Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-17
RARaa AID HoUsEHoLp.
Hints That WIN be Found Useful to the
Farmer and his Family.

Farmer and His Family.
Uniformity of temperature, whether
artificial or natural, is the condition
under which the best wool is always
grown.
Use as much pains in breeding your
hives OF bees as you do in breeding
your hogs or cattle, if you want the best
of results.
The vast quantity of %, 4S1 ,946 bushels
of grain are reported to be in store
30 per cent of the entire visible supply
IN this country.
The value of the pork exported from
this country in the fiscal year ending
June Both, 1888, was $70,000,000. Thus
why it is not desirable for foreign cOun-
tries to exclude our pork.
Give all your drone comb to your best
sWarms and make them rear the droneS.
Do nor let the inferior swarms have any
drone comb at all, and then you will
see change In your bees, and then you
can feel that you are boss and not the
bees.
In answer to a question as to which
is the best grain TODD tor mich COWS,
Professor Arnold recommends four
parts of bran, two parts of corn meal
and one part of linseed meal, as having
given him the best results in proper
ton to cost of any dry food he had ever
used.
Mich COWS should always have at
least small amount of green food, such
as roots and ensilage, when other green
food is not in season. Such a ration
Il To ro1
health, as well as to increase the flow of
milk. So says the National StOcknGn.
For the prevalent disease of scaly legs
in fowls, caused by minute insect, rub
bing the legs with an ointment Of sui
phur, kerosene, etc., is advised. The
remedy is good enough, but better one
is immersing the feet and legs in tOma-
to can of kerosene. Do this every three
days until cure is effected.
Fatten stock in the stall. Turn them
out for exercise, but never feed in the
yard. The animal is obliged TO fight for
its food among the herd and eat it after
it has been fouled and trampled, cannot
thrive up to it's fullest capacity. There
is also an enormous waste of food when
given in this manner.
In feeding calves by hand great care
should be exercised to have the food of
the right temperatures nearly as pos
sible that of milk fresh from the udder-
and to feed often enough to prevent the
calf from getting excessively hungry, and
then over eating. By neglect of these
precautions promising calves are often
seriously injured if not killed outright.
Be as careful in selecting the swarms
to rear your drones from as you are the
g., i -
and the progeny will take after them
as they were INDECENT or energetic, and
we want good stock on both sides. Get
good queen of some good breeder to
keep your stock up to the standard, and
do not allow so much in-and-in breeding
as has been heretofore.
A correspondent says that young horses
should never have shoes imposed upon
them until it is we'll proved that they
cannot do without them. He predicts
that the day is not far off when some hui
name benefactor of his kind and horse
kind will produce breed of horses hav-
ing such firm, tough feet, in addition to
all other good qualities, that shoeing will
be unnecessary.
An agricultural writer, speaking of the
best methods of feeding corn fodder and
other coarse foods, calls attention to the
fact that since these are in themselves
incomplete foods, lacking the heterogeneous
and fatty elements, they should invaria-
bly, be supplemented with some food
which will supply these He regards
cottonseed cake, or linseed oil cake as
among the best, as they not only supply
the needed elements, but also greatly
enrich the manure.
Our ideas of high farming differ very
materially from those of the agriculturists
of many sections of Europe, where rents
run as high as $500 per acre, and where
farming is made to yield good income
even at those figures. France, England,
Holland and other countries are a long
way ahead of us in the matter of making
every foot of land give its largest possible
yield and this is accomplished by manur-
ing highly and cultivating with the ut
most thoroughness.
fyou do not get as good price for
your butter as some one else does you
may count that there are nine chances
out of ten that the fault lies with you
and not with the purchaser, remarks an
exchange. Really choice butter is not
SO plenty but that any one who makes a
really first class article can easily obtain
the highest market price. 1t is very
natural for one to think that their butter
is just as good as their neighbours, but if
their neighbours brings higher price it
will pay to try and improve the quality a
little.
The editor of the american CttItiUGtor
says that in an experience of many years
he has found that clover seed sown in
February or early in March is more sure
of a catch than that sown later. Some
theoretical fears have been expressed
before Spring; but that these fears are
groundless is shown by the fact that self
sown clover seed, or that turned up by
last FALLS blowing, often gives a good
catch, and this must have lain on or near
the surface of the ground during the
Winter.
The United States Government has