The gale., 1888-02-17
A good mound of earth protects young

lifted on mild days.
Potatoes in pits need plenty of litter
+" coarse manure to keep out frost.
Keep the best fodder back and feed il
out to stock toward the end of the
season.
Clean and house for the winter all
tools that will not be used again till
next season.
If you want to kill burdocks cut them
Oil closely and pour petroleum on the
short stumps.
In no business is attention to very
slight details more requisite than in
poultry raising.
Swill for hogs should be fed while
fresh, and not allowed to stand until souI
and disg listing.
From this time forward grass is worth
more to the pasture for winter protection
than to the farm animals for food.
The great secret of successful farming
is to keep the soil increasing in fertility
by the abundant application OF manure.
Sparc-ribs to be used while fresh.
may be hung up where they will freeze.
and will not spoil SO long as they remain
fro en-.
Onions are said to be valuable as a
cape remedy for chickens. They should
be chopped up and mixed with the food
in winter.
The manure-heap should be packed
tight enough to avoid the escape of
ammonia and loose enough to avoid
fire-fanging.
Combining sheep husbandry with
grain growing pieces out an uncomfort-
able gap in the finances, in the opinion
Of Rufot Time.
Most Of the apples now upon the gen
eral market are supplied from the State
of New York. Systematic orcharding is
a good business.
The dairy requires careful manage
ment to be profitable in winter. Good
cows. good food, good care and modern
appliances make it pay.
The Am0'1cun Cultioator calls atten
tion to the great amount of waste there
is in feeding grain unground to any
stock except sheep and poultry.
According to a Southern correspond
ent of the .4mericaR AgTecultu15St crop
of COW peas is one of the surcst ways of
restoring vegetable matter to worn out
soil.
The most critical period in the life of a
calf is the first winter, but it will bring
no serious risk if the animal has abund-
ant food of good quality and good, com
Portable quarters, with freedom from
parasitic insects.
A poultryman claims that milk will
give far larger and quicker returns if fed
to fowls than if given to pigs, Milk,
he says, resembles in composition the
egg far more than almost any food it is
possible to obtain.
If land is plowed in the fall for corn in
no way can manure be more advantage
ously applied, according to one author
ity, than by hauling it out in the winter
direct from the wagon.
Loss sometimes ocs urs from not sailing
pork promptly after it is cut up. If it
freezes it cannot be we'll salted until
thoroughly thawcd out, and the cxpan-
sion and contraction caused by alternate
freezing and thawing does no good.
Major Alvord says that in nearly all
cases oh jectionablc odors and favors do
but are absorbed from the air. the ex-
terror of the cow or the clothing and
person Of the mixer, or while the milk
stands in the stable.
The consumption of mutton is increas-
ing in this country, especially in our
large ciiies, and it has become profitable
to supply this demand. 1t is profitable,
first, because the price is remunerative,
and secondly, because it is promotive OF
good husbandry, the improvement of the
soil
Beans are good food for cows. The
bean meal is probably the best form. But
if the beans are boiled until soft they
may be fed with profit. Waste beans on
the farm, or damaged stock that can
sometimes be bought cheap. should al
ways be fed. Eeans are rich in protein
or heterogeneous matter.
AT the Ontario Agricultural College,
an experiment of feeding eighteen head
Of store cattle with twelve pounds ofhay,
thirty five pounds of turnips and nine
pounds of wheat bran per head daily.
and also the same amount Of hay and
roots, but with different kinds of grain,
resulted in the lowest cost Of production
on the bran ration.
There are no secrets in sheep raising.
1t has to be done by feeding. The sheep
have to cat something, and that some
thing has to be sweet feed, grass, grain,
vegetables. fruit, or anything that is
wholesome and nutritious, but must be
abundant and unfailing. Weeds, brush
and briars will keep sheep alive, but
don't ask sheep to grow mutton on such
pastures; no, nor wool.
A writer in the Breet1ea'S' Gazette sums
up the general purpose COW question IN
this way; Any farmer who expects to
raise a calf aud grow steer needs COW
which will bring him a large, growthy
calf; and any farmer who expecte to make
money Iaisinga calf or growing steer
must get the calf from a cow which will
pay at the pail the expenses of her keep
and care, in order that the calf may cost
the least money.
No dairyman but knows that if his
COWS are exposed to inclcmcnt storms or
compelled to submit to privations in the
matter of food they will immediately