Richland beacon., 1888-04-07
Farm aud Garden Notes.

carry manuring has many advocates
Perfect cleanliness mus be the rule il
a good dairy.
Canadians Use peameal largely TO
growing stock.
Hens should be kept scratching il
oroer to lie healthy.
A smooth, glossy coat almost invari
ably ind Gates health in an animal.
Mr.. Betsingcr, a New York beekeerer
claims that he can cure foul brood will
salt
Clean off cows and oxen. The vii
be more comfortable as we'll as more
slightly.
Throwing dow fodder upon thu
ground IN the barnyard is the cause OF
much waste.
When feeding for milk, good whea
Iran should be mixed with meal. They
go we'll with clover hay.
Sulphur sprinAlcd in the dust fur.
nished hens at this season for bathing
will aid i preventing lice.
Fowls without gravel or some sLbsti
tute for it are like people without teeth,
according IL New England farmer.
For hog feed no.hing is better than
sweet potatoes, collards, Spanish pea
nuts and sorghum, says the southern
Cuttr0tOr.
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
AmericaR -4qricul."riH.
A noted Kentucky short horn breeder
says. in Hoorrs Da;ryman. that he never
tied any thing that eompared with
sorghum as a flesh and milk producing
food. 1t makes very rich milk and very
thick cream.
Professor Henry, of the University of
Wiscons.1, who is we'll known as a CON
servative and careful agricultural expert.
menter, advises, where cornstalks are to
furnish the principal rough food, the
following as days ration for COW, to
be fed at two or three feeds: Cornstalks
cut, Is to As pounds; clover hay, ;
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 tn. M
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 crop of greentop
Swe dish turnips which We ghed over 30
tons per acre. But this record is out
stripped by another Scotch farmer, who
has crop Of turnlns calculated to aver.
age 80 tons per acre; the roots of good
shape and weighing from IT, 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 ho
affirms, declares thi., although at frs,
blush it seems like taking hold of the
wrong end to drag log by the top, even
a smoothly trimmed one, a little con-
sideration shows that the log, being in
degree conical, or wedge-shaped, must
go easier with the small end foremost.
Any one ought to see this at once /, at
tempting to propel a sharpened I. ad.
pencil along sandy or dusty surface.
Who that has seen q cow stand md
rub herself against 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, il she has food and shelter, is ex-
pectcd 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 a 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.
Tie grounds should be kept neat and all
unsightly objects removed or hidden. A
warm, cheerful and well-lighted room,
with q table covered with books and
papers, tends to keep the children at
home. A farmer Gear of debt and
possessed of clear conscience, a com.
Portable home and a happy wife and
children, is the happicst man on earth.