The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-07-03
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Change the feed.
Corn likes rich land.
Apply tar where rats gnaw.
Train the colts to make fast walkers.
In buildings, study comfort more
than looks.
Move the coops for young chickens
occasionally.
The Egyptians Matched eggs artifi-
cally as a common thing 1900 years
ago.
Feed succulent food for cheese, and
concentrated food for butter.
Airing cream gives butter a good
flavor. not souring the cream.
Cows do better on mixed feed than
when confined to a single ration.
In selecting breeding animals look to
form and perfection before large size.
Sweet cream mast be churned longer
than sour, with lower temperature.
The more feed can be varied in car
ing for sheep, the better will be the re-
suits.
The Devons make the best oxen for
farm work, being quick, strong and in
telligent.
Ensilage is good food for old cows,
being as succulent ard as easily diges-
ted as grass.
Incoming cows should have limited
diet of dry hay, with little bran, for a
few weeks previous to calving.
A mixture of sulphur and tobacco
dust will kill insects on plants or ami
mails.
Plant one and half bushels Of beans
to the acre. in drills, and two and one
half feet apart.
Many Kansas farmers are arranging
to use hay and straw burners, to take
the place Of stoves for coal and wood.
SCOT is an excellent starter for corn,
as it is rich in nitrogen. 1t is a sub
stance that is often wasted, but which
is really valuable.
A good wheel hoe is as much superior
to the common hoe for cultivating
garden as in the moving machine to
the sickle in the hay field.
It requires on an average, twelve
quarts of milk to produce one quart of
cream, while the average for butter is
about fifteen ounces from each quart of
cream.
In getting up a leech for soap making,
use one-half bushel of lime to
barrel of ashes, and there will be more
and better soap.
In hot weather uneOnsumed food
about the chicken coop soon sours.
This should be kept away, for if taken
'sto she coop it acts like poison.
Handle the farm horses with care at
All times, and in every spring especially.
Their muscles are then quite soft, un-
less the animal has been well wintered.
All the great rivers of Russia are in
terlaced with artificial canals through
which thousands of barges, heavily
laden, make their way to every naviga-
tion season.
Plants require various kinds Of min
ersl, and derive them entirely from the
soil, but different plants require differ
ent proportions in order to have luxuri-
ant growth.
1t is said that our improved grapes
do not thrive in the Southern States
bordering on the Gulf, but this is COM
penssted for by the prolific bearing of
the Scuppernarg.
At a recent meeting os Maryland far
mers the general opinion was in favor
OF northern grown seed potatoes as bet
ter adapted to that latitude than home
grown ones.
The magnitude of the cattle business
at the West is illustrated by the fact
that one single range in Wyoming COM
pr1ses a million acres. a pretty large
pasture.
Experiment has shown that cows sup
piled with warm water to drink give
one-third more milk than those allowed
TO drink water as it's natural winter
temperature.
A farmer in Salem county, n. j., last
season raised eighSy-three tons Of toma
toes on six acres of land. The crop was
sold to a canning establishment for 81
per ton.
Currant and goOseberry bushes should
be p-uned every year. If they are
pruned in the tree form they will hear
larger and finer fruit, and the latter
will not be 50 apt to mildew.
An Indian farmer states that by ban
ishing slOp from the pig pen and giving
the swine clear, pure water, he secured
frmer and more solid meat than he haj
ever raised before.
The average weight of carcass o.
American cattle has been increased by
over thirty-three per cent. of the aver
age weight of fifty years ago, while The
average weight of milk is even greater
It is claimed py some fruit growers
that alternate rows of pine and fIui
trees prevent the moth and other in
sects destructive to fruit. The stronl
Odor from the pine Is obnoxious to in
sects Of certain kinds.
FODDER.-Mr. George p. Lord, o
EluiD IN EaeDs 100 COWS IN 400 acre