The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-05-13
MINOR MENTION.


make washed wool weigh more than
washed. Wash the sheep, put
them in q warm stable and keep them
over night, and there will oil enough
exude from the sheep into the wool to
weigh more than the dirt.
We are having the coolest and
most backward spring that l have
ever known with perhaps one except
ion have snow and cold rain and
wind on the Goth of April, have not
done days work in the garden yet,
grass is not sufficient for stock to live
on, and sunshine is luxury indeed.
While it is true that young hens lay
more eggs per year than old ones,
they do not make so good settlers nor
so careful mothers. There is great
difference in the character of towels
in this respect, and little watchful-
ness will soon teach the careful at
tendant which ones will be best to set.
An indianapolis. Indiana, fruit
grower says Last year 1 put
twelve moles in my strawberry patch
of five acress to catch the grubs and
they did the work. / never had a
dozen plants injured during the sum-
mer, either by the grubs or moles. l
know some people do not care to have
moles on their farms, but | want
them in my strawberry patch. "
DIR. Gibbons, in the Pacific Medi-
cal and Surgical Journal, cites q
case of hypochondria in which a
farmer imagined his nose to be bum
die of hay. He took great care not
to 90 near a horse or cow lest his hay
nose should be destroyed. Men are
more likely than women, says the
doctor, to have hypochondria, though
women have hysteria Oftener than
men. The diseases are closely allied
in their origin and nature.
To remove the unpleasant taste
which is frequently observable from
new wooden vessels is thing difficult
of accomplishment. The Brewing
World says that the simplest plan,
and one that will succeed in most
cases, is to scald them thoroughly
several times in boiling wafer; then
dissolve some pearlash or soda in
lukewarn water. adding little lime
to it, then wash the inside of the
vessel well in the solution. After
ward scald them several times thor
oughly as before.
A pig narrowed in April and
slaughtered about Christmas will
more than repay his cost; during
that period he will be but pig, and
the earlier feeding small in quantity.
He should weigh about $50 pounds
when killed and the carcass will con-
tain a fair admixture of lean and fat.
The quality of the meat influences
the price, and the difference of only
one cent a pound amounts to quite a
sum in the whole. The profitable
hog is the one that is growH and fat
ted without delay.
Farmers as a rule are too liable to
neglect their poultry, aud let them
shift for themselves, and as result
their poultry yard is generally COM
prised of old hens or late Matched
pellets, or both and even if one of
the old hens should bring off an early
brood, little neglect during the cold,
wet weather of early spring will gen.
orally prove fatal to the tender chicks.
A little experience will show that one
cannot afford to neglect his poultry,
for there is no animal on the farm
that feels the effect of careless man.
agement SO quick as y laying hen ;and
take lot of good hens in good laying
even of some of the best
breeds, and little neglect
on the part of the keeper will soon
shut of the supply of esgs.
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