McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-26
FARM AND GARDEN.

twelve months.
Do not be afraid to mix sulphur and
red pepper with mess of warm feed
Tor your chickens twice or three times
week. 1t tends to keep them ir
good health.
The bark of the pear tree is thinner
than that of the apple. hence it suffers
more severely from exposure of its
trunk to the heat of the summer sun,
and should be protected.
Standard pear trees one year from
the bud are safer to buy than those
OF greater age and size. Every ele.
ment OF cost is less, and the trees suf-
fer less from transplanting.
An English gardener, who has great
success in raising radishes, makes his
radish beds with nearly or quite one
half soft coal ashes and SCOT. Under
this plan his beds are not infested by
worms.
Surface manuring in fruit culture is
also mulching in a measure, and all
mulching benefits the soil. The losses
from evaporation are not great, but
all manures should be well composted
before applying.
Ohio's maple trees are not an insig-
nificant figure in her crop statistics.
She has 100000 trees which produc-
ed sugar to the amount of 1868, 900
pounds, and 564, 1913 gallons of syrup,
worth In round numbers about
100000.
Where stumps are numerous and
farms small, it pays farmers to unite
and buy large stump puller. The
expense to each would be compare
lively light, and the stumps could
soon be routed by cooperation in
work and machinery.
Little or no profit can be expected
from old fowls, those in excess of two
years. Very valuable hen-mothers
may sometimes be retained several
gears longer for chicken raising, but
the rest should be got rid of. The
most profitable fowls are pullets.
When butter is kept in tubs or
earthen vessels, it must be packed as
closely as possible. and no interstices
Dr. vacant spaces left, for the butter
quickly spoils around these inter-
stices, and the evil spreads through
the whole tub. In large establish
ments, it is considered essential that
sub be filled with butter made all in
one day.
Grain, grass and stock-farmers can
not be expected to carry on small
fruit culture for market along with
general farming, without the employ
nent of extra labor and capital. But
every farmer can raise fruit enough
for family use without much extra
care; and every farmer ought to do it,
and will do it, if he looks out properly
for his family.
Bees wintered on their summer
stands will require looking after occa-
sionally to see that the entrance to the
hive does not become clogged up with
dead bees or ice. They require very
little air during cold weather, but
should warm spell occur, and they
lind themselves closed up in the hives,
the bees become very much excited,
and while in this condition will soon
smoother themselves to death.
Cleveland Bay is the name given to
handsome class of coach horses inn
ported from England, mainly from
Yorkshire. They are of good size,
generally good bay with black points,
with a good carriage, well suited for
carriage work, and much liked by.
many for use in producing horses for
farm and other middle class work.
More or less running blood is used in
the crosses producing these horses.
Professor A. E. Blount, of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College, reports that
he is testing 25U varieties of wheat,
gathered from all parts of the world,
besides thlrty-eight cross varieties, or
hybrids, some of which are far SUI
perior to their parents. He says that
so great are the changes made by the
soil, climate, and his selection and
crossing. that hardly one variety in ten
can be recognized when shown to the
parties who sent the seed.
Fortunate, indeed, have been those
who have had stock in ample supply
consume their surplus, for no mat
ter what the range of prices on meats,
the amounts realized by the farmer
have been and will be vastly greater
than if he had sold to the grain mer-
chant instead of the butcher. Every
year the stock grower has some advan-
tage over the grain grower, but at no
time are the advantages so conspicu-
Gus as in the seasons of good crops
and low prices.
Butter is slower coming in the win
ter season than when the weather is
warmer, the cream usually being at
too low a temperature. Those who
churn by guess work will be hours do
ing that which may be>done in a short
Ell time by the use of a thermometer.
In the winter the temperature should
be sixty-four degrees, and in summer
sixty-two degrees. In winter the
cream may become cooler, and in
summer warmer, hence it it is best to
start one or two degrees warmer in
cold weather and two degrees cooler
in warm weather.
In France and Italy the milk of .
cow after calving is not considered to
be in its normal state till ten days. At
this stage it is called colostrum. 1t
contains no caseine, turns rapidly, but
does not acidify. 1t has been alleged
the longer the milk remains in the I'D
der the richer it will be. Hence the
morning is superior to the evening
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