The Mineral argus., 1884-07-10
Farm Items.

Is injurious, by drawing the shoulders
Of the animals together, thereby pre-
venting a development and expansion
of the breast, especially of colts.
A French authority states that carrots
give horses new blood, which seems to
restore them, and they may be justly
claimed as the Regeneration of wornout
horses.
Farmers should enjoy, above all 9th
ers, the luxuries of the garden, and yet,
strange to say, but few farms have Gem
plete gardens, and many farmers buy
vegetables.
Dogs do not always kill sheep for the
purpose of procuring food. The best
fed dogs, when once they begin the
practice, will continue it until they are
caught in the act.
Feed the little chicks often-fve
times a day will not be too often-with
hard-boiled egg, bread crumbs, boiled
potatoes, little scraps of meat. Supply
them with fresh water twice a day. All
this, if you want fine healthy birds.
All French draught horses are Nor
man horses, from whatever province
in France they may come. There are
different tribes or families in the diff
ferent provinces, all tracing in their or
igin to the ancient Norman war horse.
The Percheron, the Boulonnais and
other tribes have their admirers, and
are shere called by their local names,
but the National Mormon Horse Asso-
citation, comprising nine-tenths of all
the importers of French draught horses
in America, recognizes them all as Nor
man.
Growing strawberry plants need a
generous supply of water, says the
American Garden. From the day when
the first blossoms appear until the we'll
developed fruit is ready to be plucked,
the soil where strawberry vines stand
should be kept very moist. The crop
of fruit is often damaged seriously by
one or two days of hot and dry weather
when the plants are in blossom, or
soon after the berries begin to grow.
Those who succeed in producing NAM
moth berries use manure unstinted and
keep the soil moist.
A correspondent of the Pacific Rural
Press gives the following "bill of fare"
for poultry: Feed soft feed in the morn
ing, cornmeal and bran half and half;
now and then boil up some potatoes,
mixing bran and meal with them, and
feed before cold stale bread is also good
for little chicks. At noon, more soft
feed with a little soaked wheat or other
grain. At night feed grain. Amixture
that l like for grown fowls is one-tourth
wheat, one-fourth oats and one-fourth
barley; for the other one-fourth mix
buckwheat and corn equally. Feed but
little corn.
Oleomargarine, under the microscope,
is seen to be made up largely of feathery
crystals. These are the fatty substances
from which it is made, and the appear
ance is very similar to that of lard.
Pure butter presents a cloudy appear
ance showing no crystals, the fat being
in homogeneous state and not crystal
lied. When pure butter is adulterated
by mixing with oleomargarine the crys-
tails will not be too thick, but can be
plainly seen under the microscope.
But terine has no crystals, because they
are dissolved by the oils which it is
largely composed, but it melts much
more easily than butter. Ifmclted pure
butter at once makes known its pres
ence by its odor.
Ginseng is grown, to some extent,
about Murphy, Cherokee, County,
North Carolina, where, by last reports,
it fetched from % to 81 cents per pound,
green and unwashed. That grown in
the United States is of interest only as
an article of export to China, where it
is supposed to possess remarkable vir-
tues in nearly all diseases. It's merits
are supposed to be imaginary. 1t is
chewed by some people here, but is not
used in medicine except as a demulcent.
In China the price CT the prepared root
varies from SIS to $12 an ounce, and
some kinds are reported to have been
sold for the enormous sum of $500 to
$400 an ounce.
The appearance of the farm buildings
adds much to the attractions and value
of a farm. Whitwash covers many inn
PROJECTIONS and gives an air of. neat
ness. System, cleanliness and every
part of the building kept in repair makes
an old farm look new.
The Country Gentleman prints a list
of ffty-two Holstein COWS which have
milk records of 20 pounds per day, and
1C, 900 pounds or over in a year, and al