The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-15
Farm Notes.

Purchase small trees with plenty OF
roots rather than large ones with few
roots
If you have choice potatoes to keep
for seed put them in abox Of sand in The
cellar They will not sprout nor freeze,
Cows in milk require but little exer.
else to maintain good health. The quiet.
or they remain the richer their milk will
be in butter.
Sunflower seed given to horse at
each morning and night feed will keep
him in good spirits and give his hair a
sleek appearance.
To keep apples late, pack them in
tight barrels in plaster (gypsum). This
will keep the air away, and, il the ap.
pies are originally sound, they will not
rot for months.
IL is better to set fruit trees in the
Fall, when the sap is comparatively at
rest, and when the soil and atmosphere
favor root growth rather than body
growth. Cut in the roots well and take
pains in transplanting.
1t is good idea to select potatoes that
are to be planted next Spring as they
are dug this Fall, and then give them
good care in the winter. Choose tubers
from vigorous growing plants and those
that are fully matured.
Frozen roots, or, indeed frozen food
OF any kind, is very pernicious to swine
and all other stock, as it is apt to scoul
them badly, and in any event disturbs
their digestion and renders the Other
food taken into the stomach less nutri-
tious to the animals.
The lookout for the honey crop OF
1882 (according to BradStrccrs) is but a
little better than that Of 1881 New
York State, leading honey producing
center will run short Of its general good
average, but this deficiency will be off
set by gains in Illinois, Michigan aud
other Western States which produced
less than usual in 1881. California
promises a quarter crop this year,
against a total failure in 1881. This will
constitute the surplus over the quantity
Of honey marketed in 1881.
For keeping apples the essential re-
qusities may be summed up thus. Pick
without bruisng; store without heating;
winter without frosting; use one more
thermometers; preserve an unchanged
temperature; guard against air cur
rents; give needed ventilation; remove
ripe specimens before decaying: separate
the fruit room from all other apartments.
With these precautions and care, such
apples as the Baldwin, Red Canada,
Swaar Fameuse and Northern Spy may
be kept fresh into June aud july, as
we have had an opportunity for testing.
The cellar Of many farm house has
caused disease which could have been
avoided with q little extra care. Decay
ing vegetables and fruit ill the cellar
with their unhealthful odors and gases.
aud these arise TO the rooms above
through cracks and crevces or through
the open door, and the family is com
PEELED to inhale them. This may be
remeded by carefully asserting out all
decaying vegetables once or twice a
month, and by opening the cellar win
dows at night and closing them through
the day, Ventilation is the secret. 1t
is a good plan to connect fue from the
bottom OF the cellar with the chimney
by which noxious gases will be removed.
Don't put of this matter Of ventilation
until it is too late.
Many complain that onions do not
keep, The trouble is in keeping them
too warm The onion is bulb, aplant
at rest, and the least warmth starts it
into activity, 1t is much better that on.
ions should remain frozen through the
Winter, provided they can thaw gradu.
ally. than to put them into cellar or
other warm place where their vegcla.
tive powers will be aroused. II put in
large heaps onions will be sure to spoil;
but if spread in thin layers aud covered
with hay and straw, so that iffrozen the
thawing will be gradual, they will keep
well through the Winter. II is the Gus
tom with onion growers to ret then
crop to market as soon rs possible II
they were to provide proper storage
they would realize much more from
them when sent to market later in the
season.