The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-02-10

In winter kali poultry three days to
Q week before cooking.
The best potatoes grown under fav-
cradle circumstances contain ~ per
cent OF starch; poor ones, about 10
per cent.
An establishment near Paris works
thirty incubstors. and up to Septem-
Der Of this year has ''turned out"
~, 900 chicks.
Ata recent potato show in Eng
land. where nearly l.400 plates were
show, . large number were OF Ameri-
can varieties.
Great quantities of tobacoo are
raised in Russia, the seed from which
it u grown being obtained chiefly
from this country.
1t is said that one bushel OF beets
added to nine bushels If apples makes
cider, richer and of superior favor to
that made of apples alone.
English authorizes state that out Of
everv Eve leaves Of bread eaten in
England in 1880. three must come
from the United States and Russia.
| II only six substantial farmers in
q town agreed they can Organize and
sustain . club which will put new
life into the agricultural and social
culture of that town.
A German farmer says that he
values tobacco stems for manure
"about the same per cord As stable
dung: straw soaked in urine and
dried would be much the same.
Hemp is recommended to be cult
waited in vineyards. orchards, etc.
for the banishment or destruction OF
noxiors insects. 1t is said noxiOus in.
sects are not found in hemp fields.
\ Ooe-half ounce of salt to the pound
of butter is the rule for sailing adopt.
led by the makers Of the celebrated
'.trade-mark" lump butter. which
. sells for q fancy price IN Boston.
! Wheat will shrink two quarts "a
the bushel in six months. fact that
!, has bearing upon which is the best
time to market. Forty cents a bqshel
for new corn is equal to so cents the
, following March.
It is essential that leather should
have light. 10 the care of harnes.
do not inclose in q dark cloeet OF
} room. OF course harness should bt
, oiled three or four times q year, frs
washing With snap and water.
. Farm stock must always be regard
!. ed % the hest capital a farmer car
have, for it furnishes the manure By
which rich harvests are secured ant
I through these good husban.lrv create
the capital which is needed On tn
farm.
The Onondaga Milk Association, O
New York. concludes that ''corn an
q oats. ground and mixed in equal quan
. titles. make the most valuable meal
2 and . given quantity Of such meal ]
!. worth more than any other"
II Particular care should be used i
4 cleaning milk pans and cans. Man
cases are on record of diseases in FAM
lies from useing milk infected Wit
noxious germs from foul milk cans
" Milkmen upon sgain receiving III
+ lcaus should cleanse them with boi
= ing hot water.
II The Jersey COW. Flora. which n
y Gently died at Coopereburg. Pa.
J. produced 345 pounds of butter bt
, tween two calvines, and another tim
!, between two calvines she gave SLY
" pounds of milk. Her weight was 60
pounds.
~ A COW that has accidentally cate
!. 6ll of meal should he kept in III
}" stanle, and not allowed to drink. A
p soon 10 discovered che should he give
10 . pound or two Of E psom salts. n
10 peating the dose till . movement I
|. the bowels is obtained.
r. There Was imported into the Unite
,e States in the nine months en'
. ing September. l, 1879. the enormol
" amount of 1851 .949 .3l9 pounds (
brown sugar /; $4,000. ono gallons (
molasses, and IS. OOO. 900 pounds (
e meIado and syrup. These were a
Or praised At S66, Ill., 2l.
- Our English exchanges still contai
A. great complaints about the bad crol
ut of 1879. Great depression and distre
y. exist 10 al parts Of the country.
great many farmera are forced to II
q wall ard leaving the country. W
to NAV look for . large emigration frol
II England this year.
u As q matter of experience, it
Q found that the mixture of cut stra
ID and root pulp. alternate layers of eacl
should stand for ut least twenty. 70,
hours before being fed. after which
becomes heated Of itself. and the ca
x tie eat it with great relish. There
!! ie nothing better for young and GROWN
X. stock.
The farmer cultivatee his farm
C. summer. and it yields a bountif,
n crop of grain. In winter he shout
ID improve HE leisure time in cultiva
u ing his mind. 90 that it may WELD
u bountifu: crop ct thoughts. Meth,
, the farm nor mind will he productive
)" without cultivation. Rank weeds wi
re grow up and smother all that
ut valuable.
. Prof Beal objects to the practice (
scrapine the trunks Of apple tree
and thinks that. ~ the rough bar
Ne protects them from the intense col
,vlM winter II IN vOrne than fin