The Portland daily press., 1884-01-07
AGRICULTURAL.
EEfnts for Tnnrnrr.


Well, boys, what are you up to now? Good
time to get up he wood, and you had better
rush business before the snow gets deeper.
While you are browsing around in the
woods, cut out your supply of bean poles.
Get enough, so you can raise some beans
next year. Pole beans are the most produc-
tive, an old wren's egg bean is the best we
know of to bake. 1t takes four or FIVE hiis
of bush beans to yield as much as you would
get on one pole, and then they are up out Of
the way of sand and not SO liable to rust.
We told you few weeks ago how to get the
pods off, by pushing the poles through a
hole in board
How about the calves2 Are they getting
rough? Look out for lice and put on a little
dry sand. Geta good stiff brush for all
kinds of stock, and then it will be pleasure
to you as well as to them. TO spend few
minutes over each animal twice a day. A
card is o barbateus indictment on young
stock, and they and their attendants soon
comes TO dread it, while brush changes the
whole thing. Get Que and see how much
better the cattle will look in week.
Keep watch Of the sheep Give the weak
ones place 20 eat by themselve. Look out
for ticks early. A poor sheep in March is
poor property.
nn ut S4iaesS yat-lees~a sads because
some one else does. Spruce up, pun 0s->,n
your vest and try TO be somebody. No mat
> ter If YOU do things little better than your
neiehbors who do not read the Mirror See
that the pigs have warm nest and that the
trough is not full Of frozen sWill.
Has not your mother got tired OF washing
that old rough floor? Now is good time
to get ont a white maple or other hard
wood log and have it sawed for new Hoor.
Don't wait till spring before you put the
wood up. Work at it by odd jobs when you
do not see anything else to do. Every
little helps. and small pile each morning
while the cattle are eating will be good
lift when you get at it in earnest. Then, as
soon as the ice Is melted off, put it under
cover; il pays!
Take some warm day and wash up that
old harness, then mend and oil it all ready
for spring work. When it is not slippery
you can harness mp the colt, but cont put
any old rotten straps Oh him. A colt should
learn at first that when harnessed he is there
till "honorably discharged" Get him used
to the harness before you hitch him to any
thing. No matter how many loose straps
you have hanging whether they are IN
sstae ight place or not; get him accustomed
q al SORTS ofaecidenls before hand
Yok. up the eteer calves s5eule warm DAY
wnen they feel lazy and goa ara good ma
tured. Remember that your part is to
teach them. not to break them They know
nothing about what you want, ana should
not be punished for whatever they may do
till they learn. Perhaps if you never tried
this method,you think it cannot be done
but ii can.
Get your yokes aud bows ready for
The larger steers in the spring. Give steers
a good long yoke when they pillow, so they
will not be slipping into the furrow If The
yoke is too short they will pull apart. Get
these things all ready before they are wanted
in he spring.
While this good Shedding lasts get your
grass seed aud other seeds and fertilizers
aud all heavy articles which you viii want
in the spring. Then, When you see your
Deighbors plDdding through The April mnd
with half load, you will be glad you are
not in their shoes.-Mirror and Farmer.