Smyrna times., 1879-11-05
agricultural.
Facts for the Farmer,

Facts for the Farmer.
wheat bran is good for growing pigs;
1t makes bone and muscle.
Turnips are healthful forhorses. They
should be cut in slices or what is better
pulped fine " and mixed with little meal
and some salt. Rutabagas are better
than white trlrnips.
A farmer living near Sykesville, Md.
raised brood of five young crows this
year, and two of them are perfectly white.
Ihey differ in no other way from their
black companions.
If strawberry beds are to be protected
this Winter the material used should not
cover the soil with seeds. Probably
straw, or even the leaves or small stalks
OF corn, are as good as anything that can
be used.
In nearly all cases small boned animals
are good feeders, will mature early and
possess fine flesh On the other hand.
coarse bones and large joints indicate late
maturity, poor feeding quality and coarse
flesh, with large proportion Of ollall.
A cellar that is cool, dry and dark. and
yet well ventilated, is the best place for
preserving potatoes in large quantities.
When smaller quantities are to be Drc4cr
we'd, there is nothing like dry sand. The
same may be said Of fruits and roots of
all sorts.
Cold and wet do much harm to Young
stock and stop the growth, which is
rarely commenced again until the warm
weather of the next season. a rough
shed In the pasture will furnish useful
protection, anda small supply Of rich food
is OF value in keeping up the thrift.
In blowing it is never good plan to
turn up mass of crude earth of several
inches in depth, never before exposed to
the sunlight and air. 1t will, unless heavy
manurlng is given as a top dressing, re-
suit in loss. In deepening a soil itisbettey
to plow up an additional inch each wear.
The Culti,utor and CoautiY Gcatswa1
says that when horse is affected with
worms i'll the rectum there should be in
Jected in the rectum, once daily for a
week, mixture Of one pint of lnsced
oil and two drachms of oil OF turpentinc.
| Feed at the same time bran masbps and
| oil meal
The season is too far advanced for turn
ing horses out at night. A cold rain
coming on suddenly may do much harm
If horses are caught in the rain and
thoroughly drenched, it will be well to
rub them dry, and then blanket them as
soon as they reach home. But the blan-
kets should never be put on until the
horses are thoroughly dry.
Fields will need to be relieved of excess
OF surface water, but water burrows should
be so arranged that as much of the rain
fall as possible may be detained on the
land. Ii water channels are made down
slope soluble fertilizers and manure will
be washed away. Make burrows diago-
nally across the slope, with very little fall,
and make them broad and shallow, in
stead of deep and narrow.
Mr.. J. W. Sanborn, of the New Hamp-
shire College of agriculture, has found
as the result Of his experiments on feed
ing pigs with meal and middlings, that
100 pounds Of middlings gave 20 ?
pounds of increase in weight costing 3.42
cents pound 100 pounds of meal gave
in the same period 24.S pounds, costing
4.O2 cents pound, and that 100 pounds
OF mixture Of the two gave PSF pounds
In growth, costing 3.88 cents a pound.
The Western Rural recommends the !
growing of cranberries in the garden. A
pound Of bone dust to the square yard is
the manure. In April, May or June, or
IN October and November, set the plants |
four inches apart in rows, six inches
asunder, in beds four feet wide. Two
square rods will yield four or five bushels
and require 1000 plants. The vines will
soon cover the ground and require no re-
newal, as the plant is perennial shrub"
Corn loses One-ffth by drying and
wheat one-fourteenth. From this the
estimate is made that it is more profitable
for farmers to sell unshelled corn in the
Fall at IS cents a bushel than at 81 a
bushel in the following Summer, and that
wheat at S1.25 in December is equal to
$l.50 in the succeeding June. In the
case OF potatoes-taking those that rot
and are otherwise lost-together with
the shrinkage, there IS but little doubt
that between October and June the loss
to the owner who holds them is not less
than thirty-three per cent.
Coarse fodder, hard and unnutritious, is
the cause of much disease at this season.
Ii there is no pasture available but the
woods or swamp, the animals condemned |
to such hard fare should get moderate
allowance of artificial food A cheap.
nutritious and healthful food NAV be |
made by mixing one hundred pounds of |
cottonseed meal and two hundred pounds
OF wheat bran, ground with one hundred
pounds of oats; add two pounds of EPSON
salts, and mix thoroughly. Two pounds n
day of this mixture will be found of re-
markable benefit when fed under the above
circumstances.