The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-02
FARM AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY
Farm Notes.

! Earm NOCeSs
NEVER move fruit trees far north in
transplanting.
A OUNCE viii do as much damage ON a
1arm as anywhere. .
1t IS said that apples can be kept free
ron 1rom insects by allowing fowls to run
! A PIECE of paraffine candle about the
slze of nut, dissolved In lard oil at
l4o deg. Fab, the mixture applied once
month, will keep boots waterproof
MANY Ohio farmers claim that seed
corn and wheat for sowing, brought from
q colder to warmer country, yields the
best returns.
SALT should be furnished to all ami
mails regularly. A COW, or an OK, or
morse needs two TO four ounces daily.
salts increases the butter in milk, helps
the digestive and nutritive processes.
and gives good appetite. The people
OF interior Europe have saying that a
pound OF salt makes ten pounds of flesh
OF course salt only assists in assimilat-
ing the food ; it does not make flesh nor
muscle.
SEWERAGE water that has had the
cruder portion of its impurities removed
by imperfect filtration is not only clear
and sparkling, but peculiarly pleasant to
the taste, from the gases and salts which
1T contains, but it is, nevertheless, the
source of some of o1lr most fatal dis
eases. The only way to remove this
poisonous quality is to filter the water
either through thick and dense bed of
soil or thick layer of charcoal and, as
1t very rarely happens that it is conven-
lent to do this after the water has been
drawn from the wells, we ought to use
every means to keep impure water out.
CLIPPING HORSES. Some persons con-
denim the practice of clipping horses as
cruel and injurious, and call upon Mr..
Bergh to protect them against it while
others contend that it is humane and
highly beneficial, Both are right and
both are wrong. It depends on the kind
of work to which the horse is put, and
on the natural coat of the horse-whether
the hair is short, fine and thin, or long,
coarse and thick. IF the former, clip
ping may be hurtful, and there is no
necessity for it, for the horse, unless put |
to unusually fast work, sweats SO little |
that he dries quickly when returned to |
his stable, and if properly rubbed then
and blanketed, receives no injury. But |
in the latter case, if the horse be moved |
out of walk, he generally sweats SO !
profusely as to completely saturate his I
coat, and when put back into his stall,
he is in the same condition that man
would be in who, after being thoroughly
dEenehed in water, should happen to be
left to dry himself standing in cold
room, with his wet clothes still upon him.
We all know that nothing can be more
likely to give a man severe rheumatism
or a dangerous cold than this. We would
therefore say, clip a horse late in the
autumn, or let him wear his summer
growth of hair, according to these facts.
Profuse perspiration in the case of
horse is lessened somewhat by giving his
food to him dry, and as little water to
drink as is consistent with his comfort
Some persons feed their horses with
steamed food, or with hay cut short in
straw-cutter, and then saturated either
alone or mixed with bran and meal
This is good feed in summer, but not in
winter. Dry oats and hay alone are
then the best feed for profusely sweat
ing horse, or one that is called upon |
daily for fast work.-Nea0 York EUesaiag |
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