The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-07-24
FARM NOTES.

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A heier in Pennsylvania recently ate
ten young turkeys at morning meal.
A COW owned by Mr.. Kemper, on the
Malone farm, recently gave birth to three
calves, which are stall living.
Sheep hus6andry is said to be a growing
business in the West, thus utilizing the
grass and producing greater profit than
by the production of cereals.
Mr.. P. Maloney q farmer living near
Wilmington, Del. owns an Alderney heif-
er seventeen months old that gives SUM-
cient milk TO make nine pounds Of butter
per week.
A grave mistake il made BY farmers
who think that stock must not be fed at
home after the appearance OF grass. Stock
viii show this false economy all through
the season.
The manure of cows and pigs resist de-
composition for longer time than that Of
the sheep and horse, both the latter being
drier than the former and decomposing
more readily in the soil.
A writer in the Lire Stock Journal says;
81 have kept dogs all my life. but no fieas.
Take common tobacco stems, such as you
can get at any cigar factory, and put it in
the dogs bed and you win have no fleas.
In the winter make beds Of equal guam
titles Of hay and tobacco stems; in the
summer all stems"
A lady not accustomed to raising poul-
try set a hen on some eggs, and in due
course of time brood Of chickens was
Matched. A friend coming in four d ays
afterw =, noticing that the little things
looked weak and puny. asked how often
they were fed? "Fed!" was the reply,
why l thought the hen nursed them"
For a most valuable remedy for heaves,
winch Is said to be sure cure, take forty
sumach buds, one pound Of rosin, one
pint OF ginger, half apound Of mustard,
one pint of unslacked lime, one pound Of
epson salts, four ounces of gum guiacum,
six ounces of cream tartar. Nix thor
oughly and divide into thirty powders.
and give one every morning in their feed
before watering.
Professor Harrington, in q summary of
the experiments begun in 1870 BY the
Maine Agricultural College to ascertain
which has the greater value of food for
swine, cooked or uncooked meal, says:
1--WE have, by an experiment which has
uSNh SchtiuuNu tIkVuSu iAoHi tuiCC W IVui
months Of each Of the nine years since its
beginning, obtained evidence that all the
money and Labor expended in cooking
meal for swine is more than thrown away.
An old gardner writes rs follows:
AFTER trying for number Of years, al
most in vain, to raise good celery on or
binary dry garden soil, | finally borrowed
the use of little patch Of reclaimed
swamp land-deep black muck, well
drained but moist, and for the two past
seasons have grown on it very fine celery
with but little labor. So l shall never
again attempt TO grow this vegetable on
common garden soil without some cheap
and easy method of irrigation.
All lovers of flowers should remember
that one blossom allowed to mature or go
to seed Injuries the plant more than a
dozen new buds. Cut your flowers, all of
them. before they begin to fade. Adorn
your rooms with them; put them on your
table; send boquets 10 yOdr friends who
have no flowers, or exchange favors with
those who have. You will find the more
you cut of the more you will have. All
roses, after they have ceased 10 bloom.
should be cut back, that the strength Of
the root may go to forming new roots for
next year.
1t is folly to keep old sheep. They
should be turned off TO the butcher while
they are yet in their prime. IL does not
take half as much to fatten them then.
When they get old and thin, in order 10
put them IN condition TO slaughter. the
whole superstructure must be rebuilt.
Four sets Of lambs are all eve should
bear, this will bring her IL FIVE years. and
this is an age when, with little extra care.
she will round up to fine and full car
cass. Exceptions may be made when the
breed is scarce and the blood is more de-
sirable than anything else.
A farmer says: ''Four years ago my
farm was fearfully infested with rats.
They were so numerous that had great
fears Of my whole crop being destroyed by
them after it was housed; but by having
two acres Of wild peppermint that grew in
a field of wheat cut and bound with the
wheat drove the rats from my premises.
have not been troubled with them since.
while my neighbors have any quantity Of
them. ] feel convinced that any person
who is troubled with these pests could
easily get rid Of them by gathering good
supply Of mint and placing it around the
walls or base OF their barns"
Keep sheep dry under foot with clean
litter. Never let them stand or lie in the
mud or snow. II a eve loses her lamb,
milk her daily for few days. and mix a
little alum with her salt Never brighten
sheep if possible TO avoid il. Separate
sick or thin sheep from those that ar,
strong. and give them special care. Ifs
leg is broker, bind il with splinters tight
", lloosening az the limb swells. II
sheep is lame. examine his boofs. II un-
sound, apply tobacco, with blue vitriol
boiled q little water. Shear at once
any sheep commencing 10 shed its vol,
unless the weather Is too severe.
The Western Farm and Lirestock Jour
mol says that the country-needs more wo-
men Of physical and mental vigor. and
with this object in view Michigan sets an
example by appropriating ei2, 600 70 e.
tablisha school where girls may learn
certain branches Of the pursuits OF agri-
culture. In Germany, particularly, atten-
ton is given 10 instructing girls in mat
tiers appertaining 10 the diary. The lead
ing course Of studies proposed at the
Michigan institstion are the making Of
butter. cheese and bread, rearing Of poui.
try and the cultivation Of small fruits and
vegetables. Such studies are practical
and useful TO ambitious and industrious
girls, but should he made apart Of the ed
ucation Of all.
An Australian paper relates the follow
ing striking instance Of brute intelligence
which occurred not long ago near Marine
township IN South Australia: "a very
large bullock injured iss eye, when IN
yoked from the drsy, by cham. the hook
Of which lacerased the eye. After few
days had passed the eye beczfne seriously
inAamed. and If was thought advisable 70
& 4 him into the stock yard and cast him
for the purpose Of dressing the voond.
This vas done BY ropes being sttaehed 70
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