The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-05-10
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Farm Hints.

Farm Hints.
Farmers in the West arc aiming toRek
q better stock Of cattle aud hogs, hll less
land and do it better. buy fewer goods
and pay cash.
A large number Of grange cooperative
stores, mills md elevators have been es.
tabtshed In various sections Of the West
and South.
The o1-eye daisy Is q weel, is 10 be
treated as weed and may be killed like
any other weed with good cultivation il
cut when in bloom. Stock like Il and
thrive upon it. ef
Lima beans have brought good prices
the last two or throe years, and those who
raised them have made II pay.
Sour milk and buttermilk arc excel
lent food for all kinds Of poultry, andre
greatly roalished by them. Earthen
dishes are the best vessels To feed them
IN, as wooden ones soon become sour.
When thiekened with bran or meal, II
isa very nOurishing diet for young fowls,
and Ia good to make hens my.
An 0hioan, who has three.fourths Of
iast yc,r o saiI az hn,i5 ,io ,, mS
OF first-class fruit spades the ground
in spring, and scatters a peck Of coal
ashes around each tree, applying at the
same time n quart Of salt and mother
quart when the ounces are half grown.
We would give no meal to COWS for a
month before calying, nor for ten or
twelve days after. A little mess OF wheat
bran, fed daily, would be better and
sater, as It Is not as heating in its ten
dency.- Much Judgment Is needed in
feeding COWS.
II ii could be avoided, ground 10 be
cultivated should never be carted over
in tho spring, or DO plowed OF narrowed
when too damp 70 crumble by working.
A metbod.which will ,yoot mo ,,ost
Visions COW from hicl;ns and vL;cl,
shonid TnorsaJa tta or,,si rssa,;oa -
beating ma ,yb;nr;ns ssn,l Il A. ,SosL
Of INT n few minniSs r ,s toIlnws M. !.
Take n stran tLa 80 ~ q ooMrao,
bridle.rein and bnctIo s,ttis arnrnd
fine COW T,rb;le ,,;lS;nsS ;nst go, 49, ~
tLe bag Th;u nractjssI1 IL iar Javs s m, nj
have tRe desired reS,,it ma wa o M s,v %r
from ortnal esner;snce y W - '"''i
II
Does Wheat GrowinE rayt
James Adams says. Nv e.noriance
OF twenty wears IN the rrodnetion N
wheat In wheat.erowing section Of
Mouroe county. N. Y. "a fhat. 4 bnsliel
of wheat. on Tho nveraoe costs tbe nro-
ducer a sum edniyalsSt IL tbe cost N
one days labor, or more. besides inter.
est on the money invested IN ibe soil
upon which Il was nrodneod and n
bnshel Of wheat produced on The aver.
age at less expense than tLe cost Of n
DAYS labor has bean al Sone exnenso IN
the soil; or, in other words Inc soil i
not in AZ good condition ior fntnre cron
us when t6ellast cfop was removed nrior
to sowing Inc wheat 4 cron of wheat
sown upon land after harley or other
spring crops that had been previously
manfred, may nave cost less per bushel
ths cost n Attn, oFybo VII 81 ~ III h.s
yestipg etS IN 3bat c,o,, h.oorSa NAT nav
OF tLe e.nense cbargeabIo 10 tI,St e p,ra,
had been previously applied Labor
that cost s24 per month and board for
eight orten months would average not
less thhn Sl.5 per day for the entire
season, board included. Estimating the
crop at twenty-five bushels per mere
(which is above, rather than below, the
tSsaS psr ncrs ~ S,S C PeI nrS h. q .Ur
WAL ;nternSt ond ,o-Ss ~ ~ e SnO S ..oCp
oniv wo Loro ' ton,I ,Sa, III ~. ouu SSn
cnsi rS ol,nSc a N n sl' ILL., ~ TYP W.
ANIMAL jscro,so Y ~ H. S ~. &C.,, ~ ~
Wheat IN .So &c. n W., W. W, SYM ~
ticient moot that tbSt nv est;n,OtS a y; ' w.
oost roI hvSi,Oi % ~. ,s ess ~, u she
1 find by my journal that tho average |
price received for wheat for the past |
twenty years has beon above s1.SO per |
bushel. II there was o profit Of 81, or
even fifty cents, the area sown would |
largely increase instead Of decreasing.
u..,., ''st
mas i
the hest Flinders gInS n NM ~ T;r =.
1nr. and add lonr o,,n NM 81 hrsnd,
800 O'
POTATO CAkEs.-Iake mashed pota-
toes, Hour, q little salt, and melted butter
70 make them sweet, add q little pow
dered LOAF sugar mix with just enough
milk to make the paste stiif enough to
roll, make It the sizo and thickness OF
muffin, and bake quickly.
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