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Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
Everything in a hen house should be as
dry es a chip.
The water in which hogs are scalded
to take the hair oil ought not to be cooler
than $50 degrees nor hotter than ITO de-
grces.
Broma chloralum and water, equal
parts, injected in each nostril two drops
with a sewing machine oil can, is the
best remedy for roup.
Cow pea vines may be turned under
green and crop planted again right
away. The heat generated below will
will not injure the new crop.
Plank floors are not good for ho rses to
stand upon Hard floors of any sort IN
stalls are injurious to horses feet. Dirt
floors are Lest, but they ought to be dry
and kept dry.
1t makes no difference how the poultry
house is put up so there is plenty Of sun
light, dry floor and all cracks and
crew. es closed. The main objects should
be dryEess and warmth.
The earliest bro lcrs should begin to
come out of the shell in November, and
they may then be hatched Mt intervals
until the lst of April, as good prices are
obtained from January to June.
Mr.. Terry, an Ohio farmer and close
cultivator, says that he has ascertained
that it takes thirty hours to cultivate six
acres when the field is square, while the
same area can he cultivated in ten hours
when the rows are sixty rods long.
Farmers generally do not yet appre-
ciate the value of bran as feeding SUBJ
stance. It contains less oil than corn
mea, but one-fourth more flesh forming,
bone building material. 1t can usually be
bought in the fall for about one-third
less than in the winter.
The best time to dig a we'll is during
long droughts, when the earth is dry and
the water in the surface streams is very
. low. If you dig deep enough to strike
a plentiful supply of water during dry
time, the we'll will not be likely to fail
you during severe droughts.
Any soil upon which water does not
remain during winter, says writer in
Tick's Magazine, can BE- made to grow
small fruits: in fact, any soil which will
produce weeds will grow them; but as
there are few soils which can produce
two crops at the same time, it is better
not to try to grow q crop of weeds and
crop of strawberries on the same SOL
together.
! Wood ashes contain in greater or less
degree, all the more essential elements or
substances which form the food of
plants, except ammonia, OR rather all
those which are not abunaantly supplied
10y the atmosphere. One hundred pounds
: of the ashes contained: Potash, 10
pounds; soda, sc pounds; magnesia, As
pounds: lime. 73.5 pounds; phosphoric
acid. 50 pounds, snlphu,ic acid, IA
po m is; chlorine, 0.2pounds; silica, l.
pounds.
Feeding on corn with little exercise
during the winter is productive of dis
order OF the blood in horses, which af-
fects the skin, causing it to thicken and
peel off, leaving raw spots. The remedy
is to give one-ounce doses of hyposul-
phite cf soda or three ounces of sulphate
OF soda daily in cut feed with bran; to
wash the skin with warm water, in
which per cent. of sulphate of zinc is
dissolved, and after drying it to apply
carbolated vaseline.
The French method of killing poultry,
causing instant death and perfect bleed
ing, says an exchange, is accomplished
by opening the beak of the fowl, and
with a sharp 20 ntcd and narrow bladctl
knife, making an incision at the back
of the roof Of the mouth, which will di-
vide the vcrtebr;p and cause immediate
death. after which the fowls are hung
up by the legs until bled. They are then
picked while warm. In this way the
skin presents natural appearance.
Hungry animals can be made to eat
even weeds, but it is poor economy 10
force them to do it. Some weeds have,
however, considerable nuiritivc value.
The plaintain is nearly as rich as meadow
hay, and the white daisy is theoretically
worth half as mach. The greatest nui-
sance of weeds in hay is that their seeds
pass undigcsted into the manure heap,
and are thus spread everywhere. 1t is
indeed hard luck to a farmer who is una
BILE to draw a load Of manure on his
land without raising the question whether
the weeds he disscminatcs do not offset
the good that the manure itself should
do.
Professor Shelton. of the Kansas Agri.
cultural Go lie e, has been experimenting
with cut fodder-corn stalks-fccding tt
cattle. lie found that when he Cut tho
stalks one-fourth in Il long, the amount
wasted-not eaten By the cattle-was
thirty-,hree per cent one inch, thirty
six per cent. two inches, twcnty-four pei
cent. The result shows that two inches is
as short as corn fodler ought to lie cut
for cattle1o give best results and prevent
waste. In cutting it two inches instead
of one, or onc.fourth inch, heavy ex-
pense is saved saving of power, saving
of wear and tear of the machinery, saw
ing of time and labor and handling.
j In feeding the coarser folders, says
the Agricultarist, the use of roots with
them will be found exceedingly valuable.
The succulent roots being almost
rbollv Sineefit,Ie aid very much in the