The Springdale news., 1889-05-03
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

When setting the hens sprinkle four of sulphur in the nests to keep down the lice
 To thresh small lots of beans or peas without waste. tie them up Tn bean-sack and thresh the sack.
 Trees about the house make It more honelike and attractive and shield it from the cold winds of winter and the hot sun of summer
 Neither social obligations nor good morals require you to lend to him who does not take good care of tools. or who does not return them promptly
 Straw berries should yield 4,0OO quarts per acre, raspberries 3,OOo, black berries little more than rasp- berries. and entrants should yield LOUD to 1000 quarts per acre.
 Salt enters largely into the miner- al elements of milk, and, as these ele- ments are in scanty proportion ln young grass, it is, therefore, most needed in the spring and the early part of summer.
 There is an evident desire, accord ing to Mr. B. F. Johnson, on the part of cattlemen so to breed and feed as to diminish tallow, worth three cents a pound and increase lean meat, worth twenty-five cents.
 Patience must be the rule on a farm. All improvements take time. is not to be recommended, that is pa tient waiting for something to happen.
 Cut clover hay should not be ex pected to take the place of grain. It Is good feed for some purposes, but should always be fed in connection with grain in order to secure the best results.
 Western cattle fed upon corn in ear require three times as much grain to produce the same result as when the ground grain is mixed and fed with coarse fodder, and is raised with the cud and remasticated. Laying hens rejoice in a variety ol food. They will eat almost any thing that is left from the table, and it can not, even in the country, De put to better use. Ft is far more profitable to feed this to hens than to one or more worthless dogs, as so many poor farm CTS often do.-Ohio Farmer.
 The fashion in horse flesh changes just as in any thing else. Recently two sons of Hambletonian were sold for $475, which is less than the serv- ice fee for their sire, after he had passed his twentieth year. Both ot them are vigorous and in good health, one being foalcd in 1872 and the other in 1864
 -lt should not be forgotten that flesh and fat contain seyenty-fve pel cent. of water, and consequently fat tening animals should be we'll supplied with water of moderate temperature not less than fifty-five or sixty degrees, It hastens the farening of stall-feC beasts to give sufficient meal stirred il the water to make thin gruel.
 An experienced apiarist, author | and adviser, tells his readers that after sweet clover has once got start, Il furnishes as permanent bce-pasturagt as any thing he knows. Bee-keepcrs al ways have some honey where 1t grows I there is never a season of total failure | It is also equal, he adds, in both ap | pearancc and flavor, to any honey thu l bees make.
 -If your object is to keep sheep fol mutton and wool and not for selling and breeding purposes, the better plai will probably be to select some of th' | best common ewes you can find at com mon prices, and then try a thorough bred ram. In this way, with the us' of plenty of cotton-seed cake, you cal soon have fine flock Of what the En | glish farmers term ''rent-paying sheep. Thomas Harris.