Richland beacon., 1881-01-04
FARM NOTES.

deep till few inches Of the top soil are
poisoned with dung, and turned INTO
moving mass of slugS and grabs, while
the subsoil is as hard as adamant.
WATER FOR Cows.--Bc careful about
letting your cattle drink from bitches, or
from pools in which they are accustomed
t. stand, or in which their droppings are
deposited. 1t is not only liable to injurc
the health of the stock. but it is also a
fruitful cause of malarial and typhoid
fcvcrs among those who use the milk
from COWS thus watcred.
A HORSE Foor Those who will take
pains 10 examine a horses foot Will find
it series Of clliptical springs separated
from each other by spOnpv substance.
and the frog cushion to rest the foot
upon, the whole being admirably con
structed for heavy body to resist j.,rs.
and from which the natural inference
may he drawn that cutting and PAIRING
the hoof and frog is not only useless int
injurious.
STIRRING THE SoU..-It is more than
two hundred years ago since there lived
,Jethro Tull, the famous agricuituriet,
who was such an enthusiast for string
the soil that he formed the opinion that
crops could be produced without the all
of manure 1t is matter of consider
able importance, remarks the G0rdo9S'
Nronjctc, that the atmosphere shUnld
enrich and sweeten the soil, and uni, s.
its surface is in fit condition To- allow
the air to permcate it. its valuable prop
critics are lost. Travellers inform us that
the Greeks in their vineyards throw up
tire earth between the vines i'll ridges.
the object being to enrich and swect~n
the soil by exposure, adding and mixing
manure with the ridge of earth before
returning it to tire roots, which it would
appear they are in the habit Of pruning
annually.
To FATrES FOwIs.-The best fool
for fattening poultry is oatmeal mixed
with scalding milk As n change iii their
diet is necessary boiled barley may oc-
casionally he substituted Give fresh
feed three times a day, as much. but no
more, than can be eaten ut each meal.
Chopped up mutton suet or any fat trim
mings of meat from the kitchen mixed
with the scalled meal will produce an
extra degree of fairness. Give green food.
such as chopped cabbage. turnips or
onions. Keep them suppliedwith gravel
and fresh water. Milk, either sweet,
sour or thick, is also most excellent
Fowls fed in this way must not be kept
longer than two weeks, as if forced for a
greater length of time they are apt to
become diseased. Leave them without
food or water fourteen hours before kill
ing.
THE CROss-CUT SAw-Ten years ex-
perience in the use of cross-cut saws has
proved to me that l have been working
under many disadvantages until recently.
Ny wish is for all to know the great
advantage of q plan which l pursue.
Take new saw that has never been set.
place it between two boards cut to fit the
saw, clamp it tight on bench or vice;
take an iron wedge, file one corner t.
suit the set Of the tooth when finished.
then take small hammer, hold the
wedge with the left hand, strike the
tooth lightly with the hammer until ut
the right place; then turn the wedge on
the opposite side, and on the next tooth,
and set it in the same way: now then Won
reach the third and most important tooth
in the saw-leave it perfectly straight;
ItSS vi W bio IOilftil topiii, Sft IL uN N'u
did the first; turn the wedge, set fifth
the other way: leave the sixth tooth
straight; and SO on until you finish.
Now take. your file. dress the two teeth
as you do the common saw: the third file
perfectly straight and sqllare-leaving it
about One-twentieth part of one inch
shorter than the Others. Continue in
that way until yOu finish. and you will
find it will cut twice as fast as the old
way practiced by most farmers. South
ern CuhiratOr.
AsoUr CLOvER.-W J. Fowler, writ
ing to an exchange. says: "The fertility
OF good land may be maintained by the
use of clover alone, rs shown by the ex-
per1ence Of hundreds of Western New
York farmers. know pieces Of land
that have never had manure. Alternate
wheat and clover has been the rotation
ever since the original timber was cut off.
The clover each alternate year has been
plowed under, and nothing but gyp-
sum, at the rate Of 100 pounds per acre
per year, has ever been applied. This
land is still in good condition, not quite
equal to the field near the barnyard. and
which have had less clover but more
manure, but tolerably sure for twenty
to twenty-five bushels of wheat per acre.
The lack in such land is more apt to he
phosphate of lime, and dressing of Sill
per-phosphate applied with the wheat at
seeding will cheaply and surely remedy
this. BY combining winter stock feeding
with occasional blowing under Of green
clover for manure do not doubt that
the fertility of large farms may as surely
be kept up rs if the farms were smaller.
In any event where clover is grown there
must always be the roots in the soil to
decay and this will prevent very rapid
deterioration Of fertility. So much al
ways depends on keeping the soil fertile
that commercial manures which on trial
prove profitable should always be used"
KEEP accounts and know precisely
what is done, and is doing, and how the
business of the farm is paying, in what
particular it is paying, and where it is
losing. Farming does pay. 1t is the
most profitable business in the world
The loose and careless manner in which
1t Is generally carried on would utterly
wreck any less profitable business. There