The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-10-14
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VALUABLE HINTS.
(. Potatoes require the most potash, beans the
most lime, corn the most phosphoric acid, and
the cereals the most nitrogen.
To exercise In WEAKNESS, increased BY every
step, is not only not beneficial it il useless and
worse than useless; it 10 positively destruc tive
The more clothes man wears, the more bed
clothing he uses, the closer he confines himself
to the house. the moro readily will he take cold,
able does he become to help himself.
As NO good traveller, after having fed his
horse, renews his Journey in . trot, but with .
slow walk, gradually increasing his pace, so in
getting up, to address an assembly for q contin-
ned effort, the first few sentences ehould be
uttered In low, slow tone, gradually intensified,
otherwise the voice will break down in 4 few
minutes with coughing or hoarsenees.
No disease ever comes without q cause or
without warning; hence endeavor to think
back for the cause, with . view to avoid it In
future, and on the instant of any unpleasant
bodily sensation, cease eating until thss disap-
peared, at least for tweLty-four hours; II still
remaining, consult physician.
Farmers who have been in the habit of draw
ing vines to their barnyards to be worked up in
to manure had better omit the practice this
year, especially In places where the potato rot
has been prevalent The rot is undoubtedly
produced by fungus growth which originates
In the leaf, and carrying this to the manure
heap is the most certain mode of spreading it
over the farm.
Apples :nd potatoes should never be kept in
the same cellar. or il this is unavoidable, the
potatoes should be kept in the warmest part of
the cellar, ard the barrels Of apples well headed
up, near the windows, where, on days when the
ar outside Is only few degrees above freezing,
they can be treated to q cold breeze from the
open windowe, while at the same time the at
mosphere in the part of the cellar where the
potatoes are kept, does not fall below forty
degrees.
ut 10 very poor economy to starve young ami
mails. Too often they lose during the winter
what flesh they have made in the summer, and
come out in the spring NO better than when they
were weaned; besides using up time and food
10 restore their strength the next summer We
nave seen young stock which were worth twelve
dollars In the fail, sold in the spring for seven
or eight dollars, after having been fed through
the winter. 1t is this sort of bad management,
which has no doubt given rise to the general
complaint that farming does not pay
Much Of the profit from poultry must be deter.
mined by jadicious management. As general
rule, the first products of such business are the
most profitable. Where the markets are suita-
BILE, eggs will generally pay better clear income
than fowls. The advance in price is not gener.
ally sufficient to cover the loss from spoiled eggs
and diseases among chicks before they are
ready for market. This is, of course, not true,
usually. where fancy prices are readily received
for the best breeds.
One should always be particular in the con:
struction of hen roosts, to have them all the
same height, and not too great a distance from
the floor. II roosts are placed one higher than
the preceding one, the hens will all strive tc
reach the highest, and leave the ones below I'M
occupied. Roosts should not be arranged
higher than four feet from the floor, and BY
having these able to be reached by afoot-wide
board across which laths the width of the board
are nailed horizontally. the large and clumsy
hens are saved many tumble. from which
arises swelling called ''bumble FOOT
The National Stockman enters a proper pro.
| test against the almost universal unhandnes:
and Inconvenience of the water supply of farm
houses. With abundant water about him ani
abundant means to secure hydraulic conveRien
ces the farmer too often allows his wife to make
packmule of herself in carrying water To-
ordinary household and culinary use. Hundred,
of miles walk these accomplishing women lug
ging great buckets when the water could be hat
in kitchen and sink by turning faucet. TIL,
farmer buys reaper and mower and horse
rake, but he never thinks how the work in tn,
house might be lightened by the expenditure O
little thought and money.