The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-26
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
Matters Of Interest to the IntsllIEsucsr's
Farmer ReadeFa.

Farmer Readers.
Give the chickens plenty OF greer
food, or better still letthem have the rur
Of the orchard.
Preserve the eggs till cold weather
now that they are cheap and plentiful
The difference In price will more thar
pay for the trouble,
Bloat In cows is indigestion. In bad
cases p%unctuate the paunch with {
pocketknite, II you have nothing better,
and keep the wound open for the escape
OF the gas by inserting a quill.
We advise every amateur to we'll con,
slider climate and soil before he branches
out very extensively with any kind O.
plants, By so doing he will find the
other essentials not very hard to contend
with.
In answer to a correspondent who In
quires II goats milk Is better than cows
milk we would say that we hardly know
how TO answer the question. Ii is richer
as a rule. But 1t would not be better for
our use.
Tho breeders OF dairy stock contribu.
tary to the New Northwest have never
had any reason to complain yet. They
sell most Of their stock In tho new
sections and there is a demand for all
they have,
Time intelligently given to bees will
pay equally well with that given to any
other kind OF farm work, and where too
many are not kept II may be done at
such times IL not to interfere with other
important work.
The belief that a hog will thrive on
any kind Of feed, II he has an abund.
ance OF 1t, and the shihless, reckless way
OF feeding practiCed by many Is the i'm.
mediate and sole cause OF much OF the
disease that prevails among the swine.
Somebody has made the statement
that butter made from cream churned at
q low temperature will stand up better
In hot weather than when churned at
the ordinary temperature OF about sixty
degrees. 1t may DO this Is so, but who
knows2
Professor horne, Director OF the Ohio
Experiment Station, isanother who has
found raw corn meal TO produce better
results in pig feeding than cooked meal,
This has now been proved in SO many
cases that It is being accepted as an es.
tablished fact,
Clean up the front yard tack on that
loose board or picket, slick up and make
home and It's surroundings as neat and
CHEEKY as possible. You will live Just as
long, have just as good crops and feel a
great deal better II you "tidy upa Bit"
Try it.
Very much depends in planting the
orchard upon sound and discriminating
judgment not only in the selection Of
the soil, with a view OF retaining moist.
ure and manures, but also the slope and
exposure, It's aptitude for natural or arti-
fetal shelter.
1t will pay to again put a heaping
shovelful OF fine manure around each
hill Of lima beans. 1t Is Just, when the
beans are filling out the pods that the
heaviest drain Is made on the soil for
plant food, and the manure given now
will be in proper condition when the
harvesting season arrives.
Cut the hay lust as the seed heRds be-
gin to form. II the seed Is allowed TO
mature and becomes dry the plant will
DO robbed Of It's nutritive matter by the
seOds, BY cutting the grass before the
heads form the paterlal intended for
the formation OF the seed ID arrested in
the stalks, and tho hay will DO more val.
liable.
When working horses come In from
work in warm weather tho first thing TO
.6e attended TO is the washing Of their
shoulders with cold water, also washing
the sweat from the collar before It is put
away; a little care given In season will
Often lpaye a horse from the misery Of q
CALLED shouldeF, ard the owner the loss
Of the horses services when he can III
afford to lose them.
Now the large and troublesome inject
pr~omisCuously known as ox.tly. and
horse.hy will be worrying the flesh and
|draytpg the blood from the stock as pas
ture, and during the hot daysthis month
when they are 9ost tfoghlegome 1t will
be an act OF mercy and sage money "
days and IL them iced nights.
4 writer Of the Farm Journal says that
tho best hams and pork he ever ate were
made from hogs reared on grass and
yheat middlings, and iattened on rye
ineal and brand mixed with with pota.
toes and tufilps when they were cooked
and boiling hot. The hams bad less
than three.iourthS OF an inch Of fat on
the outside. Tho hogs were the Duroe'
Jerseys.