The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-12-01
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rARM AND WORKSHOP NOTES.

Farm AND WORKSHOP NOTES.
There are no public pedigree records
in Great Britain for sheep or pigs.
1t costs $75 in California to prepare
an acre of land and grow grape vines
to the period Of production.
OF over 100000 square miles of tim
Der lands in this country, the South en-
braces AGO, 900, or .1early two-thirds.
In various sections of Iowa, Illinois
and Wisconsin, farmers are buying
cows to make cream for selling to cream
cries. They find it more profitable than
raising grain.
Comfortable housing is all the warmth
required by adult fowls. Artificial heat
is dangerous, as il is difficult to cor
troll. Heated houses are fertile source
of many evils.
Add little glycerine to the grease
applied to harness, and it will be kept
in soft and pliable state in spite of the
ammoniacal exhalations Of the stable,
which tend to make it brittle.
A st. Louis association, composed
principally of grain dealers, has pur-
chased large area of Dakota wheat
lands, and will commence improving
and putting them under cultivation at
once.
The cheese factories of England do
not increase in number, nor is it likely
they will in the face of declining in
dustry. The milk trade is rapidly BE-
coming the leading feature of English
dairying.
Two hundred thousand bushels of
beets, raised in Saratoga and Science
tady counties, N. Y, are being shipped
from Schenectady to Wilmington, Del,
for manufacture into sugar. Twenty
five canal boats will be required for the
purpose.
The lead pencil of the future will SUBJ
stitute paper for wood. The paper is
stepped in an adhesive liquid and rolled
around the core of lead to the required
thickness, and is colored after drying,
when it resembles an ordinary lead PEN
Gil.
A small quantity of ashes given to
pigs while fattening is found very ben
eficial, as their food is generally rich in
phosphoric acid and deficient in lime,
which the ashes supply. In this way
the phosphoric acid is made available
as a food.
A good COW has full eye, small and
short head, dished in the face and sunk
en- between The eyes, a soft and loose
skin, deep from the loin to the udder,
and very small tail, thin udder and
a square bag, with teats a good dis
lance from each other, and one which,
when MIXED, shrinks to small COM
pass.
Whoever places much dependence on
the strainer for securing clean milk will
never make gilt-edge butter. Allowing
dirt TO get into the milk and then de-
pending on the strainer to get it out is
a poor apology for cleanliness. More
or less of the dirt, especially every
thing of soluble nature, and some that
will not, will find its way through the
meshes OF the strainer.
Whenever a sheep is observed going
lame, its feet should be Immediately ex-
amined and cleaned out between the
hoofs. Pare the hoof if at all unsound
or is the shell of the hoof is found turn
ed under the sole pare it down. On
soft pastures the hoof does not wear off |
as fast as ii grows, and, as a conse-
quence, the crust frequently turns I'M
der the foot and produces lameness.
When mud is permitted to dry upon |
a newly vanished carriage or wagon
every spot leaves a mark. To avoid |
this the new yarnish should be washed |
with clean water and a sponge, and |
dried with Q soft cloth and rubbed with |
chamois leather. After this mud is not |
- apt 10 spot the varnish. But it is |
bcst always to wash off the mud before |
Il is drv. Water should never be al
lowed TO dry upon varnish; it should
always be dried of with soft cloth,
sponge and leather.