The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-04-28
FARMERS COLUMN
Farm and Garden Notes.

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Don't neglect the vegetable garden.
Are your fences and gates in order2
The best stock is the most valuable.
Poor tools and bad seed are "no good"
1t does not take great deal Of slovenly
management on an ordinary sized farm to
waste 81 900 year.
Sweet butter cannot be made from
cream under which whey and thick sour
milk have formed. The moment whey
forms it has passed the point Of perfec-
tioH.
Curry horses frequently in spring to
aid in removing their old coat. A small
quantity Of oil meal added to their feed will
also greatly assist in its removal. Discon-
tue the use of this when the working sea-
son begins.
"A lamb saved now may be worth dol
lars next fall. What is called "bad luck"
in raising lambs is sometimes bad manage
ment, or no management at all II the
sheep are healthy, nearly every one wells
formed should be raised, and nothing pays
the owner better than close, personal atten-
I, ton to them.
"A writer says that he has never failed
to cure garget by the use of beans. He
feeds one pint OF bean meal, mixed with
other meal, for four SUCCESSIVE days, and
has found that quantity sufficient to cure
the worst cases. He thinks il cows were
fed with bean meal several times a year
they would meyer be troubled with gar
get.
"A French chemist claims to have dis
covered method of overcoming the danger
threatening vineyards from the rayages of
the phylloxera. His process is 10 inoculate
the vines with the phenol poison. The
phylloxera do not attack plants thus treat
ed, and are extripated for want OF food. The
vines are in no way injured by the inocu-
lated process.
1t is no rare thing for those baYing
cows to sell to allow them TO go unmlked
for time or two before selling. in order to
+ impress the buyer with well filled uddsr.
This is both rascally and cruel. Although
we haye never heard of the law in this
country interfering in such matters, in
England recently COW dealer was fined
, this kind.
Any cause that interferes with the con
dition of the COW after calying may produce
, milk fever. Exposure, too much exercise
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bring on an attack, ond a recovery is rare
1t is the "ounce of prevention" in this case
as in many others, that is worth the pound
of cure. Keep the animal quiet for week
before and after calving, and nurse hel
well.
Corn which is hilled will blow down
more readily than that which has level cul-
ture. This can be accounted for by the fact
that corn roots run near the surface, and
when hills are made they are confined Il
the small space covered by the hill, while
in level culture the roots run from one row
TO the other, thus enabling the corn tc
stand strong, as nature intended, and in nc
way liable TO be blown down except by
winds of unusual violence.
Nothing is more generally useful on &
farm than a sweep or tread horse power. Il
can with proper machinery be applied tC
many purposes, saving wood, cutting ieec
In winter, and grinding grain for stock. A
good horse power will thus save each yea
many times the interest on its cos, and with
proper care viii. last many years. A smal
steam engine will answer the same purpos,
Just as well, but most Of the farmers haY'
= horses that must be fed whether worked o
not.
When farmers learn from experienc
that by housing their manure and thor
oughly working it over, mixing with all
sorbants such as muck, earth, road dust
leaves, etc., to take up the liquid and am
monia set free, its value is double what
now is, and, too, at an expense much les
than the same amount of plant food coul'
be obtained in an artificial fertilizer, II ney
era will have been reached in agriculture
aud we shall see the fertility of the old farm
brought back to where they were fifty year
|, ago.
The water which can be gathered from
the roofs OF barns aud sheds needed to shel
ter stock will, if carefully saved, be suffi
| cent for the stock through the year. To a'
Il complish this the cistern should be larg
/ one to hold the surplus of a wet season til
| time of scarcity. With basement BARI
II the cistern should be in the corner wher
Il the bank of earth against the wall is deep
est, TO prevent freezing. Then with lauC
ct in the lower part of the c:stern con
II tinuous small stream can be kept running
/ adapt ng the flow of the number Of animals
II so that the tub shall never be empty an
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