Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-06
FARM AND HOME.
Farm RdhiIigS.

largely in weight during the first few
weeks, after which the rate of increase
djminishes to considerable extent.
AN Ohio farmer says: 'I can make
more pork with clean, shclled CORE,
soaked twelve hours in pure spring
water than I can with new, soft corL
keep my pigs i'll better condition, and
my feeding floors and pastures will not
DO covered with cobs."
HEAvEs once developed is incurable,
but some good may be done by feeding
on damp and laxative food and avoiding
too much exertion and severe work.
You may also do good by giving the fol-
lowing for month or longer, every
morning: Liquor arsenicales, ounce;
tincture belladonna, 2 drachms tiEct-
uro ginger, drachm. Give as drench
IN little water.
KEPT on grass during the summer,
hogs are in prime condition for fattenirg
blythe LIST Of September, and, with good
teeth, good digestion and good health,
they will fatten rapidly on corn, and, by
turning the grain into pork very rapidly,
bring to the farmer a better profit fer
the food consumed than if fed during
the summer on corn. Amoderate ration
Of corn or ground feed occasionally may
be beneficial, but, except it be desired
TO fatten for the summer market, the
best results are in the direction we have
indicated.
NEwLY-P1ANTED trees are greatly ben
Gifted by having mound of earth OF
mulch banked up around them the first
winter. An exchange says: "Th!s
should extend, cone shaped, as high up
the stem as possible. 1t not only stead
les and protects them from swayine,
and from freezing and thawing during
winter, but also prevents mice and other
vermin from gnawing the tender bark
for these depredators usually do not as
cend these hillocks in search of food.
This mound, and the addition of hay.
bands, is also useful if you have tende,
fruit trees.
AN "Ohio Man" offers word to those
who advocate hauling manure when the
ground is frozen. He says that he tried
it once to his cost, finding that vast
quantity of LIQUID manure had taken its
departure it was a dear lesson. When
the ground is frozen is a good time to
haul out manure, but it should be left
in small piles, SO that it will not heat
until the ground thaws, when it should
be spread. But the latest experience of
many excellent farmers goes to show
that the best results are obtained from
barnyard manure by hauling and at once
spreading as fast as it is made.
A WRITER on Underwriting says the
best time to cut timber is in the autumn.
There is a great difference in the lasting
qualities of wood, that cut in the fall
being much superior. There is but lit
tie attention paid to this by cutters, be-
cause they well know that purchasers
will not inquire what month it was cut
in, and will pay just as much for timber
cutin March as September. If the quail
ity Of the lumber is good, and it is well
sawed, it is all that is required. No one
looksforward to the time when the build
ing is to be repaired and portion Of it
new timbered, because it was not all cut
at the same season of the year.
REFERRING to the somewhat disputed
point as to the best age to kill animals
for market, an exchange gives as its
opinion that the best beef is young beef,
reaching its greatest point of superiority
at from 2 to years of age. The same
is true of sheep and swine. A wether,
for the best mutton, should be in the
market at 2 years. AS a general rule
250-pound pig is better in quality and
more profitable than hog weighing
500. The point of appreciation Of
quickly-maturing animals is being
reached, though somewhat gradually,
and it remains to improve the various
breeds, especial care being had to select
animals to breed from that come to ma
turity at an early age.
THE LiUe Stock Journal, in regard to
feeding cows, we'll says: There is less
e1case for feeding a good mich COW
stingily than any other farm animal.
She does not ask any credit, she makes
prompt daily payment, and her product
is = cash article. If he has not the food
at hand, prudence and good Judgment,
as well as humanity. require him to fur
nish her full rations at all times, with
out regard to a favorable or unfavorable
season. We always counsel dairynen to
make an earnest effort to produce all the
food for their herds upon their own
farms, but the first principle of profta-
bic dairying requires that they give
abundant food to keep up an even flow