The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-02-13
FOR FARMHRs' LEISURE MO
MENTS.


FOR FARMHRs' LEISURE MO-
MENT5.
Straw and stalks are generally re-
ported scarce and high.
/ Clean and oil your harness and
get it put IN thorough repair.
Watering your COWS is an import
ant matter. Do it regularly.
Mend, mark and number bags,
and place them in proper place.
The average yield Of wheat in
Minnesota was III bushels to
the acre.
Don't wait till your stock is dead,
to salt it-renember salt is essen
tial to life.
1t is announced that the Nation
al Grange has $4,000 on deposit at
New York.
Sort over your potatoes and clear
the cellar from all decayed vegeta-
bles and fruit.
Red Oak, Iowa, pays a bounty Of
2 cents for every rats tail delivered
to its Marshall.
Bran and shorts may be fed with
great advantage to sheep, store-pigs,
COWS and horses.
A cheese weighing 1000 pounds,
was exhibited and sold for $40 at
Maine State Fair.
FeedWell-only good food produ-
ces good manure. Oil cake, either
from linseed or cotton-seed, is said
to furnish the richest manure.
Much can now be done to make
the orchard look well in the summer.
During mild days, washing and
scraping may be performed with ad
vantage.
For store annals, half a pound of
cofn-meal per day for each 100
pounds of live weight, mixed with
two pounds of chatfed straw or stalks
is an economical food.
A train of about % cars, carrying
about 10000 bushels of wheat, pass
ed through Tifln, on Monday of
last week, enroate to Philadelphia.
They we're loaded at Toledo.
Horses that are driven fast should
| have oats rather than corn-meal.
Horses that are doing nothing can
be well wintered on ehaffed straw
and little corn meal and bran.
AVermont farmer has a COW that
made I548 pounds of butter in los
days, besides furnishing all the
milk and cream for q family Of 1our
or five persons
Horse thieves are again in the
neighberhood Of Tif1n. They re-
lieved Mr.. Chew, near Upper San
dusky, oftwo horses and a spring
wagon, last week. Farmers will dc
well to keep prepared for them.
Breeding fine stock successfully is
q speciality which requires study
aud experience. 1t is 3 science that
but few farmers are able to compre-
hend. To be competentjud oi
fine stock, nature must bestow the
talent, and that gift must be eulti-
waited and educated.
The manufacture of cheese, with
in the last few years, has become one
of the American important interests
It now wholly supplies the home de-
mand, and also provides the mate
rial for large and lucrative export
trade. Fourteen years ago, the first
shipment of American cheese to
England took place, bHt the article
was so worthless that it was thrown
into the docks, at liverpool. Since
January l, the exports of cheese
have amounted to 1862 boxes,
against 500, l54 boxes as compared
with the corresponding time in 1872
Detroit E'rt6ahe.
Notwithstanding the utmost pains
and care in blowing, the grasses, es
peciallyif long, win bristle up boards
and tufts, here and there and every.
where, injuring alike, the appearance
and the growth. Do you wish to
remedy this difficulty? If SO, use
the chain and ball to your plow. No
matter what kind Of ploW you have,
try them. A piece Of ordinary
trace-chain will do very we'll Fast
en- one end Of is to your coulter aud
to the other end attach a round iron
ball of two to threepounds weight
leaving the chain long enough tc
permit the bail to reach back to
about the middle of the moulding
board, and there let it drag along
on the off-side, of course.-CaaadG
Former.