The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-10-03

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Reject horse that is light below the
knees.
You can't make good butter out of
stale cream
A cross COW in a herd will worry the
Others and lessen the milk flow.
All animals should be trained by kind,
ness to love, not fear their owners.
Do not be afraid of taking too much
pains in the manufacture OF any dairy
product.
Removing crop after crop from the
land without returning something in its
place destroys the fertility.
Don't throw the tops from the potato
field into the pig pen if there has been
any Paris green used on the crop.
A recommended cure for garget is to
bathe the udder in water as hot as the
hand can well bear; rub until dry and
apply vaseline.
Manure thrown out of stable window
and allowed to accumulate against the
barn eats off paint and hastens decay of
siding aud of sill.
Go through the fields, pulling up the
larger weeds and cutting down with
hoe those newly starting. Every such
stroke now makes the work easier next
year.
The greater the decomposition of milk
the more will the cream be affected, and
as consequence the more difficult will
it be to obtain nice quality of butter
from it.
Some use kerosene oil to rid the hive
of ans This will kill them, but should
lie used very sparingly, as the bees d.s-
like it greatly, and it would probably
kill them as well if used carelessly
A horse that is used to running away
should be put in the hands of a good
driver, be provided til n strong strap
around the neck and a stout rope halter,
and should never be left standing with.
out being securely fastened.
After the sweet corn has been thor
ough!y picked, there is nothing better
| than the stalks or fodder for keeping up
| the production of milch cows. Cut for
each days feeding the day before and
let it lie and wilt for twenty.four hours.
Cauihowels and such vegetables
should be set ou: toward night or on
| day when the sun does not shine, and
well soaked with water. This gives
them chance to come up through the
night and they will not wilt so badly
next day.
Packing the soil by rolling after SOW
ing seed is not beneficial. On the con-
tray the land is injured in dry weather,
as crust forms over the seed and the
surface dr.es, thus checking the growth
of the young plants. Thorough harrow
ing after the sowing packs the soil sufi-
GENTLY.
In wet time the sheep, especially the
! fine woo!ed, should be closely examined
TO see If they have any maggots in their
wool, hatched from the eg IS of the blow
! 1y. These maggots can be killed by
shearing off the wool and washing the
skin with tobacco juice or carbolic acid
diluted ten times.
Old hens may be, and should be fat
tened so as TO be quite tender by proper
feeding now. They should be put in a
yard by themselves and fed four times a
day on coarse oatmeal boiled in milk so
as TO make a thick stiff mush, and fed
when nearly cold. As much as will be
eaten clean should be given.
Every weed that COWS near a plant
| taxes from lue SOIL inc cleneulS lOI lls
support, and struggles for existence with
the plants for that purpose In the dry sea-
son weeds will appropriate the moisture
that may be required for ;he desirable
plants. The best mode of withs anding
the effects of drought therefore, is clean
cultivation, whereby the grass and weeds
are prevented from lnjuring the crop
plants.
Everyone who knows how 10 make
good butter also knows that the age of
the cream has very much to do with the
buffers quality. This word age, how
ever that writers are so fond of using, is
in fact relative term. Cream may oI
may not be old, according TO its age.
If kept warm and dry, that's, in shallow
vessels, and allowed to be influenced by
a dry, warm atmosphere, then a very lit.
lie age will make it old If, on the con,
trary, it has been kept sweet and cold
from the tine it left the COW, the mere
matter Of age does not cut such an i'm,
portant figure.