The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-01-07

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Dry EARTH BEDDING.-If any one
will observe when the cows choose to
lie down in the yard or pasture it will
be seen that they choose the bare
ground, rather than the sod or bedding
of straw. The same is true Of sheep.
We have taken this hint and furnished
the COW stables with dry earth bedding.
Leaves and straw are poor absorbents
in comparison. In the pig-pens dry
earth has no equal. In very cold
weather we add straw or leaves, but un-
I'll the weather is very cold, the animals
will be more comfortable with bed of
fresh soil, or Of soil changed once a
fortnight or week. In the chicken
house We have learned its grea, value as
deodorizer. Our roosts are over a
sloping floor, on which we occasionally
scatter dry earth. The droppings roll
down into pile Of dry earth. This is
turned over with shovel each week or
oftener, and we can say the chicken
house is free from any offensive odor,
and the bright combs and glossy feath-
crs tell of the health of the fowls. Dry
earth is good preventive, too, of YER
min on cattle, pigs and poultry. 1t
must be procured At dry time, and
stored under sheds or in the stables. II
not only promotes ncatness and health,
but saves the very elements of the ma.
nure which make them most valuable,
and most of which would evaporate il
not absorbed by the dry earth. We do
not like it as bedding in the horse
stables, but it should be found in every
stable, to sprinkle the floor with rs soon
rs the bedding is removed in the morn
ing. When removed from the stables,
styes and coops it should be kept under
cover for spring use, or for drilling with
the wheat in the fall.
To DESTROY STUMPs.-In the autumn
or carly winter bore hole two inches
in diameter, according to the girth of
the stump, and about eighteen inches
deep. Put into il one or two ounces of
saltpetre, fill the hole with water and
plug il close. In the ensuing spring
take out the plug and pour in a gill OF
kerosene oil and ignite it. The stump
will shoulder away, without blazing, to
the very extremity Of the roots, leaving
nothing but ashes.
Will some Of our farmers who are
troubled with stumps in their fields OBJ
tain few pounds OF saltpetrc and APP
ply it to stumps as directed above? -
Twenty-Five cents worth OF saltpetre and
a gallon or two of oil would charge a
dozen or two of stumps. Try it in oak,
gum and various kinds of stumps, in the
pine lands in pine stumps, and note and
report the results next spring. If this
process will destroy stumps the cost
need not be five cents each. Their
nitro glycerine little giant cartridges
will do the work effectually, but they
cost too much, and there is great dan
ger Of blowing up the proprietor OF a
farm, or house and family, in using
this terrific force.
WHERE JERSEY Cows CONE From
Jersey Island, the place from which we
obtain the favorite Jersey COW, is
small spot Of land. II squared, it is six
and three-quarter miles each way. Yet
this little island has population OF six
hundred thousand human beings, and
has over twelve thousand cattle, and
has had that number for the last twenty
years, for the census Of 1861 gives IA
o57. And yet they export on an aver
age annually 1000 head. Roughly
speaking, on this island they manage to
support one head Of kline to every acre,
while in England there is only one
head to every ten acres; therefore, in
proportion to its size, Jersey exports as
many cattle every year as England con-
tains.
II England were to export cattle at
the same rate, her whole stock would be
swept away in single year. A good
Jersey will yield half her weight in but
ter in a single year-she rarely exceeds
eight hundred pounds and her average
weight at home is about seven hundred
pounds. What little spot Of earth can
make better showings
REcUPERATISG OLD ORCHARDS
Several modes are recommended how
this can be successfully done but we
do not see how it can be more efiectu-
ally done than by the one we have fire.
quently recommended. This is to cut
out all the dying wood and three-fourths
Of the suckers, scrape the trunks OF the
trees completely, removing all the old,
hard, broken bark wash with prepa-
ration Of whale oil soap and water, a
pound Of the soap to bucket Of water,
and give the orchard, not merely under
the trees, but every part of it, heavy
top-dressing Of good ba-n-yard or COM
post manure. II there is any life or
productiveness in the trees this will
bring il out.-GeymaHf0sUw 2rLegabh.
Harris Lewis, a Herkimer county
dairyman, stated at the meeting Of the
American Dairymcn's Convention, that
not more than one COW in three in Cen
trail New York nets her owner a profit,
the other two not paying the cost Of
keeping, or barely doing that, some Of
them. Let these profitless cows be
sought out at once by experimenting
and sent to the shambles, and retain
only those that pay their owners profit.
The same would be found true of COWS
that are kept for making milk to be sold
by the can for village and city supplies.
The woman who leaves church with
a sense of inability to describe the dress
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