Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-07-09

vegetables at least thrice each week.
Cabbage forms the best diet, but II
too expensive or difficult to obtain,
good substitute will be found in man
Colds. turnips, or even sliced potatoes.
Care should be taken during the win
ter to see that this description of food
is not frozen. Many careless keepers
of poultry will look into the coop,
and seeing the vegetables lying around,
will say, oh, they have plenty OF green
food; no use giving them any more.
whereas very little trouble would tell
them that the roots are perhaps frozen
as hard as stones. Give little and
often; removing the old, before feed
ing fresh.
Considerable interest was mani
tested at "A recent convention, says the.
New York Tribune, in the manage
ment OF creamery at Waterville, N.
Y. in which the cream from 1000
cows, owned by sixty different patrons,
is collected and each patrons cream
churned by itself, and the butter pro-
duct of each weighed, graded and
paid for according to quantity and
quality, or returned to the producer at
his option, if not satisfied with the
grading, with small charge added
for manufacturing and all the work,
including gathering the cream, being
done without difficulty by one man
and his wife.
1t is poor time to sell sheep or go
out of business when thousands upon
thousands of sheep are being frozen
and starved to death in the far west,
and when an unusual number is being
slaughtered at all leading markets.
Farmers may rest assured that it is
low tide in sheep husbandry, and now
| is the time to- take advantage of the
rising tide which is sure to follow.
Improved stock has fascination
and substantial profit that is popular
izing it all over the enterprising west.
1t is attracting the capitalists and
business men from the city. 1t is Civ
ing a new interest to farming and to
farmers sons. Improved stock keeps
the boys on the farm and makes good
business farmers out of them.
If your apples, turnips, onions or
beets are frozen it will not necessarily
destroy them, provided they are not
thawed too suddenly. II placed where
they will gradually thaw, care being
taken not to disturb them, they will
be but little injured, provided they are
afterwards kept in cool place.
There is a great difference in value
between carrot that runs down into
the soil foot and IA half to two feet
in a nearly true taper, and one that
puts the same weight into the first six
or ten inches and then suddenly
shrinks to a fine root that breaks as
easily as cotton thread.
Oats have been hitherto but toe
much of secondary crop, planted tC
exc out a shortness in corn. In feed
ing it will be found hie hly economical
as well as healthful to cut the oats
and straw together, mix with cotton
seed meal or shipstuff, not forgetting
salt.
Some one said: "Show me coun.
try in which much attention is giver
to sheep and l will show you pros
porous country" And it is even So
Systematic sheep husbandry persever
ed in means solid wealth to the indi
vidual and to the state.
A writer says that he has found thai
it requires as much food to bring one
turkey to maturity, when the bird i!
confined to one yard, as to make forty
pounds of pork. We should think tha
would depend on the size of the tur
key, somewhat.
No fixed quantity of cream can bt
depended upon for yielding a certain
amount of butter. Cream varies ao
cording to the weather and feed
Sometimes it yields less butter than a
other times. falling below one weel
and yielding more the next.
By giving cows water at a temper
AZURE of &C > yield of milk one-thir(
greater was obtained, according t,
experiments made at the Agriculture
College, st. Remy, France.
Prof. Stockbridge says that tn,
average growth of wood on any acre
of land between New England and tn,
Potomac, is a cord and half a yea
for thirty years after it is once Gu
over.
Chip dirt from the side of the Woo
pile and old ashes are recommended
as one of the best possible dressing
to put around fruit trees.
A much larger area will be devote,
TO sorghum growing this year thar
formerly.
A barrel of apples will make abou
ten gallons of cider.
Sassafras poles for roosts proven
lice, it is said.