The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-01-28
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trees from mice.
Hens must be warmly housed If eggs
are to be secured.
The sashes Of cold frames should be
lifted on nild days.
Potatoes in pits need plenty of litter or
coarse manure to keep out frost.
keep the best fodder back and feed it
out to stock toward the end Of the season.
Clean and house for the winter all the
tools that will not be used again until next
season.
If you want to kill burdocks cut them
off closely aud pour petroleum on the short
stamps.
In no business is attention to very
light do ails more requisite than in poultry
raising.
--Swill for hogs should be fec while
resh, and not allowed TO and until soul
md disgusting.
The great secret of successful farming
is to keep the soil increasing IN fertility by
The application of manure.
-Spare-ribs to bo used while fresh, may
be hung up where they will freeze. and will
not spoil so long as they remain frozen.
Onions are said to be valuable as a gape
remedy for chickens. They should be
chopped up and mixed with the food in
winter.
The manure-hesp should be packed
shL enough TO ayoid the escape OF all.
uonia, and sufficiently loose TO avoid fire
angling.
Most of the apples now upon the gen
3 al market are supp iod from the STATE Of
New York. Systematic orcharding is a good
business.
-Ine dairy requires careful management
o be profitable IN winter Good cows,
good food, good care and modern appliances
make it pay.
The most critical period in the life OF a
calf is the first winter, but is will bring no
serious risk if tho animal has abundant
,ood vi good quality and good, comfortable
quarters, with freedom from parasitic in
| sects.
"A poultryman claims that milk will
| give far larger and quicker returns if fed to
| fowls than if given to pigs. NJ Ia, he says,
| resembles in composition the egg far more
Than almost any food il is possible to OBJ
| sain.
If land is plowed in the fall for corn in
no way can manure be moro advantageous
| j. applied, according TO one authority, than
by hauling it out in the winter and scatter
ing IL oyer the plowed ground direct from
yne wagon.
Loss sometimes occurs from not sailing
pork promptly after it is cut up. If il
| freezes il cannot be well sailed until thor
oughly thawed out, and the expansion and
contraction caused by alternate freezing
aud thawing does no good.
Major Alyord says that in nearly all
cases Objectionable odoIs and havors dc
not exist in milk as drawn from the COW,
out are absorbed from the air, the exterior
Of the COW or the clothing and person OF
The mixer, or while the milk stands in the
stable.
ing in this country, especially in our large
cities, and III has become profitable to SUI.
ply this demand. 1t is profitable, first,
because the price is remuneratiYe, anC
secondly, because it is plomotiye of gool
husbandrY, the improvement of the soil.
Beans are good food for cows. The
bean meal is probably the best form. Blu
| if the beans are bJiled until soft they ma.
De fed with profit. Waste beans on til,
farm, or damaged stock that can some
times be.bousht cheap, should always b.
fed. Beans are rich in protein or uiiro
| seneous.
Squash Biscuit. One pint Of staine
squash, one-half cup of yeast, one sma
cup Of sugar and a piece OF butter the siz
Of an egg. Beat the squash, butter an
sugar thoroughly, add yeast and beat again
add -four till quite stiff 70 STIR with spoon
let It stand over night; in the morning pu
in gem pans, or make into biscuit, let lis
and bake These should be eaten Will
hot.
IN experiment OF feeding eighteen head
store cattle with twelve pounds OF ha
.hirty-fi five pounds Of tuFnius and mir
poun of wheat bran per head daily ali
also the same amount Of hay and root
out with different kinds of grain, resulte
u the lowest cost of production on the bra
ration.
There are no secrets In sheep raisin)
IL has to be done by feeding. The shee
nave to eIl some thing, and that somethin
mas to be- sweet feed, grass. grain, veg
tables, fruit, or anything that is who'll
some and nutritious, but must be abun,
ant ana unfailing. Weeds, brush an
Orars will keep sheep aliYe, but don't as
sheep 10 grow mutton on such pasture
no, nor wool.
No dairyman but knows that II b
cows are exposed TO inclement storms
compelled to submit to priYatlons in ii
matter OF food they will Immediately Z,
gister the effect in diminished Gows {
milk. Because these effects are seen
once aud produce au immediate reductlo
ia Income, they arc understood and
! some exient guarded against by eyoFybod!
Other cattle, while kept for different Du
pOies-fOr stock purposes or for breeding
feel the same dspriYa.ions aud 70 tho san
degree a, coss kept for milk. although the
cannot express 4 20 plainly and ~ pfomp