Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-02-05
Farm and Live steck Notes.

Early lambs need warm quarters.
Consider morals when hiring help.
Ground oats is hard to beat for fowls
Never try to raise reef crop on poor
soil.
Manure: The key stone OF all good
farming.
The United States has eleven million
horses.
Don't look for winter eggs in a coop
where the combs get frozen.
An ice house should be located en- a
rise of ground; never in a hollow.
You can count on saving almost one'
third of the seed by sowing with drill
instead of sowing broadcast.
1t is better to buy good animal with
poor pedigree, than poor animal with
good pedigree.
There's no use trying to make the
stock feel good by predicting an open
winter and neglecting to provide them g
shelter.
1t costs as much to winter dog as q
pig. Which will pay the best? Some
times the sheep will answer the question
The United States produces forty
eight bushels of cereals for each person
as against the raising of eleven bushels
to each person in Great Britain and Ire
land.
In locking about for help the coming
season, bear in mind that poor workmel
are apt to ask as big wages as good ones
although maybe not worth half as much
Discriminate between the two classes
and pay according to actual worth.
The farmer cannot escape selling the
fertility of his acres if be sells anything
He will always be on the safe side, how
ever, if he returns little more to the
land than he carts away.
In dry weather a deeply drained and
deeply plowed soil will be more moist al
the surface where the roots feed thar
will an underdrained field that has giver
up its water by evaporation.
Nothing is more ruinous to meadow:
and even pastures, than the hoofs of cat
tie cutting and poaching the soft surface
The forage they obtain has little if any
more value than oak shavings.
The craze for stuffed owls has broken
out again. The owl sets good exam
pie. and every family should have one
1t keeps its eyes open and its mouth
shut.
Governor Hoadly's interest in agrieul-
ture is not immense. His allusion to the
work of the State Board of Agriculture
is confined to three lines, and they con-
vey no idea of approval or encourage.
ment.
Well, you may now prune your trees
grape vines, currants. shrubs, ETC., if il
has not been done before. Be careful
not to prune shrubs which will bear theiI
flowers upon last years wood.
For a cattle fence use three barbed
and one tablet wire, galvanized; never
buy painted wire; put the tablet wire
second from the top, and it is almost as
easily seen as plank. Place the post:
| from l6 to 80 feet apart.
The farmer who keeps his family OF
salt pork and equally salt mackerel al
summer, and saves all the young roos
tiers to sell in the fall, ought to be com
PEELED to eat salt Goldfish three times &
day for 365 days in succession.
ut was not by special dispensatioI
cf Providence that a certain farmer re-
ceived S7S per head for the yearly prod
uct of bis COWS while his next dool
neighbor received only $50 per head"
What agriculture needs is not half 81
much vote in the Cabinet as intelligent
professionally well-trained representa-
tives in tho legislative bodies; men quail
flied to be leaders in the agricultural a:
we'll as in the political field.
Cream is not improved by being held
at low temperature for several days
''to sour" One Of the most prolific
causes of cream not coming is in having
it kept at 40 to so degrees and theI
warmed up to 60 degrees and churned.
The potato is not very particular about
the kind of soil it grows ia; but good
soil for it should be loose and friable; il
ought to be porous enough to insure dry
ness and moist enough so the potato will
get no check from drouth. Its mechan
ical condition is the first thing to looE
after.
Professor Shelton thinks that prices
need adjustment when wheat costs q Of
cent a pound and flour cents pound
But he holds that the case against the
butcher, who buys beef on foot at cent:
pound and sells choice steak at Is
cents, is not so strong as that against
the miller.
For nearly all farm products the far.
mer takes certain chances for failure
Dry weather, a hailstorm, rust or blight
may sweep away not only the profits
but nearly the whole proceeds of bis
labor. However thoroughly he may dc
his part, be must face the chance fol
failure and loss.
THE paragraph in Gen. Grants paper
on the battle of Shiloh, which Gen. Nc