The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-12-22
AGnrcULrURAL NOTES.


Among ahe Vegetables, Fruit, Livs.
stock and Poultry.
There are 40,000 women belonging to
oranges in the United States.
You cannot make your scrub pigs weigh
$50 pounds at nine months, but good breeds
can be made to do it.
Chickens can be fattened in twelve days
to two weeks if they are kept in dark
place and fed all they viii eat
There is general complaint among
breeders Of shortage in pigs, and before
the season is over the scarcity will be felt.
DR.. Loring says nothing but q horse
should be called thoroughbred. Cattle
of that class, he says, should be called pure
bred.
Beets and parsnips may be kept fresh
through the winter by packing in sand ;
this viii preserve their favor and keep them
from drying up.
Give the sheep a mess of ground oats
every evening from now until the lambing
period. As soon as grass fails give them all
the hay they can eat.
High bred horses should not be worked
in the collar, because their shoulders are SO
sharp pointed and slanting that the collar
win not ft over them.
Cider made from finely ground apples
and strained through coarse canvas is far
superior to that made in the old-fashioned
mills and strained through straw.
Potatoes aad most vegetables will keep
better in dark, damp cellar than in a light
dry one, and viii keep better in cool
cellar than in q warm one. Light is injur-
ious to the potato, rendering 1t strong and
unpaiatable.
Cabbage can be kept in the cellar for a
long time if the heads are cut of near the
ground with hatchet; this is far better
than pulling mp the roots and all, as II saves
large amount of dirt from being carried
into the cellar.
The purchase of milk in the near futurt
will be based upon the quality as well as
the quantity. The dairyman who selects
the best cows and supplies the most liberal
rations will then receive the highest price
for the milk product. Milk should be sold
upon its actual value, the same as butter
and cheese.
Do not feed hogs exclusively on corn as
long as the weather is favorable for them
in the fields. They should be kept growing
as long as possible and need no corn until
penned Even then the diet should be OF
varied kind, and not consist of corn alone,
as corn digests more readily and gives better
results when fed in connection with roots,
grass or other bulky food.
Where it is necessary to store roots in Q
cellar, they should be either covered with
earth to prevent drying up, or else barrelled
up tight Many farmers who sell washed
turnips in the winter are in the habit Of
washing them in the fall, and asserting
them in barrels, where they will keep in 3
cool cellar, but by no means in CELIA
where there is furnace. This latter will
keep squashes we'll, however.
A writer in the Country Gentleman adyo
Gates building root houses for storing al
kinds of roots in. He says that the labo
attached to pitting annually would NOR
than pay the interest of capital invested
He does not fear cold, but does heat Thos
who use large bins are advised to put brusl
between each layer Of two feet, as they 81
In, and 10 ventiiate TO twenty-eight degree
II possibla-
In cultivating house or window plants
people often worry as TO how to keep then
warm. The thought rarely occurs that the,
may be too warm. Great heat is, however
frequently the cause of failure Gas is otter
charged with what high temperature does
People often envy the windows Of the poor
whore flowers OF ang kind sesm to thrive
The comparatively low temperature hal
much to do with IL, Flowers like yiolets
roses, geraniums, fnschias and many other
are better at a temperature of fifty degrees
than they would b. at seventy degrees.
Those who would catch moles by trap
ping must learn the art Of distinguishes
the regular run of the animal and o mere
feeding ground. In the latter they do no
return in the paths they make while hunt
ing for worms and insects, but in their run,
they do. The traps must be set to catch
them on return They often have ruI
under hard piece of ground to the softer
feeding place. When such track is dis.
covered all that are troublesome can speed
lily be caught They may be driven ava,
by inserting tow dipped in gas tar int,
their runs. An old gardener used to EN-
ploy dried herring as better than tar.
The prices one can command for hil
poultry depend lpre ,ly ON how the killing
and preparation III done. The birds SHOULD
be fat and have empty crops. No one i
liable to be deceived into paying the pric,
of poultry for the little corn that may be il
the crop, while its presence may prejudic,
some good customer against buying. Dom
catch the birds by running them down, AMI
then after chopping of their heads alloy
them to flop" about violently, to bruis,
and disfgure themselves Catch them quiet
ly; then hold each bird firmly and tie tn,
wings, and then the legs, and hang then
alive one after another on pole. When
small number are THUS suspended, take
sharp knife and sever the head Of each fowl
closely, letting them hang afterward unit
all the blood is out Il the fowls are to b,
shipped, plucking the feathers should
'one dry, commencing, at once while th
ody il still warm. Pull few at tim
he way the feathers lie, and they will com
easily. Let the birds hang until cold, whe,
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