The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-01-24
OUR RURAL TOPICS,
Some Practical Suggestions for Our
Agricultural Readers
TIE FLAVOR OF EGGS.

in their eggs. Also the odor of garlic and some
other strong favored things may be found in
the eggs after the poultry has eaten great
deal of such substances. Ordinarily the flavor
of the eggs is not affected enough By the change
of diet to make any noticeable difference.
When hens are fed very largely on milk the
yolk is white in color and the white is less
tilmy in texture. The more concentrated and
nutritious the food the richer and better the
eggs. Also the eggs from thrifty fowls at the
beginning of the laying, before the fowls
strength has been reduced, are richer and more
capable of producing vigorous chickens than
near the close of the laying. The reason why
fowls fed on 'Fslops," etc., are able to give no
better eggs to their owners is because you de-
mand the tale of brick of your servants but
you give them no straw to make them with.
Curd contains all the best and most nutritious
portions of the milk, without its Objectionable
qualities. But the true feed for laying fowls
is one-half or ne-quarter Indian corn, ground
or otherwise, and oats or wheat together with
milk and whatever scraps from the house are
obtainable, and as much green vegetable food
as they will eat; and with these combined and
fed properly, your eggs will be of the true gold
and silver stamp-when the cooks fire has re-
fined them and prepared them as relish for
your breakfast table.-Poultry World.
HOW TO HAVE HEALTHY SWINE.
Carefully abstain from giving any medicine
whatever.
Keep large and small separate and not more
than 10 in q lot.
Feed regularly and literally variety of
wholesome food, always some bulky food, and
! let each feed be eaten up clean before more is
given.
| Give wallowing places, ashes, charcoal and
salt, and plenty of exercise in timber pasture
yielding shade, roots, nuts, acorns, etc. But no
| dOubly-soured Stops
! Provide ventilated shelters from wind, rain
and snow, but no litter Hogs with litter get
too warm. If you wish disease, put your hogs
! to the straw pile.
! Maintain cleanliness in all things Breed
only mature animals, and never from show
herd. The offspring of immature or pampered
animals is predisposed to disease.
Give pure water from deep wells protected
| from surface water. Well water is not freezing
cold in Winter nor lukewarm in Summer.
Water from creeks (unless fed by springs),
| ponds or pools is disease breeding.
Pigs should be farrowed in early Spring and
| kept on only growing foods-millz, bran slop,
| oats, green rye, grasses, clover sweet corn
until late Fall; then fatten rapidly, on corn
mostly, but also on green rye, blue grass, pump
! kins, boiled potatoes and turnips with bran,
! steamed clover hay, etc.-AmeTican Agrieal-
! turiSt.
REGARDING THE CABBAGE-WoRAI.
To those who engage to any extent in the
| culture of cabbage much vexation is caused by
! the depredatons of the cabbage worm, which
will suddenly render promising plants objects
| of disgust With many remedies that are
named there is a lack of efficiency that renders
them worthless. We give the following taken
| from Fiek's Magazine for January, hoping it
may prove true:
In the vegetable garden great labor and loss
have been incurred for many years by the
ravages of the cabbage worm, the larva of the
time past numerous experiments have been
made with great variety of substances to
destroy it or successfully keep it in check, but
| all have failed as reliable and economically
| practical, except tha5 of busting the plants with
| Pyrethrum powder simple or combined with
| other efficient substances. By applying the
| powder with a bellows the work is quickly
| done, and the cabbage grower has no longer
any fear of this troublesome and destructive
| enemy"
HOW TO MILK A COW.
The most economical way to milk cow all
| things considered, is to milk the two fore teats
clean, leaving OF with a pretty full stream, and
| then milk the hind ones down to short stream,
and, returning to the fore ones, milk them to
the same condition, not touching the hind ones
| again. This will leave the teats empty, and the
bags too. 1t is false notion that Juggling away
at the teats stimulates COW to give more milk
but, on the contrary, emptying the bag as soon
as possible yields more; then the COW can have
the extra time TO eat, which is a better stimulus
than either. A slow mixer is never tolerated
in the dairy districts, and stripper" is an
ed, and all the organs connected with feeding,
digestion and secretion are left in their natural
condition, the better it is for the cow.-RAral
| Canadian.
NOTES.
-Clubroot in cabbages is prevented by max
| ing the seed bed on new ground or ground not
used for cabbage for several years.
| All breeding and young growing stock
should be fed very sparingly on corn; mixed
variety of feed for them is much the best.
Cows at pasture after the first severe frost
want something more than damaged grass
Grain will come in play as well as in Mid
winter
In fattening hogs, have a dry-foored pen
and plenty of clean bedding. Dispense with
that half OF the pen generally allowed for root
ing in the ground
Experiments made by Prof II. II. Wing,
and reported in the Rprai Ne,U Yorker, go to
show that no loss of butter fat need be feared
from feeding moderate quantity of apples, ard
from such feeding there is quite sure to be gain
in the flow of milk
The shorter the manure the better it can
be distributed over the land, and the more
valuable 1t is for providing plant food. All
long manure entails useless labor in its hand
ling. Tothrow coarse substances on the manure
heap, and expect them to decompose by Spring
is not only loss of labor but waste of time
The cheapest pork is made by the wise
use OF clover pastures. The composition of the
plant meets the wants of the animal system
TO make rapid growth. The season favorine
the growth of the plant is most favorable tC
animal growth, particularly swine, when they
have good shade and water. The animal di
gcstiVe organs do not convert themselves into
a furnace, as in the Winter, to keep the body
warm
"A person who has some old pear trees that
have about run out, asks advice of Popular Gar
deh1ng and receives the following: TRY the
plan of digging shallow trench, say one foo
deep, six to eight feet away from the body of the
tree, and throwing into this liberal supply o
sods, leaf mold, ashes, lime and manure an(
covering with earth, aud then cut away all dea(
limbs and give the body and limbs good Goa
of whitewash. We have seen old peach tree.
renewed beyond belief by the process"
1t was formerly too prevalent custom
among farmers to neglect the use of the banke
entirely, and with coldand cherries stables the
horses were compelgd TO occupy the blanke