The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-02-26

AND USEFUL INFORMATION.
Notes for Farmers.

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A cross between fine blooded
light Brahmas and partridge Coch-
iDs will produce the largest fowls
known.
Ii you want eggs in winter, never
keep old hens. When = hen is
three years old put her in the soup
pot
Loss of appetite. thirst, diarrhea,
general Weakness and blueness OF
the comb are the principal symp-
toms of chicken cholera.
A stock-keeper reports curing
many bad warts on cattle and horses,
during several years, by application
to each of zone good daub of tar.
IL Holland, where sand Is plenti
full. it is used for bedding COWS.
This keeps the animals always en-
tirely clean, and the milk never
takes the odor of the stable.
A writer in The Garden says that
if potting soil is placed for day
or two in the hen yard every part
of it is dug over, and all grubs and
eggs of insects are picked out.
A pound of pure milk is equal in
food value to pound of rice, or
oatmeal, or fish, while it is worth
four times as much as a pound of
potatoes and little more than ba-
ker's bread.
Fowls may eat too much meat for
health, but milk they may drink ad
hbItum, and those who have it can
not put 1t to more profitable use
than making soft food for their
poultry.
To destroy pin-worms in horses,
give an injection of salt and water
two or three days in succession,
then administer bali consisting OF
half an ounce of aloes and one
draehm of calomel.
Young stock fattens much more
readily than old stock. Pigs, when
they have attained their growth,
fatten at a less cost than when old
er. The same is true Of ali other
animals.
A correspondent at Keene, N. H,
recommends boiled potatoes as a
remedy for diarrhea in cattle. He
says that three pccks a day, fed
warm, cured in two days an OK of
his that was very badly affected in
that way
For scabby legs in poultry, take
equal parts of lard and kerosene oil,
and thicken with sulphur into a
paste. This should be rubbed upon
the legs until the scabby parts
come of, when they should be
smeared with sweet oil.
A good test of the hardness of
any variety of forest trees is found
in the ripenlng of its seeds fruit.
II tree does not perfect its seeds
in a given locality, it is good evi
dence that it is not sufficiently har-
dy to be generally cultivated in
such sections.
Measley pork is parasitic dis
ease. The parasite is germ of the
.apeworm, and measley pork is the
source, to a great extent, of tape
worms in children. If the pork is
veil cooked the germ is destroyed |
md there is no reason for appre
lending anything of an unpleas-
mt nature from its consumption.
The raising of thirty bushels of
wheat to the acre will remove from |
he land fifty-one pounds of nitro
zen, twenty-four pounds of phos-
)horic acid and thirty-nine pounds
IF potash. This could be replaced |
,y sixty pounds of sulphate of
III pounds of superphos-
1hate of line and seventy six
of chloride of potassium.
Fowls will. need the best food if
Eggs are desired. Wheat stepped |
n boiling water, and given hot, and
lot baked potatoes crushed with q
nasher, are as good food as can be
gwen; water slightly warmed with
. slight quantity of sulphate of iron
copperas) in IL will be useful. ALL
'pice mixed with corn meal mUsh
. al CAOtAlOuO COAulDCuI, duO ny
10 means costly. Laudanum in
doses has been found q
emedy for the cholera, or poultry
Intestinal fever, which has destroy
ID so many birds
The bee farm of D. n. Jones, of
ohio, is considered the largest and
most successful in the country. 1t
;onsists of bee yards, each cover
ng an acre OF ground carefully in
closed. The hives are oblong,
made of pine wood, with a capacity
If 3240 inches. the inside measure
,eing 15x1Sx12 Mr.. Jones' bee
ards contain $50, $50, $50 and 20
uch hives respectively, and be
10000 bees a good swarm
or one OF them. At the end of
July be secured $4,000 pounds of
loney from 72O stocks of bees and
Expects a total yield for the year of
$1,000 pounds of honey from his
100000 little workers, in which
ase he would net between $1,000
md $4,000 for the years produce.
This successful apiarist estimates
he years total outlay at $1,000,
early half of which, however, is
interest on capital which has grown
p with the business.
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