The Springdale news., 1889-09-13
HERE AND THERE.

| Oultry need no gram during the summer. Make the hens hunt and find their food.
 There will be more State and county fairs this season than in any previous year
 Plenty of clean water and grass is all the pig should have during the warm days. It is not beneficial to him to be fat at this season.
 Watering -troughs by the roadside at convenient distances arc highly aD- preciated by travellers and are sure in dications of kind, hosptablc farmers. Calves should have some kind of shade during the middle of the day. | If exposed to the heat or the sun too long they become liable to bowel dis | ease
 Butter should be covered when in the refrigerator, and should be in an apartment by itself, and not placed near meat and vegetables, as 1t absorbs odors very readily
 "A handful of linseed meal to the brood-sow once or twice week will be beneficial It is also excellent for the pigs if given occasionally, especially if the food lacks variety. Experience has shown that mules bred from thoroughbred mares can endure moro labor and fatigue than those bred from the common mares, even when the latter have the advan- tage of size.
 "A few dollars invested in paint will not only add to the attractivcness Of the farm, but will save wear and | tear. Nothing is 50 economical as paint. It ornaments and presqszg the buildings. .nu,uW o,, a No farm hsrLs Is.iI -
 r dllVefNa 'lsS( 'he whip The hS5 Ihat ds permit teu 'o Work ae -.-. a,ond, gait will be more serviceable and bt ready for work every day.
 Time intelligently given to bees will pay equally we'll with that given to any other kind of farm work, and where too many arc not kept it may bo done at such times as not to interfere with other important work.
 The belief that hog will thrive on any kind of feed, if ho has an abundance of it, and the shiftless, reck- less way of feeding practiced by many is the immediate and sole cause of much of the disease that prevails among the swine.
 Clean up the front yard; tack on that loose board or picket, slick up and make home and its surroundings as neat and cheery as possible, You will live just as long, have just as good crops and feel great deal better if you tidy up bit. Try it.
 Keep the bull at work. Make him tread and give power for the hay-cut- ter feed-mill and other implements. He will then keep in better condition, be more serviceablc and be less liable to become ferocious. It is a waste of power to allow the bull to be idle
 Unless the strawberry beds are kept clean the persistent crab-grass will take possession. Crab grass grows rank, and it's roots spread out in every direction. It fourishes best on a warm, sandy soil, but is partial to the rich spots Kill it out on a dry, warm day.
 The pigs usefulness as a mixer, turner and refner of the manure heap need only be alluded to. There seems to be value given the manure worked over by pigs which neither the theory of the philosopher nor the crucible of the chemist can account for. Yet it is positively there.
 A prosperous Missouri farmer re- marks that when he raises a crop he has to ship it to market to obtain a sale for it; but when he raises horse the buyer comes to him and buys his product. A little horse sense of this character will open the eyes of hum dreds of farmers, and not before it is needed, either.
 The American Agriculturist, in an exhaustive article on the cultivation of oats, says the reasons why the aver age yield of oats is so low arc weeds, wet and undrained land, starvation poor tilth and late sowing, and adds: "A very large proportion of our land is so wet in the spring for want of un. derdraining that it is not in fit condi- tion to blow until it is too late to SOW oats with any reasonable expertatior of getting large yield"