Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-06
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All kinds of spice dust are good tc
mix with the soft food for poultry, such
as pepper, mace, cinnanoI, cloves, all
spice and ginger.
Clay soils need most the lsossning eff
feet of drainage. 1t prevents excess OF
moisture and makes the ground loose by
the admission of air.
Il is claimed by our NEST experienced
stock growers that colts should never be
permitted to stand on hard floor, such
as plank, brick, stone OF cement, until
after they are year old, as hard floors
are liable to injure their feet and limbs
Professor Low, an English authority
says that boiled pSta Oes, mixed with
cut straw or hay, may be given to horse.
Of every kind, even when on the hardest
work; and this forms species of food
both wholesome and economical.
If every farmer would keep a record
of the number IF eggs laid. chickens
hatcbed and those sold or esten each
year, they would form the basis of most
interesting statistics and matter of sur
plise to every one, of the value repre-
sented by them in money.
A correspondent in the Iowa Horti-
cultural Report saws that the benefit
derived from having a small fTnit patch
surrounded by eyergreens has surprised
him very much. 1t doubled the amount
Of frait, and she plants were better than
those not so protected.
a correspondent of Purdy's Fruit Re
corder says be used mixture of sulpher
and asIafeji1a as remedy for curculiO
on plum trees, and with good results.
Several Of his neighbors have also used
the same remedy successfully. He syr-
ilges the tree and fruit every part) and
repeats it after rains.
The farmer who has neat, well kept
garden is almost sure to have a neat and
we'll kept farm, a comfortable and well
appointed home, tidy outbuildings and
stock in good condition; and the house
wife who takes pride in the garden gen.
orally has home to take pride in and
be proud of.
There is quite a, difference between
the common turkey and the large bronze
growth OF the broHZe have been known
to weigh fsrty pounds, and pairs of
bronze turkeys of longer growth, often
weigh three times as much as the com
mon stock.
In order to lay out field so as to ploW
it without having the team tread upon
the plowed land, find the center Of each
nd zat GFE re-
from each stake, in a direct line with
the other one one half the width from
the emo. Set up new stakes at this
point and begin to ploN.
Direct combinations of extremes have
not always resulted satisfactorily. Short
horns made no Improvement on the
cattle of the plains. the cross being too
violent; but when grade shofthorns were
resorted II, and the progress Of improve
merit became gradual, more favorable
results were obtained.
The American Dairyman makes an
apparently novel, though probably prac-
tical suggestion, that cheese factories
should not only raise swine, but also
use the refuse for poultry. With the
use of incubators, broodere and the
proper facilities for poultry, quite a
profit could be derived from such an
enterprise.
Professor Miles claims that be can
make washed wool weigh moTe than un-
washed. Wash the sheep, put them in
warm stable, and keep them over
night, and there will oil enough e1ude
from the sheep into the wool TO weigh
more than the dirt.
1t is by securing and using the best
seeds that crops are improved. The
farmer who sows and plants inferior
seed is sure to be poorly paid for his
labor. and will always experience up
hill business to make both ends of the
year meet.
Copperas is splendid medicine to
keep on hand for poultry. When they
have the Group wash their heads with a
solution of it and put some of the Sulu-
tinn IN the drinking water as tonic. 1t
provides them with soluble iron, which
is necessary.
Is not a careful. trusty hand worth
Eve dollars more month than reck-
less, thOughuess, break everything sort
of a fellow? Farmers do not al of
them think So. We believe in employing
good, trnsty help and in paving for it.
We know of no reform that ia more
generally needed on farms thsn in this
matter. Tins truly says the Rural New
Yorker.
If you covered your young grape vines
last fall. remove the earth from them at
the approach of spring, rs soon as dan
ger from frost is past. IL in rows cul
tivAte the wbole ground, piowing be-
tween the rows from four to six inches
deep, and carefully hoe about the vines.
The ground thus broken up should be
KEPT in IA mellow condition continually,
but do not work the grouad when it is
wet