-No turkeys should
be kept as breeders unless they are really
prime. They shonld be carefully selected
rom good and thrifty flocks; it is better
o select the gobbler from one flock and
The hens from another. The large breeds
ire the best, the young turkeys being
tronger and easier to rear. Keep them
n thrifty and growing condition with
tut allowing them to get too fat, and feed
hem on a variety of food, such as oats
,ran, potatoes, crusts of bread, etc. Be.
ore and at the time of laying. thew
mould have access to some shell and bone
orming substances, such as burnt bones ..
roken fine, old plastering, egg shells, or
of the kind, and should be fed /!
etter. If they incline to Law too long
efore sitting, stop feeding; if we want
9 keep them laying we keep feeding. !
hey are naturally of a shy nature. and |.
nil often make their nests in the woods I
nd sly places, where it is much trouble
D find them. This can in measure he !
revented by keeping them as tame IA
ossible, and by making nests in good a
laces around the buildings and putting
hens egg, scatter little shelied corn
ear by, but not in the nest, to get their
ttention; when they eat the corn. thew
I'LL see the nest, and will go there often:
hey should find few kernels every dav
the accustomed place, and they will !,
sually lay in these nests. Where num- a
er OF turkeys are kept, it is good plan q
set them at the same time or nearly so. !!
we wish to let the different broods run 8!
'gether. Hens may be set on turkey u
sgs at the same time, and the young a
'rkeys can be taken from the nest and n
AIRED with the other turkeys; or the hen Il
IN bring them up, as we choose but If a.
ken away, the hen should be shut up a Il
W days that she may forget them. m
The young turkeys should not be fed or Is
ken from the nest until twenty-four b
ours after Matching. You may put them Il
large coop, where the young turkeys hi
m run In and out as they please. They ca
quire but little at first, bat their food ca
ould be good and nourishing; a little m
y wheat bread soaked in new milk is ca
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