Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-03-12
FARM FAGOTS.

feeding place
Give the calves a mixed ration and
keep them warm.
1t is injurious to a sheep to lie on Il
fermenting manure pile.
A new creamery at Echo Farm,
Litchfield, Conn, cost 100000.
A Vermont cheese factory has been
turned into a roller-skating rink.
1t is mistake to set fence posts un-
til they are thoroughly seasoned.
Aroostool1 county, Maine, produced
last season twenty tons of honey.
Large poultry farms, like large wheat
farms, have nearly ali proved failures.
In Florida several herds of fine cat
grasses.
Corn should not be fed as the sole
grain ration to horses; it is altogether
too heating.
A farmer in Maine recently threshed
$50 bushels of oats raised on three and
one half acres.
Ensilage is especially adapted to old
cows, as it is as succulent and as easily
digested as grass.
Stones can be gathered more easily
with a strong, wide-tonged fork, than
by continually stopping.
The neglect of sailing regularly,
often leads animals to eat and drink
things which injure them.
The great secret of getting man,
boy or an animal to do good work, is
to keep them good natured.
Indian corn is indigenous to Amer
lea, and was introduced to Southern
Europe from this continent.
One of the most important buildings
on the farm is the tool house, or at
least a convenient place for tools.
A factory at Oshkosh, Wis, it is al
legged, turned out 10000 pounds of
genuine Swiss cheese" last season.
Fruit culture offers q great induce
Inent for the future. The more good
fruit people have the more they want.
Our total export of cotton goods,
iron and steel, machinery, implements,
etc, amounted last year to $3.50, OOO.-
900.
1t is estimated that over $400 900
worth of tobacco has been burned in
Central Kentucky during the SEASON. of
1884.
An uufruitful orchard may often be
brought into bearing by heavy
broadcast application of good stable
manure.
A French medical writer proposes to
supply cities with pure air from the
country by means of pipes to each
house.
TwentysiX million acres of public
lands were disposed of the last fiscal
year. nearly one-third OF it being to
railroads.
Farmers in the West have been feed
ing large quantities of wheat to stock,
owing to the low prices which have
prevailed
Ezra Boswick, of Union City, Mich,
has given $40 acres of farm land worth
$50,000 to Albion College for chair of
astronomy.
Good clover hay makes an excellent
feed for hogs during the winter sea
son, used in connection with other fod-
der and feed
The object should not be to see how
much stock you can possibly winter,
but how much you can provide with
an abundance of food
Beech wood should always be sea-
soned under cover. Ifleft out exposed
to all sorts of weather it soon becomes
almost worthless as fuel.
The yearly loss to cultivators by the
depredations of insects in the United
States has been variously estimated at
from 5000, 900, 900 to $500, 900. 900.
A practical grape-grower thinks the
grapevine should not be cultivated,
nor the growth of wood stimulated
later than the first of July each season.
Don't let the cattle run on the mead
ows when they are bare during the
Winter. They do more harm than all
the grass they pick can do them good.
If farmer who is engaged in Winter
dairying does not desire to raise calves
he can dispose of his skinned milk to
good advantage by feeding it to pigs.
1t is great mistake to let young
heifers with their first calf become so
reduced in flesh as not to have suffi-
cient strength for unassisted parturi-
tion.
Feeding nice flock of wethers is an
interesting and profitable business,
just because no other animal seems to
relish its food more or improve so rap
idly