The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-17
Farm and Garder Notes.

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effect than ashes.
1t pays to keep eyes and ears open for
the new developments of agriculture
Our fathers didn'c know it-neither do
their sons,
All old, worthless trees had better Be
cut out o. the orcherd and used for FIRE.
wood. The orchard will look better in
the spring, and it will pay.
When butter is gathered in the churp
in granular form it is never overchurn-
ed. Pounding it after it is IN lump Or
large mass is what overchurns il.
To wholly abandon a staple crop o,
product because it is temporarily IN
profitable is to lose ones hold on tbs
market when 1t becomes profitable
again.
Cows feed on meal mixed with straw
cut and moistened, says Prof Arnold
give more milk and considerably richer
than when fed on the best hay alone.
Cordial and brandy made of black
cuTrants are having large sale in var
ious countries of Europe, where tbev
are chiefly used for medicinal purposes,
Dry road dust or earth should be
gathered fer use in the hen house dur
ing winter. A supply OF sawdust is a.
so excellent for spreading upon The
floor.
Large profits do not always depend
upon large crops. One may grow an
extraordinary large crop, but the ex-
pense OF SO doing may balance the re-
ceiDts.
a farmer on Staten island, n. J., has
a COW that has given an average amount
of milk during the season, though she
dropped her last calf Eve years ago.
How to keep up the fertility of pas
lures is a question that Is now interest,"
ing New England farmers, and is a
question whose consideration is increas.
ing in Importance from year to year.
If farmers were BET ter acquaintedwith
botany, understanding more fully the
laws of vegetable growth, better sue
cess might attend their sowing seed and
better fruits and crops might be grown
The careful farmer plans his work 50
as to have jobs suitable for rainy days
on which to employ hired help but
sometimes it is better to give help az
occasionally rainy day-they will work
the better for it.
II Is not the food that hens consume
no matter what the cost it is the food
that fails 10 produce eggs, even if it is
cheap, that adds to the expense Of keep,
ing for egg production.
After a patient and persistent trial
extending through five years New
York man has succeeded in inducing
a horse TO eat prick!y comfrey. It il
now proposed 10 see /: it can be made to
relish picked olives and BrowniDg's
poetry.
Lay in a stock of green food for win.
ter use by cutting and curing short
grass and clover, or raising a lot Of
mangel beets or tuTnips. Ensilsge,
cabbage, late cut grass, rye or barley is
good for this purpose.
In this country nearly three dollars
worth of milk, cream, butter, ana
cheese together are sold and consumed
/ to every dollars worth of beef. The
market fer dairy products is practically
/ inexhaustible.
Sheep here do not pay as great profit:
/ as those in England. Everything de-
pends On the mode OF management.
/ Our farmers compel sheep to forage.
while N England they are treated as
carefully as cattle.
Old leather contains a consideTab,s
percentage of ammOni9 compounds.
which are very slowly soluble. y good
way to dispose of old boots, therefore,
is TO bury them at the foot of an spp.5
tree.
The necessity of keeping sheep on dT
footing should not be forgotten. A
yard in which sheep are kept should k
one where there is plenty of drainage.
Wet footing IS one thing that sheep
will not stand.
a Maine correspondent Of the New
England Farmer dilates on the utili!!
OF the humble wheel borrow on tbt
farm, but considers it, as usually made
entirely too heavy. 1t should be stros
but light, so as TO require no unEeces-
saTy strength to handle it.
Farmers do not fully appreciate tbs
value of wood ashes or they would no.
sell them to soap men, but would
spread them upon moving lands or aP-
ply them TO growing crops. They con
tain all the essential inorganic elements
of plants.
During the past six years the syersge
yield of wheat per acre has beer greater
in New England than in any other pol
tion of the country, showing Isl bush
els against II. Q for the whole county
taking one year with another, and ILe
in the great northwest wheat region.
A cleanly kept COW will yield sWes'
milk, with an agreeable, sweet odoF
aud quite free from any taint or lDJul'
ious quality whatever. That sue1
milk IS very rare, and this is the reason
why the very best purely Favored ou''
- ter is rare too.
The growth and quality Of wool says
n an exchange, is always an imp0TtsA'
). item as regards the profit in keeplls
!. sheep. and if we allow the sheep TO i''
i into a low condition in the fall, "hsl
s wool is making good growth in order "
/ protect the animal during the Winter,
n not only the quality but quantity W."