Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10
FARM and FIREsIDE.
Farm and Garden Notes.

While other grains may be oet1er
adapted to growing stock, the
popular belief that corn is best ior
fattening hogs is correct. And to
make the hardest pork it should be
fed dry and water be given sepa-
rately.
1t rarely pays to transplant
chance trees that come up where
roots are broken off. They gener'
ally have few fibers on a long,
horizontal root, which when planted
is more likely to have suckers than
a tree from the nursery grown to
seed.
On very rich land, with early
sowing, one and a half bushels OF
barley is enough, as it will spread
from the root and give larger heads
than with heavier seeding. But II
barley is sown late, two and even
two and a half bushels may De
sown with advantage.
Two main points in a good farm
wagon are lowness, to save lifting,
and a eut-under, for convenience
in turning. The latter, however,
calls for very low fore wheels, and
the low wheels call for springs, to
modify the suddenness Of the lit
over obstacles.
An English poultryman says
that on first appearance Of gapes
make a quart of oatmeal porrldge,
stir into il tallOw candle and adj
minister it warm to the chicks.
Repeat the remedy about every
two hours. He states that he has
never lost a single chick from
gapes since the above was admins
tered.
A great deal of butter is injured
inquality before the milk is brought
from the barn or stable. If poor
butter is the result, the housewife
or dairymaid is not the one to hold
responsible. If the COWS are well
bedded, and the mixers uses due
care. there will be much fewer
complaints of ill-havored butter.
The richest grass grows on the
most fertile soil. 1t is this which
makes the good grazing lands oil
river bottoms annually overlooked.
1t is true that the grass around
clump of fresh manure will be
avoided, but if evenly distributed
and we'll decomposed, the manure
can hardly be spread too thickly'
On old fields where grass grows
thin it Is equally poor in quality.
The straw OF rye always brings
much higher prices in the market
than any other, though it is worth
no more, even if as much, as that
of wheat or oats for feed or ma
nure. 1t sells frequently as high
as common hay, being in de mand
for horsemen, who have found that,
being stiff, it does not absorb horse
droppings and can be used re-
peatedly. But this makes it less
valuable for farmers uses.
Large crops are produced by |
means OF irrigation in some local.
ties where continued droughts make
it necessary to water fields artinci-
ally. This always involves great
expense, however, and there are |
such large areas Of land not need
ing irrigation that it will not pay,
except where better land cannot |
be brought in active competition
or on special crops that yield very
large profits from small acreage.
Mari is carbonate of lime, as the
common lime is. Heat drives out the
carbonic acid and leaves the lime |
pure calcium oxide or quicklime,
and this effect is produced equally |
with mari or limestone. MARI can
be burned in kilns or pits built up |
with logs and wood in the same
way that limestone is burned. The
burning is all that is reqsired to
produce the lime. Mari being less
solid, requires less burning than
stone. Two or three days burning
Is sufficient to make the lime.