The Sentinel., 1881-12-31
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Notes,

Farm and Garden Notes.
management is the cheapest and most
practlcai manure on the farm,
While the English farmers use large
quantities of bone dust upon pastures,
they prefer superphosphates for titled
crops.
Mulching grapevines with corn
STALKS, straw or grapes will help them
to withstand drought. If necessary
they should be watered.
It has been found by careful and in.
telligent experiment. that pigs in pro-
portion to their weight consume far
more food than either cattle or sheep.
Too much attention cannot be paid to
the cleanliness and ventilation of stables
and pens. To insure the health and
comfort of animals they must be kent
Z dry and warm and have plenty of liobt
as well as pure air and pure water.
All the elements of growth and de-
velopment of tree and fruit should he
combined in dressing for orchards.
Well rotted barnyard manure will sun.
ply organic matter, ashes will give the
potash and ground or dissolved bones
will furnish the phosphates.
A good cow has full eve. a small
and short head, dished in the face and
sunken between the eyes, soft and
loose skin, deep from the loin to the
udder, and very small tail, thin
udder and square bag, with teats a
good distance from each other, and one
which, when MIXED, shrinks to small
compass.
Onions should not succeed potatoes
or turnips. They do well after carrots.
Being potash plant it should not fol-
low plants which require potash. It
is gross feeder, and ten cords of
manure per acre will not be too much.
Well rolled horse manure and potash
salts are used by the most successful
onion raisers.
A celebrated French agriculturist,
who for many years held first rank in
tue art Of fattening sheep, when urged
TO dlvulge his secret replied: '' Ny
secret? l have none; it is only ques-
ton OF fare. Induce the animals to eat
abundantly by large, choice variety
ana good preparation of food; that is
all there is to it,"
In Denmark, in the management of
the dairy, rape cake, oats and wheat
bran are reckoned as first class butter
foods, palm-nut cake, peas and rye are
placed IN third class. By the employ
ment OF first and second-class foods,
with cut straw, hay and roots, an abun-
dance OF excellent butter is produced
throughout the winter.
Test your fences and find the weak
spots before the cattle find them. It is
bad plan to allow stock to range a
farm through broken fences in the fall
simply because there is nothing for
them to destroy. They will remember
and seek out the same places in the
spring, and unless the fences are strong
enough to resist them will free their
way through.
While working with the bees, avoid
all sudden jars, quick, active motions,
and never fight them. Careful hand.
ling will cure all cross bees, while with
careless, rough handling the most quiet
will become cross. 1t is part of the ma
ture of the bees to gorge themselves
with honey when alarmed, and when in
this condition they rarely, if ever, sting
unless pinched.
The Dublin Fdrnae, claims that full
feed of hay to horses, to follow concen-
trated food, is wasteful, and crowds the
latter out of the stomach before diges-
tion occurs. This authority claims that
the hay should be fed first to avoid the
above mentioned trouble. A hearty
drink OF water upon full stonsa ach also
operates to push its contents into the
intestines before there is proper diges-
tion.
Farmers are often at loss how to
clean an old pork barrel, making it
fresh and sweet. We have seen the
following plan recommended. It is
simply to fill the tainted cask or barrel
with fresh earth; let stand couple
of days when this should be emptied
out and more earth put in. After two
or three days empty this out, and to
make assurance doubly sure, invert the
barrel and burn under it some bits of
cloth saturated with solutions of sui
phur birthstone.
Do not feed for at least twelve hours
before killing poultry. A fowl killed
while digestion is going on will not
keep week. The spotted appearance
of the skin of dressed poultry is caused
by the feathers having been plucked
while the blood was still fluid. 1t is
better not to pick the birds while
warm. A full crop and carelessness
in dressing will greatly lower the mar
ket value of fowls. Pack when entirely
cold but not frozen. Lay them with
the backs upward and the legs out
straight.
Recipes.
A Coop MAYoNNAIsE Dressing. Put
the yolks of two eggs in a deep dish
with little salt and white pepper into
these stir briskly some olive oil, which
must be added very gradually and alter
mated every little while with few
spoonfuls of vinegar. This dressing
should have an agreeable flavor, and
rather stiff consistency. Salad oil should
oe Kept we'll corked in dry cool place,
ana always in the dark.