The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-13
Live Stock and Agriculture.

Young cows do not give as rich milk
as, do those Of mature age. "A lean
COW gives poor milk and fat one rich
milk. aEaa
Keep sheep dry under foot This is
even more necessary than roofing them.
Never let sheep stand or lie in mud and
water.
A farmer of experience in wool-grow-
ing says there is more money in grow
ing wool at even twenty cents per pound
than loaning money at ten per cent. in
terest
Wintering bees in cellars seems to be
an improvement over wintering them
outside. The bees consume less honey,
have less loss, and are healthier in the
end
Pear blight has in several instances
been arrested in affected trees by syr-
inging them with weak solution of
potash, and in some cases it has proved
a preventative when applied to the
healthy trees
Both for its effect upon fattening and
upon health small amount of wood
ashes should be given to swine. The
food without this is rich in phosphoric
acid, but has little lime, and the equiva-
lent should be thus supplied.
One reason why our wheat crops are
only about half as much per acre as in
England is because the British farmer
employs sheep as grain-growers, while
with us sheep are only considered as
wool or mutton makers.
Too much attention cannot be paid
to the cleanliness and ventilation of
stables and pens. To insure the health
and comfort of animals they must be
kept dry and warm, and have plenty
of light, as well as pure air and water.
To get gear wheel off shaft, upon
which 1t has been shrunk, take it to the
foundry and pour some melted iron
around the hub, and it will heat and ex-
pand so quickly there will be no time for
the shaft to get hot, and the gear will
come off easily.
A lady correspondent of the Country
Gentleman claims that by dipping the
joint or feshy end of turkey, geese or
chicken wings into strong solution OF
copperas they are made moth proof as
well as more durable than when treated
: in the ordinary way.
To pinch off the tip of q shoot is not
to produce a shock. but to change, not to
impede, but to send the flow of the sap
in other directions, by which the fruit is
benefited, while the leaf power is not
materially interfered with, the auxiliary
leaves affording the needful supply.
Farmers should endeavor to sell as
little as possible of that which comes
mainly from the soil, and as mitch as
possible of that which zeomes from the
atmosphere. Butter and fat stock sold
viii impreyesa farm, while cheese, milk,
and lean stock sold win keep the farm
lean unless manure or fertilizers are
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An English ivy grown in the house
should be trained in such manner that
it may be taken down at least once a
week, and be carried to the kitchen sink
or other appropriate place, and there re-
ceiye a good Swinging of its foliage.
More frequently it may be sponged, and
it will repay by its beautiful appearance
and healthfulness the extra care be-
slowed upon it.
In Denmark, in the management OF
the dairy, rape cake, oats and wheat
bran are reckoned as first-class butter
foods, palm-nut cake and barley is Sec
ond-class food, while inseed cake, peas
and rye are placed in the third-class.
BY the employment of first and second
class foods, with cut straw. hay and
roots, an abundance of excellent butter
is produced throughout the winter.