The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-06-11
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Flavor in Poultry.
| A writer in the Country Gentleman
discusses the subject of flavor in fowls
flesh. Among other remarks he SAYS:
That breed has something to do with it
may not be denied, but that food has
more can safely be credited. Food not
only affects the flavor, but the quality
and quantity also. Fowls that are fat
tened on corn alone produce not only
sweet favored flesh and plenty of it, but
the fat is apt to be oily, and possess a
strong, unpleasant odor. This is in
great measure governed by the breed.
| The small fowls will take an enormous
weight of fat in comparison with the
size. That small fowls are superior
where quality is desired is a decided
fact; but where quantity is the desider-
alum, irrespective of other qualities,
the larger fowls may be cultivated, es-
pecially the Asiatics.
Buckwheat makes fine, white flesh,
but nothing favors it like ground corn
and oats intermixed equally, and scald-
ed or mixed with either milk or water,
but not enough for the milk to run.
This should be given fresh each day,
and not allowed to sour or ferment.
Fowls require good, sweet food. Musty
meal or moldy grain are always insult
able. For table use, where fine flavor
is desired, fowls should be confined in
clean quarters, and be fed on wholesome
food for at least one week before
slaughter. Where fowls are confined in
| oil 81, IL,
be used to neutralize the droppings,
otherwise the flesh will become tainted
from the disagreeable odor arising
therefrom. For this purpose there is
| nothing better than air.slack lime or
unleached wood ashes, where there is
sufficient ventilation.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Lime applied to the compost heap
will ef1ectually destroy the seeds of
weeds.
No man will ever get tirst-rate, even,
or profitable flock of sheep, who does
not make practice of yearly culling.
We found last year that the Beauty of
Hebron was'subiect to scab more than
the Snowflake or Early Rose, both of
which were planted under the same
conditions. Burbank's Seeding is said
to be especially free from this disease.
All soils are improved by mixing,
The physical properties of the soil have
an important influence upon it's average
fertility. The admixture of pure sand
with clay soil produces an alteration
which is often beneficial, and which is
almost wholly mechanical. The sand
opens the pores of the clay and makes
it more permeable to the air.
There is no one special fertilizer that
will meet all the needs Of grass. A good
mixed compost is the best. Such one
could be made of swamp muck, rotten
leaves or manure, or even earth for the
basis, and gypsum, salt, bone -four, OF
super phosphate of lime and fish guano
or nitrate of soda. Ten loads of the
coarse material and 100 pounds each OF
the others would make an effective top
dressing for an acre; or the artifcials
might be mixed with one load, and this
applied to an acre, if the coarse stuff is
scarce.
The cheapest meat for the farmer is
mutton. 1t may safely be said to cost
nothing, as the fleece from sheep of a
good breed will pay for it's keeping
Then, for additional profit there is 6
lamb or two, the pelt of the animal il
killed at home, the excellent manure
from its droppings, and the radiance Of
the pasture from Weeds, to which sheer
are destructive foes. With the exception
of poultry, mutton is also the most con
yenient meat for the farmer. A sheer
is easily killed and dressed by single
hand in an hour, and in the warmesr
weather it can be readily disposed o.
before it spoils. Science and experience
both declare it the healthiest kind O.
meat.
An exchange says: We had cal
which refused to take milk or water
In pailful of water we put a handful
of bran and bit of sugar. The cal
drank the "cocktail'' and licked the
pail. 1t grew very fast.
Facts and experiments go to prove
that COW high in flesh will yield more
butter in proportion to the yield o
milk than one in low flesh.
Corn requires fertility and cultiya
ton, without which, it matters not how
good your seed, you will never have {
good crop, however propitious the sea
son may be.
Boiled cabbage and potato skins are
highly relished by laying hens. Onions
are regular delicacy for all kinds o
poultry.
Vines are said to extract from the
soil only about three-fourths the guam
tity of potash and phosphoric acid which
the cereals take up.
Potash is an excellent fertilizer for thu
: grape vine. Fork in around the roots
few pecks of wood ashes. Cow dung
contains large portion OF potash an'
, but comparatively small amount o
/ nitrogen, consequently it is bette
fertilizer than horse manure for tn
5 grape vine.
A New York farmer writes that h