The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-08
Farm and Harden Notes.

nay.
A fine horseman, who is also a
poultry raiser, says that his best
driving animal consumes daily as
much grain as his forty -one hens.
To raise horses which can make
2:30 time is not within the reach of
most farmers. Something better is
within their reach-to raise horses
worth $3.50 each.
A writer in the Beekeepei's Jour
nal says that as an Offset to the re-
cords of horses and COWS, he had a
colony of bees that produced fifty
five pounds of honey in three and a
half days.
Keeping the animals quiet pro-
notes the storage of fat, but health
and the quality of the meat is best
obtained when they are allowed to
take exercise daily. If they cannot
have the privilege of exercising they
should at least be allowed in the
open air daily.
Muddy barnyards will cause the
milk to fall Off. When COWS are
compelled to stand knee deep in mud,
with their bodies plastered over
with it, dirt will find its way into
the pail, while additional food will
be necessary to supply that lost from
cold and exposure.
Strawberry plants should be set
out in early spring or in August, in
both cases, the object being to de-
rive the advantages of the early and
late rains. The plants should be
set one foot apart, in rows three feet
apart, and should not be allowed to
fruit or run the first year
Sickly looking plants may be
taken out of their old pots, the roots
washed, the weaker branches trim
med and placed into as small pots
as the roots can be placed into Let
such plant remain there until by
good growth it shows its healthy
roots; then it may have more earth
in little larger pot.
The man who drugs his horse to
make his hair sleek and shiny shows
very little sense. The best means
to keep the coat glossy is careful
and daily grooming. This, with
plenty of oats and water and an oc-
casional bran mash, is all the horse
needs when in health. The arsenic
groom should be discharged.
Much of the success gained by
good farmers with barley is due to
the selection of seed No grain is
more dependent on vigorous start,
and this is only secured by sowing
plump seed. 1t needs to be put in
the ground earlier than any other
grain, and unless the plant has a
vigorous growth from the first it
never fully RECEIVERS. By screening
out all the light grains the seed will
also be freed from oats, which, when
sown largely, dctract from the value
of the crop.
Only sheep, says a contemporary,
take to beans naturally, and they
have sometimes to be taught to eat
them. But stained beans are too
nutritious to be wasted, even where
sheep cannot be had to eat them.
BY grinding with some corn, hogs
will eat them, and after they have
learned to like the food, boiling with
either oats or corn serves as good a
purpose as grinding. In some cases
cows have learned to eat beans by
gradually increasing the quantity
mixed with other grain.
Most farmers have enough cats, as
where a stock, however small, exists
they breed rapidly, and soon become
too numerous. If pettcd at all, they
learn to hang around the house in
winter and grow fat on scraps from
the table. But the same cats, if
driven out of doors, will find good
living in barns and graneries, where
they will save many dollars worth
of grain. Barn cats are always good
mousers, and they transmit this ten
dency to their young, so that even
for house service it is better to get a
barn kitten and tame it.
The practice Of hanging up har-
ness on hooks back Of the horses is
very Objectionable. If any trouble
occaTs in the night some of the har-
ness will probably be found in the
morning under the horses feet soil
ed if not broken. Besides, just be-
hind the horses the harness is all
exposed to the odors from the ma
nure, and this alone is sufficient to
rot it rapidly. The ammonia from
horse urine is especially destructive.
A separate room for the harness will
avoid this. 1t will cause some more
trouble and expense, but it will pay
A farmer gives his experience in
the management of horse that pulls
at the halter. He has a four-year-
old that pulled at the halter, and she
was cured of that habit by taking a
rope four feet long, fastening one
end around her body just back Of
her shoulders, and passing the other
end through the ring of the halter
, and tying to the post. She lay back
for her usual pull for few times
when fixed this way, but soon found
she was drawing from her body in
stead of her head, which she did moi
relish, and soon gave it up entirely
Covered yards possess one advan
tage in regard to the smaller con
sumption Of food by animals that
are sheltered than by animals that are
not The cold wind, which causes a
loss of heat of the body of an ami
NAL, necessitatcs that animal to con
sumo more food to regain such heat
but the wet which falls upon animals
requires a still much larger amount
of heat in order to convert that
moisture into vapor. Undera cover
} ed yard an animal is protected moi
only from cold winds, but also from
the rain. and an immense amount o.
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