The Delta independent., 1886-12-14
FARM AND GARDEN.

when planted on freshly manured soil.
Secure early, before fall rains or win
ter SHOWS begin, bountiful supply Of
dry straw to be used about and under
the stock at night
Give the young turkeys meat three
times day, and force them in growth
as much as possible, in order to secure
large size by Thanksgiving.
Cattle rs well as other animals. are
greatly benefited by change of food OF
pasture Like people, they get tired OF
one kind of diet continuously.
A mixture of several kinds of grain
for feeding stock is always better than
one kind alone. Variety in grain is as
important as variety in bulky food.
Why will not the owners of worthless
orchards destroy them and remove a
nuisancep Such old orchards breed de-
structive insects, which scatter in all d.
rections.
f. M, Potter says that after having
several fruit trees girdled by sheep. he
has learned by experiment that it may
be prevented by washing the trees with
a strong solution of fresh sheep manure
and water.
Bees do not work as well in hive ex
posed to the sun. In midday when
very hot, all work on the inside, such
as comb-building and storing honey,
has to be suspended. Sometimes
combs melt down, and the brood dies
in the heat of the sun.
Sand is not substitute for gravel in
the poultry yard. The hens usually
pick up the sharpest and most irregu-
lar pieces. When oyster shells are pro-
vided they shonld be broken INTO pieces
the size of grains of corn, and not
ground to a fine powder.
Tomatoes raised in light, rather poor
soil in sheltered or warm situation are
always sweet in favorable seasons, while
those raised in rich soil or in partial
shade are always sour. A rank growth
of foliage shades the fruit densely and
interferes with the developement of the
saccharine principle.
The dairyman who keeps 4 cow until
she begins to fall on account of age
losses money by doing so, because it
costs more to keep such COW than a
young one and she does not make as
good return for the food eaten. her
digestive and assimilative powers be-
ing less perfect. Then, too, if fed for
the butcher it costs more TO get her fat,
and her meat is worth less.
The fat stock of even England can be
improved. An English paper, the Lon
don Liue Stock Journal, says that
astonishing as have been the improve
ments effected in most of our breeds of
live stock within recent years, it can
not be denied that well bred ANIMALS
are as yet comparative rarity in many
of our public markets. The little leav-
en- has not yet sufficed to leaven the
whole lump"
1t is not always true that bees are 60
ing TO swarm when they cluster on the
outside Of hives. or that they need room
to store honey. They keep out in order
to keep their combs from melting, and
do not fly to the field for there is moth
ing to gather. The cluster disappears
in the morning, as they sally forth to
find out if there is any honey to gather
to-day, and when no more is to be had
rest from their labors
When cornstalks are TO be used for
fodder husk the corn as soon as hard
and the stalks are cured, and haul the
the stalks in at once or if that be not
possible stack them carefully temporar-
lily and allow them to be exposed as lit
tie IS possible to rain, us the butt ends
pump the water up from the ground
and ruin the fodder. Keep them in
NOW, and if convenient mix them with
little dry straw. They are sweet and
nourlshing.
Messrs. Fred. c. Pillsbury and o. A.
Pray. of Milwaukee, have been engaged
in testing the value of bran. as food
for cattle being fattened. The result
has proven to the satisfaction of all
that bran is most valuable food for
that purpose. Fifteen scrub steers
were chosen for the experiment, and
they were given only hay and bran for
sixty days. At the end of that time
the steers showed an average gain in
weight of LA pounds.
According to the Lire Stock Record
of Kansas City, farmers who recently
marketed grass-fed hogs there, didn't
find the venture satisfactory. They
looked well, but killed abominably: and
as result were Stunned by all buyers,
and were taken only at ruinous prices
The Record says that while clover is a
growing food, like all grass it makes
watery flesh, and slaughterers say that
the shrinkage in this class of hogs is
something enormous.
The British Bee Journal saws Swiss
bce-keeper cures foul brood by thyme
This common herb is dried put into an
ordinary smoker. set alight, and the
smoke blown plentifuily into the hive
by the entrance. After doing this
eight evenings, he found the larvae,
which had died from the disease quite
| dry, and the new brood in n norfoot-