The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-02-05
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
Kens Relating to Farm, Live Stock, Or
chard, Garden ssd Lawn,

Poinsettias look like fire brands now.
Flowers are the smiles of the Creator.
The root pits may now need an extra
coat.
The darker parts of tree roots peveT
lengthen.
The mountains are in fashion they
ale clad in frs.
The women have no business with
milking in the winter time.
Single primroses are finer, as vase
flowers, than double ones.
Cruelty to Misunderstanding horses
with smooth shoes on icy roads.
This inactive season on the farm is a
good time to plan improvements.
The health of animals, as well as hu-
man beings, is easier retained by good
care than regained when lost.
1t costs nothing to strew the icy
walks lightly with ashes; the act may
save expensive doctors bills for setting
broken limbs.
There is but little doubt that fully
one.quarter of the corn fed to fatteniDg
hogs Is wasted by feeding it in muddy
yards or lots or open pens.
Because wax plants seem to stand it
we'll in the dark parts Of a room, do not
expect them to do much at towering
next summer if wintered here away
| from the light.
Ii may not be known that the radish
I possesses some gentle medicinal virtues.
| The part that is eaten is both demulcent
and and stimulating in character. 1t is
worth knowing that the juice mixed
with granulated sugar IS q popular and
useful German remedy for hoarseness
/ and cold.
A German experimenter has found
that soil covered with living herbage or
dead vegetable matter is colder in sum.
mer and warmer in winter than bare
| soil under otherwise similar conditions
The difference in temper ature is greater
/ in summer and least i'll sprin g and au-
! tumn. Bare soil heats more quickly N
{ the spring and cools more quickly in the
! autumn than that covered with living
/ Oh dead vegetable matter.
/ With the increasing length of the
( days, roofing slips and afterwards pot
/ ting them will be much engaged in
| Those who pot up slips for the hrst time.
usually manage to fill the pots even full
of soil at the first effort, but not often
afterwards. They seon see, OF ought
| to, that the water afterwards applied
| will not disobey the laws of nature,
even for novice, by staying in the soil
for soaking in. unless the pot rim or
something is there to hold it.
The water supply is always a very
important matter everywhere, and no
less on farms than in the cities. No
| doubt the very best way of securing
pure water on the average farm is to
! gather it from the house roofs into ca
| pacious cisterns, first f1ltering 1t to re-
move Impurities. In some parts of the
west the practice of storing rain water
for general use in cisterns is quite COM
mon, and the cisterns are made large
and deep to insure cold water in sum-
/ mer.
The Kieffer pear, much praised fruit.
which has been sold in recent years, b AS
now been weighed and found utterly
| wanting. It's tender in winter and
! blights badly in summer, while the
fruit of autumn-fair looking as it is
| is of a flavor that would lead no ore to
want it 80 eat a second time. More
trees of it are perhaps cut down now
every year than ere being planted. So
much for another of the new and highly
lauded sorts, that turn out to be un-
worthy. Farmers, stick to the well
tested sorts, and leave new ones severe
ly alone. rs the safe rule.
One cannot but wonder at the stupid
lty of some men who, while lamenting
the smallness of the manure yield, will
yet allow streams of liquid manure
the very essence of good manure-to
pass from the stables into the streams
and to waste. The loss through this
kind of management must be equivalent
to millions of dollars every year. No
system Of stables is complete without
an arrangement Of cutters and manure
cistern to save all the liquids voided,
The only fair substitute is absorption
by the use of dry earth in connection
with other bedding.
When the ground is frozen or covered
with ice and snow chickens do not like
the prospect of quitting their sheltered
quarters. 1t is very important, there
fore, that these be sufficiently ventila-
ted in the day time in mild weather,
and closely secured at night and 90
stormy days. Overcrowding is often a
fault also fowls can stand more of this
now than at some other seasons, but we
should never SO limit them that tbey
will be obliged to huddle together toe
closely either by day or by night. Keep
the house clean. Supply warm meal
at least once a day, with some green
food as ofsen. Have a good dust bath,
if It's nothing more than coal ashes,
adding a little powdered sulphur
Such treatment will reward you with
eggs, when they are eggs.
A word to men folks: Now that the
trying winter season is on hand, and
| with it an increase of labor, to the
| housekeeper, usually, while your work
may be less, will you not help along
some In their department ? See to 1t
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