The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-29
FACrs FoM FAlsMEns.

The hay crop In the northwest has been
an abundant one, and will largely COM
pensste for shortage in other crops.
Every dairyman should have an ice
house well filed. Nowis the time to erect
the ice house and be ready for the haE-
vest.
Tho value OF the horses and mules OF
the United States is placed at 81 Ola, no.
900, muies being worth Sl6i ,l94. 600 OF the
aggregate amount.
II, upon weaving calf or other young
animal, il is 60 larseparated from the dam
that one cannot be heard by the other,
from one to three days will suffice to rem
der them quiet.
England is estimated to have lost from
contagious lung plague, between 1912 and
1860 5,5iS,TS0 head OF cattle, valusd at
S4OO, 100000. During the following nine
years the loss is estimated at 81 100000.
Lettuce and spinach are winter crops,
and the seed may be sown even as late as
now in some sections. Spinach may be
sown broadcast, but the lettuce will
thrive best il transplanted in cold frames.
Bees can be safely wintered on their
summer stands. il properly packed in dry
forests leaves or dry sawdust. Dry sand
is good, by making hollow wall or case
around the hive and filling it with dry
sand.
Ali who have good, movable frame
hives should know that you have at least
twenty pounds OF honey ior each stock 10
last through the winter. This will apply
to all kinds OF hives-round log or square
box.
Tho whey that is left after making
cheese is not sufficient food by itself for
pigs or calves, but its deficiencies may be
supplied by the addition Of aome bran OF
shipstuff; It is then passibly good food
for pigs or swine.
Unhealthy milk may be divided into
two classes: First, unhealthy because
secreted By an unhealthy COW; second, by
ABSORPTION OF disease from the atmosphere,
or by becoming contaminated from the
addition OF impure water, etc.
Professor Maynard, Of tho Massachusetts
State Agricultural Experiment Station re-
ports that repeated applications Of murate
Of potash, and jrdicious pruning, have
restored peach trees to health which had
been badly effected with yellows.
A good thoroughbred Berkshire boar
will greatly improve any herd Of common
hogs. Almos. any farmer eau afford to
buy such q boar at the price now asked.
In fact, we do not see how sny farmer
who raises hogs can afford not to buy.
A new and easy method Of bleaching
celery, where grown on level surface, Is
to inclose 1t by finch drain tile clipped
over the plant when foot high. The
leaves grow over the top, atfordiDg suifi
cient shade, and the confined stalks whiten
perfectly.
When pigs are allowed to sleep in damp
places the result will often be Stiffness oil
the joints, rheumatism and diseases OF the
spine, due to taking cold. DryDess and
warmth are essential to the thrift Of young
pigs, especially on the approach oil cold
weather.
Toiusure safe wintering OF your bees cut
two holes through six Of the centre brood
combs, near the centre or about one.thtrd
OF the way from the top Of the combs, &C
the bees can pass and repasa and thusreacE
their food. The holes should DO about ar
inch in diameter.
The New York Sun says It Is yerJ
strange that SO many farmers still adherI
TO the practice Of allowing the grass il
their meadows TO become over ripe befor!
beginning to cut 1t. The result Is hard
woody hay, that is so indigesible that 1t i
not healthy for any kind Of stock