Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-11-26
THE FARM.

coat of thick hmewash as soon as they
are brought in from the field; another is
to dissolve an ounce of rosin in four
ounces of linseed oil. and while hot mix
tbi, with quart of kerosene and stiI
well. This is laid on to smooth iron
with a paint brush. Another way is tC
dissolve an ounce of camphor in some
turpentine and add this to four ounces
of lard and one ounce of pulverized
black lead or stove polish, and mix well.
This may be rubbed on with rag. To
remove rust from plows or tools nothing
is better than a mixture OF half pint OF
oil of yitriol poured slowly into quart
of water, and apply this to the rusted
metal. Wash of with water.
MOVING TREEs.-Iu order to get the
benefit of time, which is so necessary to
the healing OF wounds, as well as for
the production of new roots, the trees
should be taken up from the nursery
rows in the fall, and then heeled-in, bu+
rying the roots so deep that they will be
beyond the reach of frost duriAg the
winter months. In such a position the
healing process will proceed slowly, but
surely, and by the time the frost is out
of the ground in spring the roots on
carefully heeled-in or buried trees will
have commenced to throw out new roet-
lets, and when placed in their final posi-
tion they will push earlier and more
vigorously than trees taken up from the
nursery in spring. A rather dry place
should be selected for burying the roots
of trees, because if water settles about
their roots it will retard if it does not
entirely prevent the healing of wounds.
It is well to cover about One+half the
stems, from the roots upward, the re-
manner may bs protected with evergreen
boughs, or coarse bog hay or some simi
lar material Straw should never be
used for this purpose if it can be avoid
ed, because it is certain to attract mice.
Soft-wooded trees, like the magnolias,
tulip, pawpaw and lindens, require more
protection when beeled-ia in the fall
than the hard wooded kinds, and when
ever practicable they should be kept in
cool cellars.-Amer. Agricnlturist.
APPLES FOR SToCK.-There is great
diversity of opinion among farmers as
to the value of apples for stock, many
advising against their use. So good an
authority, however, as the Massachusetts
Ploughmsn says the objection to apples
as fodder arises in most cases from a
foolish prejudice. Almost all farm ami
mails are very fond of apples. They
like good ripes best, but they will take
such as they can get and be thankful for
them. Farm stock, particularly the cat
tie and swine. may consume as many of
the windfall apples as they like without
harm. Green apples could net show by
analysis very high feeding value. Nei-
ther do turnips show a high value by an
alysis, but beth are liked by stock, and
animals do better fed upon them moder-
ately than if the apples OF roots are
withheld.
In feeding apples to cows not accus-
toned to eating them, it is well to feed
in the stall, if convenient, and give only
few quarts at once, increasing the
quantity as Judgment may dictate. A
cow that is accustomed to them may
safely consume half bushel of mellow
apples per day if she will take so many.
Very hard or unripe ones should be
IN epoaIIar A
hog will eat from three to six quarts per
day, and will be benefited by them. If
q half bushel of sour apples is thrown
to a hog at once, he may get sick of
them, or get his teeth sore so be will
want no more. just as children some
times get sick from eating fruit or other
good things in excess, but few given
three times day tends to keep the ap>
petite good. Work horses may also have
a handful of apples given them occasion
ally with their evening meal Sheep are
excellent stock to run in orchards to
clean up the wormy fruit as it falls, only
the FLOCK should be large enough so they
will not get surfeited by eating too many.
How FARM HORSES SHOULD BE FED.
Corn is the bane of farm horse, as it
is also of the horse doing any other sort
of work, not because of not being suffir
cientIy nutritious, but because it makes
too much fat and not enough muscle.
The horses muscle wears away under
exercise, but its disappearance in no wine
lessons the power for either draft or
np he 0fh hand xzJall
ished ane vigorously exercised muscles,
with deposit of fat to keep them COM
pany, are much more efficient for any
purpose for which the horse is kept than
when there is load of fat to be carried
The trainer acts upon the proposition,
and works the fat off. experience having
shown that the muscles, trained down
by exercise until fat accumulations are
removed-fsttening foods being mainly
abstained from-give the best results in
a case of speedy horse. The same rule
will hold good with the work herse,
though modified by the degree to which
the movements of the latter are slower
than the former If the farmer has only
corn for feed, then he will be wise to
make sale of his corn, or the greater part
of it, buying oatmeal instead. If corn
be used in whole or in part, the effect
should be carefully noted as to the ex-
tent to which fermentation sets in,
meeting this By use of salt and ashes. at
once lessening the amount of corn fed
1t will be found that horses fed freely Oh
corn will eat earth when allowed access
to it, as to degree this neutralizes the
acid generated in the stomach and gives
relief. Corn may be rated as the natu
raj food for fattening stock-sucb as are
fed for their flesh. All kinds of fatten-
tDr etook ara pnade rinn on corn with