The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-03-16
FARM NOTES,


An Ohio orchardist claims that ap.
Piles at 81 so a barrel are more profit.
able than wheat at rs cents bushel.
When the birds have swelled heads
or eyes, or hoarse breathing, ten
chances to one there is q crack or Gre
vice in the poultry-house, or draughts
come in from the top ventilator. The
top ventilator has killed thousands.
Professor Slorer says that many
farmers in New England have found
that mixtures of bone meal and wood
ashes serve them an excellent purpose
when used as substitutes for barn. yard
manure. On good land apply 600
pounds of bone meal and 20 bushels OF
unleached ashes.
Dettwiler, a German chemist, has
estimated that, including bedding, one
COW will produce fourteen tons Of ma.
nure in year, and that the cost of
manure of one COW for one year esti-
mated on four different farms in Ger
many was respectively $l1, $l4, s.
and $2s, or an average Of SIP.
Mr.. A. I. Root thinks that il he
should own small apiary an 1 discover
foul brood in it he would burn up the
whole business rather than endeavor TO
experiment IN curing the disease. II
the larva be elastic aud ropy it is a
sure indication of foul brood. This is
a sure test, but the odor is rot TO De
relied upon.
Voelcker found from analysis that
iu farm-yard manure which had been
rotted for three months there were per
ton "a pounds of potash, Of phos
phoric acid and Is of nitrogen. AL.
lowing ) cents pound for the potash
and phosphoric acid, and but 10 cents
for the nitrogen, the ton of manure
will be worth So.
Any community of farmers can, by
cooperation in the purchase of a thor
oughbred male, greatly improve their
stock in single season, and at but q
small expense to each, While the en-.
HANGED value of the stock would more
than compensate for the effort. 1t
really costs nothing to improve, as i'm
provement is simply adding additional
value to the stock.
Kindness controls and guides all
animals, says the Lioe Stock Indicator.
This il true when their life commences
with such treatment. A bull or heif-
er that has run with its dam and has
had no attention from man until 6 or
IL months old will fear every object
that is new to it, be it man or boy or
anything else. Overcome the fear and
it is ready to be taught.
The Woman's Journal, of Boston,
Mass, reports Mrs. A. Hill, of Skow-
hegan Falls, Wis, as a successful bee
keeper, her stock In three years having
increased from two colonies to forty
one, and the surplus honey, after
enough had been sold to pay all costs,
averaged eighty-two pound per colony.
Mrs. Hill feels justified in thinking
that bee keeping is good business for
women.
Professor H. Z. Alvord, of Massa-
cbusetts Agricultural College, believes
that milk is more susceptible to the
influence of the air than to the breath
ing of the COW. He would draw the
milk in the open air, and thus have il
thoroughly oxygenated. If the COWS
be MIXED III the same air in which
they stand the milk will be bad, but il
milked in fresh air the trouble will be
obviated.
Farmers who keep sheep can accom-
modate each other by exchanging, SO
that each may haye a half or quarter
for use while it can be kept fresh.
With ice and refrigerator in the GEL
lar meat may be kept a week or more
even in warm weather. These are old
fashioned methods, but they are part
of the farmers privileges, and happy
are those 80 situated that they can still
live up to them. va.
There is in American over 4,OOO, 900
farms, large and small They cover
nearly 30.000,000 acres of improved
land, and their total value is something
like $4,000, These figures
are not, of course, comprehensive.
They simply convey the idea of vast
ness of area aud equal vastness OF i'm.
Portance. The estimated value of the
yearly products of these farms is be
tween $4,000, 900, 900 and $4,000, ,OOO,-
900.
An advocate of corn-fed pork admits
that the hog fed miscellaneously has
the sweete.t and tenderest meat, and if
taste be criterion in pork, as it is
reckoned to be in everything else that
is eatable, the fruit-ted and milk fed
pork is certainly best. But he adds
that if greater frmness be desired it
may be had by finishing off the last
few weeks of fattening by feeding corn
meal, not corn in the ear.
The Poultry Record gives this
method of Inning eggs for long keep
ing: 10 one pint of salt and one pint
of fresh lime add four gallons of boil
ing water. When cold put it in stone
jars. Then with dish let down your
fresh eggs into it, tipping the dish
after it Fl Is with the fluid, so they will
roll out without cracking the shell, for
If the shell be cracked the egg will
spoil. Put the eggs in whenever you
have them fresh. Keep covered 10
cool place and they will keep fir esh
year.
An oblong square, as long again as
wide, is the most profitable shape for
garden, as the rows are equally long
and less time is taken up in turning
the horse. The size of the same should
be in proportion to the number of the
family, bearing in mind the fact that
one-fourth OF an acre well manured
and cultivated will produce more and
better vegetables than whole acre not