Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-07-25
Hints to Farmers.

For the CITIZEN.
| suppose the reason we so seldom
see anything in print about working
corn, is because it is generally suppos-
ed that every farmer knows how to
work corn.
talked with an old farmer, one who
had been raised on farm, and he said
to work corn close and deep, cutting all
the roots you can. | asked for his
reasons. He said, "because the roots
take off too much sap from the stock"
This man did not take paper of any
kind and has not for forty years. He
did not seem to know that the roots
feed the stock and not the stock the
roots.
Work corn close but shallow-close,
because you want to kill the weeds.
Shallow, because you do rot want to
cut the roots close to the stalk.
"Cut and carry in" for your horses
and cows, because you can keep as
much stock on one acre this way as you
can on FIVE to pasture it.
Keep them in their stables Gin day
tine) during the summer to protect
them from the heat and flies, and in
the winter to protect them from storms
and cold.
Never drive or pull horses hard inn
mediately after full feed and neuer
feed full feed immediately after hard
drive or pull. His nerve power is then
exhausted and digestion is weak. AS
a rule, tired horse should rest fifteen
minutes before and twenty after eating.
No one who drives or works a team
hard can keep them healthy three
months without observing this rule. A
good general rule is this, such condi-
tions and treatment as would be injuri-
Gus to man, will also be unfavorable
and injurious to the horse.
To Danish the ox-eye daisy cut or
pull every stock before it goes to seed,
to do this the field or fields in which it
grows should be canvassed every two
weeks, from the first of July till frost.
In gathering the blossom, should any
be found in which the seed has ripened,
it should be carefully handled and
burned on brush-heap. Not single
stock should be allowed to go to seed
and in no case should ripe head go
into the haymow. A good coating of
manure will do great deal toward
helping kill out the old roots which die
in three or four years One reason why
| they are so hard to Danish is that they
continue to blossom from June till
autumn and frosts kill the tops.
Farms ought to be the healthiest
places in the world. individuals can
not control cities and prevent epidemics
arising from filth and other unhealthy
conditions, but farmers can control
their farms in this respect. Fevers are
quite common on farms. This should
not be so. No farm, of.a healthy loca-
ton, should ever have case OF fever
on it. Some farmers allow weeds to
grow around their houses till they at
tain immense proportions, then cut
them down, and allow them to lay and
decay in piles perhaps in the shade.
Some door-yards are so shaded that
they never dry out. Some farmers
allow great piles of potato tops to lay
near their door-yards and decay. Ona
lul III tuCiC 40 oiW AAiSAS VI ASSS
caying vegetables around the yards,
especially at the most sickly season
when peach an apple skins are thrown
around and allowed to accumulate with
the sweepings of the house and other
filth of the yard which in process OF
decay emit carburetted hydrogen and
and other delaterious gasses, which in
seasons like this of frequent rains fol-
lowed by hot suns, render the farm
yard unhealthy. Every farmer can
procure road dust and keep it dry, end
after every rain sprinkle his door-yard.
Dry earth is the best disinfectant in
the world and every farmer should keep
barrel of dry road dust on hand,
using it freely around his house in
summer and around his barn, chicken
coop and pig-pens, the year round. 1t
is so cheap that it is not appreciated as
disinfectant, but if farmers would use
more road dust they would haye less
sick children and less doctor bills.
Milo.