The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-01
FARM NOTES.

1ne DeSU UuUlef COlel 10 d Pt'iiioh VI No
meal mush, fed warm once day, the corn
to be of the yellow variety 1t Will III
crease the milk and butter as well as give
good color. M a
Do not base swine feeding upon the idea
that pigs will eat anything. They are indeed
not very choice in their selection offood, but
growth and health are best promoted when
they are fed on a variety of food.
The practice ofmulching young trees after
they are set out seems to be growing in favor.
It keeps the soil cool and damp during the
summer, and prevent plants from drawing
from the soil. The mulch should extend
well out from the base of the tree.
Unless you are able and willing to per-
sonalIy superintend the scalding of your
milk pans. it would be better to use earthen
ware. Nothing but boiling water and plenty
of it will remove the germs of disease that
lurk in the half-washed tin vessels.
An Ohio farmer washes his apple trees
every spring and fall with strong I've
that will float an egg. and finds it to be sure
death to the borers. He claims that he has
not lost tree since beginning this practice.
although he had lost some previously.
When the rich, black liquid is flowing
away from the manure heap it indicates
that the most available and soluble por-
lions are being lost, Snch liquids may be
saved in various ways, such as through the
use of absorbent material or pumping it
over the solid parts as fast as it accumu-
lates. The liquids are more valuable than
the solids
The quality of butter depends immedi-
ately upon the character of the cows food,
and should put the cautious dairyman
upon his guard to see that his cows can
not get at any kind of food that will injure
the quality of the milk. Hence he should
be sure to destroy all the weeds in his
pasture, even more carefully than he does
in his corn field, and as water, when
tainted, will work the same evil as bad food,
he should see that only pure article is
within reach of the cows.
A correspondent contributes the follow
ing to the Country Gentlemaa, concerning
the above complaint, which has been at
tracing considerable attention in agricul-
tural papers generally.
| have noticed for some time that there
has been quite discussion in your paper
about what is called the gapes in chickens
and its cures. | can give an unfailing
preventive, if commenced in the early
Spring and perservered in. 1t was given me
by a very old woman many years ago, and
our chickens since first tried it. She told
me that if | would look closely ON the
ground in the early morning, | would find
little red worm about one inch in length,
and the size of a small thread; that the
chickens ate this worm, were very fond of
it, and it gave them the gapes. The pre-
tentative is always to feed the chicks before
taking them out. Keep them shut up
until the heaviest of the dew is off the
grass, and this must be presevered in
during the season. The failure in so doing
one morning may give the chicks the
gapes. .t-t Bio.
When the chicks are let out without
feeding they are so hungry from their
nights fast, that they pick up this little
worm, and it always finds it way into the
windpipe instead of the stomach. / know
these to be facts. Feed young chicks with
dry corn bread, fat meat when convenient
(never with wet feed or dough-, and plenty
of fresh water, and you will never have
the gapes among chickens. | have a
division in my poultry yard, and in the
small yard | have a house 10 by 6 feet,
made of old planks that were considered of
no account. The house is set on posts
about three feet above the ground. In this
house | keep the young chicks and their
mothers at night until they are large
enough to be removed to the large hen
house. | feed the young chicks in this
house every morning before letting them
out, and never have a sick chicken. j
have found out that an ounce of prevention
is worth pound of cure.