Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-08
Farm and Garden.

Drifts don't form where fences are down.
 Grind the cobs with the corn.
 Feed the hens at daylight
 Char corn slightly and it's most as good as wheat for fowls.
 Hay bitter from weeds, makes bitter but ter
 Squirrels are a nuisance about corn cribs often; set traps.
 Never feed corn stalks uncut; even for manure making cutting is far better.
 Weight for weight and milk is richer in butter in winter than in summer.
 Let no animal be placed where it will be helplessly threatened by 8 stronger one with. out chance of escape.
 Send for catalogues of dealers in tools, fertilizers, seeds and on and study them in the winters leisure. Really they contain a vast fund of information virtually free.
 When skim milk or buttermilk can be se- cured at from two to three cents per gallon it is one of the cheapest foods that can be given to chickens. It may largely take the place of flesh and will induce them to lay early and often.
 The craving for salt in animals is natural and not result of the care of man. When this country was wild every salt spring was frequented by deer, fact that was taken ad- vantage of by hunters for their capture. Near the ocean less salt is required than far ther inland, owing to the fact that the at mosphere is in a degree charged with salt, the dews and rain.
 A good condition powder for fowls is made as follows: One pound each of ground bones, dried meat, linseed meal and fenny- reck; an ounce each of sulphur, ginger, pep per and copperas. Give small quantity once g day mixed with soft feed.
 Bran sprinkled with pepper and mixed with milk is excellent feed occasionally in winter for laying hens.
 Live Stock in Winter.-ln managing live stock a main thing is to look to the comfort of the animal No animal thrives at the same tims that it is cold and uneasy, while a quiet appearance is a+sure indication of thrift. When the observing farmer sees 8 restless and uneasy animal he may know something is wrong; he will treat 1t to remove the cause if he studies his best interests. We do not maintain but that some animals are by their very nature restless under any treatment; such will usually be found unthrifty and un- profitable in the same degree and had better be weeded out, unless perhaps there is some chance of reforming them.
 Butter Making-rhe notion is too preva- lent that good butter making is not for win ter, and one sees the majority of farmers managing to have their COWS come in in the spring just fairly before grass time Then the butter crop comes along chiefly in the pasture season, when of course the product must be at it's cheapest. Now we do not claim that butter is easily made and without good deal of extra care in winter, even if the calving time is right, but we do know that with good feeding it can be done, and with greater remuneration than in summer. First the stables must be dry and comforta- ble and along with this the feed must be right. Good cornstallzs are better for cows than hay Clover, while richer in nutritive value than the grasses, is not so good for but ter. Cows turned into the best field of clo yer will eat the grass of the fence corners before they will touch the clover. For win ter feeding second growth clover is much better than the first cutting. Corn in any shape is excellent feed for milk cows and should be given twice day. Winter butter naturally tends towards white color; feed ing carrots freely will render it of better color. We do not object to artificial color ing of any approved kind if it be judicious- ly used.
 ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
 Seed growing as a pursuit is on thes in- crease.
 Straight branches indicate straight roots.
 The checkerberry wintergreon might be grown in shady spots.
 The tree agent is at large; try him before you buy.