The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-04-25
Farming MISCELLANY.

two countries in Northern New amp-
SHIRE, Tor the purpose of reforming the
management of the annual fairs, is an
encouraging one to the many every
where who lament the dangerous corrup-
tons that in many places are even in
yited to these annual gatherings of
farmers. Let all these righteous com
planners cease mere complaining, and
manage their festival and fair for them
selves.
Full feeding from the start" says
the New York Times, should be the
maxim of the stock-feeder, whether his
object is beef, mutton, pork or poultry.
Yet there is a way of high feeding by
which an enormous carcass of fat is pre-
maturely produced by rich feeding i'll q
short time. And it lisa question wheth-
er this high feeding is as profitable as a
longer period of more moderate feeding,
since it is the moderately-fe and not
overfatted beast which meets the con-
sumer's views, rather than the animal
which takes the prize at fat stock shows.
Peter Henderson, one of the best au-
thorities upon market gardening, highly
recommends the white plume celery,
the stalks, inner leaves and heart of
which are naturally white, which fact
makes unnecessary the costly work of
banking the celery to bleach it. In APP
pearance the white plume is very orna-
mental, as the inner leaves are disposed
something liks an ostrich feather or
plume, which suggested its name. 1t is
said to be crisp, solid, and of fine flavor,
but not as long keeping as the old green
sorts, its tenderness and cris9ness caus-
ing it to rot sooner. q
Here is a practical idea, iii a few words,
from a correspondent of the Poultry
Yard:-I make saw benches for roosts
that is, / take 2x4 scantling and nail
legs to them of the length to suit space
and breed. These, as you will at once
see, can be moved at pleasure when
cleaning droppings, or for any other
reason that may present itself; but the
best part of it is as regards lice. Every
week / take my kerosene can and go to
the hen house. carefully pick up and
carry out of doors my saw benches,
pour the kerosene on them, and touch
it off; the flame will quickly run over
every part of it, and 60 without burn
ing the wood, but every mite or nit
that would have made one, You are rid
of forever. / have followed this plan
for some time, and have no trouble with
lice.
Animals kept up should be stined
rather than allowed all they will
eat. Eating and digesting are two diff
herent things-a fact / learned long ago
with reference to myself, and which
apply with advantage TO my live stock,
There have just been new illustrations
of it on the farm. Acrippled Jersy COW,
which is always kept in a box-stall and
waited on, had a continuous diarrh9a
and was running down. After wonder
ing why this was SO a careful inspection
of her excrement revealed the fact thai
she was over fed. The diarrhna was the
natural result of the INABILITY of the
stomach to digest the meal. Reducing
this food one-half arrested the trouble
lei. Stewart, in the New York Times
speaking in regard to cattle getting
choked with roots or apples, says
Sometimes a tablespoonful of swee
oil, melted lard or linseed oil poured
down the throat will make it easy t,
work the obstacle up or down. Ii no
the safest thing is st once to take
sharp, small knife and to cut down
not across-the gullet, directly overth'
obstruction, first through the skin ant
muscle and then through the gullet, an.
make a slit large enough to remove tn
piece of root. This is safer than tt
force anything down the throat to pusl
the root down into the stomach. TIL
cut is drawn together by two OF tire
separate stitches in the gullet and a
many as may be needed in the skin
leaving the ends hanging out of TIL
wound, so they may be drawn out whel
the edges of the wound have united
This is a perfectly safe operation, an
is, Of course, effective, without injur
being done.
Some recently complied dairy Stats
tics may prove interesting About 81,
OOO. 600. 900 Is invested in the dairy bus
ness of the United States; 15, 1000 100
, cows supply the milk, and it takes 60,
! 100000 acres of land to feed them, an
100000 men and 1000 900 horses to al
J tend to them and the milk they pro
! duce. gIhese COWS and horses corsum
! annually 30, O00, 900 tons Of hay, 10000
9 900 bushels of cornmeal and oatmea
275, O00, 900 bushels Of oats and yariou
other grains, the total cost Of which
e about $40O, 600, 600 per year, while tn
: hired help costs $168, 000,e00. III
yearly return for this Investment is 8
d 750. 900 900 gallons of milk, which.
q an average of twelve cents per gallon