Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-27
Better fatten and sell them In

How many farmers come in from work
at night, unharness their horses, and
pick up a milk pail without first washing
/ their hands?
Some writers advise sprinkling dry
slaked lime among the potatoes when
1 they are put in the cellar. 1t may be a
good thing.
( Kerosene oil has been used successfully
/ in the killing of burdocks. 1t was
/ poured into the stalk after cutting it of
near the ground.
Ergot and smut on grass or corn stalks
produces abortion in breeding animals
and neat cattle, and it should be care
fully exterminated.
A very good shed for sheep can be made
with a tight roof, and west, north and
east parts covered up tight, leaving the
south side open.
The yellow skin of the dairy cow de-
notes yellow butter and yellow fat The
latter is considered rather Objectionable
in the beef animal.
Ground or broken bone is highly rel
ished by hens, and is excellent for them.
1t contains lime for shells, and also nitro.
gen and the phosphates.
Neither the farmer nor the chemist
alone can always select the fertilizer best
suited to the need of"the farmer. That
point must be determined by experiment.
If any farm animal should have sweet,
clean provender it is the mich COW,
whose product daily finds its way into
tho veins of the family to promote health
or produce disease.
Wheat straw, cut fine and moistened
with water slightly salted, then sprinkled
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and will answer for them if they be also
fed literally on grain.
At present prices wheat is about as
cheap as corn for stock food, as it con-
tains more nitrogen, and is much cheaper
as compared with corn.
Some cows naturally give rich milk,
and COW which naturally gives poor
milk cannot be brought to give the rich
est, though fed on rich food. whats
bred in the BLOOD" etc.
Ground fish is now being extensively
used as poultry food in place of ground
meal, and it is said to be excellent
especially as it contains quite proper
ton of bone as we'll as meal.
It is good idea to bed barnyards. II
straw is abundant, use it; if SARGE, use
forest leaves Sods with thin slice Oh
earth and much grass do pretty well, as
they absorb the liquid manure.
True some think that orn-fed pork
is not so good as pork made by feeding
barley, oats or wheat, for it has not SO
large proportion of lean meat. Expert
ment and see how it is yourself.
Lard as a lubricator is said to loosen
the spokes if used on wagons. Old pine
knot tar is better, and two parts of tai
low, one of tar and one of castor oil make
a first-rate mixture for cold weather.
In transplanting young seedlings it is
important they should not be exposed to
drying winds or hot sun, even few
minutes. The soil should be we'll worked
in among the roots and firmed with the
feet.
Skim milk thickened with shorts
and corn meal makes almost a perfect
food for growing pigs, and if given three
times day will make them grow rap
idly A mess of chopped clover hay
Cscalded), given once a day, will perfect
the ration.
If you contemplate planting raspberries
or black berries in the spring. and have
not plowed and prepared the ground
during the fall, that work might be done
sometime during the winter, SO that the
planting may be done as soon as the frost
is out of the ground.
The mere size of pumpkins is consid-
cred a poor criterion for testing their
value The best pumpkins have shells
as hard as a Hubbard squash and solid
flesh extending almost to the center.
The best are as superior for feeding
stock as they are for cooking.
Pigs which come late, in cold weather,
should be left with the SOW as long as pos
sibe, or they may be stunted in growth.
Give the sow plenty Of rich slop and
teach the pigs to eat by placing milk in
small trough as soon as possible, in
order to lessen their dependence on their
swinish mother.
An exchange seasonably introduces
the following chestnut" "Shelter is
cheaper than fodder, and for cattle ex-
posed to cutting winds it requires at
least one-third more food to keep up the
same condition in flesh as under com
Portable protection" The same COM
mentator truthfully remarks: Manure is
the farmers savings bank, and if more of
them would have large heaps Of it every
spring to spread upon their lands, in
stead of money at interest, they would