The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-14
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Early Brenxfa st for Fowls.

Early Breakfa st for Fowls,
In keeping fowls remember that the
morning meal with them is the most
important one of the day. They are
cold and hungry; and for that reason
need some kind of warm, cooked food.
Fowls will eat almost anything if it is
served UP right. Boiled potatoes. tur-
nips, carrots, anything in the vegetable
line, mixed with cornmeal, oatmeal, or
bran and shorts, seasoned with pepper
and salt, and fed warm, will suit them.
Feed few handfuls of wheat screen
ings at noon, and at night give them a
liberal feed of some kind of whole
grain.
Sowing Rye Among Corn.
One mode of getting green food for
cattle and sheep in early spring is to
SOW rye in corn stubble early enough
to get a good fall growth. What feed
is thus grown is as nutritious as ordi-
nary pasture or roots, and costs moth
ing except for seed and cultivating un-
der. Really the feed costs nothing, for
in sowing the rye many weeds are de-
stroyed, new surface is turned up,
and the weed seeds which sprout perish
in the winter. This alone is ample pay
for labor and seed. There is further
advantage in having the soil covered
during The winter instead of being
naked, as it otherwise would be. Rye
sown now will give considerable feed
for sheep and cattle this fall, and more
yet in the spring before blowing. This
spring feed is especially valuable for
ewes with lambs after the ground has
Sc tiled. AS we are likely to lose our
clover, 1 fear, for term of years, some
thing must be found to partially take
its place. Drilled corn and millet may
be substituted as winter feed, but they
are not available for late fall or early
spring Correspondence of Country Gen
Ienadn.
Food for Calves.
change in their food too wide and sud-
den. Animals but a few days old
can bear but a little change in their food.
They will be easily killed by variation
which an adult would bear with i'm
punity. Calves, like infants, are too
often made sick by change of one
cows milk for that of another. The
food of calves may be modified almost
indefinitely, but it must be varied
gradually. When they get more age
they will bear change better. When
taken from the COW, feed first the moth
er'S milk warm. The difference be.
tween sucking and feeding is change
enough to begin with. In few days 8
little skimmilk may be substituted fol
new milk as q part OF its mess, but il
should be warm as the new milk. BY
degrees the skimmilk may be increased
if it is fed warm, till the new milk en-
tirely drops out, and no securing OF
other i'll effects will follow. In the
same way, whey sweet and warm may
| l>n 1hots tut taI III mil 4
well-cooked meal, or what is better, {
little oilmeal may be gradually worked
in as a substitute for milk and the
change will not be materially felt. L
P. w. q. will bear in mind that th'
essential points in feeding young calves
are warm food and slow changes, h,
will not only stop the mortality in Lii
nerd but he can nave thrifty animal;
growing up on other food than new
milk, by using milk to start with
Sweet whey in moderate quantity il
good in connection with grass. 1t woul(
be found an improvement that woult
more than pay cost and trouble to dis
solve a little oil-meal in it.-NelU Y0rj
Tribune.
HOuseho Hints.
The yolk of an egg binds the crus
much better than the white. Apply tC
the edges with prusn.
Old potatoes may be freshened up by
plunging them into cold water befor
cooking them.
Never wash raisins that are TO be useC
in sweet dishes. 1t will max, the pud
ding heavy. To clean them wipe in
dry towel.
In boiling dumplings of any kind pu
them into the water one at time.
they are put in together they will mi
with each other.
Outlets and steaks may be fried q
well as broiled, but they must be put i
hot butter or lard. The grease is he
enough when it throws off blacks
smoke.
There is a greenness in onions an
, potatoes that renders them hard t
digest. For health's sake put them i
t warm water for an hour before cooking
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