Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-09-09
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
The Mosr Profitable HoRsEs.-Far-
mers make q mistake when they sllght
the advantages to be derived from keep
ing good horses, and from breeding
pair on two Of colts every year. A three
year old colt can be reared as cheaply
as COW of the same age, but while an
ordinary price for young three gear
old COW is forty dollars, young colt Is
worth seventy-five dollars, at the very
least, when a year old, and one hundred
and fifty dollars when three years old.
1t however, a good thoroughbred sire lis
used, at the cost of fifty dollars, the colt
at three years may easily be worth
three hundeed dollars, Roadsters in
the North, and saddle horses in the
South (both are really roadsters,) are
the most desirable animals to rear.
The thoroughbred blood is like the
steel one puts into q machine; it gives
strength, durability. fii mness, liehtness,
elasticity and yigor into the cold blood.
| The bone is harder, and more solid,
! and lighter the sinews are much stron-
ger and more elastic; the muscles are
fifmer, and have greater tension; the
lungs are more capacious the weight Is
reduced, and with more strength and
vivscity of motion, and lighter, we have
swiftness and ease of motion.
PASTURE NEAR BARNs.-There is ad-
vantage, In more than one respect, in
having q pasture near the barn. Often
it happens, as in the case of the writer's
old home farm, that the regular pasture
! fields were we'll on to mile from the
house, and to turn the cattle back
again TO remain over night, to be brought
up again In the morning, takes time
and labor, or to leave them in the stalls
or yard at night, keeps them from the
enjoyment of pasturiDg in the coolest
part of the day. After having their
evening ration of cut feed, they can be
easily turned into the adjoining pasture
and in the morning quickly be brought
up again for the morning grain. We
assume that farmers feed morning, noon
and night to the hard-worked farm
team. This night pasture should not
enter into the regular rotation with
other fields, but should be made per-
msnent pasture. kept in good condition.
SHoEka HoRsEs. Oa light soils that
are free4em stones, horses may gener-
ally 20 unshod without injury. 1t is
probably too sudden an innovation to
stop shoeing horses under all circum-
stances at present, but no doubt colt
| which has run without shoes for two
years, might still go on without them
and not suffer. A light shoe without
calks, to protect the crust of the hoof
from breaking, and put on without ever
emitting the frog, leaving that to wear
naturally, would answer very desirable
purposes where shoes are necessary.
There are light steel shoes, made with
prof ectIng blunt spurs, that give Sc
cure foothold, and are better for the
horse than the common, roughly made,
heavy IRON ones. which are often ignor-
antly set.
TKE best method for growing rasp-
berries and blackberries is without
stalks, pinching off the tips Of young
canes as soon as they get about two
ieet high. Ii the grower waits until
tic Cdhcc Eic iOuI VI uNC iCtb hibhs aua
tLen cuts off foot or more, he checks
the growth and loses some of the best
buds. An experienced grower cuts
lack the canes of red raspberries and
shortens III the side branches early in
the spring, thus securing more and bet
ter fruit than If the eLtire canes were
left on, and giving better opportunity
for the plckers TO move about without
breaking off the ripe berries.
MoRE than half the wheat lands OF
the West are mortgaged to Eastern cap
italists, reports New England agrcul-
tural journal. The statement may
possibly be true in respect to new land,
where money is borrowed to enable the
farmer to improve his land. Not SO
generally, however. The bulk OF the
wheat grown III the West is on farms
where diversified agriculture is prac-
iiced, and the anxiety of pioneers to
get live stock to feed shows this class TO
he fully alive as to what constitutes the
real agricultural economy of their re.
glons. Pcrhaps a large amount of tn
borrowed money will be lifted thereby.
The american Cultiudtor says that
The cutworm has an aversion to saltpe-
ire. and tkat solution of one table
spoonful to gallon of water has so far
proved sure preventative. 1t Is ap.
piled with a dipper, and poured on the
HILL We give the suggestion as We find
It, and Eope some of our readers who
are troubled with the pest will try il
and report the result. The same author.
ity thinks solution of equal parts each
Of chloride of lime and copperas would
he as effective as saleratus,
The PAsTURE--Psstures that have
become so thoroughly run out and
overrun by briers and bushes as not to
be worth fencing for cattle may be CIV.
en- over to the sheep with advantage.
Sheep eat many plants that would not
be noticed by other stock, and prevent
such from growing and taking posses
sion of the pasture to the detrimen. OF
valuable grasses. As the droppings
of sheep are also valuable, they partial
ly restore the land and render 1t suIta. |
bic for desirable crops.
SooT is one of the most valuable OF |
fertilizers, snd should be carefully say.
ed. That from coal is superior TO thai
from wood. 1t is rich in nitrogen, and |
benefits all crops TO which it may be
applied, as well as being an excellent
remedy against the attacks of many
kinds of insects.
The roots Of any tree are important I; !
never buy tree with poor roots be-
cause it has good top, better buy a |
tree with good roots and a poor top,
than one with the most beautiful top, |
with poor roots for with coed roots
there Is a chance to make good top,
but without roots the top must die.
A CROSS made by the Leghorn, either
brown or white, with the light Brahma,
makes one of the best families of cross |
bred fowls. Also, a cross of the Ply.
mouth Rock and Brahma, or Wyan-
dotte nd Brahma.
A TEAsPooNFUL of glycerine and few |
drops OF nitric acid to pint of drink.
ing water will generally cure fowl that
shows symptoms of bronchitis, when