The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-03-09

injured around stacks. Long-wooled
feeces are more damaged than tho
downs of fine woods, since they are
longer and more open, and catch more
boards, chaff and straw.
AN Eastern paper says lambs can be
made to shear from two to four pounds
more wool by little extra care and
feed during the winter. The extra
wool will more than pay for the extra
feeding, and the result will be q much
larger and stronger sheep. For this
purpose feed good clover hay, with
bran, oats and corn mixed equally.
HENRY STEWART, in the Rural Ne,o
Yorker, says that no dairyman or
farmer can afford to give more than
5000 for heifer promising 20 pounds
of butter week when mature, as all
that might be paid in excess of that
sum is what might be called a "fancy"
price, and the "bric-a-brac" value of
the animal, paid merely for the pleas
ure of owning it. No limit can he
placed on this value, as it depends
wholly on the fancy and pocket of the
ultimate owner and the speculative
recklessness of the intermediate dealer.
WORTH OF INoUBAToRs. - Fanny
Field finds that many farmers and
poultry raisers are afraid TO purchase
incubators for fear that they will not
work satisfactorily, or that inexpe-
rienced hands cannot run them. L do
not blame them for this feeling. / lost
good bit of money on incubators be-
fore found one that filled the bill, but
at the same time can assure them that
there are incubators that will do all the
makers claim for them, and that any
one who can follow printed directions
can run them.
CT. I'll. MCKINNEY, of Stanford, KY,
gives to the Louisville COlrier-Jour-
nal the following recipe for destroying
lice on cattle and horses: boil Irish
potatoes in such quantities as required,
q peck if need be, until they are thor
oughly cooked. Then take out the po-
tatoes and boil the water short while
to increase its strength. Then wash the
animals, whether cattle or horses, with
this ooze or tea. 1t will effectually de-
stroy the lice. If one application fails.
keep on trying, as the remedy is cheap
and perfectly harmless otherwise.
AT times horses are habitually over
fed, and their systems become so disor-
dered by it that their health suffers, and,
the power of digestion failing, they lose
flesh instead of gaining it, and will re-
cover condition only by diminishing
from one-fourth to one-half the quanti-
ty of their allowance. Frequently old
g tJo,r
teeth wearing unevenly, so that it is not
in their power to masticate their food.
In such cases n farrier should be en-
ployed to file them; or the owner, if he
possesses the particular kind of file
used, can file them himself. In this
case much less food will soon restore
the horse to n proper condition. Rock
salt should, of course, be ever present
in the manger, as horse was never
known to take too much of it.-Ger-
naa'atoDn Telegraph.
ELI ELLIOTT gives this advice to
stock-raisers in the Diary and Farm
Journal: First, get good stock OF
some of the best beef breeds; then send
them along in calfhood, and be sure
you never let them lose their calf-fat,
but push them on good feed, rs we'll as
good grass, at the same time; never
let them know what hunger is, but
make them weigh from 1900 to LOGO at
2 years old. In such case you may
have fed them on good ground feed,
such as oats, corn, bran, shorts and oil
meal, every day of their lives, and still
you will have fine profit, as the time
has never yet been that it did not pay
to feed q good animal all it would eat
of the best and most nutritious feed to
be had, regardless of the cost of it-pro-
vided it had always been so kept, and
was put in market at not more than 81
years old"
JOSEPH HARRIS, author of walks
and Talks on the Farm" etc, asks and
answers some important questions in
farming in the american Agricultur-
iSt. We now have far better tools for
cultivating lands than formerly. In
fact. our tools are better than our agri-
culture. And we may rest assured that
so soon as we adopt improved methods
of farming and gardening, our inventors
and manufacturers will furnish all the
tools, implements and machines neces-
sary to do the work. But will it pay to
adopt high farming? That depends on
what we mean by high farming. High
farming, if we confine ourselves to the
production of hay, Indian corn, wheat,
oats, and ordinary farm crops, will
not nav in this country And Sir John
Bennett Lawes once wrote q paper, or
gave lecture before q farmers club in
Scotland, in which he demonstrated that
high farming was no remedy for the low
prices of agricultural products of Great
Britain and Ireland. think, however,
he would admit that thorough culti-
walton and heavy manuring could be
profitably used for the production Of
what we usually term garden products
The advocates of high farming make
n mistake. Neither Old England nor
New England will ever raise all the
wheat required by its population.
Even the great State of New York, L
hope, will not long continue to raise
on It's soil all the wheat it annually con-
sumes. Commerce is the feature of tho
age, and wheat is carried ten thousand