Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-05

One great advantage of an early veg
etable garden is that two crops may be
grown in one season. If an abundance
of manure be used the drain upon the
soil should be light.
Clean the poultry house and sprinkle
with ashes or plaster. If lice abound,
apply kerosene in small amounts to the
perches, from which it viii spread to the
birds In effective quantities.
The slightest twist of the comb, or
or uneven serration thereon, is cause for
rejection of pure bred poultry at ex-
hibitions, SIS the birds must be perfect
in each member of the body. The slight
defects of plumage are not noticed in the
barnyard, but the breeder of thorough
breds must conform his fowls to all the
requirements of standard or they will
be rejected as disqualified.
A New York farmer reports raising
upwards of 100 bushels of shelled corn to
the acre on land that had been two years
in clover. Under every hill was placed
handful of hen manure busted with
lime.
For growing plants weekly applica-
ton of diluted manure water will work
wonders, but those in state of rest are
better without it; and, in fact, they need
little water of any kind until growth
begins.
A ton of bran is said to make manure
worth $3.50. This leaves its cost for
stock feeding very small. But it is prob
able the manuTial value is much less
when fed to milch COWS to increase the
production of milk.
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the soil can be got in condition, will
make feed for cows before clover or
fodder corn can be ready to cut. This
early sowing may be followed with corn
for soiIing later in the season.
Clover hay is much better for mich
COWS than timothy. 1t produces larger
quantity of milk and also of a better
quality. All butter-makers know how
| yellow the butter is which is made from
the milk of COWS fed on clover hay.
At S. to $40 per ton English farmers
prefer to feed potatoes to stock rather
than sell them and buy oilcake.
Ifwork horses are not in good condi-
ton when they commence Spying work
they will continually get poorer.
The Schumacher peace is recognized by
many leading horticulturits as a really
valuable and improved accession.
Strange as it may seem, there is more
food raised in the poultry yards of France
than in the stalls and pastures of Eng
land.
They are offering twenty-five apiece
! for cats on the San Joaquin River, Gala
fornia, to kill the gopher ground squirrel.
There are 700 species of solanum
known, of which six produce tubers and
only one of these, the common potato
has been cultivated.
/ Cows sometimes catch cold in one or
more sections Of the udder that swell up
and inf1ame badly, but do not gather and
break. When the swelling goes down
that part of the udder will probably go
dry; but in many such cases, where no
structural damage is done, at the next
i calYing the udder will come all right
again.
A Dakota farmer in 1881 planted a
single grain of wheat in one Of his oat
fields. From it grew twenty-five stalks,
each bearing full head. These yielded
$50 grains, 760 of-Which were planted the
next year, producing one-fifth of a bushel
of splendid wheat. This was planted
last Spring, yielding seventeen bushels,
making 1,020 pounds of wheat from one
grain in three years.
The Devon cattle breeders of the
United States recently met and organized
! the American Devon Cattle Association,
with the following officers: President,
John M. Miller, Hickory, Pa; Secretary,
F. w. Reed, GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
Syrup made for feeding bees should
not be too thick, but Of the consistency
of newly gathered honey. The sugar
may be dissolved with either cold or
boiling water; we prefer the latter, and
are careful to have all the grains dis
solved.
In treating butter after it comes from
the churn many people, says the Pe9ansyI-
Ua,aiG Farmer, ruin it entirely by working
it until it is salvey. Long churning pro-
duces the same trouble, completely
breaking the grain" of the butter.
The Pharmaceutical Journal says that
in Canada honey is extracted from the
comb by centrifugal machine and the
comb replaced; the bees, when in good
condition, will fill it again in four days.
After two seasons use the comb is melt
ed into foundation comb" upon which
the bees quickly put the finishing touch.
es. Canadian wax is practically out OF
the market; the supply is principally OBJ
tanned from Africa.
There is likely to be revival of the
beet-sugar industry in England. Some OF
: the works long ago abandoned, are beine
put in order, and large paintings of beetE
for sugar will be made in their neighbour.
i hood. One difficulty in English growing
E of beets for sugar is that the growing sea
2 sons are so cool as to greatly diminish
3 the proportions of saccharine matter
, in the root as compared with beets
{ grown in France and other warm eli.
!. mates.
: The use of blood as food for cattle
: has, it is stated, been the subject of ex-
pertinent in Denmark by a chemist, who
f as a result, has now invented and pat
}, ented new kind of cake. in which