The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-02-06
FARM NOTES.
Foul water is poisonous.

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Cochins make the best mothers
Drainage adds depth 20 the soil.
Early lambs need warm quarters
In harvesting ice cut with a saw.
Consider morals when hiring helm
Ground oats is hard to beat for fowls
Cats are better than poison for rats
Never try to raise a root crop On poor
land.
Manure tse keystone OF all good
farming.
The United States has eleven million
horses.
Don't look for winter eggs in a cooD
where the combs get frozen.
An ice house should be located on q
rise Of ground, never in hollow.
Dorking fowls are the Oldest exist.
ing breed.
1t don't pay in the end to work young
horses too hard.
Los Angeles, Cal. shipped a Carload
OF honey TO London.
The demand for permanent grasses is
greatly on the increase.
The value of manure depends on what
is fed, not OIL the animai.
Australia exports great deal Of coal
some Of it going even 10 England.
Light Brahma hens will lag eighty or
ninety eggs in year, ON an average
To see an angry mixer inficting blows
on COW with stool, is a horrifying
sight.
In manure making it is a great point
to see that no fertilizing matter runs To
waste.
Feeding Of stock during the winter
months should always be done at regular
hours.
Never add wood ashes to the manure
heap. Plaster, however, will be found
beneficial.
Hay is an important crop consider
whether it would not pay to get atedder
next year.
Carrots, turniPs, and cabbages are the
only vegetables that can be raised in
Greenland.
Clydesdale horses may be slow. but
they are steady and sure, which are
winning qualities.
Sour milk, whey and buttermfk a,a
excellent liquids for mixing with ,be
soft food Of poultry.
Some of the Western premium crous
OF corn last year ranged from los 10
149 bushels per acre.
1t is said that solution of indigo in
the soft food of chicks is a sure preven.
tive and cure for gaps.
You can count on saving one third
on the seed by sowing with drill. in
stead OF sowing broad cast.
Because mules win bear good deal
OF abuse, don't allow it to be inflicted
No farm stock vii! pay batter for good
care.
The largest vineyard in the world is
owned by G. G. Briggs, of ZoIo county.
Cal, containing ], 600 acres Of the best
varieties OF raisin grapes.
The growing of mustard for seed Is
said to be profitable, as the seeds not on
ly produce an excellent oil, bat are
utilized after being pressed.
The United States produces forty
eight bushels Of cereals for each person.
as against the raising of eleven bushels
TO each person in Great Britain and
Ireland.
Orchard grass should Sc ldom be sowD
alone. but be mixed with an equal bulk
OF two or three other kinds of meadow
grasses. Clover msy also be included
in the mixture.
The dust bath is as necessary for the
fowls as water is for man it cleanses
tie feathers and skin from impurities
and vermin, and is Instrumental in pre-
serving their health.
In some experiments with the differ
ent breeds of fowls it was dsmoustra-
TED that with warm, dry quarters and
good management the Leghorns were
equal to the Asiatics.
An Euglish farmer thinks he cannot
raise calves, lambs, cattle and sheep
without feeding some liuseed cake. 1t
has wonderful effect in improving the
appearance of any animal.
Recent experiments have shown that
the weight Of grain in wheat OF rye in.
proportion to the straw is about one
third of the whole, while IN barley it
ranges from one-half to ore-third.
1t saves a great deal of work to do
what has to be done at Just the right
time. The farmer who is always little
behind time is generally a poor one
poor in management and forethoupbt at
least.
Before man plants any fruit exten-
sively he should ascertain how the vari-
cites which he proposes to plant sue
ceed in his neighbcrhOod. If he can
not ascertain, then plant moderately so
as to feel his way. -
A Hereford bull lord wntonl. elev-
en- years old, was lately sold in England
for 1890 guiness, equal to 1890. or
sl9,3l1,69. There were some Ameri-
can bidders on hand. but the bull was
at last struck off to an Englishman.
The mulberry is a good tree to raise
in the poultry yard. It is hardy and
long Lived, and the fruit Is popular with
the hens, besides being very nice for
the children. The leaves are large and
and the shade it makes is dense, which
IS also desirable in the summer.
Gilt-edge butter makers do not use
large quantities of cotton-seed meal. tho
they allow a small quantity not eYceed-