The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-01-13

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and keep the afflicted fowl confined.
For debility, keep the fowl In warm
dry place, feed meat, and give a piece
Of ginger daily
To procure eggs, avoid over feeding,
and feed meat aud milk, with plenty
of grain at night, emitting corn.
For lice, dust Persian insect powder
freely in every crack and orevice, and
on the bodies of the hens among the
feathers.
The american Garden says bubach
powder blown into ant hills with
strong bellows will kill or drive away
the insects.
For Indigestion, give the birds plen-
ty of sharp gravel, and also teaspoon
full of fenugreek, in the soft food, for
every ten hens.
Canada's honey crop is estimated to
be an average Of only twenty pounds
to the colony. Many colonies will find
liberal feeding to carry them over the
winter in safety.
For soft shell eggs, put the hens at
work scratching, as it indicates they
are too fat. Soft egg, apoplexy, egg
bound, and nearly all such diseases, are
due to the hens being too fat.
You can cut off the combs of fowls,
if you prefer. Use q sharp knife; cut
off both combs and wattles. To pre-
vent bleeding, FIRST wash the head with
strong alum water, and then sprinkle
with powdered tannin.
For swelled eyes, bathe the head
with warm solution made by dissolv-
ing q teaspoonful of powdered boracic
acid in pint of water, and then anoint
with few drops of glycerine. Repeat
this daily.
For roup, dissolve teaspoonful of
chloride OF lime in pint of water, and
give the bird teaspoonful of the 30
luton. Burn tar and turpentine in
the poultry house after the fowls have
gone on the roost at night.
In storing onions spread them out
30 that the air can get to them. They
will not keep weil if piled up, but in
cool place there will be no difficulty
with them if they be spread in thin
layers. No decsyed onions should be
allowed, as they may damage all.
In their native hills it is said that
the Cheviot sheep are excelled by none.
They are as large as the Cotswolds,
while the mutton is considered better
and the fleece finer and closer. On
good pasture the fleece grows finer and
sell for higher price than when the
animals are fed on coarse grass.
The ideal soil in which TO set plant
is one that is moist without being
water soaked, neither too dry nor too
wet. In such soil even poor plant
will take root. The plant will make
its own root just as the cutting does.
For setting in dry soil the plant should
be we'll rooted and stocky, as it must
depend on the roots it already has for
Q start.
The Middletown IN. W Argus says
q swarm of bees for year made
home in the piazza of residence there,
and on investigation it was discovered
that the bees had found q way of get
ting under the door of one Of the bed
rooms, and fifty pounds of honey aud
q quantity of brood comb were taken
from between two of the floor beams.
! Nothing is more easily grown than
a grapevine. 1t will almost take care
Of itself, if you will give it reason
able chance; aud then, having been
trimmed on very simple principles for
three years, you can let it run over q
tree, shed, barn or trellis. Keep
its feet clean of weeds, and well shod
with ashes and manure, and you will
have enough to eat.
! A Nebraska farmer, who has been
experimenting with alfalfa, fluids that
the plants raised one spring are likely
to be killed the following winter. If
they survive, however, they will be
strong enough to live through succeed
ing winters, and will produce a large
amount Of foliage. This alfalfa patch
afforded excellent feed last summer
while the drought put stop to the
growth of grass and clover.
| Prof. Stewart says very valuable
use of fiaxseed can be made by grind
ing one bushel with eight bushels of
oats, or all the haxseed that can be
ground with oats without sticking to
the millstones. Then mix one hun
dre1, pounds of this ground oats and
aaxsead with two hundred pounds of
bran. This will be the best kind Of
feed for young pigs, and it will be
good for them all the time up to fat
tening: and besides this they will be