The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-02-19
FAlsM NOTES.

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-Solt soldiers do not make malleable
joints
Dark stables are injurious to the eyes Of
horses
Fine Canada balsam will make tran.
saarent cement for GLASS.
The, bulbs Of the tuberoae never bloom
but once. They require n sandy soil.
Corn is bring burned MS fuel in the loo.
motives'used on the St. Paul and Chicago
road
Tho pnitv powder Of commerce Of good
fair quality, $ made of about equal parts Of
tin and bead.
M II Mosschcr', Of Dnuglassville, ,Berks.
county. Pa. has cow that he .claims has
produced 2Sl pounds Of butter week. She
is Jersey.
The horn trade is immense. All vessels
arriving from foreign cattle ports always
bring horns, sometimes 10000 or q, 900 in
single cargo.
FLAX Is q crop WHICH would follow a clean
cultivated crop Of sugar heets or mnnrles. II
can only he grown To advantage on well fer
tilznd lands.
Thyme will grow anywhere, but il pre.
frrs dry poor soil; If the ground is rich the
p'ant will hecome'too luxuriunt, and lose its
aromatic qualities.
The last Delaware peach crop according
to statistics just published, amounted to
i,lol.OoO baskets, off which only $4,000
baskets were consumed at home.
The most available form in which meat
can he supplied in considerable quantities Ia
fowls is perhaps the scraps from pork pack
ers. These come in large cakes.
The sweepings or the barn floor when
clover is fed to the cattle are excellent for
poultry in winter; the tops and leaves make
an excellent substitute for grass
"A garden should not be shaded by large
trees, for there are few vegetables OF flowers
which flourish under shade and drip, and
the strong roots oftrees usurp all the soil.
-Liebig remarks that it has taken thou.
sands of years to convert stones and rocks
into arabic land, and thousands more will
be required for the complete exhaustion Of
their alkalies.
Too much hay and too little grain is q
common mistake in feeding working horse.
Twelve quarts of good heavy oats and twelve
pounds of hay is good daily ration for a
working horse.
A few sheep could be kept upon every
dairy farm with profit, and would be bene-
fit to the pastures, e ting that which the
COWS rejected, and when in winter quarter.
they would eat much the cows refused, and
SO would be Of very small extra cost.
The New York Horse Exchange Com.
psny's first lot of horses sent for sale in Lon.
don arrived in good order, with loss ofiivt
out Of thhty-six, which died on board from
injuries received during severe gale at sea
Regular shipments will be made OF GOOD
horses and a remunerative demand fol
American horses seems certain in the future
The proper stage at which to cut flower
for decoration istho most important part o
the subject Of flower supply next to the pro
duction, Never cut any flowers until fully
developed, Flowers which open when cut
as the gadiolus, may be exceptions to thi
rule, but irusses Of pelargoniums aud bou
vardius should not be cut until fairly deyel
oped.
Eggs should be sold by weight. A gen
tleman in this vicinity recently purchase,
three dozen at three different stores; on
dozen weighed one pound ten aud q quartz
ounces, another ono pound seven aud hal
ounces, and another one pound three and
quarter ouneos, a difference Of seven ounce
between the heaviest and lightest dOzcn.-
american Ctltirator.
The Louisiana Land Redemption Com
rany has drained $4,000 fits 200 900 acre
an 4 will plant them with rice this year. Th
company makes the rosy cstimstc that
will have an income Of $50 900 900 when
gets Us whole tract reclaimed. The land
black loan, from two to six feet deem an
it is estimated that il will yield four hog
heads Of sugar or forty barrels Of rice to III
acre.
Where the large breeds Of fowls are kep
such as the Buhmas aud Cochins, muc
A'"Hole 10 H'H"VhNe eN PRIV AehVSd ~ proven
ing curyalure or depression Of the brea.
bone from roasting on high and uneven
rnu9h raosting poles. II is needless to 81
that the ioosls should not he high for III
heavy birds, especially whlr they arc grow
ing, for many nlthe brikcn wings or legs ai
due to their attempting To Chamber ana flu
terup To roosts which are too high even f.
the light bndiei breeds. In breeding lare
numbers of The large bodied Asislics Yer
good results have been secured by4breeding
them down with Did hay or straw. Wit
some breeders this Is, or viii be, n ne
"wrink.e," aud will at first seem to be er
urcly unsuiel Ia poultry, but a trial wi
convince almost any one Of the adyantag,
81 sucL system.