The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-09
FARM AND GARDEN.

twelve months.
Do not be afraid to mix sulphur and
red pepper with mess Of warm feed
for your chickens twice or three times
q week. 1t tends to keep them in
good health.
The bark of the pear tree Is thinner
than that of the apple. hence 1t suffers
more severely from exposure OF its
trunk to the heat Of the summer sun,
and should be protected.
Standard pear trees one year from
the bud are safer to buy than those
ment of cost is less, and tho trees suf-
fer less from transplanting.
An English gardener, who has great
success in raising radishcs, makes his
radish beds with nearly or quite one
half soft coal ashes and SCOT. Under
this plan his beds arc not infested by
worms.
Surface manuring in fruit culture e
also mulching in measure. and all
mulching benefits the soil. The losses
from evaporation are not great. bus
all manures should be well compOsted
before applying.
OhiO's maple trees are not an insig.
uIuCSut uCl NhOR
She has $500, 900 trees which produce
ed sugar to the amount Of 1860
pounds, and 56l, 1873 gallons Of syrup.
worth in round numbers about
s8OO.OOO.
Where stumps arc numerous and
farms small, it pays farmers to unite
and buy large stump pullcr. Tho
expense to each would be cOmpara-
lively light, and the stumps could
soon bc routed by cooperation in
work and machinery.
Little or no profit can be expected
wears. Very valuable hen-mOthcrs
may sometimes be retained several
years longer for chicken raising, but
the rest should be got rid Of. Tho
most profitable fowls are pullets.
When butter is kept in tubs or
earthen vessels, it must he packed as
closely rs possible. and no intcrstices
or vacant spaces left, for tho butter
quickly spells around these inter-
stices, and the evil spreads through
ments, il is considered essential that q
one day.
Grain, grass and stock-farmcrs can
not be expected to carry on small
fruit culture for market along with
general farming, without the employ
ment of extra labor and capital. But
every farmer can raise fruit enough
for family use without much extra
care; aud every farmer ought to do it.
and will do it, il he looks out properly
for his family.
Bees wintcrcd on their summer
stands will require looking after Occa-
sionally to see that the entrance to tho
hive does not become clOgged up with
dead bees or ice. They require very
little air during cold weather, but
should a warm 81 ell occur, and they
find themselves closed up in the hives,
the bees become very much excited,
and while in this condition will soon
smoother themselves to death.
Cleveland Bay is the name given to
handsome elias, of coach horses inn
ported from England, mainly from
Yorkshire. They are of good size,
generally good bay with black points,
with Il good carriage, well suited for
carriage work, and much liked by
many for use in producing horses for
farm and other middle class work.
More OF less Iuuuius oiOou 30 uSSu IA
the crosses producing these horses.
Professor A. +. Blount, of the Colo
!. RADIO Agricultural College. reports that
, he is testing $50 varieties of wheat,
, gathered from all parts of the world.
. besides thirty-eight cross varieties, or
/ hybrids, some of which are far SUI
. perior to their parents. lie says that
1 SO great are the changes made by the
0 soil. climate, and his selection and
{ crossing. that hardly one variety in ter
can be recognized when shown to the
parties who sent the seed.
Fortunate, indeed, have been thoss
y who have had stock in ample supply
/. to consume their surplus, for no mat
4 ter what the range Of prices on meats
o the amounts realized by tho farmer
!. have been and will bc vastly greate
v than if he had sold to the grain mer
!. chant instead of the butcher. Ever,
4 scar the stock grower has some advan
Il taee over the grain grower, but ut NJ
+. time are the advantages SO conspicu
p GUS as in the seasons Of good crop
% and low prices.
o. Butter is slower coming in tho win
- ter season than when the weather
Or warmer, the cream usually being q
Il TOO low a temperature. Those VIII
Is churn by guess work will be hours dc
m ing that which may be done in shOr
10 er time BY the use Of q thermometer
n. In the winter the temperature shout
DO sixty-fOur degrees, cnd in summe
sixty-twO degrees. In winter til
cream may become cooler, and
summer warmer, hence it it is best
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