Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-13
FARM AND GARDEN.

Sorghum seed, as fat producing
food for hogs, is pronounced to be OK
cellent.
While sheep will live in winter with
out water, they will be more liable to
die in the spring.
Vermont farmers feed sliced carrots
and oats to their sheep, and are salts.
fled with the result.
The farmers in New jersey and
Eastern Pennsylvania are suffering
losses from hog cholera.
Whole potatoes for seed gave the
largest yields this year at the New
York Experimental Station.
1t is said that cheese creased with
butter in which red pepper has been
stewed will not be molested by flies.
1t is estimated that fencing costs
about Sll an acre IN Ohio, and must
be renewed very fifteen or twenty
years.
1t is a good plan to keep merino
sheep in small llocks. They do much
better than when large number are
together.
The use of commercial fertilizers is
on the increase, but the price doesn't
go down TO correspond with the price
of wheat.
1t would now seem that, rs between
the butt, tip and middle of the ear of
corn, there is little difference as to its
value for seed.
About 5000 patents have been
granted by our government for churns,
and still inventors are at work per-
fccting new designs.
The MoHtred Gazette says: ave be-
lieyc that here is more cheese in Can
ada now, than at any other time in
the history of the trade"
A sevcn.days' test will be made at
the Exposition in New Orleans, to de-
terminc which breed is best for butter
and which is best for milk.
Leave no hollows about orchard
trees, in which the water can settle
during thaws. Either fill them up or
provide way for the water to cs.
cape.
Too much ashes can hardly be ap-
piled TO any land, although so much
may be applied that only part of the
good results may be apparent in the
next crop.
In Scotland, last season, test was
made as to the value of cabbages as n
feed for sheep, compared with Swcd-
ish turnips, and the result was in favor
Of the former.
The October crop returns show n
higher average in corn than in the past
five years. but'not so high as in one
previous year when the corn crop was
phenomcnally large.
a spring colt should be weaned a
little before winter in order that it may
become used TO the change of food
while the weather is warm and while
plenty of succulent food can be had.
1t is said thousands of millions of
mcrchantablc white pine timber is
standing in West Virginia, not worth
the price of cutting for market. Some
! day when railroads get nearer it may
be profitable.
The obacco crop of this country,
which in 1864 was but $4,000, 900
pounds, promises in 1884 to be be-
tween G00,0O0,OOO and 100000, 600
pounds, or more than three times that
in twenty years ago.
Where fuel is not too expensive the
cooking of broken pumpkin in large
vats and mixing cornmeal with the
mass produces very valuable feed for
hogs, and one on which they will very
rapidly grow and fatten.
The Dairy Commissioner of New
York is preparing to prosecute the
bogus butter men of that state, under
the law Of last winter. 1t will there
fore be practically tested whether the
law is dead letter or not.
One of the lessons of the year, which
has been most fOrcibly taught. has
been the value cf sweet corn as a for
age plant. 1t serves as food for hogs,
cows or anything. There is corn,
milk, butter and beef in it.
Nothing adds more to the comfort
of the occupants of farm house than
dry and clean walks about it They
are almost Indispensable from NOvem-
Der till NJ; and do not come amiss
during thC othCriive months.
Charles Downing, the leading po-
mological writer of the country, is
said to regard the IIubbardstone None
such as the most perfect apple on his
list, for the reason that it has Just the
quantity of sugar and acid for either
cooking or eating.
The mcrinos are hardy, and when
they can be made to unite Il good NUT
ton body and Salablc fleece, they
; will take front rank. They are better
suited to rough and hilly land, to poor
pastures and poor shelter than any
other breed, and so they are better
, able to adapt themselves to climate and
/. other conditions.
At all times, but especially wher
tattening, hogs should have constant
sdpply Of salt and clean wood ashes
When kept continually before them
they will not eat too much salt. The
more charcoal to the ashes the better
G salt assists in the digestion of the food
D ashes rid the intcstines of worms anC
strengthen the appetite.
Apples may be stored in pits lik,
n potatoes, and If kept dry and frost
j. proof, will come out in fine condition
u in the spring 1t is fact, however
: that apples thus stored decay NOR,
= rapidly when removed from the pit
= than similar fruit stored in a dry hous,
cellar with IN even temperature, onl,
a few degr : above the freezing point
/, For cigl month lambs and youn!
- growing 81 ep, says the Nati0nal Liz
d Stock Jour Il, a half pound of bran
+ with one o two gills Of corn or n hal
h pound Of Ill meal, will keep then
q thriving. For fattening sheep to b
y sold in late fall or early winter Civ
one pound Of corn and a half pound o
"a oil meal; this, with part pasture, will
n push them forward favorably.