The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-13
In transplanting trees be careful to


| preserve the roots moist.
All breeding is founded upon tho
axiom that ''like begets like
Hoard's Dairyman says feed Holsteina
as you do Jerseys, for butter, and you
will see a great difference in the quality
of the milk.
When hen is in healthy laying
condition the comb is bright coIored,
showing it to be full of blood, and
thrilling with every activity.
No sheep is better for wet.ing, but
rather worse, no matter what the time
of year 1t is both mcrcifuI and eco
nomical to provide good shelter for
sheep
The rule generally observed among in
experienced growers is to cut fodder
corn for drying in the early blossom of
the tassel 1t should, at all events, to
be secured before frost.
Leaves are better bedding for pigs
than straw, which is bad for them when
wet; but straw is good enough if the
pens are waterproof. Pigs should be
cared for in bad weather.
A poultry keeper says unclean eggs
should be washed or wiped when gath
cred, or pungent filth may penetrate
and spoil the meat. Eggs for keeping
should only be wiped, not washed.
In packing butter for storing, it is q
good plan to put piece of thin muslin
on the bottom of the tub we'll wet, and
layer of salt, and then pack the butter
on top. Store in dry, cool place.
The agricultural editor of the Missouri
Republican suggests united action in
killing the white butterfly which is the
parent of the cabbage worm, as cheaper
and more effective than destroying the
worm.
Mich COWS should not be suffered to
chill, as the milk glands are closed by
such cause-she will give less at the
next milking, and never fully recover
until she has another calf.
1t is good rule for farmers who can
afford 1t to slack up on market crops
when it does not pay to grow them, and
seed with clover to make the land pro-
ductive when it does not pay.
Pigs, it is true, guzzle all the sour
milk they can get in the way of ''swill,"
but sweet milk after the cream and
water are taken, is better for them.
Souring milk changes sugar of milk to
Tactic acid.
If roots are to be grown next season
where corn stubble is to be ploughed
under let it be done deeply and all the
stubble we'll covered. Rough, uneven
ploughing, with loose corn-stubb on the
surface, is not good farming.
In trimming apple trees, no limbs
should be removed except such as should
be in order to benefit the tree. All limbs
which have begun to decay should BE-
cut off as disease may cause it. So with
pear trees, which are subject to blight.
Rose bushes may be protected in cold
weather by killing up with earth or,
better, by strewing leaves or straw
lightly over the plants, and securing
them with evergreen branches. When
the latter are abundant, they are in
themselves sufficient.
A. NJ. Purdy says that peach trees
growing near the house, where dish and
wash-water are thrown out, are long
lived and free from worms or disease.
A hint to peach growers on large scale,
TO the effect that salt and alkali are use
full ingredients.
Coarse manure, with considerable lit
ter in it, is the best for top dressing for
any crop remaining in the ground
through the winter. Swamp muck
makes a cool substitute The New
York Witness recommends liberal adj
dition of fine bone flour and ashes and
MASTER