The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-17
FARM AND HOME.
Farm Talk.

Garner the cleaners the fun-headed grain.
Stalks richest and ripest shall fall to their lot,
Faithfully seeking where others seek not.
Fen thus in the world the cleaners are seen,
Garnering friendships like full-headed grain;
OFT finding the nobest, the purest ana pest,
Where hearts are the humblest, with sweet content
blest.
A STOCK KEEPER says he has never
failed TO relieve choked animal by
raising it's head as if for drenching and
throwing down its throat broken
hens egg, shell and all.
In digging a tree, always turn the
side of the spade toward the stem OF
the tree, and lift out the earth carefully,
and the small rootlets will thus be
loosened and preserved uninjured.
To CURE brittle hoois wash the horse s
feet clean when dry apply with brush
to the hoof only, coating of this MKT
ture Fish oil, part vegetable
tar, one part; oil of tar, one-eighth
part.
HAY-CAKEs.- ay-cakes, composed
of hay and straw, very finely cut, well
mixed with crushed oats or rye, and
moistened with solution of rapeseed
or linseod oil-cake, and then well
worked and formed into tablets under
pressure, have been for some time en-
ployed in France as convenient and
portable food for horses.
The AgricuJttrist manifests the
right spirit when it says that ga good
boy will often do as much work as a
man. But you must know how to treat
him in order to make him useful. Give
him the best tools, the best pillow, the
steadiest team and the newest harness.
If he breaks anything do not scold, but
help him to repair damages and encour-
age him to do better.
In lecture before British agricult-
ural association, Mr.. Cassie, V. S.,
says that the reason why whole grains
appear in horse manure is because the
horse is watered soon after being fed.
The most of the water drank by horse
passes directly through the stomach to
the large intestines, and grain just
swallowed is liable to be carried along
with the water, instead OF remaining in
the stomach.
GREAT care should be taken in drying
off cows. Don't trust to the advice OF
some, and allow the COW to dry her.
self off when you do not wish to pre-
serve the milk further. Every few days
draw all the thick milk allow none to
remain. This is often the cause of the
loss of portion of the udder, and the
multiplication of three tilted COWS,
which is equivalent TO loss of the COW
for profitable milking. - Live Stock
Journal.
ARTcHoKEs AS Stock FooD.-A cor
lates the following experience with arti-
chokes
l planted about one-fourth acre with
about one-half bushel, cut very small,
dropped in burrows two feet anda half
apart and about eleven inches apart in
rows gave them about the same atten-
tion as potatoes. Early in September
| cut them before frost and used the
stalks to roof my stable, thinking they
were good for nothing else /; but |
found it very difficult to keep my horse
from eating himself outdoors. He
would leave corn and hay for these
stalks. l think had about fifty bush
els on the one-quarter acre but they
were very small, which made it tedious
gathering them. L think they were too
thick. l shall plant again this year.
top the stalks once or twice during the
season, TO make them stocky y; cut
before frost shock as corn when cured,
stack and cut them in machine, mix
with bran, steam or cook them if con-
venient.
think they will furnish large
amount of valuable feed. | think the
roots or tubers will grow all winter,
when the ground is not frozen. Dig
in the spring, or turn your hogs in to
dig them for you. They are choice
feed for mich COWS, and, coming as they
do early in the spring, when succulent
food is scarce, help the yield of butter.