The Osceola times., 1879-01-25
AGRlCULrURAL NOTES.

Tuvc WSter ID uISt reQuMlt6 fOr
man or beast. A good we'll, or cistern,
provided with . Universal.force pump,
will be found one of the most profitable
things In the barn-yard or house.yard.
Thistles and many other weeds may be
destroyed BY cutting just before or while
In full bloom. They should be cut as
closely ~ possible, and in the case of
thistles, II cut just before a rain, all the
better, "a the hollow stems will fill with
water, which is said to rot the roots.
The labor required to kill 100 weeds,
well grown and firmly rooted, will xiii
10000 when just sprouted. 1t Ia easier
In every respect to 20 over your ground
three times when weeds are In the
earliest stages Of their existence, than
onoe after they have become firmly es-
tablisled.
Moderately fat animals are the most
profitable. Every excessively fat ami.
NAL has been fed at a loss during the
latter part Of its feeding. When an
animal Is ready for market, sell il; II
there Is feed left, buy some more lean
animals and feed them. "The nimble
dxpence" brings the profit.
Young fall pigs should have plenty Of
milk, and, II the food Is made "milk.
warm," they will thrive the better for it.
Small potatoes, boiled and mashed in
skimmed milk, with q little bran, will
make them grow rapidly. Feed little
At time and often. The young pigs
stomach is very small, and over.feeding
causes indigestion and prevents growth.
There Is good deal Of nourishment In
many of our weeds, and hogs will thrive
cn them but, asks some one, don't the
seed get int the manure and 10 to the
land again Not II the manure Is piled
and worked over twice and allowed to
heat between the " rkings and again
after the second working before spreading
the fermentation will effectually de-
stroy the vi slity Of all seeds, and the
manure made fnc and mellow by the
process.
The Gardeners Monthly gives this
advice in the packing Of choice pears for
transportation: "a pear should be put
in clean paper and laid In dry moss. An
inch In thickness OF moss should be be-
tween each pear, and after all are In,
then the box filed tightly with moss.
II one decays then the moisture is quickly
absorbed by the dry moss, and the others
are affect d. Besides the moss gives
an elasticity-breaks the shock OF the
blows Of the baggage smashers, who sci.
dom deliver box without frat knock.
ing the spots out of :"
A herman says in the Ploughman
81 was 30 much annoyed with the little
pests, hen lice, that l could not 70 into
the hen-house without being covered
with them. I was told that stramonium
(cslled by some henbane or stinkweed)
would clear them out. got the weed
and hung on the roosts and strewed it
about the house and in the nest boxes,
and to my great joy they soon disap-
peared, and have not seen one since. 1t
Ia now six or seven years since COM
menced to use 1t. / cultivate this weed
for the purpose of using in my hen
houses"
Poultry-Cull out undesirable fowls,
and keep only good ones. Pure-bred
fowls are ~ profitable, In their way, as
other pure-bred stock. Feed young pull
lets with boiled potatoes, mashed in the
water they have been cooked in, and
mixed, while hot, with corn meal and
cracked wheat. Feed this warm, and
evsy week give some of the "Imperial
Egg Food with some Of Rowker & Co.'s
meat and bone -four along with the food.
This will give eggs all through the win
ter. The culled fowls may be cooped
snd fed on scalded SKINNED milk, with
corn aud oat meal, for three weeks, when
they will be - fat as they can be made !;
to iced any longer is waste of time and
food. This food makes sweet and white
fesh and fat. When fed for market,
give only corn, which makes the yellow
fat 20 much desired By the poultry deal