The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-04-08


ge,tion, and to help in forming the
shells Of eggs.
Window glass and mirrors oan be
cleaned by whiting wet to q paste and
rubbed on with a woollen rag. When
dry. rub with q cloth and polish with
soft newspapers.
In making beds do not fail to turn
your mattresses daily. Let the beds
air at least an hour or two before max
ing up. Put the under-sheet with wrong
side to the bed, and tho upper one with
the marked end always at the top. A
double bed requires sheets three yards
long by two and half wide, to allow
for tuckng in thoroughly. Beat the
pillows well and smooth with the hand.
It is the best to feed the COWS all
they will consume if it is plentiful.
Coarse food is used TO: distending the
stomach, and assists in digesting the
concentrated food. 1t does not pay to
turn cattle into the BARNARD to
trample the material, but it does pay
to allow them to eat up clean all they
can consume.
Whatever is fed to chicks, that is to
be moistened with water, should be
fed while warm, and what is not
eaten at once should be removed. ia
be again warmed before gwen to the
chicks, for even in warm weather it is
not good policy to keep moistened food
before chicks; II any food is to be left
it should be dry, cracked corn OF
millet seed. When chicks are several
weeks old they should have whole
corn, wheat, barley, oats, etc.
For young turkeys during the first
three weeks boiled meat chopped fine
for one meal per day is of great benefit.
and hot broth thickeued with barley
and Indian meal is also one of the
best of soft foods; care should be
taken not to have the soft food fed out
of proportion. Fully one-half OF all
food for young turkeys should be in a
dry seed form.
There is nothing gained by undue
haste in getting the garden started in
the spring. Though the temptation to
work is strong in the first warm DAYS.
Some seeds can be safely planted early
and will take little damage even if the
planting is followed by quite severe
frost. Among these are onions, peas,
lettuce, radishes, cabbage and beets.
But for kinds that will be damaged by
frosts, 1t is better to wait till the ground
is warm and good weather fairly as
surred.
The earlier manure is out upon grass
and grain land in the spring the better.
Even when the manure is intended for
a corn crop, and not to be ploughed
under until the first part of NAV, the
grain in the growth Of grass will more
than compensate the loss by the action
OF rains and drying winds, except upon
hill-sides and spots where the land is
especially exposed to the washing by
heavy rains. 1t is rare that the month
passes without warm and dry weather
sufficient to put the ground in condition
for ploughing throughout the great
middle corn and small grain belt Of the
country.
The New England Farmer says that
farmers have settled down to the con-
viction that the silo is valuable auxil-
liary to the stock farmer, enabling him
to become little more Independent
than formerly of unfavorable weather
for curing and preserving the crops
grown. The Massachusetts, farmer
who cultivates forty-ive acre has fod-
der enough on hand to winter fifty head
of cattle, and will sell his best hay at
500 ton.