The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-10-25
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eight days; guinea fowls, from twenty
five to twenty-seven days; pea fowls,
twenty-eight to thirty eight days; geese's,
thirty to thirty-two days. Fresh eggs
will hatch one or two days sooner than
those two or three weeks old. German
toa0n Telegraph.
The Importance of saving liquid man.
ures is apparent from the fact that in
every 100 pounds of cows urine there
are sixty-6ve pounds of water, five
pounds of urea, five pounds of phosphate
of lime, twelve pounds of sal ammoniac
and muriate of potash, and ten pounds
of carbonate of potash and ammonia.
While the solid excrements from one
COW during the year will manure half an
acre, the liquid manure matter properly
applied would fertilize three times that
amount. Western Rural.
HEN manure is so rich that it should
be mixed with three or four times it's
own bulk of swamp muck or some SINH
lar substance, for if applied undiluted it
will burn and kill plants and prevent
termination. It is estimated that sin
gle hens excrement during year is
equivalent to fifteen pounds of guano;
and experiment has shown that the drop
pings of twenty-five fowls, properly COM
posted during the year, will make man.
ure enough for an acre.-Rural Nea0
YORKER
AN exchange, remarking on the chatting
of the breasts of horses, says: 1.-the
common practice of using pads or sheep
skin under the collar is Objectionable,
especially i'll warm weather, because they
accumulate heat and make the breast
tender. A better way is take a piece of
thick and smooth leather, cut it out just
the size of the collar or q little wider,
and let it lie flat on the neck and shoul-
ders of the horse. This will be still and
smooth on the horses neck, while the
collar itself moves about, and so it will
prevent chatting. In addition to this let
the breasts of working horses be washed
off every night with clean water"
KEEPINa squashes in winter seems to
be attended with considerable difficulty
They cannot be kept where it is damp,
as in most cellars, or where frost can
reach them, nor will they keep SO well
where it is very warm. The best con-
ditions for keeping them seem to be
where the air is cool and dry, yet safe
from frost. An attic chamber until win
ter, then a closet near the chimney where
the frost cannot reach, or the tempera-
ture does not rise very high, is the best
most families can command. Extensive
market gardeners often keep them in
houses built for the purpose, where they
can maintain an even temperature by the
aid of fires and ventilation. Hort.
Report.
KEEP poultry-houses and roosting-
poles clear from lice or other parasitic
pests. Cleanliness and plenty of white
wash are among the host preventives.
Let every crack or crevice where vermin
may conceal themselves be filed with
plaster before whitewashing. Thus, if
you keep the boxes for laying and incu-
batting purposes and the roosting perches
perfectly clean, you need have little fear
that your fowls will be troubled with lice
or other parasites. To make sure
thing of this plastering up cracks and
whitewashing preventive, it should be
done monthly through the warm weather.
Clean out the excrements from the poul-
try-house, apd change the mellow loan
or sand in which the fowls wallow, pick
and shake themselves, at least once a
week.-4nacrican CultiUator.
LEAF manure possesses excellent fer
tilizing properties, and greatly improves
the texture and character of shc soil.
Analysis proves that the foliage of trees
contains vastly more mineral riches
such as phosphates, lime-potash and
soda-than the solid wood, and that the
older the leaves, the greater the amount
of these they contain. Now that the
fallen leaves begin to rustic brown and
crisp in the wood-lot, and will soon litter
the ground, the farmer whose farm pays
well gathers them carefully to be either
used in the compost heap with other de-
composible vegetable matters, or en-
ployed as litter for his animals during
winter, or as coatings for his yard or
other Enclosures where animals are con-
fined, and where the leaves by absorbing
the liquid voidings may be readily con-
verted into excellent plant-food.-
MOOre'S Rurat
Domestic EconOmy.
APPLE CUSTARD PIE.-One pint of
sweet milk and three grated sweet ap-
Piles, two well-beaten eggs; little salt /;
sugar and nutmeg to taste. Have only
an undercrust.
ELDERBERRY BUrTER.-Take one g4l-
Ion of elderberries, two quarts of sugar
and one pint of vinegar; boil for five
hours, stirring often for pies, take four
table-spoonfuls for each pie of the butter,
and reduce