Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-20
EARM BREv1TrEs.

A yearlng that VIII weigh 700 pounds
is worth more than two weighing 900
pounds each.
The fit of the collar and harness has
much to do with the amount of work a
horse can do.
John P. Squire of Boston, the hop
dealer, is said to pay 81, GOO, 600 year
in freight charges.
The British farmers suffer from the
importation of baled hay from the
United States into that country,
There is no better agency for protect
ing an orchard from the insect ravages
than large flock of fowls-chiokens.
A good farmer will value his sons
and daughters more than his horses and
COWS, and study for their Improvements.
The lady bug is the orchard police
man. She Is worth her weight in gold
Her business is to destroy leaf and barlS
lice.
Bee-keeping farmers who wish to ba
successful must be perfectly cOnversant
with the honey fora of the locality IN
which they reside.
Give the young lambs all the oats
they can eat as soon as they shall be old
enough, so as to force them IN growtlg
for the early market.
Allowing fruit trees to overbear per-
manently Injuries them by the load, at
fects the quality of the fruit, and les
| sens the future product.
Save the feathers from ali the fowls.
Seald them thoroughly, and dry them
as quickly as possible; keep them Well
well aired until disposed of.
American cheesemakers have a good
market right under their noses if they
will suit the quality of their product to
the markets requirements.
Table scraps are much more profit
| able fed to hens than to hogs; it is so
as to buttermilk and any vegetable
refuse during winter months.
Pigs should be kept on all farms
where butter is made. This permits
utilizing the skim milk and saves the
labor of shipping the milk to market.
When you wash young trees use
cloth. On old ones a stiff scrub brush
is better, as it viii disiodge insects that
have taken up quarters beneath the
scale of bark.
Have the cattle sharp horns which
need cutting off? Heat an old scythe
| thoroughly hot and it viii take them
off without the least jarring of their
heads, it is said.
''Keep all colonies strong" is the
watchword for every beekeeper, and
should uOt be forgotten if you wish to
avoid trouble with the bee moth and
other pests of the apiary.
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a specific for cholera in swine and fowls
the leaves of prtckly pear beaten and
/ soaked in water, and allowing the ami
NAL treated to have access to no other
water.
A Maine teamster says he can start
the worst balky horse by taking him
| from the wagon and making him turn
around in a short circle until giddy. If
he doesn't go after the first dance he
repeats the process.
The farmers of Chester county, Penn
sylvania, rather than submit to the ex-
tOrtiOn of coal combinations which de-
uand So a ton for anthracite, have
cleaned out their Old-fashiOned fire.
places and returned to the wood supply
for fuel.
The farmer who means to keep up
with the times, says the Rural New
Yorker, viii make sure to have barrel
of plaster kept constantly IN his stable
for use back of the COWS. When
farmer begins to fall in love with
manure" he gives one of the best in
dicatiOns of a well-balanced mind.
1t is claimed for the mutton breeds
sheep that with the same method
keeping them on the farm as is In use
in England land worth as much as S10O
per acre might be prOftably devoted to
sheep, and that if farmers would hurdle
them, instead of giving them the range
of the farm. large profits could be made.
Eastern parties allege the potatoes
imported from Scotland are not nearly
so good in quality as the domestic ar
tic1e, selling for ten cents per busheI
less. Those who have tried them for
seed say they are no good for that pur-
pose; there is an abundant growth of
tops but no tubGrs.
A mixture Of two bushels Of ground
plaster with thirty bushels of wood
ashes is one Of the best fertilizers that
can be applied to the clover field, and
it should be put on early, being evenly
broadcasted The work should be
dona on a damp day, and the rains VIII
CORY it down, The effects Of the APP
plication viii be noticed during the
whole season.
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writes: Il have read a letter In your
valuable paper of April I, with much
pleasure, wherein is stated that Her
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