The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-01-17
Farm Items.


Warm stables save fodder.
In England the Dorhing i, considered
the test table fowl.
Joseph Harris say one blowing when
the land is dry is worth two when 1t is
wet.
Two and oue ia f tons of hay contain
an average of about 20 pound, Of min
era, matter
In Australia a sin. lie ,ounty has rnid
this year bounty on o cr -, O0) dozen
sparrowa egg.
Good carriage horses are scarce, and
prices are likely to rule h CHER for some
me to come than in the past few years
The borrowing farmer, remarks the
Farm! journal, is a MI Sancc, and ought
to be suppressed. Stop the annoyance
by refusing to loan.
Professor Arnold and I. ID. Curtis,
both good authority, agree that the
best grain food for COWS is four parts
bran, two pa IS corn-mcal, one part lin
sccdmeal
Mr.. Alan claims, in the Canadiaq
H0rticnltprjSt, that apples grown in the
central or northern part of Ontario are
,uperior in point of qual ty TO any in
the world.
The Lake Voorhees, cattle ranch in
Wyoming Territory comprises 1000, 600
acres, and one pasture OF 10000 acres
is inclosed by single WIRE fence. Ii
will accommodate 10000 cattle.
A man po'ed some lima beans with
common four foot lathS, driven one foot
into the ground and when the vines
had climbed the thrcc-foot poles they
We're pinchcd back. Result, more and
carrier beans than ever before.
It is estimated that tie raisin crop at
Riverside Cal, wi this season amount
to 1900 boxes, AID the packers have
been paying from 81 to cents per
pound in the sweat boxes. This crop
is being made from about 1000 acres.
An Illinois farmer gives his hogs r d
pepper tea on Their >howing symptom $
of cholera, and ell" inns that this has al
way proved an cfectual cure. and that
he has never lost porkcr 50 treated,
while his neigh ors have uttered ser.-
ously.
Both the back and the red-eyed or
spcckled beans are better for winter use
than are Lima beam. Tie former can
be made into soup in the same manner
as with split pea. The speckled bean,
when prepared rs the white bean is
usually cooked, Is cons dcrcd much
richer than the latter.
Engi Sh manufacturers have an i'm
provemcnt in m.lk-canS in the form of
wrou.ht-irOn >tayS. which rad ate from
the center and are fastened into the
metal which projects below the caa.
The neck of the cans, being made Of
wrought-st Ell, are provided with close
Interchangeable Ids, which serve to
keep out dust.
Mrs. l.. Harrison, in the Prairie
Farmer, says: Extracted honey is kept
nicely in jars with cloth tied securely
over the top, 80 that il it is not ripcned
sufficiently the mir will eyaporate it.
These jars can be pied one uron an
other, by putting pieces Of wood be-
tween them A prooer place in which
TO store J oney is desideratum.
Within few years the manufacture
OF cheese has Increased in this country
from 20, 600. 900 pounds to $50, 900. 900.
But cheese is as high-priced as ever,
Compared with other things, and the
market seem, no nearer ue.ng = uttcd
tran it Wa years ago. More than that,
it is still. at current quotat on. a food
80 valuable tn t il s. ould tie much u ore
generally used than / has ever been
The London Marx Lane Express ad-
viSes Ameri an, to avoid the landlo u
and tenant system. 1t says Keep it
out OF your land system at all costs.
Make occupancy more than ever in
sepArablr from ownership. The man,
say, foreigner, who brings his thou
sands o pounds to invest in land tod V
may appear to be a benc'a tor; but the
next GENE alton will see IL III a nee
paras te, feed ng upon the Industry Of
the Nation