The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-02-08
( & M & M MOTT NG.
Sundry Items Of Practical Interest

Grain fed now will keep up the fow
Of milk and give strength and flesh to
enable stock to winter well and at a re-
duced cost.
Stock should be well fed from this on.
Do not spare feed, but do not waste any.
It is easier to keep flesh on an animal
now than to put it on in March.
A California paper recommends char
coal for fattening turkeys. and says that
it should be pulyerized and mixed with
mashed potatoes and corn meal, as well
as fed to them in small Jumps
Hogs should be supplied with all
they will eat, and their appetites should
be stimulated with variety of feeds.
at the present prices of pork and grain,
no better disposition of the latter can
be made than to convert it into pork.
The davor of an egg, acquired by
food, nearly or quite all resides in the
yellow. 1t is very strongly affected
when hens are fed on putrid meat, fish
or onions. 1t is highly recommended
to give barley to hens which are to pro-
duce eggs for incubation, because it
adds much to the bulk of the yellow.
Rye, on the other hand, increases the
aibumen. Practically, an egg is animal
food,
a farmer states that he has planted
Eve rows Of corn with seed taken from
three inches below the top Of the ear,
rejecting the imperfect grams at the ex-
Weme points; then five rows taken from
the middle and base Of the ear, reject
ing the imperfect grains at the butt.
The result was, that the five rows plant
ed from the middle and the butt of tho
ear, ripened about two weeks and half
before the other rows, and the corn of
the former was better cared, and we'll
filed to the end of the cob.
Limo has no fertility in itself, and is
only valuable where the land contains
no lime, as a natural constituent of the
soil. 1t acts chemically on neutralizing
acid substances and decomposing and
changing inert vegetable matter so as
to be beneficial to vegetation. 1t should
be applied only to lands when plowed
ana narrowed in, at the rate of ten to
fifty bushels to the acre, according to
whether the land contains lime IN
greater or less degree. A clay sod turn
ed over in the fall, and well lined,
would produce a good crop of corn or
potatoes in the next season. Lime is
useful in compost heaps where there is
. quantity Of mdecomposed vegetable
matter; but it is injurious to mix with
rotten manures, as its tendency is to
cause the ammonia to be set free and
escape into The atmosphere.
The following hints will be of service
if you desire to raise poultry for profit:
The Asiatics are the great meat produe-
ers. The Light and Dark Brahmas,
the Buff and Partridge Cochins, are all
excellent layers, good mothers, are hardy
and make the best farm chickens. Be
ing of such fine, large size, they pay
better profit when sold by the pound.
and are, while young, good table fowls,
and no farmer can afford to raise COM
mon chickens while these valuable
breeds can be so readily had. The nom
sitting varieties, the Houdans, Leg
horns and the Spanish are superior lay
ers, seldom wanting to sit, are very ac>
tive, and although not so large, are ex~
cellent table fowls. We advise only
one breed to be kept on the farm, not
50 much Importance what particular
breed, as that you keep them pure and
give them proper attention and COM
Portable quarters. By all means clean
out their quarters to start with, and
keep them clean by the liberal applica-
ton of carbolic whitewash and occae
sional busting of sulphur and sprink-
ling of coal oil on the roosts will keep
off the verlnin, the great pest to chick
en- raising.