Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-02-14
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AGRICULTURAL.

For calves give feed of sealded corn
meal and ground oats.
The best OF all foods Tor stock is good
ration of hay morning and night. along
with a ration Of grain.
Bran should be part of the ration of all
classes of live stock, but bran should be
fed in connection with ground grain or cut
feed
The fence corners should be as clean as
any other portion of the farm. They are
the harboring places of vermin and a fruit
inl source Of weeds
Now that the ground is cold you may safe
ly prune the vines and bushes Young trees
may be trimmed to shape and ont door
work be given the orchard.
One gallon of red paint and five gallons
of crude petroleum, well mixed, is claimed
To be the cheapest paint that can he made.
1t is also very durable.
II is sand of corn that it is one of the
best foods for fattening hogs, but is star
vation diet to pigs. The reason is that
while corn contains the elements that pro
duee fat il is deficient in mineral matter
and other elements essential to growth.
Feed chopped scrap beef to the hens if
you wish them to lay. When eggs are as
high as at present it will pay to buy meat
for the hens. The cheaper portions will
answer, but it should he lean Liver and
fresh blood are also excellent egg proaar-
ing foods
Ensilage, clover - and ground oats,
says Mr.. \. l.. Gfosby in the New Hamp-
shire M'res,is is as near a perfect ration as
dairEanah could wish for. lie recon-
mcnds 20 to 80 pounds ensilage, G to 10
pounds clover hay and to quarts oats
daily according to the demands of the
COW.
Inherent defects should be avoided The
poultry ianeiers have had crooked breast
bone or wry tail on sire transmitted to
all the chicks. Aim to avoid deformities
OF enieebled constitutions in birds or ami
mails
The injury to seed corn in winter is not
due so much by exposure to extreme cold
as to the corn not being perfectly dry.
Seed corn should be kept in a dry place,
where dampness cannot reach it, and the
cold will then have but little effect on it.
In moi la toll
pass them through cutter and use then
in the manure heap as absorbents, so as TO
allow them to quickly deeompose. If they
are tender, cut them and feed them to
toek
If the sheep are sheltered in shed at
night and tho shed enclosed with good
fence. the saving from loss by dogs and by
the protection afforded will pay the cost of
the shed and fence if the fence is moder-
ately large one.
Rye at this season is in excellent condi-
ton for stock. If blue grass be used on
pastures it will afford grazing until late,
and as grass serves to regulate the bowels
a small proportion now is more beneficial
than at any other time.
Many good COWS give but a small
quantity of milk because they are not
properly managed. Some persons allow
a certain quantity of feed, from which no
variation is made A COW should be fed
all she will eat, and if she improves in the
quantity of her milk she should be induced
to eat more.
1t is still time to purchase poultry if
breeding pens are to be made up, or mat
ings improved. / am afraid however,
that the best are picked out, and besides,
prices for choice birds are higher now than
in September.
Twelve hens, if properly cared for, bring
in profit of $25 in one year. This would
buy a suit of clothes good enough for any
boy. Give the boys and girls chance.
There is nothing that gives more pleasure
than n small flock of fowls.
How is a turkey hen for an incubator
If you want to raise early chicks a turkey
hen is Just the hen. Give her dozen pro-
celain eggs in partly darkened cage, and
in few days she will become broody.
Then give her thirty hens eggs and see if
she will not produce paying hatch. They
require perhaps trife more watching at
first than the genuine hen.
When an egg becomes musty it is what
is known as q stale egg, and an egg can
not become stale for very long time un-
less the air has some influence on the yelk.
This happens from long lying in one posi-
ton, thus enabling the yelk to settle
through the albumen and become adher-
ent to the shell on the under side, which,
being porus, allows absorption of air.
Chemical decomposition produces the mus
ty taste and smell. Frequent turning pre-
vents eggs from becoming stale.