Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-03-27
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

thing that farmers should never forget,
and that is that too much care can not be
bestowed on young or growing stock. It
will surely pay for atJenti On. and will as
surely cause loss if neglected. To illus
trate: a farmer attempts to raise half
dozen calves, and whether these calves
are cared for or neglected decides the
question Of profit aud loss. One method
Of nsglscting calves consists in keeping
hogs enough to consume all the milk pro-
dnced by the dairy. The farmer aims to
make as mueh butter as possible from the
dairy, and as much pork as possible from
the skin-mflk. When it is impossible to
plan the making of single extra pound
of butter and another pound of pork,
then half-dozen calves are kept and the
blue skim milk is divided between the
calves and the pigs. This course can
have but one rssult-the calves and pigs
are both kept along, neither receiving
justice, until it becomes necessary to pre-
rare the gigs for market, and the COWS
have begun to shrink in their flow Of milk
and therefore the calves are weaned.
These calves have in reality been starved
and they are weaned too young; and the
result is they become, if they live long
enough, stunted and poorly developed
cows. Calves fed and kept in this man
ner are subject to more diseases and acct
dents than stock that is better fed and
cared for. Stock that is kept growing
every day, from early calfhood until ma
than when half-starved during growth,
and this is true whether it is the Short
horn or the Jersey that is the object of
eur care. In regard to any other farm
stock, they may be cared for, or they may
be neglected. It is possible for the fal mer
to breed and rear his farm horses by feed
ing his brood mares at the straw stack,
and by keeping his young colts at the
same source of cheap sustenance; but such
q course will net pay. The calf that is
well fed from the day of it's birth VIII
make better COW than the calf that is
starved. The colt that Is always we'll fed
and well cared for will be q source of
much greater satisfaction to its owner
thar the colt that is half-starved, besides
always bsing worth more money.-Breed-
er's Journal.
TIE FARMER who takes pains to make |
up" the bed for his cow or his horse gains |
many times the cost of the labour in 60 |
doing. II ell material is passed through |
cutters previous to being used for bedding |
it not only adds to the comfort of the an
imals, but assists, in the matter of clean |
liness by reason of its great power of alb |
sorption. For this reason sawdust is be
seming favo1ite, and its fineness not on
admits of its being handled easily, well
'pread IN the stall and promptly removed.
put after having absorbed the liquid flows
d the stall, it still readily mixes with the
matter in the manure hemp.
1T is UNSAFE applying salt in contact
With cut seed potatoes, but. after the
plants are up, little sprinkled over the
aills will repel worms. and on some land
will make bright, clean tubers, which
would otherwise have been affected with
'cab. The salt also helps to keep the soil
moist in dry time.
MANY an orchard, otherwise healthy,
unproductive because the trees are lit
rally starved. They need potash, and rot
On chips, wood ashes and decayed forest
caves will all prove valuable.
WHFN the ground around pig pen is
thoroughly underdrained, as it should be.
'are earth makes the best and certainly
he most desirable floor. A fresh supply
loose earth should lie thrown in twice
year and removed as manure whenever
becomes rich enough.
Dry rot in trees is transmissible disease
I'D one diseased tree is capable of infect
e whole nursery. Therefore, look we'll
your trees. Clear away the dead and
seased trees.
1T has been found that good remedy
r cabbage worms. to be sprinkled on the
'ads lis made by dlssolving tablespoon
Il of saltpetre in twelve quarts of water.
EVERY particle of manure thinly spread
,der or near fruit trees in the winter
III be dissolved, and stimulate increased
owth as soon as the weather becomes
lrmer.