Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-03
Farm and Garden Notes,

Farm and Garden Notes,
The modern idea of winter dairying
advances in favor.
Lice are great annoyance to calves,
and will keep them poor.
Keep seed potatoes in dry, cool
place and prevent sprouting.
Cutting fodder is a saving of one
third, according to the Rural Neo
Yorker.
The eggs of a bag worm can be plainly
seen in winter and should be then de-
An advocate of warm water for cows
says it will increase the yield of milk
one-fourth.
Though dishorning does not always
render a naturally vicious bull docile, its
tanning effect in general is we'll attested.
Fine-cut hay, slightly sailed and
scalded with boiling water, is relished
by fowls, says California poultry man.
Authority on poultry advises feeding
salt in the proportion of a level teaspoon
full to two quarts dry ground grain.
Never give it in excess.
John NJ. Stahl considers the cow truly
and provokingly feminine, and thinks
that in no place does politeness pay
better than in the cow stable.
Large profits do not always depend
upon large crops One may grow an ex
traordinarily large crop, but the expense
of so doing may balance the receipts.
A Connecticut dairyman tried warming
the water for his COWS to drink in winter,
and the increase of butter in ten days
paid the expense of piping the trough.
To wholly abandon staple crop or
product because it is temporarily I'M
profitable is to lose ones hold on the
market when it becomes profitable again.
At the Ontario Agricultural College
an experiment with peas showed that it
required thirty-five pounds more of
cooked than uncooked to make 100
pounds of pork, live weight.
Professor McMurtrie seems to prove
bv investigations that the much praised
and sought for "folds" in merino sheep
are detrimental, in that they do not in
crease the yield, and do decrease the
quality.
Sheep here do not pay as good profits
as those in England. Everything de-
pends OF the mode Of management. Our
farmers compel sheep to forage while in
England they are treated as carefully as
are cattle.
In speaking about the preparation of
fodder for cows, a. 3. Allen says
when the appetite and digestion of the
animal seem to conflict with the teach
ines of the chemist, I take sides with
the animal"
The improved mutton breeds of sheep
cannot be kept in the manner usual with
common sheep They demand good
pasture, liberal feeding and attention,
but they pay well for the care bestowed.
There is a great demand for superior
mutton.
At the recent English dairy show a
shorthorn COW proved the champion
mixer and buttermaker. After PA
DAYS from caivlng, her milk amounted to
451 pounds daily, and her butter to IA
ner cent. equal to p pounds per day.
i . per cent, which shows that the cow
was not only an excellent buttermaker,
but exceptionally good for cheese.
In discussing ways and means for the
improvement OF highways 1t should never
be lost sight of that the roadbed car
never be satisfactory as long as 1t Is mol
thoroughly drained. In majority OF
cases this can be done by grading up
cutting bitches along the sides. But the
tendency is toward the following out OF
the centre of the grade; and, as the
ground is somewhat compacted, water Is
held for some time to the great injury OF
the roadbed. Every few weeks, wher
the weather will permit, the grade
should he dressed, filling up the de
pressed paths made by the animals
When thorough drainage cannot be Sc
cured in any other way, underdrain
The same principles apply as in the
draining of land for crops.