The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-09
Farm and Garden.

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THE Plantation says hens will thrive
we'll on a mixture of beans, boiled soft,
and about one part meal to two #
beans, well stirred together Unmar-
ketable beans may be used for this pur.
pose.
To CURE leg-weakness in chickens,
correspondent of the Prairie Farmer
gives each of the chickens from three
to eight grains of citrate of iron daily,
and due supply of nutritious food,
care being taken to select such sub
stances as are flesh producing, and not
fattening-wheat, barley, and due
supply of worms, or in default, some
chopped raw meat.
CONSUMPTION OF FooD.-As general
rule, cattle, horses and sheep will eat
three per cent. of their live weight of
food per day-that is, very near their
own weight every month. But there is
a vast difference among them as to the
profitable results of their consumption
of food. Some will merely keep alive,
while others will increase in weight and
size, or produce milk in much greater
proportion for the food consumed.
GRAIN FOR POULTRY. is no
other grain that is relished so well by
fowls as Indian corn. 1t may always
continue to be, as now, the American
poulterer's main reliance, for although
too fattening to use in certain cases, ii
possesses more nutriment for the price
than any other grain, and is always to
be obtained. Corn can be given ground
and unground, raw and cooked. Oats
we prefer ground fine, as otherwise the
hulls are too harsh and bulky. With
wheat-bran and middlings, wheat in the
kernel, barley and buckwheat, there
need be no difficulty in avoiding mo-
notony. Rye, though the poorest grain
of all, may be given occasionally, anG
brewers grains, if convenient. Tho
Poultry World.
A GOOD garden will contribute Sc
much toward the support of family
and its humanizing influences are sc
great that every man should study anC
strive to make the most of the limited
piece of ground thus appropriated
More than this, the first lessons il
farming are always to be learned in
garden, for there are to be seen wha
are the most favorable conditions fol
the growth of plants, and how they are
to be treated during the various stage.
up to maturity. Thus garden may b,
\ be called the farmers academy tn,
farm, the college. Go where we may
over the whole land, it will be founC
universally true that the best farmer ha'
the best garden, and that when the gar
den is poor the farmer is poor.
How TO USE SPADE.-The man whc
can handle a spade properly does no
find it very hard or laborious to work
He first lets the spade fall of its owl
weight down to the spot where tn,
spadeful is to be taken up, taking car
that the breadth on the surface groun,
is not more than four inches then h,
draws back the spade a little, which
takes off much of the friction of tn
descending blade. One good thrust o
the spade with the foot then sends tn
: blade down it's full depth. A backwar,
pressure makes a lever of the handl
and heel of the spade, and dexterou
turn of the wrist sends the spadeful up
side down just where it is wanted
There is no raking or puttering
needed to make the ground level. .
J slight tap with the corner of the spad
makes the work as regular and plain a
if laid off with an instrument.