The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-01-07

WILL w ACAAoSCu VI MI lLS 1UllueSS,
and your heart of all its palpitations.
Your complexion will be greatly i'm
proved, and your health made better
in every respect. DR.. Dio Levis.
Items Of Interest.
Don't abuse borrowing.
Drain away from the we'll.
Keep sheep dry under foot.
Fast fattening, quick profits.
See that the burrows are open.
In fattening study the likes of indi-
viduals.
Try light mulch of coarse manure
on wheat.
Every farmer should have several good
ladders. Don't forget this in the win
ter leisure.
Frost bitten potatoes are good for
only one thing-to cook Immediately
and feed to stock.
Potato tops are well worth carting
to the barnyard for increasing the
manure pile. they are rich in potash.
Left in the field they dry up or are
blown about 10 waste.
A little acquaintance with common
law is good thing for the farmer, and
may easily be had by the help of any
one of the many good books on law for
everybody. The long evenings are
just the time for improvement here.
Fatten,ng beeves should have a little
exercise daily, and the same may be
said of all other live stock for butcher
ing. To be sure extreme quiet pro-
notes fat, but this is at the expense of
perfect health and the best quality of
meat. With fowls it is somewhat
different, as they are up and moving
around most of the time, even when
closely confined, in a way that is
equivalent to exercising the muscles a
good deal.
The Moulting Season.-There is no
more important season for bestowing
good care on poultry than during and
Immediately after moulting. This pro-
cess is in itself taxing one on the sys-
TEN of the birds, and following, as it
does, directly upon the laying season,
it is but natural to see that the fowls
now, if ever, need close looking after.
Good feeding is of the greatest i'm
portance; there is little danger that it
will cause an excess of fat, to the detri-
ment of the egg yield later. Even corn
will not fatten moulting hens. Properly
fed and housed now and later, and Law
ing will soon begin.
The Buckwheat Patch.-Oats NAV
follow on buckwheat well, better in fact
than either barley, corn or potatoes.
When the crop has been harvested in
the fall q good course is to harrow the
land thoroughly, covering the scattered
grain. and for tillage. The grain that
sprouts will of course be killed by frost.
and that is desirable. With narrowing
well, to reduce the stubble, the land
may be enough cleared of this grain to
20 to oats early in the spring; and if
the soil is good, without replowing.
Every neighborhood of farmers
should come together and unite upon
some plan by which there should be
unity of action in the marketing of
farm produce, and in the fixing of the
prices of the same. In fact. the small
organizations should be bound to-
gether by county and state societies,
and all should work together for the
good of the whole, and not for the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of any particular in
dividual. While each farmer should
maintain his individuality on his own
farm. he should always be willing to
work in an organization in a manner
to secure the greater benefit to all.
Fattening sheep in winter for the
market is not so generally practised
by farmers as it should be. A good prof.
it can be realized on tho sheep-morc
than paying for all the food given. and
a large quantity of good dressing for
the land may also be obtained. A
sheep that is not quite fat enough for
butchering, sells for low price, and it
would be much better for the owner to
keep all such, and feed them till they
are in good condition, when they viii
sell for a good price.
The farmer who has any desire to
economizc should never forget that
commercial fertilizers are to be rosorted
to only when the home supply fails to
furnish enough; and also that because
he is able at all times to get in the
market whatever amount of fertilizers
he may desire it docs not justify him in
permitting anything to be wasted on
the farm that can be made to take the
place of the fertilizers he can buy.
Poultry breeders should keep their
stock supplied with fresh water, that is
warm in winter and ccol in summer.
The poultry fancier, when he leaves
home for business, ought to feel secure,
especially in cold weather, that he has
not left his fowls in peril of thirst, and
this security he can obtain by using q
well made drop faucet. For the cold
weather it is good plan to put the
water in the reservoir (any tub. old
key or ferkin will answer for this)every
morning hot, and keep old carpets or
cloths wrapped about the cask.
To remove the unpleasant taste
which is often observable. from new
wooden vessels is a thing difficult of
accomplishment. The Brewing World
says that the simplest plan, and one
that will succeed in most cases, is to
.scald them thoroughly several times in
boiling water, then dissolve some pear
lash or soda in luke warm water, add
ing q little lime to it, and wash tho in
side of the yes sells we'll in the solution.
Afterward scald them several times
thoroughly as before. This method
may be applied to the cleansing of new
butter packages. -
A correspondent of the Rural World
says that when rust gets into a planta-
tion.t the only remedy is to dig up and
burn the plants as soon as tho disease
shows itself, and If the patch is badly
and to pow a 9ps; and Slant With o "ts e
crops for two or three years, planting
The SHORES o9 this miuute fungus are
blown y The wiads and sprssd. and