The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-21
pAcTs ron EARAlERs,

Bring the sheep up ~ nlgn9 ana glVi
each q meal OF oats, IL pastprago be-
comes short allow cut straw and hay,
Rarly.cut hay Ia best Tor full dow o
milk when fed 70 COWS, and will produces
butter mot crunbly OF GoloEleRs.
Sixty tons Of almonds were gathered
from sixty-fiYe acres on the 0Akshadl
tarm, in Yolo county, Cal, the present
season.
Your orchards need additional fertility
in most instances. Money spent In man
ure or ashes for orchards Is well in
vested.
Secure early, before fall rains or winter
SHOWS begin, q bouptiiul supply Of dry
straw 10 be used about and under the
stock at night,
Give the young turkeys meat three
times week, and force them in growth
As much az possible, In order to secure
large size by Thanksgiving,
Cotton-seed oil sells in London at half
the price OF lard oil, II Ia the low price
Of cotton-seed products that keeps the
price OF all other grease down,
Incubator chicks arc increasing in the
markets every season, and yet the prices
are still very high during the period be-
tween Christmas and June.
Amixture Of several kinds Of grain for
feeding stock is always better than one
kind alone. Variety In grain Is as i'm
portant "a variety in bulky food.
During the dry season large supply OF
fpe road dirt should be stored away for
winter uss as an absorbent, II Is excel
lent in the stalls and also in the manure
heap.
Whitawash the hen-Coops now In order
to clean them thoroughly and 10 rid them
Of lice. Use carbolic acid with tho white.
wash as q disinfectant and preventive Of
lice,
Why will not the owners Of worthless
orchards destroy them and remove
nuisance2 Such old orchards breed de.
struCtiVe insects, which scatter In all
directions.
Select one tree in your orchard and give
itan ample dressing OF manure and wood
ashes, Then compare its growth and pro-
ductlvensss with others not thus fertil'
lied.
Professor sanborn, Of Missouri, says
that the corn.fodder wasted by allowing
the corn to stand in the hill until 1t is as
dry as parchment Is enough to nearly
winter the stock.
Although 1t may not be Questionable to
have the strawberry runners root and ill
up the rows, yet the space between the
rows should be kept clean and well Cultl-
waited until the frost sets In.
One OF our sheep breeders, says tho
Indiana Farmer, who tried tho racomm0n.
dalton oil q pint OF sweet milk with an egg
stirred in It, says It cured the scourlngs in
every case in his flock.
Charles o'Donnell, Of Twentieth and
Dickinson streets, Philadelphia, writes
The Record that ducks Of his, which were
Matched on the Goth Of April last began
to lay on the I'd OF September.
The Ohio Experiment Station rsCom.
mends as an efficient remedy for the cab.
bage worm mixture OF ono ounce OF
pyrethfum with four ounces oil buCkwheat
hour, applied with bellows.
Agood sharp fodder cutter, used at every
feeding, will save more than Its costs, as
we'll as pay for the labor Of cutting every
season. All the coarse food should be
passed through the fodder cutter.
The small Yorkshire Is an excellent
breed Of hogs for crossing on common
stock. They are white In color, mature
very early, and make a large proportion
Of pork for the amount Of food provided
them,