Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-11-18

| very HRut. hnehu u anu leJ III T1he
again. When well risen cut the rolls
half an inch thick, shape round, spread
on each round little melted butter.
and double over so that the roll is n
halfcircle; then let it rise very light,
and bake. Place the rolls in contact in
the baking-pan, 80 that they may keep
in shape.
Prontin sheep and Wool.
Twelve years ago. ."saysa breeder in
Missouri, " / started out with 600 full
5000, and have sold several thousand
during that time. have made money
every year since | started, raising n
large increase, and sbenring heavy
feoces each year. The entire flock
sheared last May over eight pounds per
head of class OF wool that brings the
highest price in market" This gentle
man throws out some hints Of value TO
all sheep growers. " The most critical
time in a shepherds experience" he
says, " is in getting his flock ready for
wnterng. | find ii pays TO give the
lambs, yearlngs and breeding ewes
some corn after about the Goth of Octo =
ber-one-half an ear per head on the
start, and gradually increasing the
amount rs the grass grows poorer. l
usually feed in focks of 300 or 300,
being careful that each flock is graded
as TO strength and condition. The key
stone of success in the matter is to keep
your flock young, fed well and bred
with good Judgment. Ifit does not pay
to keep them well, it does not pay 70
keep them at all. | expect every sheep
on my place TO eat two and half
bushels of corn between fall and spring,
as well as what hay they can consume.
Uses for salt.
A writer in the Rural Nor YORKER
says that the salt question is always on
the carpet, and while it is very certain
that salt is not n manure it is equally
certain that its application is decided
benefit. The retardation and often com
pete ruin of crops by insect depredations
is well known, but il is not at all appre-
ciated TO it's full extent. Salt can act IN
but three ways benehcially. 1t attracts
moisture, and hence is useful in dry
seasons; it drives away insects, and
therefore is useful in all seasons; and
: when thoroughly dissolved by heavy
/ rains, it acts by assisting inert or insolu-
bic material TO become fit for plant
food.
The first mode is slight gain, no
, enough though TO pay for the salt; tho
second is very valuable, paying for tho
salt and trouble OF application from ten
TO one hundred times over, according to
the prevalence and destructiveness o
the insects; the third mode is Of but
r little value because insolubles are gen.
orally proof against its feeble action. Il
E we sum up the gain from the three
modes of action, We perceive such 8
. very decided gain that one fair trial Is
r sufficient to convince the most skeptical
Q The only danger is in an excess, but a'
G five bushels per acre will do no harm
the danger is not likely ever to be alarm
= ing, as few farmers can afford TO waste
salt anywhere.
Something a Farmer should Know.
As a general thing the farmer is liable
y for ali the public injury his hired mar
may cause while actually employed By
him. If he sends him into a lot TO burr
i, old brush and he, for any purpose what
ever, leaves it and runs into bic neigh
bor's lot, destroying his fence and injur
a ing his crops, the farmer is liable fol
v the damages caused by the wanton neg
. lect OF his man. II he sends a hireC
man on the road with team and he by
= negligence runs into another vehicl,
and Injuries 1t, or the persons who may
: be in it, the farmer is liable for th'
damages; but should the hired maj
leave the road he was directed to 60 anC
J, navel another road for his own pleasure
c and profit, then the farmer is not liabl,
: for the damages, should any occur. |
: a hired man. in going TO or from the lo
D with n scythe. and by the careless hand
0 ling or carrying he Injuries a passer-by
n the farmer Is liable for the damages
If in cutting wood the hired man cut
down tree in another lot. the owner il
liable for trespass and damages, nj
: though he distinctly showed him th'
7 boundary, and though the man mal
r have cut the tree " ith malicious intent
= Should the hired man, from malicious
J, ness. run into team. even II IL blocl
i; his way. yet the farmer must pay tht
i damage, though done contrary TO hi
positive orders. In all these cases th,
o farmer can compel the hired man Il
# pay him back. II he has anything to pa.
o with; but this is rarely the case unle
n the farmer keeps back his wages anC
Il only settles when his time expires
d Aneritan CaltiUGtor.
n A Letter from the "Dead."
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