West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1883-06-30
Farm Notes.

Your beus cannot give you eggs IL you
do not feed them with lime, chalk or
pounded eggshells.
A roomy mare, with sound constitu-
ton, god temper, and coming down from
noble ancestors, will produce an even
formed kindly disposed, excellent colt.
Some one says he succeeded ia curing
his hens of egg eating proclivilics, by fill
ing shell with lard and cayenne pepper
and placing VI in the nest. One pill of
this kind is sufficient cure for one hen.
Clover is not good pasture for mich
cows. Ii turned on II very early cattle
will eat the older grass bare from fence
corners before eating the clover, and will
only eat the latter when forced by hung sr.
SKINNED milk has practically all the
value Of whole milk for growing pigs
The cream taken off makes II less fatteu-
ing, but fat can be generally supplied in
corn or oil meal in cheaper form than in
cream.
A mare should not be put at hard work
for at least three or four weeks before and
after foaling. A little exercise daily should
be given, but more Than thus 10 vt the risk
OF spelling both dam and foal.
Hungarian grass as hay is not eaten read
lily after the advent of warm weather. la
this respect 1t is like corn stalks. Both
these important cIops are better kept for
late spring use in the silo than by the old
method of curing and drying.
The fat on COW known 10 be a Iarre
and rich mixer will mostly go in the
creampot during the season. Ii is never
safe to buy COW in poor condition, as
she will require heavy feeding or make
poor, thin milk.
Tae silk from the seeds of the common
:nilk-weeds has been much experimental
upon for the purpose of ilizing it for
Masking fabrics, but there is not TWIST
enough in the hbcrs TO make them hold to-
Sether. The silks are used extensively,
however, for upholstering purposes. They
are durable and cieanly.
Much has been said in regard to potato
plants, etc., taxing up the paris green used
upt them, and c,uSing harm to result.
Many experiments have been tried upon
The subject al different stations, and an
alyses have been made of plants which
were heavily treated with the arsenic poi
sons. These Investigations all agree in
concluding that no harm can come from
that source
WEAVING time is the second critical per
Tod between sow and litter. The change
should be gradual. The sows, tor the last
week OF sucking should have dry feed,
that the bag may not cake when removed
from the pigs Let pigs suck eight or ten
weeks. 1t, occasionally, COW is to be
bred for a fall litter, the pigs may be wean
ed sooner.
The goose seldom lays more eggs than
she can sit on. She rarely or never LAYS
second clutch, and for this reason IL is
necessary TO use extra care with the first
eggs, in order to increase the broods. The
nest is usually thoroughly dry, and the fe-
male sits for Icing lime, thus making il
warm throughout. Sometimes the male
bird is left in charge. When this is the
case the birds will manage their own af
fairs unless the weather is extreme,
Probably most gardeners have observed
the fact that paris green usually has no ef
feet upon squash bugs. This is because
all true bugs as tine squash bugs, lice, etc.
have beak or probOscis with which
they puncture the epidermis OF the leaf
and sip the Juices from its interior. In
this way they avoid the poison by sticking
their beak through it. a good way to
capture squash bugs is to lay pieces of
boards under the vines, and the bugs, crawl
ing under them at night, can be captured
early in the morning. The huge are usu-
~ found with their feet against the boards,
pressing their backs to the earth 10 keep
them warm.