The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-09-03
FARMERS COLUMN
FARM NOTES.

"A little cayenne pepper occasionally
dropped into fresh water is good tonic
for young or old fowls.
The agricultural commission of the
Ontario government reports four hun
dred and seventy cheese factories in the
thirty-six counties of the province.
-Four years ago, thirty-two acres of
rugged hilltop. few miles lack of Oak
land, Cal being unfit for cultivation,
was planted TO that quick growing, semi
tropical tree, the Eucalyptus Rlobulus,
$50 to the acre, and it is said that this
tract with its valuable crop would now
command $4,000.
--Grape-vines one year old, set in the
spring, should grow ouly one shoot let
it be the strongest and best one put forth.
Old vines recently set should not be al
lowed to bear this year. The young
growing shoots of old vines should be
tied up before they fall over or are
broken by the winds.
-Creameries and cheese factories are
rapidly on the increase in Bucks county,
Pa. One year ago there we're but sixteen
in the county, now there are thirty-four
All but four are incorporated and man
aged on the joint stock principle, the
formers supplying the milk being the
stockholders. They produce about 10, Coo
pounds of butter and $4,000 pounds of
cheese daily.
When fattening an animal 70: beef
let the process be as quick rs possible
Any stint in feeding will make the meat
tough and dry. Stall-fed animals will
fatten more readily than others, aud
young animals require richer food than
older ones. In the winter fattening de-
pends much upon the warmth of the
stable. The warmer the cattle are kept.
of course the less food they reqnire.
Manure should be forked over occa-
sionally to make il ins, II it is heating,
muck or loan sho;:ld be mixed with it to
absorb the ammonia which Is formed
during the process of decomposition.
Sprinkling The heap with ground plaster
is also advisable. The plaster will alb.
sorb any ammonia which escapes from
the Pile and save it for the use of grow
ing plants. Ammonia is too valuable an
ell nent of plant food to allow it to he
wasted.
"A correspondent to the Portland Ore
gonian sent TO the Office recently speci-
mems Of four, FIVE, six and seven-leafed
clover, which nre quite botanical curl
osity. They were all plucked from &
small sod not foot square. One bunch
contained sixteen stalks, each with onr
leaves of cl yer (; a secopd, eight stalks,
with five leaves third, eight stalks,
with six leaves, aud fourth, six, with
seven lelvos,
The large eating capacity of a good
dairy COW rs proverbial, which will lie
easily understood il Wa make cursory
examination of her production. Suppose
COW weighing SEQ lbs. yields 5000 lts.
Ct milk in nine months. This milk would
contain $50 lbs. of dry matter, counting
it 81 per cent. water. Here she yields
60 times her own weight in milk, and
the dry substance in the milk is twice
that in her own body. The COW is the
most remarkable food producer amorP
animals. She produces twice as much
food in her milk as does the beef animal
of the same weight in its gain in flesh
during the same period.
Referring to the scales which foIm
the cortex of wool, and constitute its
most important distinction, determining
its feiting power, a recent writer gives
the following table of the average num-
ber of scales to the linear inch in differ
ent wools East India wool, 1000 scales
to linear inch China wool, 1900 ; do
mestic wool, 1400 Leicester wool, 400;
Southdown wool, 1900 merino wool,
1000, and Saxony wool, 2200.
If thoroughly hardy rose, with
good roots, be planted in the fall, aud
can be insured against being drawn out
by frost through the winter, it will
bloom great deal better for being fall
planted All florists put in their pot
roses in the fall for spring blooming.
But if the frost is likely to tell severely
on the plants it will be best to leave the
planting until spring, though the flower
ing may not be as fine.
Brewers grains contain 2 per cent.
more water than potatoes.
-Tbe bulbs of the tuberose never
bloom but once. They require shady
soil.
AT the present price of improved
cattle no farmer can afford to keep scrub
stock.
There are three classes of the York
shire breeds of pigs the large the mid
die and the small.
Potatoes are surface feeders and re-
quire liberal general manuring to ill.,
sure an abundant crop.
"A steel bar held in the natural direc-
ton of needle aud struck several blows
with hammer, will become magnetiEed.
The deepest well in the world is
5000 feet, or more than three-fifths of 9
mile in depth, and is located at Buds
Pesth. Hungary.
1t is often thought a bother to raise
ducks, but where they can conveniently
be kept, any of the improved breeds will
pay well.
In changing the diet of an OK Ave
DAYS will generally elspse before the re-
mains of the preceding diet are expelled
by the animal.
Flour made from Kansas wheat il
said TO be stronger than that manufac
tured from wheat raised in the same lati
tude in other States.
Thyme will grow almost anywhere
but il prefers a dry, poor soil. II thu
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