Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-11-12
AGRICULTURE.

| effect of absence of hight on calf. We
| had two deep red calves of the same
age (sixty days., one weighing $50
pounds and the other lS2 pounds. The
latter we placed in a dark room, with
trough that could be filled by a spout
through q partition. The other was
confined in the same amount of space,
but in full light, and both were fed eI.
actly alike for the next three months.
/ The object was to test the effect of light
upon such q growing animal. At the
end of the time the one IN the light
weighed 430 pounds, and the one in the
dark weighed $50 pounds and It's color
/ had faded to a very pale. dirty red. Its
eyes were SO much affected when adj
mitted to the light that it kept them
| closed most of the time for the first week
or two. The two calves we're kept OF
together, but the one from the darh
/ room never fully recovered from this
/ three months of darkness. 1t never re
/ covered Its bright red color, although
/ the color improved. And one who noted
these two calves during this experiment
would never after doubt the impolicy of
dark stables.
WEDDING BY STEAM--An Illinois rail-
road Is testing an arrangement for de-
stroyiug weeds adjoining the track. 1t
| has been fitted on an engine, and con-
sists of two iron pipes projecting on
each side of the engine in front The
exhaust stesm is conducted into these
pipes instead of through the smoke
I stack, and the steam and gas are thereby
/ thrown ont close TO the track In front of
/ the engine on each side. On trial trip
weeds and grass were cut down and de-
stroyed some two feet on each side of
/ the rails. It is proposed to run an en-
! gine over the entire road this way.
No animals should be kept in young
orchard, lest they might iniurs the
/ trees, Inawell- established orchard that
/ is seeded to grass or clover sheep would
4 be the best stock 10 keep; they would
/ return TO the soil nearly all they took
from the ground; they will consume the
| fallen fruit and the sprouts from the
roots if there are any, but these rarely
/ appear in an orchard that has not been
plowed, and they will do no harm to the
/ trees or disturb tine soil. Pigs are for
some reasons better than sheep, as they
Will keep the ground well stirred and
pick up all insects as well as consume
| the wind-falls.
/ AFTER having secured first-class milk
/ the operation OF making gllt-edged but
( ter depends entirely upon the appliances
we have and the skill with which We use
them. The most perfect tools and
rooms carelessly used p oduced only an
/ inferior article. On the other land, the
most faultless skill, with faulty convent
ences cannot make really superior but
| ter, The essential requisites are pure
air, pure water and some method by
which we can control the temperature.
/ A. B. ALLEN states that he finds
wheat bran an Improbable feed for
swine. They DO not seem to possess
the power of digesting If, consequently
much of it passes through them only
partially assimilated. If mixed with
corn meal 1t does better, and can be fed
with advantage to cattle. along with cut
hay, if mixed with it and well wetted, as
1t then undergoes a second justification.
The State Veterinarian of Kansas IN
spected the livery stables in Leayen-
worth and found twenty-five cases of
glanders among the horses. Five head,
valued at $1,000, we're ordered to be de-
stroyed, but the owner objected and
tried 10 prevent the execution OF the
order. This dreaded disease seems to
be spreading slowly throughout certain
districts in the West, despite the pre-
cautions that are taken TO prevent il.
IT often happens that young, thrifty
shoots spring up IN the central parts of
trees which need changing to better
sorts. These, may be budded now, in
stead Of waiting till next spring to be
grated. The buds will start sooner
and make better growths than gratis in
most instances, and there is more time
to do the work now than when the busy
season of spring arrives.
Sows about TO farrOw should be al
lowed some exercise and fed mainly with
green food. This will make psrturition
easier, increase the tendency to give
milk and prevent the feverish condition
which frenZies sovs so that they often
destroy their pigs. A SOW that has once
done this is not apt sfterwsrd to make
good mother, and should be fattened
as quickly as possible.
ALL manures deposited by nature are
| left on or near the surface. The whole
tendency of manure is to go down into
the soil rather than to rise from it.
There Is probably very little if any loss
o: nitrogen from evaporation of manure
unless it is put in piles so as to ferment.
Rams and deEs return to the soil as
much ammonia in year as is carried
OF in the atmosphere.
SOME farmers only feed grain to horses
when hard at work, thinking hay or
grass sufficient at other times This
practice is not SO common as it used to
! be, and deserves to be less so. Some
rortion of gram in the feed is both
cheaper and better than all hay. When
horses are not at work, grain and straw
will take the place of grain and hay,
uALF dollar in the value of each ton
/ of hay made can be easily secured or
lost by the difference in the time of cut
ting and the manner of curing. This
may seem a small amount to the indi-
vidual farmer, but IN the aggregate it
makes difference of SIS, 600, 900 fer or
against the farmers, the value of the hay
crop being exceeded only by that of
porn and wheat.
! As the wet season comes on there will
be cases of roup.in the poultry yards
unless the fowls are provided with dry
and well-ventllated quarters. An excel
lent remedy for roup is mixture of as
safetida, ginger, red pepper and hypo-
sulphite of soda, moistened, after the
Ingredients are made fine, with castor
oil. Give each fowl pincn twice
day.
THERE is no need OF bothering about
cows pulse to find out if she is well
or not; simply look at her nose. If
well, it viii be moist and cold; if fever
ish, dry and hot. She is like a dog in