The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-09-10

E-au cgOIs .bs blood OF ths C9v.
- -s'1 mills and resI vE. keep tae
Co.. growing.
If you want to raise stunts keep
the calves in the patch with the pigs.
A small quantity of bad milk will
spoil a whole mass of cheese at tie fac
tory.
a COW is a milk producing machine
sensitive one at that.
y tablespoonful of clear lime water,
or raw egg put into the milk at every
feed will cure scours in calves.
Heating curd too suddenly causes the
pores to contract so that the whey and
gas are rot sufficiently liberated
You cannot make good butter from
poor food any more than you can make
silB purse out Of a sOw's ear.
Make your butter and cheese as good
as possible, and then make the same ef-
fort to sell them to the best advantage
1t is said that there is not an estab-
lished rule of agriculture which sLere
is not almost as much experience to dis
prove as to confirm.
A layer of cotton batting round a hill
of any plant which is apt to be infested
with creeping insects will deter them
from approaching; they do not like to
get eDtangled in it.
At the approach of winter ali the
poor cows, old horses and otherwise de-
preciated stock should be disposed of.
They cost as mnch to winter as stock
that will increase in value, besides the
danger Of losses in wintering.
At any time now spare days may be
employed in plOwing for wheat. The
work can not be done too thoroughly OF
the ground to well prepared. Wheat
rarely receives the attention it should
in preparation, which largely explains
why the American yield hovers near a
dozen bushels per acre.
The injury that the crow does to the
corn, by pulling it up, is not generally
great, and can De easily guarded against.
A more serious indictment is found in
the fact that the crow is the great enc
my of insect destroying birds, whose
nests 1t robs.andswhose young it kills.
The sql irrel is also open to the same
charge.
To insure a good catch of timothy
seed il should be sOwn in the fall with
wheat or other winter grain. 1t is raJh-
er best to SOW a few weeks after wheat
seeding, else it might get growth
enough to injure the grain crop the sub
sequent season. If clover is desired the
seed should not be sown until spring,
as young clover is very tender and will
all be winter killed.
1t is we'll understood by farmers that
there is a joint worm that attacks bar
ley, and often makes il light weight.
It is similar to, but distinct from, a
Joint worm that attacks wheat. 1t is
believed. however. that the barley joint
worm also, under some circumstances,
attacks the winter grain, and hence is
suggested a caution against preceding
wheat with barley, which is quite COM
mon in the winter wheat growing local
tiles.
There is a great advantage IN having
a hay cutter in the barn. By its use
straw and other coarse fodder can be 50
mixed with meal that stock will eat all
readily, and thus the capacity of the
farm to keep stock and make manure
may be largely increased. The stubs of
coarse corn stalks will not be eaten gu-
less steamed, but it is worth while to
cut them up. if only for the advantage
of having fine manure to be evenly
spread during the winter and spring.
An Illinois drover and butcher says
that twenty-five years ago it was diff
cult to find yearling steers that would
weigh six hundred pounds live weight.
They we're not considered fully ripe
until four years old, and then fifteen
hundred pounds was considered an ex-
creme weight. The feeding now is no
better than then, OF at least not more
costly Solely by improved breeding it
is found possible to produce yeariings
that weigh one thousand pounds, three
year-oIds heavier than the fOur-year-
olds. and full grown steers weighing
twothousand pounds OF more. There
is certainly no more bone and frame in
the improved stock, and it is cOnse-
quently worth more per pound to the
butcher. If it has taken more feed it
has returned a larger proportion to the
manure heap.