The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-08-11
Farm Notes.

Common salt is special manure for
asparagus beds when used with rich
barnyard compost.
Orchard grass is very early in growth,
and furnishes good hay. 1t starts out
fresh Immediately after each moving.
Red raspberries should be set two feet
apart in rows, and when kept well
worked the first year they will fill up
and form continuous hedge of plants
good for ten years or more.
It is lamentable that so few farms
have a supply of small fruits. Many
farmers never have berry of their own
raising, while that most hardy fruit,
the common red cherry, is not at all
plenty.
Cabbages respond quickly to frequent
hoeing: 1t is one of the crops upon
which too much labor cannot be be-
slowed. They should be cultivated of
ten, even when there are no weeds
among them.
Common grating wax is made by
taking one part of tallow, three of bees
wax and four of rosin, and melting them
together over slow fire. Melt the
rosin first, and put in the other ingredi-
ents after, stirring well together.
A north room in house, properly
ventilated, is better place to keep milk
in Summer than half the so-called milk
cellers in the country. To obtain the
most cream and best results milk
should stand thirty-six hours before
Swimming.
Charred corn is excellent to feed to
hens in order to increase their egg-lay-
ing capacity. 1t is not desirable to feed
it as their general food, but portion of
it every day will be found beneficial.
Char the corn on the cob pretty thor
oughly, taking care not to reduce any
part of it to ashes.
In arranging perches for fowls allow
six inches for each bird. The perch
should not be placed high when there
is no space for the birds to fly down
with a gradual swoop, as is natural to
them when roosting in open places.
Three feet from the ground in confined
places is high enough, and it should be
far enough from the back wall to keep
the tail plumage clear.
Breeders have noticed that q remark
able development of the tendency to lay
on fat is usually accompanied by deli
cacy of constitution, diminished secre-
ton of milk and loss of fecundity.
Very fat animals are not likely to be
good breeders; in fact, the excessive
production of fat is incompatible with
a high development of the reproductive
powers. s1.,t
Keeping bees in the old-fashioned box
hive is entirely out of date. The trou-
BILE with it is that the internal economy
of the colony cannot be regulated, but
the bees must be left to do pretty much
rs they please. It is fact often
preached, but seldom practiced, that
bees need management and care the
same as horses, cattle, or poultry, or
any other kind of farm stock.
Experiments prove, says the German
town Telegraph, that in order to insure
the best growth of grass seed, it should
be very slightly covered with earth.
When covered to the depth of an inch,
only about one-haf the seed will germi-
nate, and, if covered with two inches,
there will be no growth. The kinds
thus experimental with were red and
white clover, timothy and orchard
grass.
Eggs are an article of cheap and nu-
trltlouS 1000, which we do not ma on
the farmers table in the quantity which
economy demands. 1t is probably be-
cause they do not understand how val
liable eggs are for food. One pound of
fresh eggs is worth as much for food as
nearly two pounds of beef. They are
easily digested, if not damaged in cook
ing, and may be eaten with impunity by
children or invalids.
A correspondent says his fowls have
white scales on their legs, and asks
what will cure it. The disease is known |
as scaly leg or elephants, and is occa-
stoned by damp fowl houses or expos
ure. II is caused by minute parasite
which burrows under the scales of the |
fowls's legs. The best way of removing
them is to grease the legs with mix |
ture of sulphur and lard several times. |
Some use Kerosene, but this is liable to
make their leos sore 'II..