The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-05-20
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
HOUSE, FARM AND FIRESiDE,

that made by cattle ted on oil cake.
Ordinary stable manure contains up
ward of seventy per cent of water.
The deficiency in the winter hog
crop is likely to exceed one million
head.
Give your fowls water. Do not ex-
pect them to fird it in the drippings Of
icicles
In 1880 the production of cheese in
the United States amounted to AGO.
000,00 pounds.
Orchard grass is very early in growth
and furnishes good hay. 1t starts out
fresh Immediately after each moving.
A consignment of Hnlstein buttersold
in New York, Monday, at one cent per
pound higher than the best creamery.
Fat hens rarely lay. Ifhens are fed
so much or so often that they begin to
fatten rapidly, they will soon stop lay
ing.
A small amount of leached wood
ashes given to swine will have great
effect, both upon the health and the
fattening.
A spoonful of 'aris green tia pail of
water is recommended for killing canker
worms. 1t should not be sprinkled
over plants of which the leaves are eaten
such as lettuce, etc.
In rotating vegetables the land should
not be used for crops having similarity
to those preceding them. Cabbages,
for instance, should follow peas, and
celery follow cabbages.
The report of the Illinois State
Board of Agriculture of the condition
and acreage of winter wheat shows
that the seeding for the next crop has
been 2,676,000 acres, or 275,000
more than the previous crop.
1t is springtime in Northern Georgia.
The naples, elms poplars and oaks
have budded and are throwing out
their leaves. Lawns are green with
newly grown grasses, and sowing and
planting has commenced.
A Colorado ranchman oflong exper-
fence says that the winter just ended
has been more favorable for stock than
any other within his recollection.
The grass has been uniformly excellent
and the cattle are sleek and fat.
Soft coal ashes are used to prevent
the ravages of the currant worm.
They are scattered thickly around the
currant and gooseberry bushes. care
being taken to keep the bushes well
supplied with them as long as there is
danger.
As farmers and gardeners come to re-
alize more fully that, with any system
of farming we may have, the land must
sooner or later become exhausted and
cease to yield profitable crops, unless we
return to the soil the essential elements
of the plant food removed in such crops
the study ofproper fertilization becomes
more earnest.
w. G. Baker, of New Jersey il
probably the champion chicken raisel
of the world. He wintered two thous
and hens, and these do not supply hi
demand for eggs for Matching. He
has an in cubator that matches eigh
thousand chicks at time His prod
uct, this year, will be two hundred ant
fifty thousand chickens.
The hen, if left to herself, viii
make her nest on the moist earth
The novice will invariably make ;
nice, comfortable" nest of some DIR.
substance, such as hay. The conse
quence is that the moi sture is takel
out of the egg, the lining membrane be
comes leathery, and the young chic
is unable to force his way through il
General Colquitt, of Georgia, in re
cent address said to remove stumps fror
field, all that is necessary is to hay
one or more sheet iron chimneys som
four or five feet high Set fire to tn
stump and place the chimney over
so as to get the requisite draft at th
bottom. 1t will draw like stove. III
stump will soon be consumed. Wit
several such chimneys, of different size
the removal Of stumps may be accom-
plished at merely nominal labor and e'
pense.
MULEs.-Few of the farmers of tn
country are aware what debt of gra
itude they owe George Washington f
the introduction of mules into gener
use for the purposes of the farm. Pr
yious to 1888 there were very few, al
those of such an inferior character
to prejudice farmers against them as u
fit to compete with horses in work up'
the road or farm, consequently the
were no jacks, and no disposition to j
creas the stock; but Washington |
came convinced that the introduction
mules generally among Southern pla
tiers would prove blessing as they a
less liable to disease, longer lived, wo
on shorter feed, and are much less Hal
to be injured by careless farm han
than are horses.
Assoon as it became known that
illustrious Washington desired to sto
his Mt. Vernon estate with mules, t
king Of Spain sent him jack and t
jennets from the royal stables, and /
fayette sent him another jack and jenI
from the Island Of Malta. The first v
Of gray color, sixteen hands high hes
liz ,,4aAa and az n eluooiah nafure.