Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-01-21
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Ai "n" preparing TOT tHS TdmhSFiSa7 tuiHsS
that will be wanting wheEfhe season for active
work arrives.
Ii the weather Is wet or bad generally, the
tools need to be looked o+er to see that all are
in their places aud in the best working condi-
tion. If they are hull-edged they can be ground
or filed loose handles can be tightened, or nails
and screws can be used to stay or strengthen
weakened parts. Many tools can be wholly
made by the exercise of no great amount of in
gvhuity; and indeed in hundred ways can an
active man be usefully employed, even in the
| very worst of weather.
| When the weather IS at all fair, loads of work
can be advanced in the open air. Many fruit
| and ornamental trees are ruined by barbarous
| Pruning, but there are few trees that are not
to be benefited by pruning judieiously per-
formed and then remember that use can often
be made in the garden of the parts cut from the
trees. The garden pea loves above all things to
| run over twiggy branches, and some of the trim
mings can be cut out for this purpose and tied
into neat bundles and stacked away. Then the
tomato likes to get tied up into single stsL.s-
| Short stout pieces that have stubs or strong
! spurs to help hold up the weight of tomato-fruit
may be cut out and saved for them. Then
raspberries, blackberries, dahlas, gladiolrs.
tuberoses, and many things among both fruits
and aoSers, as well "a vegetables, want stakes
! sometimes, and good material for these pur-
/ poses can be had from the tree-waste very often.
And then poles for beans and similar things,
| give us a good use for the taller and stronger
stuff.
Another good thing to think of now by those
who have street-trees, is to get out some sort
of guard to protect them from horses, which
are sure to get at them, when the sap begins to
rise in spring. Many have already made up
their minds to set out sidewalk trees in spring
but how many have given thought to preparing
protectors for thenl One may as well throw
his money in the e'ash-heap as plant trees on the
streets near town, without taking measures
to keep horses from them.
And then there is the matter of manures,
composts, and in connection with these very
often hotbeds for early vegetables. Not one in
a hundred ever has as much manure as could
be judiciously employed; and yet great deal
goes to waste through sheer want of thought in
collecting or OF judicious treatment at this win
ter season.
Many man likes to take pipe or cigar, and
of winter evening sit for an hour or by his fire
and dreamily think over the things that are
past. This is all right. There is pleasure in
memory. But let him not forget the pleasures
of Hope. He can think of his seeds and his
crops in the future, and what he will need to
bring them on to the best advantage and then
be led to see what h9 can do now to help the
good work along. 1t is well enough to read
We like to see the studious man. BIT time is
well-employed il thinking for oneself, and
especially wheu that thought has reference to
the forwarding of WORK, against the busy time
to come. There is some prejudice against count
ing chickens before they are hatehed. True,
the counter is often disappointed. But the one
who never counts, who waits to see how many
chickens he will have before he provides any
thing for them, is much more likely to be the
disappointed men.-Germantosrn Telegraph
HUNGARIAN GRASS FOR Cows.-The following
es the testimony OF DR.. Lorng respecting Hun
garian grass . l believe l can make more milk
with this grass, cut and mixed with cornmeal
and shorts, than 1 can with the best timothy
hay, cut and mixed In the name manner And
when you remember that you can raise on or
dinary land, by sewing the seed of Hungarian
grass late in June, from two and half to three
and half tons of good fodder to the acre, and
that this crop can be sown after we have ascer.
tanned whether We are to have a good crop of
hay or not, you will see the value of this grass.
have such high opinion of it that on my own
farm this year and last, 1 raised from seventy
five to one hundred tons of it for the pur-
pose of feeding to my mich cows during the win
ter.
TENDER FOOTED HoRsEs.--An old man who
had much experince in handling and dealing in
horses for more than half century, said to me
! recently that he had never known a horse to get
tender-footed that was kept loose in a shed and
yard. or in a boxed stall that turning around
aud treading with their forward feet in the man
ure kept them constantly moist and soft. His
theory appeared perfectly reasonable to me. /
have no box stalls, but used shavings for bed
ding, and every morning with large shovel
moved the wet shayings under the horses for
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covered these with dry shaYings for him to lie
on. He also remarked that he never knew a
! nat-footcd horse but that was good worker
! Cor. Lie Stock Journal.
! How LONG TO MILK COw.-There seems to
! be prevalent idea that it is not profitable TO
milk cow more than eight or nine months, and
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them go dry three to four months. Is this the
| best practice We think not. COW is kept
| for milk. She should be bred for holding out
her milk as long as she can. with due regard
for health. 1t has been proved in the case of
thousands Of COWS that have lived to good old
age, that they can be bred to give milk ten
months in the year, bear good, strong, healthy
calf and be ready for as good milking season
the next year. We shouItseek such COWS and
discard those that persist in drying early even
if they do give good mess for a-short season.
Rtrdl Nsar Yorker.
ORCHARD GRAss.--EverybOdy who has sown
orchard grass is pleased with it. It Is an early
grass, as well as a late one. No other variety of
grass enriches the soil so much. It is not equal
to clover in this respect--but clover is not a
grass. But the great value of orchard grass
lies in the fact that it resists the 6routh better
than any grass we have. In the severe drouth
we have in summer and fail, when all other
grasses dry so that you can set fire to them and
burn them, the orchard grass remains green and
stock thrive on it. So, orchard grass and clover
should be sown for the parchng season. They
don't burn out. Their roots run deep into the
soil. Red-top can be proftably mixed with
them if the kind is little moist.--Rargl World
GIVE THE HENs WARN FEED.--Those who
want their hens to lay In winter, should give
them warm breakfact. This is easily done
by cooking or scalding the mess. When the
scalding process is adopted, the mess should be
wei; stirred so that all the parts are equally
scalded.
The feed should consist of corn and oats
chopped together and wheat bran or middlings
in about equal parts. When potatoes or turuips
are nentv a potfuI NAV ha hoiIa5 ,,1 -