The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-26
Farm, Garden and Household.
Hints about Work.

Hints about Work.
Lambs, and yearling ewes that are
not to be bred from, may be put TO-
gether and kept separate from the other
sheep. If any of the hocks have the
scours, o tablespoonful of mixture of
prepared chalk and peppermint in wa
ter should be given once day. Cos
tiveness is quickly remedied by little
linseed oil-cake meal.
Fat hogs should be finished up as
FAST as possible. Those intended for
home use should be finished upon dry
shelled corn, with pure water only for
drink. This will produce firm hard
pork. Store hogs will do best upon
cooked food, and in place of corn,
boiled potatoes and bran will make ex-
cellent feed. Buckwheat is too heating
Al ood for pigs, and should be avoided.
Brood sows may have the company of
the boar, if pigs are wanted in March.
The increased value of the first litter of
pigs will pay for a pure bred boar.
Nothing is more certain than that it
pays to breed only from pure blooded
males, Of whatever kind or breed they
may be. But blood will not stand in
place of feed. Brooded pigs are most
profitable and thrive best where there
is full corn crib.
Root crops and potatoes should be
stored in dry pits, in preference to cell
lars beneath the house. Ventilation
should not be neglected ; wisps of
straw should be placed in the tops of
the pits every six feet apart, for this
purpose. If any are still IN the ground,
they should be harvested without de-
lay. A good substantial and permanent
root house, in convenient place, will
be found valuable.
Repairing roads should not beput off
any later. Every farm should have q
which should be kept in good repair.
and bad spots ia the roads are filled
with earth at any season is waste labor.
There should be Blake s stone crusHer
at every country mill where road ma
terial can be procured. One years use
would pay tor it. In nothing are we
so behind the times as in the condition
of our country roads.
Upon stormy days there will be
found plenty of occupation in repair
ing harness., cleaning and putting away
tools, working in the carpenters shop,
repairing grain bags, etc. Such work
is recreation. As this is the season for
selling poultry, let there be good sup
ply kept for home use, and those which
are kept for breeding should be well
cared for, so that they may lay early.
The poultry house should be kept
clean and we'll whitewashed, if it has
not been already done. Keep the pillow
running in the corn stubbles until the
ground is frozen. The long winter
evenings should be devoted to study
and domestic entertainments in which
the younger should be joined by the
older ones. There are few things which
will more readily make farm life agree.
able to children, than the pleasant
evenings which may be spent in farm
house, with books, papers, toys, and
games, in which the old folks renew
their youth again. IT is the want ol
this companionship which makes coun-
try life SO generally dull and unin.
viting to young people.-Agricu1turist.
The Law of Fences.
A case was tried not long ago in this
county which is instructive as giving
the law as to fences and as to trespass
arising out of insufficient protection to
fields aud crops. The judge laid down
as law the following points "It is a
maxim in law that every man must sc
use and care for his own property as
that it shall not injure his neighbors. y
cit must now be considered as law
that if the owner of improved land has
no fences protecting his crops he can
not recover for injuries done by cattle
straying upon his land. He must both
shut in his own cattle and shut out
those of Others" cit has been held
so long as three-quarters of q century
ago that if fence is not what may be
called lawful but is what may be called
neighborly and sufficient to keep out
cattle that are not breachy, claim fol
trespass will lie upon injury by others
CATTLE" The jury in this case was in.
structed by the judge that if the de.
fendants cattle broke through Or jumped
over the fence between the plaintiff
cornfeld and the defendants woods
and damaged the plaintiffs corn, he
was entitled to recover for the damage
done, unless the jury were satisfied
from the evidence that the fence wai
not such as farmers of practical knowl
edge and experience would consider al
sufficient to protect the crop from in
jury by usually orderly cattle. IT il
was such a sufficient fence, for thu
damage done while in that condition
the plaintiff may recover, although i
was not made of logs or rails, or post'
and boards, and was not "four and
half feet high and we'll staked ant
ridered." The material of which tn,
fence was made should also be consid
cred as we'll as its light breadth ant
irmness, and if these were not consid
cred sufficient to keep out orderly cat
tie no damages could be recovered
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