Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-11-17

House and Farm.

Seed Corn Save the middle grams
of the finest ears Of corn for seed.
Hogs. Hogs should be allowed to
have a heap Of coal ashes. They will
be all the healthier for it.
Building a Silo.-In building 81
10 the main point is to make it tight
A perfect exclusion Of air is necessary
Any failure in this respect will be in
furious to the contents Of the silo.
Pear Blight.-pear blight has in
several instances been arrested in al
iected trees by Swinging them with a
weak solution of potash, and it has
proved preventative when applied
TO the healthy trees.
Wheat.-Wheat is now sown in
months Of the year in Englsnd-trom
August to April October and No
vember are the principal months for
this work. The advocates of thin
seeding prefer early sowing, while 1t
is advantageous to SOW thicker as the
season advances.
A Mr.. Watts Of South Carolina has
a female Augora goat that has given
four quarts of milk daily, the season
through, of as rich quality as that O.
any Jersey COW on bis farm, of which
he has several. An Augora goat will
thrive where a COW will starve, and
six goats will, subsist luxuriouslv
where one COW will only find sufficient
good grazing.
Corn for Hogs.-Unripe corn isun-
profitable feed. There is a great
waste in feeding. Too much oft adj
heres to the cob. New, ripe corn;
dry enough to be easiy shelled by
hogs, is profitable feed during the fall
snl winter; but after it has peen WIN
tered over and laid in the ,ln some
lme it generally becomes so hard and
Unity that hogs DO not relish it. 1t
seems to make their teeth sore. They
DO not properly masticate and digest
l., az their droppings show. A Wis
.onsin farmer says: II she'll and
soak in water old corn before feeding.
Prepared thus, hogs and even little
pgs, are very fond Of it, and It ap-
gears to me that bushel OF old corn
Will put more flesh on hogs than the
same amount OF new. One wants a
good corn shelter at hand, which the
ssying in feed will soon pay for.
polled Cat,]e.-A writer in an ex-
change says: mo farmer who has
owned a Lead of improved poll csttl>'
wlllever again have cattle with horns
A dozen OF the polled cattle will
drink at the same time from trough
which would accommodate but one
animal having horns. The Same
lumber will crowd together under p
ahed Tor shelter IN the whole space
which one horned animal would con-
.der necessary for it's comfort, driv.
ING it's fellows out. With these poll
ed cattle the farmer and the shipper
Of stock need have no fear Of damage
resulting from the gorlng OF horns.
There is now a demand from all parts
Of the country for young bulls Of this
creed, the progeny from a cross Of
these on horned COWS being for the
most part hornless. The bulls are
2otably quiet
In manuring land with any special
:artiljzer, like that Of gnano, it has
5ean found that though they may be
especially valuable in the production
Of few successive crops, they are
seen to decrease under such system
N a short time. A variety and rota-
.lcn Of manures is essential to success.
Manures, like crops, must be alterna
2ed. In some cases the soil needs q
manure Astounding in potash, in an
other case, phosphoric ones; and yet
in others, those that abound in humus
or Vegetable mould. The question OF
The fitness of special manures for the
production of special crops and the
3roper rotation Of all kinds in order
70 insure an increase Of crops, as well
az increase in the permanent fertility
y! the soil, is an important one.
Keeping Sweet Potatoes There is
better way, ordinarily, than to pack
chem in dry sand, III boxes and keep