The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-29
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
A box stall for horso comfort.


Make good use of these short
days.
The sexes can be distinguished IN
ducks by noticing that duck quacks
in loud, coarse voice, while u drake
has sharp, thin, peeping voice.
The Arab compels his horse to
feed from the ground in order to MAIN
tain the curve of the backbone. This
is the natural way of feeding, and it
is an argument for low managers.
The growing animal intended for
beef, requires little exercise daily to
promote muscle and strength of con-
stitution; but whom ripe, only so much
as 10 be able to walk to market.
y Witness.
feeding red pepper to laying hens
is not beneficial unless given very
moderately, and not oftenor than
three times q week. 1t acts as n tenn
porary stimuant, utif given continue
ally causes injurious effects. Indian
apolis Journal.
The cause Of farms running down
or wearing out is to practically farm
er very readily seen. First. no land
can be continuously farmed and all
1t produces taken Off unless as much is
returned
The cheapest and most profitable
meat is made on young hogs, gradual
ly increasing in size until the matur-
ing period sets in, when the increase
of cost is rapid for each pound made,
and wheat middlings is the best single
food. Home and Farm.
There are fourteen thousand acres
of vineyard along the Hudson river
valley, and the average yield is four
tons to the acre. Al three cents per
pound this means S240 per acre to the
grower Some grow larger crops
than this average. and realize $500 per
acre in sales.
Gingerbread: Four tablespoons
fuls cold water and fill the cup with
molasses. one teasp.onful soda in two
tablespoonfuls boiling water, one-half
teaspoonful ginger, two cups flour and
pinch of salt, one tablespoonful
melted butter stirred in us fast us pos
sible at the very last; bake in hot oven
as quick as you can. Good Cheer.
The use of commercial fertilizers
is increasing. and a. farmers become
better acquainted with the demands of
their soils and crops they will be able
,x,;cn t,> ,,l. tb A,, H.,
suited to their needs. Neither the farm.
er nor the chemist alone can always
tell what brand of fertilizer wiil best
meet the case. This must be discov :
cred by the farmers making careful
test under the light given hy teach
ings of the chemists. Troy Times
Green wood is easier chopped
than dry wood. But the forchand ed
man will chop the green wood while
it is green and have il seasoned after
ward. Stove wood seasons rapidly
when it is in dry, airy place.
Though the wood must be burned as
cut it is the more economical to
choose the dry wood. The extra
labor required for its cutting will be
more than well paid for by the
greater heat from its combustion. not
to speak of the time lost in getting
green wood to burn. - Chicago Times.
In any apiary located in public
place where mary persons visit it as
sight seers, it pays to keep "a hive or
two in proper condition for rapid
and easy manipulation, that the
queen may be exhibited readily, the
brood and drones. workers pointed
out, etc. Oae or two hives can be
made to pay in this way in large
apiary. Use them to draw brood
from. using the purest stock in the
apiary for tho purpose. as we like to
''show" our best stock, and such bees
make the best nuclei and work we'll
anywhere. --larmer an1 Manutactur-
en-.
Before any farmer leaves his COM
Portable Northern homo and the
friends and associates of life time,
thinking to find better SPOT South or
West, let him take his wife and make
trip to the land of promise and look
the country over before selling out.
A woman's intuition and judgment at
sight is more generally correct and re-
liable than that Of man. A move
which means the breaking of family
ties, and the making of II new set of
acquaintances in strange section,
should not be made without the
gravest deliberation. ST. Paul Pio-
neer- Press.
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WOMAN'S ECONOMY.