Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-11-23

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others which from other causes
are not growing any better from
year to year. 1t is better, when
practicable, to cut out such trees and
make them into fuel, than to allow them
10 'cumber the ground. Where the trees
stand thick, great judgment as well as
some practice is needed in telling q
large tree not to break and injure other
trees standing near. l have cut trees
and got them out without injuring any
other trees, while l have directed help
to cut another, not as difficult of getting
ont, and the breaking and destruction
of Young growth exceeded in value the
tree cut, for the want Of little care and
skill in using the eye.
Generally ii IL better TO cut the trees
into eight feet lengths, and haul these
to the house to be worked up with the
saw into stove lengths, split, and allow
ed to oscar" the outside before being
piled in tight wood-house. However
if only single piles are put up. the wood
may be put in as soon as cut and split.
Either of these methods prefer to al
lowing the cut and split wood to stand
in the pile outdoors, exposed TO the
weather from four to six months; it
seems to give out freer, pleasanter
heat, as well as doing better service
when burned The wood at the door
may be worked into stove lengths at
times when otherwise no employment
would be had, and saving effected in
more than one way.
Wood for summer use may be lighter
than that for winter, as usually quick
fire is needed for short time only,
when it is allowed to 90 out. Here
small and trashy wood may be used to
advantage. Often there are many limbs
of trees allowed to remain to disfigure
the wood-lot, much of which if worked
into stove lengths would make the best
and quickest fires for boiling the tea
kettle. Although it seems like small
work, it will often pay to work up limbs
smaller than the little finger, and to
pick up all fallen and decaying wood
and prepare it for summer use. Let
such farmers as have not heretofore laid
up years stock of fuel ahead, try it
for one yea-, and if the good housewife
tells him at the end of the year that it
is not the better way, let him believe her.
Cor. Country Gentleman.
CRossINGsP OULTRY.-It is not every
farmer who can keep a flock of pure
bred fowls, for the reason they do not
have the time or the interest in poultry
as we breeders do. To keep a well bred
stock of poultry you have to change
your stock often, and, to keep them up
near to the standard, it is something of
duty to do. l have had a little expe-
rience within the last five years in
breeding and crossing poultry of differ
ent breeds, and find it win very much
improve the stock for laying and brood
ing. The Brahmas and Cochins are
well scattered through the country at
present. Almost every farmer has got
more or less of the Brahma or Cochin
blood in their stock of poultry, and a
great many say that they "like the
Brahma or Cochin but they sit ever
lastingly; can not break them up" etc.
l will tell you how improve them. l
have taken the partridge Cochin hen
and brown Leghorn cock and crossed
them. 1t cuts them down in size some,
but they are good, fair sized fowl, land
lay mere eggs and do not care so much
for setting. They are nearly the same
color as in the pure state. Another
cross is the Cochin and Houdan
cock. That makes a good cross;
large fowl which lays large egg and
does not set much and are not bad to
break off from setting. The light Brah-
ma and the white Leghorn would make
a good cross and keep your fowls near
their own color.
If you have the old-fashioned barn
yard fowl, it will pay you well to get
some of the best stock of improved
breeds to cross with them. 1t will in
crease them IN quality of stock and i'm
prove your flock in looks. The great
trouble with farmers is, they think
poultrv - q small affair apd do NOT nav