The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-02-12
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
Hems Relating TO Farm, Live Stock, Or
chard, Garden and Lawn.

Cheese is more nourishing food han !
meat.
Notice how fowls will fret when food |
Genes late.
If beans must he sorted do it on an
inclined board.
Many a great trotter was. as a colt,
of little premise.
A lady in another State reports
Gala twenty years old.
This is a good time to consider the
need of shelter belts TO the garden.
Remember that plenty of manure and
/ tiIlage are the true secrets of raising
/ fine vegetables.
| II you would have your floral arrange
ments always interesting, keep out the
rut of sameness in making up.
/ Dirt from hollow trees is not worth
much for plants. Rotted sods with old
manure intermixed Is far better.
After Germany's fuss over American
trichium it turns out that their own
swine are worse affected than any other
on the globe.
If the winter coat has blown off from
strawberries and the like, restore it be-
fore the alternate freezing and thawing
of spring comes on. That is what hurts
plants.
Have you ever observed how much
ure besides the house. even if it be only
the poultry house, adds to the appear
aDce of a place
The clamor is usually more for double
flowers than for single ones we prefer
both single hyacinths and single prim
roses for vase flowers, to the double
= ones of the same. They keep nicer.
China nest eggs are a real economy Al
this season. First of al they nevel
Z break from frost. BY their use, tht
hens, if at large, may be attracted to {
familiar spot. to lay, when if no nes-
- egg were there. the nest might go to
new place and not be found.
b Only sheep take to beans NATURAL.
and even they may require some urging
. But beans are very nutritious, and
j. there are more refused or stained one
) than the sheep will consume, by boilin
them, or mixing with oats and grinding
. hogs may be induced to eat some.
Farmers can have back the old horse
shoes again, about ROW. This usefu
equipment to the horse has bec1 ideal
lied and fixed up and initiated, an
dragged into fine parlors, however rus
ty or stained they may have been, for
-. long time, but at last the spell is bTC
! ken, fashion says they may go back t
! the stalls and the roadways.
We naturally expect flowers to 500
, fade after they are matured and cut
u and yet much can be done to prolon
their existence. In the night time, fC
one thing, they cannot be used, henC
=, may receive some special atteRtion {
preserve or restore them. In a Tefrigei
atOr is a good place to set them for thi
but if none be had, they may go to tt
cellar floor, sprinkling lightly and il
verting tub or tight vessel over then
The wet seasons of the past year
two in many places have raised a ne
~ dread against weeds, which we tru
ar may lead to a still more effective wa
be fare against them. We refer to the
IT. hIndering the drying of grain, by bei1
Of themselves loaded with moisture whiC
he nothing but long exposure to sun ar
re wind can remove. By their present
". grain is often kept from drying in W
IT I =
Of soon be in order for the barn. Som
it times the loss thus entailed has amour
Ter ed to nearly the full value of the crop
If CHAMBERS in horses is known to
anywhere around. keep up a sharp loo
Of out for it. The symptoms are a ru
eed; ming at the nose, accompanied by ulce
lch ations in the nostrils, and warty exc1
i've sences in the glands of the throat.
ior If either of these indications should
discovered in any animal, such an o
should be at once separated from t
others, and every precautior be taken
prevent its further spread. The disc
ed animals should be carefully handle
for the glanders have been known
communicate TO human beings, and
such cases are almost sure to pre-
> fatal.
There is a good deal of talk abc
cleanliness in the hen house, but wi
does it mean2 1t means remove all
excrement every day, pot half of it,
new the nests often, using clean ma
, rial each time to keep the walls n
and sweet by the application of a q
o. of whitewash occasionally to aim
having the fowls clean of insects by
IN ing the roosts with some vermin XII
~ as well as the nest boxes, corners, e
st to provide a suitable bathing place,
/. ing as the material for the bath natu
strange choice for fowls, dry dust.
no these things are wanted before we
so call the hen house in a clean, heal
20 state. Frequently brushing up
~ floor of scattered dust and filth is
necessary.