The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-06-11
,gRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

,rra the animal Of the vicious hatit. tn
The range practice Of burning the own A
ar-s brand into the skin of cattle is said .
=, Feprscii.e the leather value of each oil
hide IN the extent Of three TO four dol IN
lars :
Prof. Cock recommends planting po- =,
t.t,as ,be first year after plOwing up :.
green sward. if wneworms attack the =
crop. The grubs live nearly three years =, =
as laUrg# x
J. : woodward intimates that all
manure should go direct from barn to Ii
field. thus doing away with the neees- t,
sf,y of barn yard, reeking with filth e
and unpleasant OdOrs. b
:. HoIingwOrth, an Indiana potato e
grower. strongly advocates the rotation t
NJ crops as means of avoiding the I
crab. lie manares his crop lightly on t
account Of this disease, which he says
IS increasing.
The wire netting, sold at about one
cent per square foot, Is the best and
cheapest poultry inclosure. Tackled to
a board at the ground, it can be fasten-
ed above TO scantHngs extending from
posts which should be about eight feet
apart.
The Journal Of agriculture says that
the value of fresh eggs for tonning up .
horses system is well understood by |
most managers of fine horses. Farmers |
having good horses aud very cheap eggs /
would do very well 20 break one il each
horses feed occasionally during the
spring Of the year.
Vas. quantities Of marsh lands are
being reclaimed by ditching in Indiana.
The work is most prOGtably done by
dredging, work being begun at the head
of the ditch, where sufficient water will
soon accumulate to float "a boat carry
ing the machinery The work done by
this machine is at the rate of $50 lineal
feet per day, on a 5 foot cut 25 to 30
feet wide.
Il correspondent Of the Country Cen
tlerlu has noticed that peas and sweet
corn planted in the middle of bright,
warm day, when the soil was thorough
Iy warmed BY the sun, gained an advari-
tags over those planted side by side, on
the same day, but which were planted
at night or early IN the morning. These
experiments, which were seYeral times
repeated were conducted quite early in
the season. before the ground wa:
warm.
The Department of Agriculture has
issued pamphlet on "Ths Method
and Machinery for the Application o
Diffusion TO the Extraction Of Suga
from the Sugar Cane and Sorghum, AM
for the use Of Lime and CarbOnic al
suIphuriC Acids in Purifying the Diffu
sion Juices" Copies NAV be Obtaine
free by addressing Norman L. ColmaI
Commissioner of Agriculture, Wash
ington j. G. The pamphlet is illu
strated With p plates.
For vermin on cattle Hon. Ware
Brown, Of Massachusetts, Recommend
carbolic soap which he prepares hin
self. He takes a pound bar of ordinal
yellow soap and one ounce Of caTboi
CRYSTALS, dissOlves the soap in hot WI
ter, adds the crystals of acid, and wht
the compound is cOCl it is excellent
rid cattle, horses and dogs of vermil
It also takes all the scuIf and rOughne
out of the skin. The soap will hard
again unless too much water is used.
The Country Gentleman says barn-ya
manure should never be applied dlreC
" 10 barley, as it tends to make
bunchy, and increases fungi, and bar
.shouId never follow wheat or rye
does very well after a well-manur
cIeau-hCed crop (cOTn OF potatoes), oI
a good clover sod be turned down in
fall. and the barley pIuwed in shal!C
so as not to turn up the sod harT
and roll ; when few inches high
again. to settle the land and destroy
sects.
Prof. Budd says that in setting II
It Is always best TO lean the tree tow
the south at a strong angle. This I
not look near so well as to set them
right, bat we must pay more attent
to profit 90 ourselves and good he
for the tree in this matter. By lear
the tree TO the south in this man
sun scalding is prevented to a great
tent, for the top beng partly betV
the sun and the trunk shades and
tects It from the heat as the tops
roots are both strongest on the n
side. they VIII gradually pull the
back into an upright position.
W. + Brown in the Indiana Fd
warns farmers against ''gOing securi
which he truly says means you ass
all the risk Of another mans BUSH
with no voice in its management,
no chance to share the profits II
cessfu' but with a certainty of 10:
from rascality, neglect OF unavoi'
misfortune, the maker Of the note
to pay t. Nj Brown thinks no
ried man should indoTse note for
body without his wife's consent, s.
Il is unjust and dishonOrable to jeo
ize her interest in the property acc
lated by mutual labor without
knowledge, and adds that general
woman is wiser than the man an
sense enough to refuse to imperil
hard-esrned sayings.
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BREAKIEG COLTs.-Ihe future
duct OF a colt depends much up0I
tie training in his first lessons Of S