Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1883-05-02
3arn' ann 5iresiDs'
Farm and Garden Notes.


Never breed from scrub animals.
Don't neglect the vegetable gar
den.
Are your fences and gates in
order ?
The best stock is the most prof.
table.
Poor tools and bad seed are "no
good"
1t does not take great deal Of
slovenly management on an ordl-
nary sized farm to waste $1,000
a 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 oat 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 called
"bad luck" in raising lambs is
sometimes bad management, or no
management at all. If the sheep be
healthy. nearly every one well-torm
ed should be raised, and nothing
pays the owner better than close,
personal attention to them.
A writer says that he has never
tailed 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 II COWS
we've 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 phyl~
loxera do not attack plants thus
treated, and are exterpated for want
of food. The vines are III no way
injured by the inoculated process.
1t is no rare thing for those hav-
ing cows to sell to allow them TO
90 unmilked for time or two be-
lore selling, in order to impress the
buyer with a well filled udder.
This is both rascally and cruel.
Although We have never heard OF
tie law in this country interfering
in such matters, in England re
Gently COW dealer was fined $40
and cost for an offence 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 excitement are sufficient to
bring on an attack, and a recovery
is rare. 1t is the ounce Of preven-
ton in this case, as in many 9th
ers, that is worth the pound OF
cure. Keep the animal quiet tor
week before and after cslving, and
Lurse her well.
Corn which is hilled will blow
down more readily than that which
has level culture. This can be &C
counted tor by the fact that corn
roots run very near the surface,
and when hills are made they are
confined to the small space covered
by the.hill, while in the level culture
the roots run from one low to the
other. thus enabling the corn to
stand strong, as nature intended,
and in no way liable 10 be blown
down except by winds OF unusual
violence.
Nothing is more generally useful
on farm than sweep or tread
horse power. 1t can with proper
machinery be applied to many pur
poses, saving wood, cutting iced
in winter, and grinding gram tor
stock. A good horsepower will thus
save each year many times the IN
telest on its cost, and with proper
care will last many years. A small
steam engine will answer the same
purpose, but most farmers have
horses that must be led whether
worked or lot
When farmers learn from exper
renee that by housing Their manure
and thoroughly working it over,
mixing with absorbents such as
muck, earth, road dust, leaves, etc,
to take up the liquid and ammonia
set free, Its value IS double what 1t
now is, and, TOO, at an expense
much less than the same amount Of
plant food could he obtained IN al
artificial fertilizer, a new era will
have been reached in agriculture, and
we shall see the fertility OF the old
farms brought back to where they
were fifty years ago.
MOTHERS DON'T KNOW.-liow