The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-03-06


In every ease more cooked food was required
10 make 100 pounds OF pork than uncooked,
showing positive loss by cooking.
SorEs.
Plenty of whitewash should be used, not
only for the brighter appearance. but also as a
disnfoctant. Hot whitewash tho inside of
barns stables poultry houses aud pig-quartors
will aid in preventing yermin and insects
A rich mellow soil and frequent cutting
out OF the old wood is necessary 10 grow u
good crop Of curTants. One advantage with
currants IS that If they kept properly
pruned, the old wood cut out, the weeds kept
down and the soil rich by the application of
fertilizers, the plants will grow and bear fruit
for - years without replouishing.
When fattening geese give mixture of
corn and wheat. They should also have a
cooked mess twice day consisting of potatoes
tufnips, chopped clover cabbage aud onions as
green food is essential. Add small quantity of
salt and do not overlook the water
Two neighbors set out strawberry beds at
tho same time. One had II rods. did not en-
rich his bed, aud had three bushels OF fruit, or
at tho rate of 81 bushels per acre. The other
planted only four rods, and heavily mulched
the bed with manure in Autumn and in Spring.
lie had seven bushels OF berries or at the rate
of go bushels an acre.
T 70 preserve greenhouse fonce.posts
boIo u Hbib WIN HI augbi JuSb hpoNe Tue SUIT
face of tho ground and lot IL extend several
inches below the surface. Make the hole AS
near upright rs possible; then Ill it with crude
petroleum or Kerosene and plug up with piece
Of wood. This will allow tho post TO become
soaked with OIL aud in just the right spot pro-
vent decay.
49, The carrot like other root crops. delights
in sandy loan, richly titled. For curly crop
SOW ia Spring, as soon IA the ground is III good
working order; for later crops they may be
| soWn any time until tho middle of June. Sow
! in rows about 10 inches apart, thinning out TO
three four inches between tho plants. In
! field culture, when grown for horses or cattle,
| the rows should be two feet apart 80 that the
crop may be worked with horse cultivator.
- Scatter newly-slaked lime in tho hen
houses as often as You wish, rs it will absorb
moisture and dry the apartment. DO not scat
ter it on tho droppings that have accumulated.
| however, rs il will Cause loss Of ammonia but
dust IL on tho floor, on the walls aud over the
nests, as we'll as over the yards. 1t will greatly
prevent disease, and also destroy all lice that il
| touches. No hen house that is frequently busted
| with lime will be- infested with lice, il they
have not secured fpothold Lime puriles the
quarters and dries them, aud az IL is cheap aud
| plentiful itsh0nld DO used often aud plentifully
| There 10 always u loss OF valuable matter
| when any vegetable substance il burned
| Moreover, the mechanical condition of the soil
| is improved by turning under any kind of or.
ganic matter Hence it is not advisable Il
| burn anything that can be plowed in to act as
"A fertilizer. IL is in the decomposition of or.
ganic matter in the soil that any gain of nitro
gen from the atmosphere is made, not to speak
| Of the actual loss of nitrogen when organic
| matter is burned. So that the burning involves
both direct and an indirect loss.