The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-09-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

WHITE FEET IN HORsEs.-Our readers
have heard the old saying which pro.
nOunces horses with four white feet and
white nose, only fit to be killed and
eaten by crows. This was mere prejudice.
Many excellent horses have white feet
Among draft horses, white feet are very
common i'm the Clydesdales.
A writer in the Country Gentleman
speaking of trotting and running horses,
says: 81 believe white feet are an indi.
cation of blood, and if you will look
through the trotting register and For.
resters Horses Of America you will
find that, out of twenty-five plates OF
horses, twenty of them have more or less
white about their feet. Such horses as
Dexter, Lexington and PocahOntas all
have four white feet Ethan Allen three,
etc. While visiting the breeding estab.
lishment ofMr. Steele, near Philadelphia,
where Happy Medium, one of the best
stations this country affords, holds forth,
| noticed in one yard of about dozen
colts only one without white feet"
BEES ON THE FARM.-The prejudice
of our forefathers against bees Is now
outgrown with the Improvements of the
age, and every farmers home should be
supplied with few stands of bees to fur
nish pure sweet honey for the family
table; for unless the honey is produced
on the farm tits but rarely had at all
and luxury so easily procured all
should enjoy. With small investment
less than for a calf-a stand of bee,
may be had thatwill increase at the rate
of one hundred per cent, furnish good
supply of honey, and not require any
feed. Is there any farm stock that viii
pay so well on the investment?
With the world offlowers that we have
in the West, with tons Of honey wasting
for want of bees to gather it, it is prof
table to raise bees on large scale for thu
profit realized from the honey but i
farmers don't want to keep bees for thu
profit we must insist that every HON,
should have few bees, enough to sup
ply their tables with honey, and thus en-
courage home manufacturing Weste,7
Agricultmist.
To Stop HENS FROM SITTINa.-Th,
desire to sit is but natural to fowls, bu
when we wish for eggs rather thar
chickens, it is of importance to us no
only to stop them from sitting, but to d,
it with as little loss of time as is in GU
power. Consequently we divert the at
tention of the sitting hen as much a
possible from carrying out her propensity
and it should always be done with reason
and humanity. Do not half drown tn,
poor creature by dipping her in water
nor confine her to small box with mar
row boards set on edge for the bottom
30 that she must always rOost, nor ye
scare her off the nest, for she is i'm hel
right place, but "take her up tenderly
lift her with care" and place her in
strange place of confinement, with {
supply of food and water constantly by
her, where she will probably soon forget
her brooding proclivities, and return
with renewed vigor to the egg business
II, however, she is an invetcrate sitter
who does not know an egg from brick
bat when the fever is on, and she persists
in sitting on the bare floor, as is the case
occasionally with the Asiatics, confine Q
cock in the same apartment with her, and
the cure may be warranted.
A IiEsseN PROM CABBAaE.-Every
one knows that cabbage. will not grew fasl
or head ont well. unless they are hoed
very eften. Most have also learned that
this crop does the best IL hood very early
in the morning, while the dew is on tho
grousd. Heeing later ip the day, wher
r<he<dew hss eysporated, will nothavt
|. The some effect. Tho reasons appear. Il
be these: Tho dew being covered with
soil, rs retained, and helps keeps the earth