The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-03
FARM AND GARDEN.
Mich cows should always b /,
ground te0d:

FARM AND GARDEN.
ground feed.
Feed carrots TO color tho milk and
make the butter yellow:
Grooming the cows is work which
always brings = good return.
The pear delights in deep, rich.
warm loan, with clay subsoil.
Iowa walks off with the best prize
for butter at the New Orleans exposi.
tibn.
Neither phosphoric acid nor potash
leave the soil except as they ats taken
up by plants.
.'Cracklings' as food tor poultry
will answer an excellent purpose ii
supplying animal food.
Treat the COWS kindly. Harsh treat
ment will nakS th6m hold their milk,
and dry themselves up.
1t is said and well proved that the
more quiet sheep are kept the more
quickly they will fatten.
Watch that lice do not infest the
dairy stock. They often come, no one
Can tell how, nor whence.
Remember the harnesses and tools
of all kinds, and put them in thorough
repair for the spring campaign.
A little good feed, mixed with a
good deal Of thoughtful attention, ID
what makes the flock do its best.
The wool trade of St. Louis aggre-
gated about IL. 800, 600 pounds in 1884,
against Il, 1868, 729 pounds in 1888.
Do not allow the poultry I'd stand
around In the snow, but give II a dry
place to run under In the day time.
Incoming cows should have limit;
ed diet Of dry hay, with . little bran,
for q few weeks previous to calving.
No field on the farm is, 30 unfairly
treated as that containing the orchard.
Tho chief cause of orchards "runninp
OUT Is an exhausted soil.
Reports show that the number Of
sheep in Great Britain has suffered 9
great reduction in tho past ten years
something over 5000, 900 head.
In driving the COWS, never hurry
them; as when their udders arc full ol
milk. or they are heavy with calf, it j,
very likely to do them permanent in
jury.
The cherry grows best in rich
warm, sandy loan. II mulch O
leaves, straw or brush is put around
them they will be very much benefitet
by it.
John Splah, 4 noted horseman, saw
quart of oatmeal in a pail OF watel
will freshen horse after hard driv
ing, and prep are his stomach for NOR,
solid food.
The best treatment for an orchard
after it comes into bearing, il to make
hog pasture of it. II clover is sown
and the pigs allowed to feed upon it
the soil will improve-and 80 will tn,
pigs.
Steady work docs no harm to ma.
ture horse. If we'll fed, carefully
groomed and kept from undue expos
ure, team may labor the winter
through with profit both to the owner
and to the animals.
Raspberrics and blackberries are
more hardy if planted on light, sandy
loan, but if large berries are desired,
a mulch must be used in July. Or
more moist land mulchine is not need
ed, but the canes are more liable te
be winter killed.
1t is a well-known fact that sheen
love bright fine hay, and will eat il
cleaner and do better on it that on the
coarse hay; while cattle seem to relish
the coarse hay and folders even better
than the very fine. It would not be
much trouble to feed accordingly.
If you are keeping COWS for the
dairy, or to give milk and make but
ter, keep only the kind that will give
the greatest quantity of your speciality
butter cows, if it is butt ter; and il il
is milk, then keep COWS of one of the
milk breeds, says tho Pittsburg Stock.
man.
The Orange County Farmer says.
'The sugar beet is preferred among
the roots for sheep, being most pala:
table and containing the most solid
nutritious matter" However. sweet
turnips are preferred by many prac.
tical sheep feeders, among whom are
leading Englishmen.
Give to the COWS none but the best
and purcst food. With no other stock
is this SO essential, for the reason that
it has been fully demonstrated BY
competent authorities that the milk Is
very prolific source of transmitting
disease germs from impure food, and
especially from impure water.
Meadows and pastures need refresh.
ing with now seed as we'll as with ma.
nure at intervals. The seed should be
sown with each dressing of compost.
Repeated cutting and pasturing weak.
ems the grass and destroys some of it,
and the thick, healthy sod is only kept
up by occasional reseeding.
The receipts of wool at Chicago last
year were Al, ,693, ,6O6 pounds, against
4O,222, ,625 pounds for the year 1888,
and for the year 1882, $4,000, ,99(
pounds, which shows an increase in
the sales of nearly 10000 pounds
over the year 1884, and over 5000, ,OOC
pounds over the amount received in
The farmer who keeps few sheep
can give them better attention than
where large focks are kept; and per.
haps those farmers who can not we'll
keep large numbers could handle the
mutton breeds to better advantage.
They require just such treatment as
these farmers are best prepared to
give them.