The Osceola times., 1882-03-11

spring will be of inferior quality. Our
work stock must be well cared for to in
sure good work for the summer crops.
II. on account of scarcity of feed, we
fail TO buy it and let our stock become
poor and weak, unfit to raise a crop, we
cannot reasonably expect otherwise than
a shortage in our crops, and consequent
ly our store bills, doctors fees and taxes
all TO loom up before us next fall. /
sincerely hope for the better, and as a
farmer and friend to the farmer, saJ
10 one and all, let MS zee if there is not
room for improvement and avail our
selves of every opportunity that presents
itself ii. T.. SCANLAND.
Notes.
BrY none but the best vari ETY. of fruit
trees.
Coon feeding is the secret of success
in sheep husbandry.
The best and suTest way to get good
COW, is to raise her yourself
THERE is less excuse for feeding a
milk COW stingily than any other ami
NAL.
THERE is no profit in poor butter,
Every pound is made at a loss to the
dairyman.
NEVER brood your chickens in and in.
II makes them weak and more difficult
TO raise.
DoN'r send poultry that is poor or
poorly dressed to market, expecting TO
get anything for it.
IT is said that If food is kept from the
sheep twenty-four hours before killing,
the mutton will have better flavor.
Kill the dog first and hunt for his
owner afterward. is the method of GER
tain Georgia farmers who mean to
make sheep raising profitable.
A FARMER who keeps sheep and has
no shepherd dog is nearly in as bad con
dition as the mariner who ventures on
the sea without rudder.
CnARRED corn is one Of the best things
which can be fed 10 hens to make
them lay, not as a regular diet, but in
/ limited quantities each day.
FOXES are indulgng in serious dep
relations on the farms in Peoria county,
/ Illinois. There is call for the offering
/ of bountes for fox scalps.
/ TIE man who neglects to purchase
pure brel lamb because it costs more
than common one, is the man who al
ways insists that sheep are very un-
[ profitable.
/ ACCORDING 70 the results Of the expert
ments made at the Maine State Agricul-
tural College, the pigs fed on uncooked
meal grew better than those fed on
cooked neal.
IT does not require heavy pastures for
sheep. They are great foragers, and
weeds leaves and even stubble enters in
their bill of fare. They equal the goat
in that respect.
The commissioner of agriculture in
his last report estimates 100000 people
in this country as directly engaged in
agricultural pursuits. Farms and farm
implements are worth 81, ,i6l 200, ,433.
OxE COW well fed and comfortably
cared for will produce quite as much
milk and butter as two that are allowed
to run at large, lie on the wet ground
and be subject to the exposure of the
weather.
A TRIAL has been made in Scotland
to test the value Of an acre of cabbage
compared to an acre of Swedish turnips
for fattening sheep, and it was found
that the cabbage was worth very near
so the most.
PROFESSOR Cook of the Agricultural
College, SAYS that the moths of the rn
worm, Heliothis Armiger, were "a nu-
merous at Lansing last fall, as the COM
mon cabbage butterfly, appearing upon
flowers in the heat of the day as well as
flying by night.
A FEW sheep could be kept upon every
dairy farm with profit, and would be a
benefit to the pastures eating that which
the cows reject, and when in winter
quarters they would eat much the
cows refuse, and 50 would be Of very
small extra cost.
PROFESSOR BRowN, special census
agent, saws that 5,5S5 patents have been
issued on plows in this country. On
harrows and digyers; ,746 have been
granted on harvesters G,23j, Of which
about 100 are on sell.binders on
threshing machines the number is ,722.