Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-02
AGRICULTURAL.
A PLAN FOR THE RECLAMATION OF
PEAR AND PEACH TREES.
The Effect of Too Much Pepper in the
Fowls Food-BisulphEde of Car
bon as an Antiseptic-A
Model Barn-yard

very COlu weather uOeS not lnJure
stock as much as dampness. A mod
erately cold day, with driving rain
storm, causes more illness to stock
than severe cold on dry, clear day.
The flower-bed for the next year
may be made very rich by scattering
the sweepings of the poultry-house
over it. Soapsuds may also be well
utilized by throwing them on the
flower beds.
If the bulbs of certain flowers start
to sprout while in the cellar il indi-
Gates that they are kept too warm.
They should keep cool enough to re-
main in a dormant condition until
spring. Sproutlng injuries them.
The object of the farmer in feeding
animals through the winter should be
for profit. Feeding stock to gain a
profit from is nice point, and re-
quires study and attention. 1t is not
enough to feed a sufficient quantity,
but the feed must be of such a nature
as is best for accomplishing the ob-
ject of feeding.
Bisulnhide of carbon is one of the
best and cheapest antiseptics and in
secticides. Already more than S,O0O,-
600 pounds of it are used annually to
check the ravages of phyloXera, the
scourge Of European vineyards. BIZ
sulphide of carbon has an extremely
offensive odor, and is highly inflan-
mable and explosive.
Feeding pepper often to fowls as a
regular appetizer is a bad practice.
Although a very little will do no harm,
yet the continued use of the condi-
ment is liable to cause liver complaint.
Warm feed tends to have the same
stimulating effect without possessing
the injurious qualities of the cayenne.
The only way to make roosts is to
make them on a movable frame, that
may be taken out OF doors, there to
be scalded with boiling water in which
is little crude carbolic acid. Make
the roosts all on l.vel and not more
than two feet high, thereby prevent
ing much Quarreling and the humble
foot.
Why more men do not make the
dairy pay is because they refuse to be-
lieve that there is any study or ipves-
tigation needed in regard to the care,
treatment and management of the
dairy. If they chance On a success
they call it luck, and if they fail they
never investigate the matter to see
wherein they fail, so as to steer clear
of a repetition.
The kind of feeding that keeps lot
OF pigs or stockers from threc to six
months without grain is a total loss
of grain; also, loss OF time in the
maturing If the animals. That is
sAiftless feeding that carries a lot OF
hogs through winter on one class OF
| feed. The need of variety brings them
to the boneyard when grass is almost
in sight.
A farmer with considerable exper-
ience who has sliced clover for two
years, says if it should be left to wilt
ora the ground for two hours after cut
ting, and each days filling Of the silo
| be allowed to heat before the fresh
cover is added, and the sides, not the
Center, kept thoroughly tramped, the
clover will come out moist and green,
and the cattle will relish it as
thoroughly as summer pasture,
To make pullets trot along toward
maturity with wonderful accelerated
pace, give them every morning
warm feed of bran and shorts and
ground oats mixed up with milk, or
meat stock in which is little salt. At
noon give feed of meat, and at night
all the wheat they will eat and little
left to scratch for the next day. In ad-
dition to this provide green food,
crushed bones and pure water, and
give each day one heavy feed OF brok-
en- dishes; they will be eaten with
avidity.
Freezing of the food and water will
be one Of the difficulties this winter
as usual. The troughs become ice
bound and the soft food freezes rap
idly when the weather Is severe. In
such cases it is best to water the ock
at intervals rather than to keep water
in the troughs. If you have no az
rangement for warming water, try the
plan of a Western farmer, who heats
stones and drops one in the trough
when the water is pumped IN. 1t Is
better, however, to warm the water,
using a boiler or steam-pipe, and if
there is large number of animals Ii
will pay to do so.
A person who has some old pear
trees that have about run out, asks
advice of Popular Gardening and re-
ceives the following: Try the plan OF
digging a shallow trench, say one foot
deep, six to eight feet away from the
body of the tree, and throwing into
this liberal supply of soda, leaf mold,
ashes, lime and manure and covering
with earth, and then cut away all dead
limbs and give the body and limbs
good coat of whitewash. We have
seen old peach trees renewed beyond
belief by this process.
In some cases a large barnyard
might well be divided into two or
more smaller ones for different classe-
of live stock. A fruitful source of loss
is the keeping of weak animals with
vigorous ones; young with old;
horses with cattle, sheep and hogs.
By letting one set OF animals out o
stables or pens at one time and another,
| II NOV ha Dossihle tn get along with