The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-01-22


ters readily. yTim
The tree agent is at large !; try him
before you buy. Is
Every sunny window should now have
its pot plant
Squirrels are nuisance about corn
cribs often set traps.
Char corn slightly, and it's most as
good as wheat for fowls.
Apples and small fruits can be grown
where wheat and corn thrive.
The checkerberry OF wintergreen
might be grown in shady spots. -
To cut gratis in cold weather is not
now believed to be harmful to them.
Weight for weight and milk is richer
In butter in winter than in summer.
Never feed corn stalks uncut even
for manure making, cutting is far bet
ter.
Bran, sprinkled sfith pepper and
mixed with milk is excellent feed oc-
easionally in winter for laying hens.
Market gardening is not 50 much a
matter Of soil as of situation for getting
Inanures and selling the products.
January is a critical month with all
kinds Of live stock. They should be
kept comfortable and gaining. If they
begin 20 fall OF in condition, they win
be almost sure to lose rapidly.
A plant in pot is like a bird in a
cage in this respect, that its well-doing
depends wholly upon what is brought to
It. in food and water daily and the gen.
eral care it gets.
Send for catalogues of dealers in
tools, fertilizers. seeds, and so on, and
study them in the winters leisure.
Really they contain a vast fund of in
formation, virtually free.
When skim milk or buttermilk can be
secured 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. r
A vegetable garden is nothing If not
highly manured it is ample plant food
that gives to esculents that quality of
tenderness and flavor so much priced !;
it is the same that gives the large crops
which alone ought to be satisfactory.
A good condition powder fol fowls
is made as follows: One pound each
Of ground bones, dried meat, Iinseed
meal and feDnyreck an ounce each of
sulphur, ginger, pepper and copperas.-
Give a small quantity once day mixed
with soft feed.
Orchard trees need posash as one for
native element. With tE7 disuse of
wood fires, there is naturally a smaller
supply of ashes finding its way &c the
trees than formerly. These should hs
saved for she purpose. In their absence
the German potash salts are the best
substitutes.
Where many bedding plants are want
ed in the spring, money may be saved
in the procuring Of them at that time
by giving the order to the florist now.
Then he can cultivate specially for
them, and if he knows what's what, he
will be ready to furnish them at dis
count from regular prices, even though
you do not pay for them before the time
Of delivery and planting. e-
The craving for salt in animals is
natural and not a result of the care of
man. When this country was wild eve
~ salt spring was frequented by deer, a
fact that was taken advantage of BY
hunters for their capture. Near the
ocean less salt is required than farther
inland, owing to the fact that the at
mosphere is in q degree charged with
salt, and this is impaired to growing
crops through the dews and rain.
Few plants are better adapted to win
dow gardening the year round than the
rnauTandis. The plants are climbing
in their habit, but very neat and
tractable at all seasons, and besides
profuse bloomers most of the year. To
these who have to raise the plants from
the seed, we would say, that the seed
should be gotten directly and sowed be-
fore the month is out. There may then
be strong plants by spring which will
serve to make an excellent show during
the summer, and even till late in the
fall.
In managing live stock, main thing
Is to look to the comfort of the animal.
No animal thrives at the same time
that it is cold, and uneasy. while a quiet
appearance is a sure indication of thrift.
When the observing farmer sees a rest
less and uneasy animal be may know
something is wrong he will treat it to
remove the cause II he studies his best
interests. We do not maintain but the
same animals are by their very natures
restless under any treatment such will
usually be found unthrifty and unproft-
able in the same degree, and had better
be weeded out unless, perhaps, there is
some chance Of reforming them.
Coal asnes and SCOT are becoming
known as perfect specific against the
troublesome radish worm. These ale
used very freely in the radish beds and
the vegetable is never infested. The
statement is however necessary that the
full effect of ashes or SCOT is not real
lied until the second year and later, as
against tbe worm. All one has to do is
TO apply these year ahead OF time, de-
voting the space in the meantime to any
other crop you may choose. The eff
cheney of this remedy ought to be good