The Irish standard., 1888-03-17
SEGEI,RA.UM BROS.
Nicollet Az. Corner Third ST.
RURAL REAPlNGS.

FRUIT growers can utilize their hot-bad
sash for drying surplus fruit in the sun.
KEEP the hen-house floor covered with
woods mold through the wsrn summer
months. This viii hold the escaping gases
A POOR horse eats as much as {, good one;
scrub cattle as much as grades or thorough
hreds: mongrel poultry as much as grades
nr pure breeds. Then why keep inferior
stock!
BY cutting, the feed can all be mixed well
easily and thoroughly digested, and the
stock will eat it up clean, avoiding unneces-
sary waste.
IT. has been remarked that the farmers
who BEST succeed IN this country are those
who devote their chief attention to some one
product which is favored by their special
soil and climate
IF you SOW your garden seed during mild,
genial weather and in well prepared soil,
not TOO deep, keeping the surface moist by
sprinl1ling it over as often as necessary and
sheltering 1t in the event of frost or from
scorching sun, very few seeds will fail to
germinate.
TIE more important the feeding Of stock
upon the farm becomes, the greater the nc
cessity of saving feed. Cutting feed is one
way OF econo1nizing, as well as increasing in
value, by combining one and another sort,
80 the whole shall constitute as near a per
feet food as possible.
DON'T break, but train the colt. Eegin the
lessons with the halter early, and letthe c.
ucation continue until you have a perfectly
trained horse Do not wean the colt too
soon. Feed the dam and colt freely but with
care. Corn should be used sparingly as it
is fat~producing. The colt will early learn
to eat oats with the dam.
If sprouts appear on new set trees you
can now easily pinch them off with your
thumb and finger, and throw the growth
where it is wanted. But do not cut off all
the growth. If you dwarf the top Of young
new set tree that's making rapid growth,
you are dwarfng the roots. If you allow
too much top on a feeble tree you will kill
the tree.
AS CORN can not properly be given in very
large proportion in the milk ration, it would
be profitable TO exchange a ton of corn for
a ton of roller bran. If corn is to be fed to
sheep, separately from the fodder, as sheep
masticate more perfectly than. cattle, it
would be better to feed shelled corn with
bran But for horses and cattle, corn should
be ground and mixed with the coarse tod'
der.
Com fodder can be considerably in
creased in value by being cut and mixed
with other materials, and the stock thus be
able to derive much larger benefit than
if fed whole. The size Of the cutter should
be determined by the number of stock kept
If it can be arranged so that G supply can
be cut ahead, especially during busy
season, it will interfere less with the more
pressing farm work.
THE quantity of air breathed by cattle,
although varying much with their size, is
probably about five times as great as that
breathed by adult persons, who breathe
cubic foot in about three and a half minutes.
An adult person breathes about 400 cubic
feet in "A hours But for healthy rcspira
ton he should have from Is to 50 times as
much air. So with cattle, one Of which
breathes about 1000 cubic feet in "A hours
which should be increased many times fol
continued pure, healthy air in the stable
although cattle are less affected by impur
itv than man.