The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26
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SUGGESTIONS FOR THE SEASON.

There are many things to be done ia tine oreh-
ard at this season of the year. Manure ma! DC
carted or better, if there is snow. drawn ont
ON n sled among the trees. Clons can DE CUT,
.;.d in bundles labled and stored in sawdust or
s,na The clusters of the tent caterpillar can
now he eut away, thus saving the tree from the
attacks of the worms that hatch from them IN
early spring.
ar. In Ienand-the fowls will require warm
nIace and plenty of food and water. Lime IN
SONG form. as powdered oyster shells, old plas-
tering, etc., will he needed to furnish material
| for shells.
na.le TO test the value of winter shelterins Tor
swine. and they all show that pigs to winter
we'll mast have a warm place with 4 clean bed
| and food enough TO he comfortable They are
not 10 be fattened, but simply kept in good con
dition.
The pigs should be killed early in the winter,
as later Keeping is expensive; besides, it gives
more room for the few that are reserved for
breeding.
The very early lambs are dropped during this
month aud if mild weather fayOrs them, they
may be made vrey profitable for the early mar
] ket Should the weather be severe, the lambs
must be kept from being chilled through; this
NAV lie done by wrapping them in blankets and
administering little hot ginger tea. The ewes
should have the warmest pens in the stable, and
may need TO be nursed with warm cruel for
few days.
Serious injury is done to many horses hy being
exDoSed TO cold winds alter hard drive, and
when they have become much heated. All
drafts of cold air should be avoided at such
times and the body of the horse covered with
n blanket. Sweaty horses that taken at
once to a warm stable seldom need the pTotec-
lection of blankets, and if they are used it
makes the animals more susceptible 10 chills
when hitched out of doors
The horses will generally have an easier time
during winter than in the busy months of spring
light food and less care, but so kept that they
will be in excellent trim when the spring opens.
Horses that come To the heavy work of spring
without accumulation of flesh, stored up force,
are unfit for the work, and have not been prop
erly and proftably wintered.
The COW stable should be kept neat and clean.
Unless this is done the milk cannot be perfectly
pure. The air of filthy stable will faint milk
that is drawn in it, and when the air is foul the
| cows, under such lack of care, will he more or
| less dirty, and some of this filth will find Its
way into the pail. careful mixer will remove
| by brushing all sueh matter that might, in part,
| otherwise reach the dairy room or the consumer
| of the milk. Milk is valuable product, and
| the satisfaction of producing it as well as the
| pleasure of using in the household economy de-
! pend upon its purity. At no time in the year is
| it more valuable or more difficult to have it
pnre than in the winter, therefore the one who
| does, by proper care, produce IT now, gains in
more ways than one. The cows should not only
he kept clean, but well sheltered, fed and wat
| cred.
| Dry, well-seasOned wood is the only kind that
| is either pleasant economical TO use, especial
| ~ in the stove in early morning. The man who,
with a large wood lot on his farm, does not have
| n good supply of dry wood for the household, is
not doing his duty. The slip-shod method of
chOpping the daily wood on the day it is to be
used, though it may give freshness to the pro-
duct, is a fruitful source Of bad breakfasts and
| bad tempers, and, il may be- in extreme cases.
| In liSur1Ppful
! All this can be avoided by cutting years sup
ply of wood during the winter, and giving it the
| whole of the following summer TO become
thoroughly dried. In this way the cutting and
splitting of the years tirewOod becomes n part
| of the regular winter work on the farm.-CoR-
| deRsei from the american iqriealtHrist.