Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-10-14
FARM NOTES.

The PLANTING OF EvERGREREs.-A
deciduous tree, the buds of which have
started, is always Q risky thing TO ham
die. With everRreeps it Is different.
They transplant better after vegetation
has started and the terminal buds begin
to swell This Is one reason why ever.
greens furnished by nurserymen with
other stock early in the season, often
fail. They have necessarily been dug
too early, exposed perhaps to chilling
Or drying winds during the packing,
and, though fresh and green In appear
ance when received by the planter.
make no start after setting out, and
gradually turn brown and die. 1t Is
much better to order evsrgreens 70 be
sent separately from other trees and
later in the season. say May, or even
June, if the season Is backward and
new ehoots have not made much
growth. They should be fresh dug,
quick packed, and soon received. The
tender point about an evergreen Is its
root. If once dried, it seldom recovers.
1t is very important. therefore, that the
roots should be carefully protected from
sun and wind. Hpossibie, take q cloudy
or-showery day for handling evergreens.
If the right conditions do not exist,
keep the roots constantly wet and rolled
up in mating. Ii there are a great
many to be handled. as for hedging.
keep them trenohed in moist soil. re-
moving only few at time.
Eyppv foruar xrI,o cau in opv raw sf-
ford 1t should have q pair of platform
scales. Not only should he have a par
but he should also make use OF them
great deal more than those who have
them usually do. There is no more
important lesson that farmer can learn
than the one to be secured by using the
scales properly. If he will weigh the
animals which he intends to fatten be-
fore he commences feeding them, and
carefully measure all the feed used III
finishing them of, he will then know
Just what 1t has cost him to fstten them,
and whether there has been any profit
in the operation or not. This is sn inn
portant and very useful lesson for any
feeder to learn, and learn well, il he ex-
poets to be uniformly successful In his
business. Besides this great sdvant-
age, the scales always on hand enables
the farmer to sell everything by actual
weight. which is an important consider
alton, as it avoids all guess work and
any attempts to fraud by the purchaser.
WHEN a cows teat becomes Obstruct-
ed with thick. stringy matter. and when
L, afuA ia
drawn out instead of milk, it indicates
garget. This trouble may be caused in
various ways. Lying in q cold, wet
spot out in field at night, a sudden
change from hot weather to cold,
the full udder as she lies
down, chasing about with full udder.
indigestion from any cause-all these
will cause it, and SO will bad milking,
such as leaving bad milk in the teats.
When it happens the cause should be
discovered and the proper remedy ap-
piled. Usually dose of linseed oil or
4 pound of E. psom salts with O teaspoon
IuI of ground ginger, and rub the udder
with camphorated ointment will re-
move the trouble in twenty-four hours.
The udder must be completely cleared
of the matter and milk in it.
MILK is one OF the most absorbent OF
liquids, and Is affected by the food con-
,umed by the cows and even by odors in
he air breathed by them. When the
iood or water or air is foul or unhealth-
'ul the milk is at once impregnated,
and shows it by the taste and odor and
,ap;d decomposition. A dead animal IN
4 neighboring field, water filled with
germs from decomposed mat
;er, wild onions, garlic, and other odor-
Jus or lI-hsvored herbs. poisonous
plants, which would otherwise destroy
he COWS, as in the well known disease
known as "milk sickness" have each
md all been known quite frequently to
fleet the milk so much as to make it
Unfit for use and even dangerous or ia,
al to persons using it, while the COW,
elieved by the sbsorptive character Of
he milk, has escaped injury. These
acts should be widely spread abroad
md made known to dairy men and 9TH |
rs who keep COWS or but one COW for
amily use.
The pig is no exception to the rule
hat all domestic animals require salt.
the few animals which are fed slops |
rom the house will get some salt in
his kind of feed. but not enough, and |
hey do better if mixture Of salt aud
shes is left where they can eat as they
Wish. Many believe that lack of proper
alting is one cause of hog cholers
where large droves are kept and
,iven grain and water. When men are
deprived of salt serious diseases result.
n some respects the internal structure
# human beings resembles that of the
Dig.
GREAT care should be exercised ir
,eepmg the COW pasture entirely free
rom rag weeds. These weeds iInpart
disgusting, bitter taste to the
milk of the cows whicn eat them, and
he butter made from such milk Is also