The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-06-02
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Sensonablc Hints.

it will be well to overhaul the mower.
Take out all the bolts, clean all the NOV
ing parts and gears with kerosene oil,
then oil them with pure lard or sperm
oil, and replace the bolts, first putting
some clean tallow on the screw-threads of
the bolts and nuts. When all is clean,
throw barn sheet ever the machine, to
keep it free from dust. Scythes may be
ground up and prepared for next months
work, and hay rakes supplied with new
teeth. Any tools or machines that are
to be procured. should be looked after
now. Consult the advertising columns
for information as to the makers and
dealers names.
Nothing that can add to the manure
pile should be wasted Cattleyards
should be raked over, and the droopings
removed to the pile every day. Let no
stable manure remain scattered and ex-
posed to the sun and rain.
Early potatoes should be put in at
once. Plant shallow, and earth up rs
soon as the sprout appears; if frost is
feared, cover up in the afternoon with
an inch of fine soil. Plant good sized
ripe seed, and give small potatoes to the
pigs.
Fowls will do well anywhere but in
the garden. Provide coops that may be
closed at night for young chickens, and
keep them closed until the dew is dried
from the grass. Cold and damp are the
causes of more fatality among chicks,
than any other evils. Young ducks are
excellent to destroy insects in the garden;
a hen or two, cooped with broods of
ducklings, will do more good in this way,
than almost any other remedy, and they
are self-acting.
Hogs are scarce this season. There
will be demand for light pigs next fall
and If good thoroughbred boar has not
been secured, no time should be lost.
A newly farrowed SOW will take the boar
in three days after pigging. She will
go sixteen weeks, and pigs may be looked
for in September. The pigs may be
made to weigh one hundred pounds, by
Christmas. Spring pigs, if pushed now,
and kept on good clover pasture during
summer, may weigh two hundred pounds
by winter. A SOW is simply farm
machine for the production of pigs, and
should not be kept idle, and as with
other machines-keep only the best.
Ewes with early lambs, If not to be
kept for breeding, should be kept well
fed, and separated from the lambs as
soon as there is good grass. The laI 3s
should have little extra food during
weaving. Wean the lambs gradually
during week or ten days.
Z the spring clearing up has been de-
layed, it should no longer be put off.
All eartn, manure, or waste that may lie
against buildings, should be removed
from about the sills. In whitewashinc,
the sills should have a double allowance; !;
lime is a preservative of timber. Make
everything around the dairy as sweet as
possible, plant vines or climbing plants
fer shade, and use plenty of whitewash
inside and out Don't forget the stock
Now is their harvest season, and they
must repay the cost Of their winter
keep, Cleanlin, ss everywhere should be
made imperative. See that no drain
discharges, or any cesspool or filthy
matter of any kind exists within fifty
feet OF the we'll. Rise early and 60 TO
bed early, and wash the body every
night with tepid water, before retiring.
Butter Making.
8. @. Drew, of South Royalton, Yer
mont, says: My dairy numbers sixteen
cows; seven grade Jerseys, the remain
der the best butter COWS could collect
In this and neighboring towns. I think
q good COW is as good as care for to
make butter from, be the breed what it
will. 1 like haf-blood Jerseys think
the butter is better to have some of that
breed. In winter feed early cut hay,
with oats, and corn fodder cut when it is
IN the right state to produce the most
milk. 1 give each COW two quarts corn
meal In the morning after milking, and
three quarts wheat shorts the last feed at
night; let them into the yard twice
daily to drink if it is warmer there
than IN the stable, let them out an
hour or SO If not, tie them up as soon
as they drink keep them warm by reg
ulatlng the ventilators according to the
weather. vary my feed of meal in the
morning, and give shorts when there is
tendency to run to fat more than to
milk feed salt regularly twice O week.
My milk-pans are large, with the double
bottom, for running water in summer
The temperature of the milk room is
about sixty-five degrees day and night !;
the milk Is skinned when thirty-six
hours old, and conveyed underground
directly from the pan TO the barn. The
cream is kept q little cooler than the
milk. Churn three times week warm
the cream to fifty-eight or sixty degrees
at the outset butter comes in about
thirty minutes. After washing it until
the water is nearly clear, take it from
the churn and weigh /; put it in the
worker and press the water out with the
lever /; then salt one-third ounce to the
pound use little carrot-juice for color
ing. AS soon as the salt is evenly mixed,
mold it into quarter-pound pats pack
IN tin cans, ON tin plstes set one above
the other. My cans hold twenty-four
pounds each. Ship to Boston twice q