The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-12-11
Long haIters are unsafe.

Half-starved hens won't lay much.
Shelter the animals from cold storms.
To brighten old alpaca, wash it in
coffee.
Lack of comfort in animals hinders
fattening.
When cooking beans add half tea
spoonful of soda.
Too much corn will injure sheep
Oats are the best.
Moldy corn-fOdder will taint the but
ter. Ditto musty hay.
Mix stove polish with vinegar and
sugar, and polish with a newspaper in
stead of a brush.
To brighten the inside of a coffee pot
ill with water, add small piece of
soap and boil for half an hour.
Alum dissolved in water is an excel
lent thing to 20 eytermiuate bedbugs,
and has the advantage of not being
deadly poison.
To make the skin white and soft, dis
solve a teaspo onful OF powdered borax
ina half pint of sweet milk, and use as
a wash
A pound Of gusno, with two pounds
of sulPtate of potash, dissolved in half
a barrel os water, makes an excellent
fertilizer when sprinkled on lawns.
The Lancet states that a German OBJ
server has found that cows MIXED three
times day give much more milk than
wher MIXED twice only, and that the
proportion of fat is the same in both
cases.
The New Hampshire Mirror says
that a farmer may prepare a field of
winter grain ever so carefully, and yet
have all his labor come to naught if he
has not prevented against the freezing
out of his grain by defective drainage.
Thousands of tons of cheese are made
In France from the milk Of sheep, while
milk from the goats is used for the same
purpose in Germany. In European mar
kets such cheese brings the highest pri-
ces, and tbs demand is always equal to
the supply.
An aburdant growth to the wheat
crop IL autumn is not desired, as all
that is required is root formation sufi-
cient to give it good stand in order to
make an early start In the spring. The
heavier the growth now the more sub
ject the crop to the drawbacks of win
ter.
Salt is often largely used in the food
of pigeons, and should also be given
fowls, especially during the molting
season. The proper way to feed it is to
add it TO the soft food in quantity sufii-
cient to season the food to suit the
taste, but should never be used in ex-
cess.
One of the most successful of Illinois
dairyman keeps 100 COWS, but never
raises pound of hay. He feeds his
cattle on corn fodder, cut when in bios
som, bound and set up till cured. or till
winter, when it is removed to the barn
He gets seven tons of this dry fodder to
the acre. and claims it is worth as much
as the best of hay.
An Iowa farmer gives it as his expe-
rieuce that an exclusive diet of corn is
the cause of hog cholera. He claims
that the hog should be treated to a va
riable diet like any other animal, and
that corn is not a complete article of
food, the hog requiring suitable food
for converting into bone and muscle as
we'll as fat
All manures deposited by nature are
left on or near the surface. The whole I
tendency of manure is to 90 down into
the soil rather than to rise from it.
There is probably very little if anvlloss
of nitrogen from evaporation of manure.
unless it is put in piles, so as to ferment.
Rains and dews return to the soil as
much ammonia in a gyea- as is carried
of in the atmosphere.
Kerosene oil is attracting much atten-
tion as an insecticide. It is a deadly 7.
poison to nearly al insects, while it is
harmless 20 man. As it does not mix
with water, an emulsion should be made F
with milk. An emulsion composed Of .
one-thiTd oil and twO-thirds milk. either .
sweet or sour, IS feand to be more ser
viceable. This emulsion NAV be applied
in the same manner as Paris green.
Some one has inquired how best to
remove pollen from brood combs. Let
the bees remove it. As your colonies
require more combs give them one or
two of these at time, placing them be-
tween frames of brood, and as uear the
as possible. when they will be
quickly and thoroughly cleaned. The
bees will convert it into brood. If the
pollen is very hard soak the combs for
awhile before placing them in the hive.
Sheep should have shelter to run un-
lei 81 al seasons. They heed it during
he long cold rains of autumn fully as
much as any other animal on the farm
ioes. They get soaked to tie skin dur
ng these long rains, and ia that condi-
ion suffer great discomfort. which al
'ays tells on the desh and general con-
ltlon. Sheds for this purpose are easi.
= and cheaply constructed in the past
re or field, if it is not convenient to 8 I
hem up to the stables.