Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-07

Scaly leg in fowls is caused by para
site. Lard and sulphur, with little in
sect powder will cure it.
Hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine and
! mixed with stale crumbs of bread, is good
food for young chickens.
Ticks can be destroyed by insect powder.
Just an ounce of powder in four gallons of
water, and thoroughly wet the fowls with
| it.
| Fowls that are shut in must have
crushed oyster-shells or old mortar or bone
dust to make egg-shells from. Gravel is
needed also, and a box of dust or ashes
under shelter.
Nest boxes before being filled with
straw should be whitewashed with lime,
or else washed with kerosene the straw
should be busted with sulphur and the hen
before setting be well busted with insect
powder all to kill lice and ticks.
For scalding poultry the water ought to
be within two degrees of boiling-2l0o,
neither more nor less, if possible. The
fowl, held by the legs, should be dipped
three or four times within the space of
about six TO ten seconds, when the feathers
will come off quite easily without tearing
the skin.
| The best hens to select for breeding
should have bright feathers, be large, we'll
! formed, broad breasted, short-legged, young
and plump. The male bird should have
the same characteristics generally, with
the addition of the fancy points sought to
be obtained in the progeny. He should be
about one year old, and mated with not
more than ten hens.
The fowl house should be thoroughly
whitewashed four times a year. Make the
wash with quicklime; add one ounce of
carbolic acid to every gallon. This will
kill all the lice and destroy all the nits. If
the walls are required to be of buff color,
| also add one ounce of copperas to each
gallon. A good cement floor for a fowl
! house can be made by breaking up the sur
face to the depth of an inch cover it with
a one-fourth inch of lime; mix together,
| breaking all Jumps; water it we'll, then
fatten the mortar" with the back of a
spade, and in day or so the floor will be
set.-CdlJornid Cackler.
FARM NOTES.
Grass on elevated lands makes the best
| butter.
The fine flavor of butter is never washed
out by plentiful use of water.
To make new ropes pliable before using
| them in the stable boil them and then dry
| them in the sun.
There are good mixers among short
horn cows, but they are not as plentiful as
they would be with iudicious breeding.
Salt is frequently applied to asparagus
beds, but soapsuds are better. Celery is
also benefited by liberal applications of
soapsuds.
Give laying hens and growing chicks
| fair share of the SKINNED milk. They
will reciprocate by giving you more eggs
and better broilers.
Carrots are said to be excellent food for
| horses, giving sleek, oily appearance to
their hair. From 500 to 1000 bushels
may be raised to the acre on good land.
II is always best to water horses before
feeding them. If they are watered soon
after they have eaten, much of the grain
will be washed out of the stomach and do
them no good.
When man is frightened or angry his
digestive organs do not work that is also
true of an animal-hence the profit in
keeping it in peaceful and fearless state
by kind treatment.
Milk from COWS that have recently
calved is usually ropy, yet it is frequently
mixed in the can with the milk of other
cows. Ropy milk is not in a proper con-
| dition to be used as food.
Sheep are also used as dairy animals in
some countries. The celebrated Rochefort
cheese is made from the milk of sheep,
and in many portions of Canada sheep are
regularly MIXED, and proftably.
Never keep a poor mixer as long as
there is possibility of getting something
better. 1t is just as important to replace
a poor COW with better one as it is to get
rid of a balky horse for one more service
able
A handful of good, unleached wood ashes
applied around each strawberry plant will
add materially in increasing the growth
and thrift of the plant, and in this way
increase the productiveness both in quality
and quantity.
Do not SOW small seeds too deep in the
ground. One of the many causes of the
failure of carrot and parsnip seeds to push
through the ground is that too much earth
is placed on them. The lightest of cover
ing will answer.
The Importance of good breeds may be
shown by the fact that Michigan farmers
Shorthorn calf weighed 125 pounds when
only one day old, while a Shorthorn calf
belonging to another breeder weighed 740
pounds when nine months old.
Every weed that grows takes from the
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every time the growing weeds are turned
under the elements are again added to the
soil. 1t Is cheaper to keep the soil clean
than to clean it after it is covered with
weeds.
Don't forget the root crops Haul out
manure now and spread it on the land for
turnips, first blowing the ground. Work
the manure in with the cultivator and har-
row. By the time the turnip-seed goes in
the manure will be in proper condition to
produce large crop.
Those who are unaccustomed to the
growing of caulihowers will not fail to
have few plants every season if once
they are given trial. They are as easily
grown as cabbage, and are tender and
crisp. They grow rapidly, and thrive best
with frequent hoeing.
The melons prefer light, sandy soil,
and plenty of manure. They will not
thrive during wet season, or where the
ground is damp. Until they begin to run
they should be kept clear Of grass and
weeds, but they will need only Slight at
tention after they cover the ground.
Horses can, of course, stand more expos
ure in cold weather than men, but the
same kind of exposure that produces colds,
rheumatism, etc, in men. will be liable to
effect horses in the same way. 1t is there
fore apparent that warm stables, good
blankets and protection from bad weather
are necessary.