The Penn's Grove record., 1883-04-21

progress. Excepting currants, all of
these are of comparatively recent date in
the gardens of farmers. and all are,yet
too little grown.
At a recent meeting OF the Wisconsin
Cane Growers Association Miss Ida
Rust provided enough candy from SOL
ghum syrup to give to every member a
taste. The candy was pronounced ex-
cellent twas at least free from glneose,
and therefore sweeter than most candy
sold from the stores.
English millers are alarmed at them
creasing proportions of American wheat
that is Toured before being exported. The
practice of English millers has long
been to buy our wheat, which is dryer
than their own, and mix both to-
gether before grinding. English wheat
is often too damp for use alone.
The high price of eggs Is In part due
to cold weather, which freezes the water
and thus makes drink inaccessible. In
ordinary b%arnyards a thaw will set fowls
to laying, and a sudden freeze will stop
most of them. But if watered morning
and night with warm water or sour
milk egg production will be greatly in
creased.
George Geddes says that the cheapest
and best water trough is a secondhand
potash kettle, such as can be bought
very cheaply near salt works. They
last indefinitely, and are of such shape
that water freezing in then can never
burst the kettle. The slight rust which
is often found on old kettles is beneficial
to most stock.
Fowls do not like to scratch in their
own manure. Advantage may be taken
of this fact to keep them from scratch
ing up seeds sown in the garden. If the
droppings of the hen roost are scattered
over freshly planted beds the fowls will
scratch elsewhere. The rains and cult
walton will oon carry the fertility given
by the manure where roots can reach it.
Western r growers persist inplant-
ing corn after corn. The result is that
they have bred a worm which eats the
roots and which lives in the ground
from year to year. As it is not migra-
tory its existence depends on having
corr planted on the same field in sue
cession. Good %husbandry, which de-
mands rotation of crops, will therefore
rid farmers of this pest.
The cold winter has either destroyed
or made inaccessible the food which
wild animals usually live on during
severe weather. The result is that
foxes and other wild animals retire from
the deep recesses of the forest, and in
wade farmers barnyards. Some kinds
of animals that have been supposed to
be entirely destroyed in the neighbor
hood have been killed in various places
this winter.
Prof. E. NJ. Shelton's experiment at
the Kansas Agricultural College farm
to test the value of comfort to fattening
stock reports that during n week re-
Gently the five pigs exposed to the
weather made, getting all the cor they
would eat, a total increase Of only six
teen pounds, while the same number,
originally of equal size, kept in warm
pens, consumed a little more feed and
gained f%orty-one pounds.
The practice OF some of the best
farmers now is to keep pigs through the
summer on green food, cut and carried
to the pens, with a little grain, and
what milk can be spared after butter
making. Spring pigs are thus made to
weigh 200 pounds at seven months old,
and, except in the last month, they get
little grain. The best time to sell such
pigs is at the beginning of cold weather,
usually in October.
Exclusive. devotion of the soilste any
one crop generally results in loss. In
the first place it exhausts the land I'M
~evenly, removing some elements of fer
fifty more rapidly than others, until in
afew years this crop cannot be grown.
A second objection is that such cropping
breeds insect enemies, that compel a
change, as has been the case where too
much wheat growing has bred the weeyil
and Hessian fly.
The sheer at Jersey cows as very good
for men too poor to keep a COW and too
proud to own a goat is being gradually
set aside as farmers learn that these
small Jerseys will give more milk and
much more butter, besides of better
quality, than some of the larger BREEDS
of cows. The profit from a COW a
| only come from the surplus above the
! cost of feeding. As a rule with smaller
COWS more IA be kept on the same
feed.
Ringbone in horses is cured by an old
veterinarian as follows Tie the ami
NAL down so he cannot kick. Run a
sharp-pointed knife through the fet-
lock, when a white bladder viii pop out.
Run a needle and thread through this
draw it out, and remove the bladder
with a knife. The cure is soon effected
without harm to the horse, if taken
early, and the ringbone will not return.
But if allowed to harden it cannot lie
so removed.
In selecting fruit and other trees for
spring planting, size, or rather height,
is of less consequence than other con-