Nevada County picayune., 1888-11-28
FARM AND PRESIDE.
Pastures should not be fed


 Pastures should not be fed too slose. If there is a rainy spell, apply any good fertilizer; include plaster and ashes in the list. t.-f'H'na, Field and Stockmdn.
 Peaches for canning should be ripe put not at all soft, not even mellow. They will be firmer when cooked and have much more of the peach flavor, than when allowed to get too ripe.
 Peas and beans should be left on the vines until the pods are well wrinkled, then picked and spread un- til they arc quite dry. If there arc too many to shell by hand they may be threshed out with fail, and should be kept in q dry placo.
 -Four ounces of sulphate of copper, to be had Ut any drug store, dissolved in gallon of water, and sprinkled from watering can over five bushels of seed wheat as it is being shoveled over by another person, will do away with smut and may help to checkmate rust. .-Fdrm Joaraai.
 Pear Jelly: Peel and quarter twelve pears. Stew tender in little water. Drain and add to syrup made of one pound of sugar boiled with one pint of water and juice of two lemons. Cook ten minntes. Put in dish and add to syrup one-half of Q box of soaked gelatinc. Let it boil Up and strain over pears. -Good HjHscheaPSng.
 Farmers Tea Cake One egg, ono cup of thick cream, a piece of butter half the size of an egg, one cup oi sugar and four to make a reasonably thick batter, Il small teaspoonful oi saleratus, dissolved in Il spoonful oi water and pinch of salt. Mix all the ingredients together before adding the flour. flavor with nutmeg.
 Water should be given to hogs ir limited quantities. and it should Dc warm enough to nave the chill taken from it. By following this course there will be less disturbance of digestion The cravings of an animal suffering from such intense internal heat, caused by overlooking, should not be satisfied by allowing perfect freedom to colo water.
 -"It is wise person who know: what to do next" And the wise farmer carries a pocket memoranda um book II which he notes-lst. A general out line of the seasons work -2d. Particu lar small jobs that must be thrust in, il spite of the heavy work-3d. We weather work-4th. Of season work 9th. Necessary repairs and better ments. At least once q week thes, lists are revised, what is done marked off and what is suggested added to.
 The best time to apply manure t grass lands depends somewhat upol | circumstances. As a rule, late in tn fall or just before the ground freezes the best time; If hauled out in winte and spread upon the snow, vely goo results may follow, provided the lan' Is not so sloping as that when the snoS melts, the manure is not washed away If hauled out and spread in the spring and dry weather follows, the manur is like to be so dried up and burne that the results will not be satisfactory but if heavy rains follow we may ex pcct quite the reverse.
 The pigs when two months ol should be fed barley and oatmeal morn ing and evening, and mt noon skin milk. The barley and oatmeal may b given separately, if desired, at alter . nate feeds, or mixed. In this way tn pigs will soon grew into porkers Eight porters will consume about sack of meal per week With sucl l feeding and run on clover pigs de velop very rapidly, and arc alway very healthy, and when old enougl will fatten very rapidly.