The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-15


Cabbage is excellent green food for
poultry in winter.
Fowls thrive best where is both shade
and sunshine; but the coop must be dry.
Animals that seem to eat all they can
get without gaining in size should be
got rid of.
Be liberal but not a wasteful feeder.
1t every kind of food be fed in that
manner which will give the largest and
best returns.
DR.. Hopkins thinks that hogs without
rings do much injury to orchards, root
ing out deep holes and gnawing and
tearing roots.
"Spanish" onions, which are really
SicIlian and Italian onions, are largely
supplanting the American onion from
the markets of this country.
When butter is gathered in the churn
in granular form it IS never overchurned.
Pounding it after it IS in lump or
large mass is what ovcrchurns it.
Have the past seasons work and its
results convinced you that you have
more land than you can farm protitably?
Sell portion if you can at fair price,
and if not lay plans for grassing it next
season.
Many farmers years ago used to select
the south and east slopes for their or
chards, the trees might be protected
from the colder blast of winter, Yet cx-
perience has proven that the north hill
side is the most advantageous location.
The American Dairyman is authority
for the statement that skim milk is
worth more to feed back to cows that
are in milk than to pigs or calves.
Prof. Stewart says it is worth % cents Il
! hundred pounds to mix with cut feed.
Weigh accurately every "grist" be-
fore it goes to the mill, and again after
it returns, and keep the figures in the
''accou It book" The difference be-
tween the two weighlngs will give a
! good insight into the quality of the
machinery of the miIl--.and possibly in
| to some other things.
Farm knowledge is not all the knowl-
| edge a farmer needs, any more than a
! knowledge of money and percentage is
q full mental equipment for a banker.
/ We must know more about men and
affairs around us, and get our stock Of
general intelligence away up, if we
would be men among men.
The bitter taste in cider in some cases
is undoubtedly caused by leaving the
apples lying in heaps until some of them
mildew, or are attacked by a dry rot,
which usually means that as fast as the
substance of the apple decays, fungus
plants are present to suck up its juices.
As a matter of course this kind of rot
has an acid or bitter taste, as any one
may learn by trying it.
There's many small stream which
may be damned and made to turn a big
wheel for several days in the week, il
not all the time, and the power thu:
gathered up carried to the barn by d
wire rope, whore it would do all the
It urning work. required by a large
farm. If there IS such a stream on your
premises, lay plans this winter for put
ting it to work next summer.
Less pork and more mutton on the
tables of farmers would be an improve
ment. Pick out a sheep not needed fo1
breeding, place in a small pen, give
good hay, pure water and all the corn
it will eat until it has consumed a bushel
Then kill and hang up to freeze. Two
or three neighbors might agree to take
turns in furnishing the animal and di
viding the meat cquitably amongst tn,
several parties to the compact.
Luck with flowers" consists in tax
ing intelligent care of them. The al
of living rooms is usually too warm anC
dry for them, and the accumulation 0
dust on the leaves prevents them i'm
billing the moisture and gases that ar
necessary to them. They need frequen
washings to keep them clean and to dis
courage red spiders. Air from out
doors is food for them on mild DAYS
and when not in bloom they should no
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