News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-15

When feeding for milk, good wheat
bran should be mixed with meal. They
60 we'll with clover hay.
Sulphur sprinkled in the dust fur
nished hens at tins season for bathing
will aid in preventing lice.
Fowls without gravel or some substi-
| tute for it are like people without teeth,
according to a New England farmer.
For hog feed nothing is better than
sweet potatoes, collards, Spanish pea
nuts and sorghum, says the Southern
Cu'ti0atOr.
Wheat bran applied directly to the
crops, like superphosphate, has been
found good fertilizer by some who have
experimental with it.
The Ayrshire and Jersey, or Guernsey
breeds, crossed, supply the most nearly
perfect family cow, according to the
American 4gricuL:urist.
saws, in Hodrps DGjrYman, that he never
tried anything that compared with
sorghum as a flesh and producing
food. 1t makes very rich milk and very
thick cream.
Professor Henry, of the University Of
Wisconsin, who is well known as a con-
sentative and careful agricultural expert
menter, advises, where cornstalks are to
furnish the principal rough food, the
following as a days ration for a COW, to
be fed at two or three feeds: Cornstalks
cut, Is to IS pounds; clover hay, 5
pounds; bran, 6 pounds; corn meal, 4
pounds.
A horse should not be allowed to drink
freely Immediately after eating. Hon.
John NJ. Russell, ex-Secretary of the
Massachusetts BOARD of Agriculture, tells
of seeing some horses in France fed on
coarse beans, then watered all they
would drink and Immediately killed and
dissected. He observed that a cons der
able quantity of beans had been washed
out of the stomach, and some of them
were found in the intestines.
AS an example of what some men can
do with an acre of land by judicious
management and the skillful application
of chemical manures, Scotch farmer
recently harvested a crop of greentop
Swedish turnips which we ghed over so
tons per acre. But this record is out
stripped by another Scotch farmer, who
has a crop of turnIps calculated to aver.
age so tons per acre; the roots o. good
shape and weighing from IS to II pounds
each.
Here IS a bit OF practical knowledge
which may be utilized in both winter
and summer. Some one who apparently
knows from experience whereof he
alfirms declares that, although at first
blush it seems like taking hold of the
wrong end to drag log by the top, even
a smoothly trimmed one, a little con-
sidecation shows that the log, being in a
degree conical, or edge-shaped, must
go easier with the small end foremost.
Any one ought to see this at once if at
tempting to propel a sharpened lead
pencil along a sandy or dusty surface.
Who that has seen q cow stand and
rub herself againsta post will not agree
that currying roughly and thoroughly is
as agreeable and necessary for cows as
for horses" This is the conundrum of
a contemporary, which it answers in this
wise: They get comparatively little of
it, as horses are usually the pets, and the
COW, if she has food and shelter, is ex-
pccted to look after her own comfort
otherwise. But the brush and curry
comb, using the former on cows thin in
flesh, and on the more sensitive portions
of their bodies, are great advantage to
cattle of every kind"
In discussing this subject one of the
speakers at Farmers Institute in
Missouri pertinently said that the privi-
legc of the farmer was to make his home
as pleasant and comfortable as possible
He should supply the house with all the
and labor-saving appliances.
The grounds should be kept neat and all
objects removed or hidden. A
warm, cheerful and well-ighted room,
with table covered with books and
papers, tends to keep the children at
home. A farmer clear of debt and
possessed of clear conscience, com.
Portable home and a happy wife and
children, is the happiest man on earth