Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-17
FARM AND WORKSHOP.

Chester white pigs have increased in
price in the past two years.
Separate all breeding ewes from the
other sheep in the flock now until after
lambing.
Orchard grass, though suitable for
orchards, can endure more sun and
drought than blue grass.
1t is mistake to allow sows to breed
before they are at least year old, as
they are not sufficiently matured, and
pigs from such are sometimes too week
TO live.
Nearly all kinds of fruits do well on
q mixture of superphOsphate and wood
ashes. Lime is not suitable for straw
berries, but excellent around apple,
peach and pear trees.
Grapevines should be pruned as early
as the season will permit. If deferred
too late they will allow an escape of
sap bleed even if trimmed a little
while before it begins to ascend.
For the information of those who
value cows that give four pounds of but
ter per week: 1t is just as easy to have
those that give double that quantity by
using Jerseybulls for breeding purposes.
Fine flowers require thoroughly rotted
manure and wood mould mixed, and
tomato or other early plants can be
grown in boxes, and afterwards
transplanted with better results with
such mixture.
In cold weather eggs for Matching
should be collected daily. They freeze
easily when exposed, but will retain
vitality for several weeks if gathered as
soon as laid and then kept at uniform
temperature.
Strawberries are plenty in the Florida
markets, and jacksonville hippers have
begun to send them North. They will
be very high-priced when they reach
New York, and 80 awfully sour as not
to be tempting.
Alta recent farmers meeting D. A.
Judd said he had noticed that when
cows abOrted the premature calves had
no bones, which led him to think that a
deficiency of phosphate in the soil was
one fruitful cause of the trouble.
1.-THE great majority of ringbOne i'll
Young horses comes from the failure to
shorten the toes" To this may be added
that ringbone is apt to be formed if colts
are allowed to stand on u plank floor,
or anywhere else where the footing Is
hard, during the first eighteen months
of their age. Whether in stable or yard
during this period let them have earth
for standing or walking, free from stone
or gravel. If their summer pasture is
a gravely soil, or even stony, it is not
Objectionable, because the colt will al
ways pick out springy turf enough to
stand and walk on without injury to his
feet, legs or joints.
THE mistakes that occur from lack OF
experience and Judgment i'll every de-
partment of farming are almost as
numerous as are the cultivatOrs of the
soil. A writer in Western contempor-
airy says he lost $1,000 in trying to
establish a fruit farm on uncongenial
soil, and worried himself gray-headed
| before he discovered his blunder, and
that his soil and location were well
adapted to grazing and dairy farm,
| He consoles himself with the reflection
| that after all we know but little, and
gain knowledge mainly in the bitter
school of experience. He concludes that
| farmers all make many mistakes which
might be avoided il they would do more
| thinking and reading, and thus profit
| by their own and others experience and
| investigations. In connection with this
| it is in point to say that good agricultur'
al papers are full of the experiences OF
| practical and intelligent farmers, a
well as of information from the besl
scientific sources of information.