West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-09-13
Farm and Garden Notes.
wilted food is not good for cattle.

Wllted food is not good Tor cattle.
Reject horse that is light below the
knees.
You can't make good butter out of
stale cream.
A cross COW in a herd will worry the
others and lessen the milk flow.
All animals should be trained by kind.
ness to love, not fear their owners.
Do not be afraid of taking too much
pains in the manufacture of any dairy
product
Removing crop after crop from the
land without returning something in its
place destroys the fertility.
Don't throw the tops from the potato
field into the pig pen if there has been
any Paris green used on the crop.
A recommended cure for garget is to
battle the udder in water as hot as the
hand can well bear; rub until dry and
apply vaseline.
Manure thrown out Of stable window
and allowed to accumulate against the
barn eats off paint and hastens decay of
siding and of sill.
Go through the fields, pulling up the
larger weeds and cutting down with
hoe those newly starting. Every such
stroke now makes the work easier next
year.
The greater the decomposition of milk
the more will the cream be affected, and
as consequence the more difficult will
it be to obtain nice quality of butter
from it.
Some use kerosene oil to rid the hive
OF ants This will kill them. but should
DO used very sparingly, as the bees dis
like it greatly, and it would probably
Kill them as well if used carelessly.
a horse that is used to running away
should be put in the hands of a good
driver, be provided with n strong strap
around the neck, and stout rope halter
and should never be left standing with
out being securely fastened.
After the sweet corn has been thor
oughly picked, there is nothing better
than the stalks or fodder for keeping up
the production Of mich COWS. Cut for
each days feeding the day before and
letit lie and wilt for twcnty-four hours
Cauliioweis and such vegetables
should be set on: toward night or on a
day when the sun does not shine, and
well soaked with water. This gives
them chance to come up through the
night and they will not wilt so badly
next day.
Packing the soil by rolling after SOW
ing seed is not beneficial. On the con-
trary the land IS injured in dry weather.
as n crust forms over the seed and the
surface dries, thus checking the growth
of the young plants. Thorough harrow
ing after the sowing packs the soil sufli.
GENTLY
In wet time the sheep. especially the
fine wooded. should be closely examined
10 sec If they have any maegots in their
wool, hatched from the cg Is Of the blow
fly. These maggots can be killed by
shearing of the wool and washing the
skin with tobacco juice or carbolic acid
diluted ten times.
Old hens may be, and should be fat
toned so as TO be quito tender by proper
feeding now. They should be put in a
yard by themselves and fed four times
day on coarse oatmeal boiled in milk so
rs 10 make a thick stiff mush, and fed
when nearly cold As much as will be
eaten clean should be given.
Every weel that G. ows near plant
takes from tho SOL the elements for IFS
support, and struggles for existence with
the pants for that purpose. In the dry sea-
son weeds will appropriate the moisture
that may DO 10 uircd for tho desirable
plants. The best mode OF withs andino
the effects OF drought, therefore, is clean
cultivation, whereby The grass and weeds
arc prevented from injuring the crop
plans.
Everyone who knows how 10 make
good butter also knows chat tho age Of
The cream has very much TO do with the
buffers quality. This word age, how
ever, that writers are so fond Of using. is
in fact q relative term. Cream may or
may not be Old, according TO is age
IL kept warm and dry, that's, in shallow
vessels, and allowed 10 be influenced by
q dry, warm atmosphere, then q very liz.
Tie age will make it old If, on the con.
trafy, 10 has Teen kept sweet and cold
from the time 10 left the COW, the mere
matter of age does not cut such an inn
pOrtant figure.