The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-15
Farm and Garden Notes.

The modern idea Of winter dairying
advances in favor.
White Minorca poultry is attracting
much attention Of late.
Lice are great annoyance to calves,
and will keep them poor.
Keep seed potatoes in a dry, cool
place and prevent sprouting.
Cutting fodder is a saving of one.
third, according to the Rural Neio
Yorkr.
The eggs of a bag worm can be plainly
seen in winter and should be then de.
stroyed.
An advocate of warm water for cows
says it will increase the yield of milk
oDe-fourth.
Though dishorning does not always
render a naturally vicious bull docile, its
tanning effect in general is well attested.
Fine-cut hay, slightly salted and
scalded with boiling water, is relished
by fowls, says California poultry man.
Authority on poultry advises feeding
salt in the proportion of 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 ba ance 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 a staple crop or
product because it is temporarily un-
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
requ red thrty-fve pounds more of
cooked than uncooked to make 100
pounds of pork, live weight.
Professor McMurtrie seems to prove
by Investigations that the much praised
and sought for "folds" in merino sheen
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 on 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. b. Allen saws,
when the appetite and digestion of the
animal seem to conflict with the teach
ings of the hemist, take sides with
the animal"
The improved mutton breeds of sheer
cannot be kept in the manner usual witt
common sheep. They demand good
pasture, liberal feeding and attention
but they pay well for the care bestowed
There is great demand for superior
mutton.
At the recent English dairy show 6
shorthorn COW proved the champion
mixer and buttermaker. After 22i
days from calvIng, her milk amounted tC
4jt pounds daily, and her butter to 4 4
per cent, equal to % pounds per day
The total solids in this milk amounted tc
AZ per cent, which shows that the COW
was not only an excellent buttermaker
but exceptionally good for cheese.
The value of barley meal as feed foi
hogs is not half appreciated. Trials a
the Wisconsin experiment station show
that $50 pounds of uncooked barley mea
were required to produce 100 pounds o.
/ pork, live weight, while to corn meal 46;
pounds were required. of corn meal anC
shorts half and half 54 pounds were re-
quired. This is not very striking
showing in favor of barley meal, but i
demonstrates mo conclusively that porl
can be protitably produced on barley il
I Northern regions where corn cannot b,
grown at profit.
In discussing ways and means for thC
improvement OF highways it should nevel
be lost sight of that the roadbed car
never be satisfactory as long as it is no
thoroughly drained. In a majority o.
cases this can be done by grading up
cutting tches along the sides. But tn,
tendency is toward the following out O.
the centre of the grade; and, as tn,
ground is somewhat compacted, water il
held for some time, to the great in jury o
the roadbed. Every few weeks, wheI
the weather will permit, the grad
should be 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 tn
draining of land for crops.