Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-09
FARM AND GARDEN.

horn.
When you set hen, sprinkle Ia
blcspoonful of sulphur in the nest.
The sulphur repels lice, and also keeps
off scaly leg.
Potatoes require the most potash,
beans the most lime. corn the most
phosphoric acid and the cereals the
most nitrogen.
Too long pulls on a muddy road often
hurt the wind of horse. When they
begin to breathe heavily il is time to
give them elbow"
Select for seeds smooth, large, well
formed potatoes. with shallow eyes, in
stead of the refuse of the potato heap,
as is too often the case.
Never purchase brood SOW the inn
mediate progenitors OF which have been
prepared for show ring. She will
lack n strong constitution.
Rose slugs are easily destroyed by
spraying with water and pyrethrum at
the rate of one tablespoonful of the lat
ter to pailful of the former.
The Massachusetts Foreman says
few things costing so little save so
much as paint, when applied to farm
implements, including wagons and
carts.
Artificial eyes are now furnished for
horses that have lost an optic by acci-
dent. A glass eye helps the looks Of
horse, even if he can't look through it.
The currant worm should be de-
stroyed while small with dust of
hcllcbore or pyrethrum. The latter
being perfectly harmless, is to be more
highly recommended.
Feed plenty of buttcrmilk to the
hens. Either give it in place of water
OF thicken it with mixture Of bran
and meal. Thick milk and skinned
milk are also excellent.
\ cow should never be allowed to
skip a milking. as the retention of so
large a volume of milk in the udder
will iniame it and injure the quality
of the milk, and perhaps the udder
also.
1t is an easier matter to keep the
stables clean and orderly than it is sup
posed by those who have not tried it.
If YOU are one of this number, begin at
once, and see if it is not true.
J. ID. Shedd, of Fairfax, VT, reports
that he owns a sow that has given birth
to iifty-three pigs in three litterS with
in twelve months-thirteen, twenty
and twenty respectively.
Foot-rot in sheep, distemper il
horses and cattle. cough in pigs and
score of other ailments arise from filthy
barnyards in winter and spring. Pre-
vention is better than cure in these
cases.
A recommended preventive of chol-
era: Construct long, deep trough;
keep it supplied with Stacked lime,
with IA reasonable amount of salt, and
attract the hogs to it by stopping them
there.
Two oilings of harness, except the
collars. year is enough; but the coll
lars should be oiled every two weeks
during the working season, and the
sweat and dirt be removed each morn
ing with dull knife.
Colonel +. ID. Curtis strongly recon-
mends peas for feed for swine and
also approves of pasturing the swine
on peas in the field New York far
mers make peas n rotation crop with
wheat or rye Plaster is help to this
crop, which should be grown on mel
low. moist land.
If YOU intend TO SOW beets, carrots
or parsnips with view of winter feed
ing of stock the sowing should not be
delayed beyond corn planting time.
Rutabagas may be sown net later than
the middle of June.
The exports of genuine butter have
fallen from 10000. 900 pounds in 1880
to 81. 63S, 1873 pounds in 1885, or nearly
onc-half. while the exports of butter
substitutes have increased from 20
OOO. 900 in 1880 to -, 900, 900 in 1885.
IL your hogs Dcgin to cough, look
out for malignant lung troubles. If
they NOPE and lie about their beds,
intestinal !.iilicultcs may be expected.
Plenty of pure air. pure water, and
varied food will scare away malignant
diseases.
The Poultry keeper advises poultry
raisers that they should never seek "a
market for their poultry between No
vember ID and January -. The com
mission houses are crowded and trade
paralyzed by the volume of receipts ut
that time.
Contrary to the usual belief. the great
bulk of the poultry raised in the United
States comes from the West, where it
is grown so chcaply that it can b. ship
ped East and sold Mt profit. The
number of fowls in the country in 1880
was about 125, 300 900.
Rhubarbville is station on the
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