Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-02-09
HONE. FARM AND GARDEN.

1t would be much better il horses
We're trained to walk fast. rather than
TO trot and run. A farmer needs good
walking, but cares nothing for 2:io trot-
ting. r-lr.i.
-Buckwheat cakes are improved for
some people by mixing the buckwheat
with graham -four Put about one
third graham with it. Start the cakes
at night with yeast.
Cracks in buildings. especially in
those where stock is to be wintered,
should be stopped. No farm animal
can be profitably kept in a barn or shed
through which the wind whistles at
will.
--Enameled cloth makes neat and
useful covering for the wide lower shelf
in the pantry where bread and cake are
cut. 1t is useful also. and looks well on
the kitchen table. and can be kept ALSO
lutely clean with little trouble.
Writing of the effect of food on
flesh and eggs. a correspondent of the
Toronto Giobe cites the fact that these
products of fowls kept on supplies of an
unclean kind. such as swill and decayed
garbage, will in one case quickly faint
and in the other taste unsavory.
AT the last annual meeting of the
National Butter and Egg Association, it
was stated that the best material for
packing eggs is clear. bright oats, and
that in holding eggs in cold storage the
temperature should he kept at thirty
eight degrees to forty degrees. The oats
CON la enll ,,nAanl-;n,r
The most profitable way to raise
beef cattle is TO keep them constantly in
a thrifty and improving condition. 1t
is not necessary to keep very Young
stock rolling in fat. but there should al
ways be an abundance of nutritious
food to help nature in its development.
To allow stock to run down in flesh and
become ill-conditioned. simply because
it is not designed for market for some
time, is the height of folly.
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says: As the result of con-
siderably inquiry, and of my own ex-
perience, think that yield of ten
bushels per acre will give half ton of
straw; Weld of twenty bushels per
acre about l.500 pounds Of straw. and
thirty bushels per acre one ton of straw.
As a rule the larger the yield Of any
grain the smaller the proportion of
straw that is required for bushel.
Prof. Tracy. in an instructive pa
per on the farm and garden. urged the
removal of all beds, and the planting OF
vegetables in rows so that horse cult
walton may be practiced; gardens then
would be less neglected. The garden
should be convenient TO the barn as well
as to the house, so that it will be easyto
cultivate it whenever field cultivation is
in progress. The garden should be long
and narrow, SO as to save time in cuiti-
walton.
Prof. Taylor. of the Agricultural
Department, announced that naphtha-
line can be used successfully in the de-
struction of insect varmin, etc. He
says: IF seeds. grain. dormant plants,
etc, be placed in any tight vessel and a
small quantity of the naphthaline be in
troduced into the vessel, and it then be
covered. in a few hours any insect that
may infest them will be asphyxiated.
Seeds thus treated have been tested and
do not lose their vitality when the sub
stance used is pure
A Southern States paper gives
some facts which show that those who
prate continually about the imminent
exhaustion of forests leave a most i'm
portant country out of account. The
States of Tennessee, Alabama, Arhan-
sas. Florida. Georgia, South Carolina
and West Virginia contain in the order
named from fifty-eight TO sixty-six per
cent of forest land. whereas Maine and
Michigan, which now produce one-half
of the lumber used. contain only forty
seven and forty per cent. of forest