The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-02-15
Farm and Garden Notes.

"ii pay ~ a. W naSS heCP Sdit MlAlli
reach o: the cows.
Using dul! or worn out Instruments Is
very poor economy.
Ss~dust makes good bedding for
cattle IL properly cared for.
Buy lot of bran midIirgs or linseed
meal To feed with your corn meal.
The farmer who dose not read farm
| papers has neglected one of his privi-
leges.
If you are short of bedding and near a
grove lay in a good supply of dry leaves
Grhpes should be KEEP. as near the
freezing point as possible, and yet not
freFZs.
Remember 1t will paw to house your
fodder as snon as you possible can, II you
have no silo.
II will pay you to test your cows
separately and send those tba: dom. paw
TO the butcher.
When q man has no good reason for
doing thing be has one good reason
for letting it alone.
Tsrred paper iudiciously applied to
stable creaks will help out the fodder
and INCREASE the milk supply.
DON'T forget that it is much easier to
let cows shrink In the milk than to per-
suads them TO swell the milk dow.
Don't forget that a pound of fine but
ter is worth thirty cents. and pound of
''store" butter about half as much.
The cold damp ground is a poor mat
tress, and an extra forkfuI of bedding in
the stall will 'just take off the chill. -
All animals for meat. sold alive in
lots. will bring better prices the nearer
they approach uniformity OF size and
weight
Never ship an egg that is dirty or In
any manner soiied. The appearance is
prime factor to the sale OF auy article.
Don't forget that If you look to the
manure to enable you TO come out evep.
you are keeping the wrong kind of
cows.
Consumers will not eat as coarse pork
now as formerly, and the demand for
leaner meat OF tenderer dbre is incress-
ing every day.
1t will pay you TO keep your heifsrs
gentle aud usad to being handled.
thereby saving much trotle and time
when they drop their frat calves.
Now is the time to remember that it
pays TO have your cows cslve in the fall
and early winter, and make your calcu-
lations for winter dairy next year.
Don't forget that the favor OF the milk
that you sometimes attribute to some
kind of weed iE the hay, is due to black
of cleanliness on your part in the care OF
the cows.
Sheep manure applied in a liquid form
IS recommended as good fertilizer for
chrysauth.mums. Soak in water until
the waste Is strongly covered with it and
then apply.
The arhor vi'e is one of the best ever
green tree for a hedge. BY shesring it
can be made dense. while it grows very
rapidly, 80 that for general purpose it
is one of the best.
Here is the mixture some have found
profitable TO feed. Twenty pounds OF
oats, ten pounds of barley, and ter
pounds of wheat bran, ground nne and
we'll mixed.
The hen is 4 willing but veal crea-
tuTe at best, and when the cold wave
dasnes on to the open shed 1t fretz-s
her jocnnd song and there is no sign of
eggs in the snow dritfsd nest.
II yOd have not a comfortable poultry
house, make It SO at once. II you want
to ger any good out Of yoer poltry.
Thy will DO you no good unless vou are
good to thep aud provide for their
wants.
Charcoal is an aid to digestion. and
should be given occasionally TO fowls
and swine. Cnru burned on the cob Is
the best form 10 give IL, snd q little
properly charred Will benegt the human
organism.
Ii You have not local market, ship
good. well-grsded winter apples directly
TO a reliable commission bouse in the
city. l. you have not enongh for q car
load. join with your neighbor or neigh
bOTs and make up one some way,
All farming is in one sense q eoutin-
gous, nevrr ending ronnd OF sowing.
rnlIi,atiug, resping, jus as the year 10
ever spring, summe-, fall and wint 7.
And yet whoever saw TWO seasons a Ik-.
or the euIIivatiug of he sil that ought
20 have been the same W. mus study
our work /. We are going 10 mgke sue
cess OF ii.
The troublesome red spider on house
plants is only to be conquered By fire.
quant sprinkling OF the leaves with
fine syringe. The scale insect Ia van
quished oy brushing the stems with an
Did tooth brush dipped in soap suds; he
ls apt to be- troublesome upon the