The bee., 1883-04-14

Are your fences and gates in order?
The best stock is the most profit
able.
Poor tools and bad seed are "no
good"
1t does not take a 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
perfection.
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. Discontinue this when the
working season begins.
A lamb saved now may be worth
dollars next fall. What is callei "bad
lu TX > in ra sing lambs is sometimes
bad management, or no management
at all. If the sheep are healthy,
nearly every one well-formed should
be raised, and nothing pays the owner
b-tter than close, personal attention
o 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 worse
cases. He thinks if COWS were fed
with bean meal several times year
they would never be troubled with
garget.
A French chemist claims to have
discovered a method of overcoming
the danger threatening vineyards
from the ravages of the phylloxera.
His process is to inoculate the vines
with the phenol poison. The phyllox-
era do not attack plants thus treated.
and are extirpated for want of food.
The vines are in no way injured by
the inoculated process.
1t is no rare thing for those having
COWS to sell to allow them to go nn-
milked!for time or two before selling,
in order to impress the buyer with a
well filled udd4r This is both rascally
and cruel. Although we have never
| heard of the law in this country inter
fering in such matters. in England re-
Gently a cow dealer was fined $40 and
cost for an offense of this kind.
Any cause that interferes with the
condition of the COW after calving
may produce milk fever. Exposure,
too much exercise or nervous excite
ment are sufficient to bring on an at
tack, and 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 a week before and after
calving, and nurse her well.
Corn which is hilled will blow down
more readily than that which has level
culture. This can be accounted for
by the fact that ezra roots run very
near the surface, and when hills are
made they are confined to the small
space covered by the hill, while in level
culture the roots run from one row TO
the other, thus enabling the corn to
stand strong, as nature intended, and
in no way liable to be blown down ex-
ceptby winds OF unusual vit lence.
Nothing is more generally useful on
farm than swe p or tread horse
power. 1t can with proper machinery
be applied TO many purposes, saving
wood, cutting feed in winter, and
grinding grain for stock. A good
horsepower will thus save each year
many times the interest on its cost,
and with proper care will last many
years. A small steam engine viii
answer the same purpose, but most
farmers have horses that must be fec
whether worked or not.
When farmers learn from experience
that by housing their manure and
thoroughly working it over, mixing
with absorbants such as muck, earth
Foad du t, leaves, ETC., to take M
the liluid and ammonia set free, it.
value is double what it now is. and
too, at an expense much less than the
same amount of plant food could bt
obta ned in an artificial fertilizer, &
new era will have been reached in agri
culture, and we shall see the ferfili J
of the old farms brought back to where
they were fifty years ago.
he water which can be gathered
from the roofs of barns and shed:
needed to shelter sock will. if care
fully saved, be sufficient for the stCch
through the ytar. To aeon ii h thi:
the eistern should be "a 'ge one tc
hold the surplus of wet sc lson till {
tine of scarcity. With Easement
barn the cistern should be in the cor
ner where the hank of earth against th:
wall is deepest, to prevent freezing
Then with a faucet in the lower part
of the cistern a continuous small stream
can be kept running, adapting the flow
to the number of animals, SO that tht
tub shall never be empty and never o.
very seldom run over. This plan is {
great convC n+ence in winter and more
than repayS the expense by saving ma
nure, beside the greater thrift of th'
stock.
Recipes.