The Osceola times., 1879-02-22
SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME.
Ao RfCuLrURAL NOTEs.


Sheep fatten quicker when lovse In
pens OF half dozen, tnan any method
OF stalling or tying up each sheep.
A farmer must be something besides
a laborer. He must be q man OF re-
sources, and raise by his own energy to
any emergency.
Pick up the odds and ends that are
going to waste around you. Hides, horns,
hoois, bones, wax, moss and many other
trifes have cash value.
"It all the banks in New York failed
their failure would not infict so great a
loss on the nation as the failure of dairy
ing TOR a single year" ."- Ex-Governor
Seymour.
d. not grumble at the low prices Of
your products, 1t don't help the matter q
bit. Just 20 to work and see IL you can.
not lessen the cost OF production so IS to
leave you margin for profit, even at
low prices.
Sheep growers In England claim that
feed of cotton seed an turnips Is not
only the safest for iattening sheep, but
will put on the most fat and make the
best mutton ut the least cost. 1t also
produces the strongest manure.
Do not attempt to keep too many
fowls together. One hundred in single
yard will not produce hall the eggs they
will if divided into four parts. 1t will
cost ns more to feed, but il will be little
more trouble to attend to them.
The average age of sheep is ten years.
hax Af
Hogs have been knewn TO live forty
years. The average of the horse Is twelve
years The elephant lives to a very great
age. There is white elephant now liv-
ing in the Imperial Mensgerie in Russia
that is said to be over l50 years old.
The manure from ton of clover hay
is estimated 10 be worth 1864, or about
~ much as the hay is worth In many
places. 1t should be well understood
that clover hay ought to be fed on the
farm and never sold il any hay is TO be
sold let 1t be the English meadow, the
manure from which is only about half as
much.
For winter feeding, where cattle are
kept in stalls and heavily fed, there Is no
better divisor for cornmeal than wheat
bran. 1t is also cheap, and furnishes
what the cornmeal lacks. When cattle
are fed on cornmeal as the principal food
for fattening 1t is apt to cley il fed in
too large quantities, hence our best
feeders are In the habit of using bran as
the cheapest and best means for render.
ing the meal fed more digestible. In
this each feeder must use discretion as
to the proper quantity used.
1t Is well known by all hunters that a
rabbit is never found in the same bed in
which one has been killed the same sea-
son, especially If one particle Of blood
has been split; therefore, II you will
kill hare and rub the blood, even a
very small portion. on the body of
fruit.tree, it will not be molested by
them that winter. have one hundred
trees | have treated thus for fourteen
years, aud never had them barked, un.
less ] happened to miss one. One hare
Is sufficient to rub fifty trees Colman's
Rural World.
To aid farmers in arriving at accuracy
In estimating the amount OF land in diff
ferent fields under cultivation, the iol-
lowing table is given: Yards wide by
96S long contain acre; 10 yards wide
by 4Si long contains acre 20 yards
wide by 242 long contains acre; 40
yards wide by l2l long contains acre
20 yards wide by 69i long contains l
acre F; 80 yards wide by 60i long contains
! acre go feet wide by 72S long contains
acre ll0 feet wide by S97 long con-
tains ] acre l30 feet wide by 1863 long
contains acre; 220 feet wide by 1914
long contains acre 4i0 feet wide by 9s
long contains acre.