The Dickinson press., 1883-04-28
FARM AND HOUSE,
Brief Farming Notes.

Brief Farming Notes,
lfyou are behind in your work, it is
better to hire additional hands and
rush things through than to remain be-
hind all summer. Or do you prefer to
be behind?
Maine has forty-nine cheese factories.
with an average of 10Y COWS to each, six
ty being the lowest, 500 the highest
number. The total product of all these
lactorles during thu last year was $685.
soi pounds Of cheese, the average price
received being II l-2 cents per pound.
President l.. S. Coffin, of the Iowa
Improved Stock Breeders Association.
bears this witness of effect of confer-
ence Tor mutual good: "The great strides
made in the last decade, especially by
those engaged in the fine and extending
dtlay work of the west, are to a great X
tent due to discussion and exhibition.o
1t salt is to be sown OH wheat, spring
IS the right time to apply it. The usual
applications about five bushels Der aero
The effects usually attributed TO salt
sown on wheat are that it stitfens the
straw, brightens the berry, tends TO pre-.
yent rust and Increases the yield about
four or five bushels per acre.
When the escape of milk is prevent
ed by an obstruction i'll the teat the OBJ
ening should be freed by the use of a
tube, known as a milking tube, which is
carefully pushed into the teat and forces
a way through the obstruction. The
tube may be left in the duct and closed
by a small plug, which is removed at
mllklng-tlme, or the tube itself is re-
moved and the milk drawn in the usual
manner.
Good water lime or cement will make
as good a floor for your milk cellar as
any one could desire, and it will have
no effect upon the milk, as We know
from long experience. Put a good thick
der to have a solid foundation upon
which to lay the cement, and you will
have q smooth and hard floor that will
last a lifetime or longer.
An excellent coop for young chickens
is made as follows: Make Il frame or
box of boards, . feet by 3, close on three
sides, and lathed up and down on one
side; put on a sloping roof hinged at the
front over the laths, which should be
six inches higher than the hind part.
Hang q glazed sash in the front 6 inches
from h ground to leave room for the
chicks to go in and out, and to prevent
beating in of rain or cold winds. and tt
q piece Of board 6 inches wide below
has to close up the coop at night and for
a feeding board by day. This coop an
be moved from place to place to furnish
clean ground for the floor; the best floor
is the ground.
To prevent the hair from falling out.
try first wetting the hair at night with
salt and water. Mild sage tea is also ex-
cellent. lfthese remedies do not effect
a speedy cure, try this: Get 81 little bot
tie OF brandy, and put in all the saltthut
that 1t Will absorb; wet the head with
this two or three times q day.
For the common sitting-room q table.
spread made of Canton flannel will be
useful; the border made of the figured
or brocaded Canton flannel, which is a
novelty in the stores lust now; or you
may trim 1t simply with Il strip of ere
tonne.
DIR. Robert Fl. Blackwell condcmnsthe
common practice of keeping lights in
the bedrooms Of children. He saws it
has an injurious effect upon their ner-
vous system. Instead of the perfect
rest the optic nerves ought to have, and
! which nature provides for by the dark
ness of the night, these nerves are per-
pctuallv stimulated, and, of course, the
brain and the rest of the nervous svs-
TEN suffer. Children thus brought up
are exceedingly timid for years after on
going into the dark.
III the arnira with which bruised limbs
are bathed is heated, its good effects ara
perceptible much earlier than if it is APP
piled while cold. If arnica is TO be talk
en- as q remedy, as SO MANY physicians
recommend, in cases of severe sprallis,
it should be prepared with water in this
proportions: Il t%easpooniul Of arnica in Il
goblet two-thirds full of water; and of
this q teaspooniul is to he taken once all
hour on once in two hours, as the severi-
ty uf the case determines.
Cooking forms part of the regular edu-
cation OF young ladies in Vienna, but
they do not earn the art at cooking
clubs. or at public lectures, as in Eng
land and this country, and they are
rarely taught III their WI Kitchens. 1t
is the custom To 90 tn some great
hOuse-tlat OF Il princess, or ON Very
rich banker, where there are famous
chefs, who give lessons in cookery.
When Il chef engages to cook for Il no.
blelsan he usually STIMULATES that he is
to have the prl ilege OF teaching q GER
tain humber of young ladies. These
| young ladies need not even know the
mistress OF the house, and they make
their arrangements with the cook only,