The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-17
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
There are some things it never pays
to doctor. If you have q sick fruit tree
of any kind dig it up at once, and in SO
doing dig big hole ready for thrifty
tree next spring.
1t is the opinion of an intelligent
dairyman that there is a difference of
two quarts of milk day between a COW
comfortably housed and the same one
exposed to the cold for half the day, as
we see them.
The English feed for fattening sheep
consists of cotton seed and turnips. They
claim that it will put on the most fat, is
the safest food, makes the best mutton
at less cost, and produces the best and
strongest manure.
If you want to keep your hogs, horses,
cattle and sheep healthy, give them salt
regularly. There is no better vermifuge
than salt. Much of the so-called hog
cholera is due to intestinal worms. Plen-
ty of salt would prevent the accumula-
ton of these worms. All animals desire
salt, showing that it is a want of their
nature, and undoubtedly for wise pur-
poses. - Col,aan's Rural World.
A correspondent in the Cincinnati
Grange Bulletin makes this important
statement: l am now milking seven
farrow cows, to which feed one bushel
of corn per day and one shock Of fodder;
and we sell butter enough to pay sixty
cents per bushel for the corn and have
all the butter we want to use in family
of four. Besides we have the milk for
the pigs. This is better than selling
corn at twenty-five cents a bushel.
farmer at home should be found.
And often looking at his ground
Inspecting fields, repairing fence
For dollars come by saving pence
Clear the soil from moles and slugs,
Prune the trees, keep off the bugs-
Then fruit and melons, rich and fair,
Will recompense for all your care.
Put tablespoonful of sulphur in the
nest as soon as hens or turkeys are set.
The heat of the fowls causes the fumes
of the sulphur to penetrate every part
of their bodies, every louse is killed,
and, as all nits are hatched within ten
days, when the mother leaves the nest
with her brood, she is perfectly free
from nits OF lice.
Drainage, plenty of manure, and
heavy dressing of coal ashes, with fire.
quent stirring, is the very best treatment
for all soils of close, heavy texture. 1t
is by such simple means that we have
converted comparatively barren soil
into a high degree of fertility and pro-
duction. - Cottage Gardener.
Those who have the appliances should
remember that they can have radishes
and young lettuce early in February, by
sowing in hot beds at this time, should
fl,a for ~ h.,
good gardener, however, should by this
time, if the weather permits, have his
compost t-heap prepared for next springs
use. There is always something to do
about well-cared-for garden and where
there is no outdoor work to attend to,
there is always something to make or
repair in the shop-,for there should be
small Workshop attached to every gar
en.-GermantO,Dn Telegraph.
Forest leaves are excellent to mix with
hot-bed material, and where practicable
should be saved for this purpose. They
do not heat so rapidly as stable manure,
and in this have an advantage as tenn
pering it's violence, making it last longer,
and maintaining more regular heat
They are excellent material to put
round cold frames to protect half hardy
plants. A board is put up the height
of the frame-boards, and about foot
or more from them, and the leaves
filled in between. If the plants are
somewhat tender, the bottom of the
frames may be filled in few feet with
the leaves. Much heat is thrown of
during the decompositiop of the leaves,
which, though not enough to keep out a
severe frost, yet modities somewhat the
temperature. These leaves, after they
have been two or three years decaying,
make admirable stuff for potting and
flowers in general. Gardeners Month";
y.
Winter Dairying.
1t was plain that this subject is fast
taking possession of the mind of the pro-
gressive dairyman. Those who are en-
gagged in milk production for cities and
villages are obliged to keep up a gener-
GUS and healthy flow of milk through
the winter. This has stimulated expert
ments in regard to winter feeding beyond
the mere keeping of the animal through
the winter for summer use. 1t is found
that, by providing comfortable and clean
ly stables-nO stable can be really COM
Portable unless it is cleanly-and feeding
generously, COWS can be made to profita-
bly, convert surplus of hay, meal, and
roots above what is required for their
sustenance into milk; and it is found
that by providing proper dairy house,
in which an even temperature of the de-
sired degree can be maintained, regard
less of the temperature or changes of the
weather outside, butter and cheese of
excellent quality can be made in winter
as well as in summer. Furthermore, it
is also found that freshly-made butter
made in clean dairy house, disconnected
from the kitchen and sitting room, and
free from foreign odors and taints is not
only more relishable, but will find q
reader market and command better
prices, than butter having the flavor of
age and the package, however we'll made
and kept. Besides, the tastes of consum-
ers are becoming cultivated and demand
a better article than they did years ago
and there is loud call for sweet, new
made butter the year round. This de-
mand our live dairymen are going to
successfully supply, and avoid the annual
and injurious accumulation OF stale
packages at the great market centres.
From Poverty to Riches.
A singular and romantic piece of good