The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-12-24
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" bash u TO q man.
bath, winter and summer is
-c What water is to mau.
srp 2 native food for sheep
England feed scarcely any
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panish needle, so annoying TO
in The woods and old fields, is
oney plant. Bees use it.
ng IS so detrimental to pastures
Ow a great mass of woody stalks
py the surface.
luT and Old tobacco leaves burned
.l poultry house, the house being
perfectly tight, will clean out the
acking hay or straw, keep the
ell filed in the middle and even
ibuted on all sides, so that ic will
Uniformly.
g trees need a supply Of some
late plant food as soon as they
bear So do crops of cereals on
farms
10 successful raising and fatten-
ck, three things are necessary
nurishiug food, fresh air and
tier.
sTman entOmOlOgist says that
the insect enemies of trees are
by spiders than by all the
ting birds.
Is nothing that will absorb foul
'ner than milk, and in the win
.Iould be taken away from the
soon as MIXED.
.rCfully exploring to the ends of
s5, It Is .Oand that the beet draws
ishment downward and outward
I'D o. recti9us several feet.
.a-e'ul, successful stock grower
T.rc- n each animal under his
-t 7aries the treatment IN
" gs in sickness.
~ OF tall growing celeries
't avoided. AS rule they are
more hollow, give twice the lab
@-e inferior in flavor.
10 seless to hope to destroy the
.-t u some soils by the application
7a md other supposed correctives.
,.7F image will accomplish 1t.
.- .7 Young calf with too much
n milk will almost always give
lal the scours. The milk should
led at first to blood heat.
m is recommended as the best
)r grapevine pruning, as then
lds quickly heal up, and are not
-.-ei 1 BY excessive bleeding.
branches % fruit trees, which
be removed, are more easily /
now than while the leaves ad- .
he live wigs and branches.
farmers regard rotation as
nd most economical mode of
lrt to the land-Cheap7r, they
u any mode Of mauuring.
lggIe against weeds may be
in autumn with more or less
9 long as their seeds C n be in
D sprOut, ready Tor destruction
srrOw.
recently decided by the Grand
alley Horticultural Society that
ng a blackberry plantation, it is
TO buy root cuttings than to use
although more expensive at the /
nd OF grain, and. except hay, no
rm crop is so generally consumed
arms where grown as corn. It
on for every kind of farm stock.
many places forms an important
the food Of the farmer and his
aw is used for protecting straw
uones it is apt to fill the soil with
Is beside being in the wav in
rg. Potato tops are free from
''7. and against spring much Of
4 fsnce will be washed down
soil making q fertilizer rich in
roots are commonly too dry if
an ordinary cellar. They shrivel
equally in weight and value
ONE dirt is mixed with them and
over them to exclude driving
gain, the temperature must be
" a little above freezing. or they .
out and grow before spring.
ember that rye can be raised on
hat will not produce fair crops of .
without a great expenditure Of
M fertilizers. It is a good crop
'a' are sandy and deficient in
.s-.s ~ fertility. Growing rye /.
excellent winter and suring pas +
a.| -- also -u excellent material T.
0t corn are Of some but not /
for feeding. Thew are,
Ihly priced by many for ma /
20 mattresses, and a ready sale /
lg prices can generally be had !.
sc saved in good condition and I
y markets. They are lighter for /
Ilk, if well cured than straw, and /.
much more durable bed.
.sr things being equal, short stalks /
are better than long ones. OF 1
rs equally good select that which /
the shortest stalk Short stalks I
Iat the corn is early, and this in 4
-rts OF our State is an important /
ration. Part Of the difficulty in .
corn of late years is due to the 1
Of bava NOT aaIpofaH Good fc-