Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-09-03
HOUSE AND FARM.
Some Brief Notes for Farmers.

HOUSE AND FARM.
Some Brief Notes for Farmers.
The N. b. Farmer says lambs ought tc
be castrated before they are three weeks
old, to avoid the danger when more mature.
In fly time coat Of tar should be applied
to the wounded part externally.
The Germantown Telegraph suggests
that Turkeys can be raised as cheaply by
the pound as chickens, and they sell high
er in the market. Both require to be we'll
fed during the winter, but in the summer
the turkeys obtain all the food they want in
their f0raging expeditions.
In extreme hot weather teams should
have pail of water in forenoon and after
noon. It is just as necessary for the COM
fort of horses, as for men.
The road scraper, recently noticed as
having just been introduced into Eastern
Pennsylvania, has, it seems, been long in
use in Iowa. Van Buren, county, of the
latter state has GA.
The farmer who has neat, we'll kept
garden is almost sure to have neat, we'll
kept farm, comfortable and we'll appointed
home, tidy out buildings, and stock in good
condition; and the house, wife who takes
pride in the garden generally has home to
take pride in and to be proud of.
There is no crop raised that yields so
large an amount of food and with SO little
labor as Indian corn.
Do we realize that one-half Of the adult
male population of the country are en-
gagged in farming, and that their votes can
determine the fate Of any political aspirant
or candidate, presented for their favors.
% tnty, state or national.
The father made sturdy and strong by q
youth of poverty, in his ignorance and
fondness proceeds deliberately to ruin his
children. The labor that made him man
is regarded as disgraceful to his children.
The lessons that poverty taught him are
never taught his children, and prodigality
and dissipation follow.
permit them to go to seed A blow with
he hoe, or weed scytne in time, will save
ninety and nine next year. Cut down the
weeds in your wheat stubble. fence, cor
ners, everywhere. Wee ds exhaust plain
weeds under, in fallow land and they may
serve as fertilizer. If young clover or
orchard grass is growing in your field, and
you do not pillow it. behead the weeds be-
fore the seeds ripen, and in time you may
rid your land Of them.
Mr.. Thomas Meehan thinks that the So
luton Of the question Of the absence OF
trees from prairies has been nearly reached.
1t is not climate for timber belts flourish
in all prairie regions. It is not in cOndi-
tions of soil, for the prairie soil is the most
favorable to the ger-uinaton of seeds, as
artif cial paintings prove. The real cause
is probably the annual fires, which kill the
young trees before they are large enough
to endure that heat"
Since 1871 the Virginia peanut crop has
grown from 225, 900 bushels to 1900, 900
bushels. New York was formerly the CEN
ter of tie peanut trade, and half dozen
dealers there controlled the entire southern
crop. Six or eight years ago, however,
several of the heaviest firms transferred
their operations to Nashville. Tenn, and
established their machinery for polishing
and cleaning the nuts before they were sent
north. At first the negro cultivators were
depended upon for the supply Of peanuts,
but the profits were so good that large pea
and Virginia.
All surplus honey, either comb or ex-
tracted, should be removed at the right
time. If combs Of nice box honey remain
on the hive after they are filed they become
yellow by the bees running over them, and
are not Of so ready sale as if removed at
once. By removing them as soon as filled
it gives the colony chance to fill others,
thereby increasing the profits Of colony.
If the apiarian wishes to extract his honey,
he should use the extractor on his combs
just as the bees begin to cap the cells OF
honey near the tops of the combs. If the
honey is too thin, wait few days and use
the uncapping knife. The honey gathered
in rainy weather is usually thinner thun
that gathered in dry weather.