Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-23
FARM lind HOME.
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WARNER pens would be comfort to
pigs and source of profit to farmers,
| who would save corn IN feeding.
EXPERIMENTS are in progress in
England for testing the adaptability of
that country for the growth of American
varieties of apples.
A New YORK farmer says that Canada
thistles may be killed by blowing them
under about the LIST of July, or when the
stalks are hollow.
Ii is said that two thicknesses of pa
per, used in lining the barrel in which
apples are packed, will prevent them
from freezing while being shipped.
To HAVE apotato retain all of its good
qualities it should be dug on a dry day,
| and at once stored in dark cellar. It
is mistake to suppose that a potato is
improved, or will keep better, by drying
In the open air.
A New YORK farmer says that he has
common dunghill hen, which is ~
years old, and has laid an egg every day
except about two months each
year since her first, and during those
two months she has raised an average of
twenty-five chickens per annum. She
sings as cheerfully now, and cackles as
loudly while at her work. as she did
eleven years age, when she first began
the discharge of her important du-
ties. At this rate, this hen in eleven
years must have laid 1856 eggs, which,
at Is cents per dozen, would have
brought $39.45, and would have raised
275 chickens, which at So per dozen,
would have brought sos. rs, making
total of $108.20, from which take So for
keep, or say $24, and there is left a
clear profit of $500.
AN Illinois farmer has the following
continuance for removing manure from
his stable A line of Aka scantling runs
lengthwise of the stable over the drop.
and extends through the door to post
In the yard. The scantling are fastened
to the joists overhead by iron rods.
-Four sliding door wheels are made to run
on the scantling, two on either side, the
pairs being about eighteen inches apart.
The iron attachments to the wheels are
bolted to AKA piece, holding them firm
ly in place. To this box with dump
bottom is fastened. This box is filled
with manure, pushed along the carrier
to the post in the yard, where the con-
tents are dropped, and the box drawn
back for reloading. The cost is slight.
and the convenience great. Chicago
Times.
AN Iowa farmer, says the Chicago
Times, put up twenty one-year-old hogs
for fattening. and for the first twenty
one days fed them on shelled corn, of
which they ate eighty-three bushels.
During this period they gained S37
pounds, or upward of ten pounds to the
bushel of corn. He then fed the same
hogs for fourteen days on dry corn meal,
during which time they consumed forty
seven bushels and gained $50 pounds, or
eleven and three-fourths pounds to the
bushel. The same hogs, next fed four
teen days on corn meal and water mixed,
consumed 5512 bushels Of corn. and
gained 731 pounds, or thirteen and one
half pounds of pork to the bushel. He
then fed them fourteen days on corn
meal cooked, and. after consuming for
ty-five bushels Of the cooked meal, the
hogs gained 799 pounds, or very near
fifteen pounds OF pork to the bushel of
meal
DR.. JAMES holds that pleuro-pneu-
monia, which is not v be understood as
strictly lung disease, is likely to be
met successfully by incubation. The
plague, he says, is a local disease which
will develop in any vascular structure of
a susceptible animal. The germs in
hailed into the lungs pruy upon the lungs
alone, and if other germs are placed
upon the raw surface OF the tail they
will develop in the tail only, but in
both cases the disease affects the system
in such way that the animal will not
again have the disease, however much it
may be exposed. If the tail is inoculated
the severity of the disease viii depend
greatly upon the depth to which the
poison is planted. The oxidation and
swelling rarely exceeds the size of hens
egg. But III the lungs the air passages
are closed, preventing free ingress of
oxygen, and it is not uncommon for the
mass of emulation to weigh as much as
thirty pounds, beside an enormous
liquid efusion in the pleurse. In Aus
tralia incubation is clumsily but success
fully performed by drawing worsted
thread, smeared III the exudate, through
the connecting tissue beneath the skin
at the tai. This is Il deep insertion, but