The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-07-24
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

In hot weather.
Water in which fish will not live is
not at for stock.
The humane farmer has few shade
trees in his pasture.
A green crop plowed under is always
beneficial to the soil.
The wolves and eagles are thinning
the fiocks of West Virginia.
Cheap help is expensive on the
farm, as it is everywhere else.
The Jerusalem artichoke is cultivated
in France for making alcohol.
There are known to be 175 varieties
OF insects that feed on the apple tree.
A rat in the corn-crib will consume
and waste enough corn to keep a pig.
The Norway spruce, planted two feet
apart will soon form a beautiful hedge.
There are no 'Off- years. in ounce
culture. and there is always a ready
market for the fruit.
Weeds, briars and bushes may be cut
from the pastures with as much profit
as from the meadows.
NoIabor performed on farm affords
greater pleasure OF gives such sure pro-
6ts as stock raising.
It is said that 900 new farms will
be opened up in Colorado this season.
They all have to be irrigated.
Tt Is a common practice for Eastern
farmers to cut one crop Of clover and
plow the second crop under for manure.
The sorghum sugar-works at Cham
.paign. II hove been abandoned. The
vputu-s Is a total loss to the stockhold
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The Western Farmer recommends
the sowing Of orchard grass with blue
grass. timothy and clover for pasture.
1t starts early and grows late.
A loan agent who has had thirty-five
years. experience in Iowa, says he has
never known a mortgage TO be fore
closed on a dairy OF stock farm.
An Englishman, who has recently
been investigating the agricultural re-
sources of the Soudar, says it is one OF
the finest agricultural regions in the
world.
A Frenchman claims to have discov-
cred that butter can be separated from
milk by passing a suitable electric cur
rent through the iacteal fluid. lie has
secured patent.
A COW kept at the Governors man
zion. in Jefferson City, Mo-, has been
MIXED for the last FIVE years by con-
yicts. She now refuses to allow any
one TO approach her who does not wear
a stripped suit.
1.-THE meanest man on EARTH" says
#. r. Terry, sis the one who hires his
children to do a job and then forgets to
--v them-who gives them a calf to
60 for their own, and sells it when
s-5v,n up and coolly pockets all the
--oney."
70 green manure should be placed in
intact with the roots OF any trees
newly set, but any kind of manure may
be spread on the surface and cultivated
in. 1t is we'll to prepare land by liberal
manuriug a year in advance of setting
trees.
An easy way to kill plantain, dande-
lion and other weeds in a lawn, says an
exchange. is to place little sulphuric
acid with a stick on the crown of each
plant carrying the acid in an open
mouthed bottle with long handle, so
as not to touch it with fingers or clothes.
Grapevine mildew, SAYS tbs Gard
susr's Monthly can be prevented by
soaking stakes on which the vines twine
in a solution Of blue vitriol. a recent
experiment, where such stakes were
mixed with others not soaked, through
ont the vineyard, showed that in every
case where not soaked all the leaves
we're entirely ruined, while those in The
soaked stakes were healthy. A weaker
solution of the vitriol was not so effec-
tive. The effect of the soaking gTadu-
allv dies out, but will last from four t.
six years
STOCK NOTES.
Cows do much better on mGiTrootior
than when confined to aaSSirools 1ook r.
In selecting br,eS5 Sefore large size.
form ana .eeffeed can be varied in car
ll66ff ll66f sheep, the better will be the re.
suits
Iowa has 35.9 cattle to the square
mile: a larger number, it is said, than
any other State.
w. ". Gardner, Livingston Co., ILL.,,
r,ritas the Prairie Farmer that il thev