The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-05-02

ing or excitement of any kind. An an
lmal giving milk is very sensitive to baC
treatment or surrounding influences.
Farmers generally do not yet appreciate
the value of bran as feeding substance
1t contains less oil than cornmeal, but
one-fourth more flesh. Informing, bone
building material. IL can usually bC
bought in the fall for about one-third
less than in the winter.
Mr.. Josiah Hopes urged readers, years
ago, to make map of the new orchard.
Labels get lost, or their lettering be-
comes illegible. But if the location of
each tree in the row be plainly indicated
on sheet of paper for careful preserva-
tion, the record of varieties is rendered
trustworthy and permanent
President George T. Angel, of the
New York Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, says that in Russia
blinders are never used, and a shying
horse is unknown in that country. He
| adds: Carriage horses do not require
blinders any more than saddle horses, or
cavalry horses, or artillery horses. The
| tight check-rein is another evil; so is the
present fashion of docking horses tails.
Mr.. A. w. Cheever makes in the N,to
England Farmer the suggestion that in
purchasing windmill for pumping
water, saving wood, or similar kind, of
farm work, it is not good plan to Sc
lect one of small size. A small mill may
do what is wanted of it in a high wind,
but with light breeze it would be use
less, while a larger size would do the de-
sired work. Small windmills, small
churns and small stoves are often the
dearest, though costing less money than
large sizes.
Feed all the egg shells with the other
table and kitchen scraps, and when the
hens exhibit more desire for them than
for the other scraps accept this as GER
tain evidence that the shell food is de.
ficient either in quantity or quality. The
theory that feeding the shells is injurious
or leads to vicious hab IS is false. They
are the best quality of shell food so far
as they go, but it requires great many
of them to supply the necessities of the
flock, and they should be supplemented
with something else till all craving for
that special kind of food is satisfied
In butter, says the Ploughmqn, there
is one great essential thing TO be consid-
cred always, and that is, perfect cleanli-
ness. The cows must be clean, their
home wholesome and the hands of the
mixers perfectly clean, and from the
moment it leaves the COW untilit is con-
sumed as butter, it should be carefully
kept apart from anything that could CON
taminate it, including the smoke from
the ''goodman's pipe" If the COW gives
anything like good milk, if this is care
fully observed, the butter will sell we'll,
and there will be a demand in excess of
the supply. The churning should be
performed regularly, and at perfectly
even temperature. The butter should
not be worked with the hands, and in no
way subject to contamination.
Cutting a tree down is a quick and in
expensive way of disposing of it, says the
Cultirator. OF course the stump is left,
but if sprouts are burned off next July
or August, it will not sprout again to do
any hurt, and will in time rot out Who
ever tries grubbing out trees as means
of clearing land will tire of it. There
are places whereit will pay to remove a
few and have valuable land at once
available for other uses. But ordinary
farm crops will not pay the expense. II
is poor little tree that does not require
three feet sqsare to be grubbed over to
get it out by the root. This is just one
square yard. If it could be done for three
cents it would make the land thus OBJ
tanned cost 5000 per acre. Some calcu-
lation of this kind is apt to come over
man when he has been working whole
day to grub out a tree. The next one he
tackles will be cut down in the cd
fashioned way, and leave time to do the
grubbing.