The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-15
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

comes short allow cut straw and hay.
Early cut hay is best for full flow Of
milk when fed to COWS, and will pro-
duce butter not crumbly or colorless.
Sixty tons Of almonds we're gathered
from sixty five acres on the Oakshsde
farm, in Yolo county, CAL, the present
season.
Your orchards need additional fer
tility in most instances. Money spent
in manure OF ashes for orchards is we'll
invested.
Secure early, before fall rains OF win
tar SHOWS begin, a bountiful supply of
dry straw to be used about, and under
the stock at night.
Give the young turkeys meat three
times a week. and force them In growtb
as much as possible, in order to secure
large size by Thanksgiving.
Cotton seed oil sells in London at half
the price of lard oil. It is the low
price of cotton-seed products that keeps
the price of all other grease down.
Incubator chicks are increasing in
the markets every season, and yet the
prices are still very high during the pc
riod between Christmas and June
a mixture of several kinds of grain
for feeding stock is always better than
one kind alone. Variety in grain is as
important as variety in bulky food.
During the dry season large supply
of fine road dirt should he stored away
for winter use as an absorbent. 1t is
excellent in the stalls and also in the
manure heap.
Whitewash the her-coops now in or
der to rid them Of lice. Use carboIic
acid with the whitewash as a disinfect-
ant and preventative Of lice.
Onions mustshe well ripened, secured
without much frost, and stored in dry
and yet cool place shallow boxes, such
as old orange boxes, do well for holding
them.
Why do not the owners of worthless
orchards destroy them and remove a
nuisance Such old orchards breed de-
structive insects, which scatter in all
directions.
Charles O'Donnell, of Twentieth and
Dickinson street, Philadelphia, writes
in the Record that ducks of his which
were hatched en- the 29th of April last
began to lay on the I'd of September.
The Ohio Experiment Station recon
mends as an efficient remedy for the
cabbage worm a mixture of one ounce
of pyrethrum With four ources of buck
wheat flour. applied with bellows.
The small Yorkshire is an excellent
breed Of hogs for crossing on common
stock. They are white in color, mature
very early, and make large proportion
OF pork for the amount Of food provided
for them.
1t is very easy to get good farm profits
on paper, but that kind Of work never
brings anything tangible except as it is
| supplemented by faithful performan Q
which is the mild supbemism for hard
knocks
The Pennsylvania Poultry Associa-
tion proposes to have a poultry show in
Philadelphia the coming winter. and
efforts will be made to make it the Iaro.
est OF the kind ever held in the United
States.
DO not feed corn TO heavily to breed
ing stock, or too much fat will be the
result, which is detrimental to fecund-
ity. Ground oats and shorts make An
excellent grain diet II given once a dav
with plenty Of grass.
Western dairymen agree that it paws
to cut the grass crops and feed the same
to cows in the stalls instead of allowing
them to Craze on the grass and trampIe
lt,WhIle the saving in manure and fenc-
ing is big thing.
With the use of bulls OF the beef nro.
ducing breeds steers are now raised that
reach nearly 800 pounds when year
OH, and that shows the value of the
breeds, the best results being obtained
from the very best grades and also nv
very liberal feeding.
When milking have a pail Of clean
water near in which to wash off the
cows teats. that no filth or dried skin
may fall into the milk pail. II ia not
an agreeable thought that such foreicn
substances have ever mixed with the
MIX II ever they can be strained ont.
1t is reported that the European bar-
vest will be ten per cent less than las
year. France is below 1OO. .OOO. 900 hec
toiiters; Italy, $1,000. 900. and England !
shows ten per cent. reduction in the |
rate Of yield on reduced area.
The colt that has been turned ont on |
the pasture should he given a noess oP |
bruised or ground oats in the mornino |
with whole oats at night. Keep the
colt growing, and he will be much more
valuable when matured.
If when young sheep are shedding
thelr teeth they look poor and ailipg
separate them awhile from the rest of !
the flock and pamper them With a little
extra food easily eaten. They will soon
regain their wopted appearance.
If early lambs are desi1ed the roros
and ewes should be coupled at this sea-
son, and as the difference in the prics
OF an early and late lamb is very great
the profits depend upon when the ewes
lamb and on the care bestowed.
Parsnips may be left in the ground