The Republican journal., 1875-01-21
A Domestic Steamer.

he subject Oh cooking feeQ ]Of STOCK IS
one otyital interest to the farmer, and each
article on that head, as it appears from time
to time, is carefully conned by me An
Anderson Steamer would be my 10y if
could possess it, but my farm is not on a
scale large enough to warrant the expense
so | cast about me to find some way in
which | could utilize the free caloric from
my kitchen stove which is in constant use.
For this purpose | took a large dinner pot
to the village, where | got piece Of gas
pipe fitted into cover Of two inch pine
plank. Heavy card paper was used ior
packing on the under side, and the upper
side was strengthened by strips OF oak
screwed down and crossing each other to
keep it from warping, and the whole was
fastened down by two bolts, with hooks at
the lower ends to attach to the ears Of the
pot. passing through the wooden cover
and tlghtened by nuts on the top
Fill the pot not more than three-quarters
full, leaving some chamber to help drive
the steam. Then placing the steamer on
the stove, attached a piece Of rubber hose
oher end Rqs II t6s BE- e9Y6eWi g Ye Wind5w wien
another piece Of gas pipe, some three feet
long, was inserted into it, and which in
serted into my swill barrel
BY this warming and partially cooking
the feed for six hogs that shall kill, con-
slider | shall receive more than value fol-
the expense and trouble, while the melo-
dious gurgle Of the steam, as it arises from
the tumultuous surface Of the barrel out
side the window, these cold winter even
ings, bespeaks comfort for the tattening
swine
Now what | claim for this is, that the
steam is just as hot as that from ten
horse power engine though not quite equal
in quantity. [Corres of Rural Home.
The Delaware County (Pa) American
gives the following account of young
ladys success in poultry raising In Con-
cord, farmers daughter, during the past
year, had the care of his poultry yard. In
the spring she commenced with about
sixty fowls of the common breeds, inclnd-
ing one Dominique rooster and several
hens of that stock She also had two
roosters Of the Partridge Cochin breed.
From these she raised $50 chickens
When young, she fed on cracked corn, bu t
when tattening them, gave whole corn and
Indian meal, During the season she sold
eggs to the amount OF 800, and from Sep
tember Goth to January 18th, she got
ready for market $50 pairs of chickens,
which she sold for $3.50. She thinks the
Dominique much the best for market, bu,
they are not hardy when young She has
some young hens of the Partridge Cochin
breed which weigh six, seven and eight
pounds each. 1t Will be seen from this
statement what may be done by proper at
tention to poultry the profit being per-
haps greater than almost any branch OF
farming 1t also shows that the business
is one in which females may engage with
success. The time occupied in caring for
sixty to hundred hens doesn't average
more than an hour OF two each day The
exercise is light and pleasant, and the
change from household duties rather
agreeable than otherwise. Indeed, we
consider the poultry business as an occu-
patton both profitable and interesting
Gathering the eggs, setting the hens,
watching the Matching and tending to the
young has q charm which, in connection
with the profit, is calculated to please
every loverofnature' great working world
CARING FOR FARM IMPLEMENTS. The
Journal Of the Farm well says: There is
no principle in farming better established
than that all tools and machines should be
housed when not in use, and the farmer
who neglects this is greatly wanting in
| the element OF economy The moWir g
machine that is lett standing in the fence
corner, cannot be expected to do good
work, and for wooden implements the
| case is worse still. The prudent farmer
not only houses his implements. but he
devotes rainy and snowy days to repairing
them. A moving machine, the journals
OF which are cleaned of their accumula-
tlon OF grimed grease and carefully oiled
VIII run twenty five per cent lighter anC
fifty per cent longer than one that does
dot receive this attention Joseph Harris
says his hardest task with hired men is tc
| make them take care of the tools of the
farm No wonder such men never reach
the good fortune of having farms of theil
| own.
Show me two villages, one embowere(
in trees and blazing with all the glories o
October, the other merely trivial ane
treeless waste, or with only a single tre'
or two for suicides, and | shall be SURE
that in the latter will be found the mos
starved and bigoted religionists and the
most desperate drinkers. Every wash-tut
and milk-can and gravestone will be ex
posed. The inhabitants will disappear
abruptly behind their barns, and houses,
like desert Arabs amid their rocks, and
shall look to see spears in their hands
Ihey will be ready to accept the mos
barren and forlorn ,loctrine-as that the
world Is speedily coming to an end, or has
already got to it, or that they themselves
are turned wrong side outward. They
will perchance crack their drv Joints al
one another and call it a spiritual lnanifes.
tation. [Thoreau.