The gale., 1888-03-03
Farm and Garden Notes.

Inc modern idea OF winter dalryln2
advances in favor
White Minorca poultry is attracting
much attention of late.
Lice are great annoyance to calves,
and will keep them poor
Keep seed potatoes in a dry, cool
place and prevent sprouting.
Cutting fodder is saving of one.
third, according to the Rural Nep
Xrh y.
The eggs of a bag worm can be plainly
seen in winter and should be then de.
stroycd.
An advocate of warm water for COVE
says it will increase the yield of milk
one-fourth.
Though dishorning does not always
tanning effect in general is well attested.
Fine-cut hay, slightly sailed and
scalded with boiling water, is relished
by fowls, says California poultry man.
Authority on poultry advises feeding
salt in the proportion of q level teaspoon
full TO two quarts dry ground grain.
Never give it in excess.
John M. stahl considers the COW truly
and provokingly feminine, and thinks
that in no place does politeness pay
better than in the cow stable.
Large profits do not always depend
upon large crops. One may grow an ex.
traordinarily large crop, but the expense
of so doing may balance the receipts.
A Connecticut dairyman tried warming
the water for his cows to drink in winter,
and the increase of butter in ten days
paid the expense of piping the trough.
To wholly abandon staple crop or
product because it is temporarily I'M
profitable is to lose ones hold on the
market when it becomes profitable again
At the Ontario Agricultural College
an experiment with peas showed that i
required thirty-flve pounds more o
cooked than uncooked to make 10t
/ pounds OF pork, live weight.
Professor McMIurtrie seems to prov,
by Investigations that the much praised
! and son"ht for 'folds" in merino sheer
are detrimental, in that they do not in
crease the yield, and do decrease thu
quality.
Sheep here do not pay as good profits
as those in England. Everything de.
ponds O. the mode of management. Our
farmers compel sheep to forage. while in
England they are treated as carefully as
are attic.
In speaking about the preparation of
fodder for cows, A. B. Allen says
...Whcn the appetite aud digestion of the
animal seem 10 conflict with the teach
ings of the chemist, l take sides with
the a ANAL"
The improved mutton breeds of sheep
cannot be kept in the manner usual with
common sheep They demand good
pasture, liberal feeding and attention,
but they pay well for the care bestowed.
There is great demand for superior
mutton.
At the recent English dairy show a
shorthorn COW proved the champion
mixer and buttermaker. After 224
DAYS from calving. her milk amounted to
45I pounds daily, and her butter to "A
pcr cent, equal to ~ pounds per day.
'rhetota solids in this milk amounted to
A. . per cent, which shows that the COW
was not only an excellent buttermaker,
but exceptionally good for cheese.
The value of barley meal as feed for
hogs is not half appreciated. Trials at
The Wisconsin experiment station show
that $50 pounds of uncooked barley meal
were required to produce 100 pounds of
pork. live weight, while to corn meal 463
pounds were required of corn meal and
shorts half and half 574 pounds were re-
quircd. This is not o very striking
showing in favor of barley meal, but it
demonstrates most conclusively that pork
can be proftably produced on barley in
Northern regions where corn cannot be
grown at profit.
in discussing ways and means for the
improvement OF highways it should never
be lost sight of that the roadbed can
never be satisfactory as long as it is not
thoroughly d,aincd. In majority of
cases this can be done by grading up
cutting bitches along the sides. But the
tendency is toward the following out of
the centre of the grade; and, as the
ground is somewhat compacted, water is
held for some time, to the great injury of
the roadbed. Every few weeks, when
the weather will permit, the grade
should be dres scd, filling up the de-
pressed paths made by the animals.
When thorough drainage cannot be So
cured in any other way, underdrain.
The same principles apply as in the
draining of land for crops.