The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-10-28

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MISCELLANEOUS MATTER.-Prune
in autumn to insure growth, and in
spring to insure fruitfulness, is q
grape maxim.
Pastures given to excessive mois-
ture should, as far as possible, be
avoided for sheep grazing, excepting
perhaps, in the middle of the day,
when the surface moisture has been
dispersed.
Many Western farmers are substi-
tuting mllet and Hungarian grass for
oats, the latter crop being liable to
injury from severe droughts, or to TALL
down and be of little value on the
block soils.
BY constantly removing decayed
flowers before seed pod can swell
the growth of the plant and the con-
tinued development Of new buds and
flowers upon the new growth are mat
tiers Of course.
The highest bred cows, it must be
remembered, are not often the best
mixers, and often the ugliest looking
COW in the herd yields the most milk.
Good mixers invariably show very
angular outlines, for it cannot be ex-
pected the cow should be yielding n
large quantity of milk and putting
plenty of flesh upon her bones at the
same time.
TO break COW from sucking her.
self. put medium sized snaffle bit
in her mouth over the tongue, confne
it by head stall. 1t does not inter
fere with her eating, drinking or lick
ing herself. From three to six weeks
will effect q permanent cure; have
never known it to fail. Do not have
the head stall too short or too tight,
so as to draw the bit too far mp in
her mouth.
The great mistake, says fruit
grower, made by those who grow
both currants and gooseberries, is in
adhering 10 the "bush" form, by
keeping down the suckers, or new
shoots, and fruiting from the new
shoots which grow from the old canes.
The best fruit is produced from the
new shoots. and new shoots should be
encouraged to grow from the roots, the
old canes being cut away regularly
every year.
To cure a kicking COW. take snap
ring, attach to it half inch cord
about Il dozen feet in length, put the
snap in the kicker's nose draw the
cord around her, letting it rest on her
sgamhrel joints or below. Let a per-
son stand at her shoulder and hold
the cord just tight enough so that it
shall not slip down to the floor. Any
one can then proceed to milk her
without trouble. This course of
treatment pursued for one week has
never failed to cure the most obstin-
ate kicker, and without any struggles
or harshness.
A writer in the Western A gricu-
turist insists that bots do not kill
horses. nor, indeed, cause them any
inconvenience He says the horses
stomach is the natural place for bots,
and that after they have grown to
maturity they let go the sides of the
stomach and are passed out with the
excrements. The fact that bots eat
through the coating of the stomach.
he says, never occurs except in cases
where some disease has so changed
the character of the tissues that the
worms hunt for some more palatable
food or when the horse dies from
some other cause He is positive
To at the bots themselves never injure
healthy horse.
One can form but an imperfect
estimate of the value of q field of
roots by knowing the weight of the
largest one grown. Very large roots
do not mean very large returns; med
ium sized roots and more of them
are a more paying crop. Other
things remaining the same, the size
of the roots depends upon the thin
ming. At this season of the year
when the roots are growing vigorous
~, they should be thinned, so that
they shall have a space between them
in the rows equal to their own diane
ter, and no more 1t is better for the
roots to be 10 than IA inches apart
in the rows. If the thinning be car
ried beyond this they grow large and
coarse, and will be much less valua-
bic as food than the smaller ones.
Hens can not produce eggs unless
their food contains the elements Of
which the egg is composed. Tie kind
of feed that is offered to hens must be
determined by the object to be attain
ed in feeding them. Hens intended
for the market should be fed that
kind of grain which is known to con
tain large percentage of the fatty or
oily substances. But hens kept as
layers should be fed Oh that kind of
grain which contains larger share
of the albuminous or egg producing