Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-11-08

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Have your water in tho yard for
stock?
A fighting ram is good defence
against dogs.
The second crop of clover is excel.
lent for hens.
The farther from salt water, the
more salt is needed.
Throw some manure around the
small fruit trees.
Duluth is heavy shipper of wheat
to New York.
The harder the COWS works the
less she does at the pail.
Heavy frosts are liable to occur
now, so take no risks.
Only well-drained land bears a
good crop in wet season.
A cow cannot make sound milk
out of unsound material.
Destroy all worms nests in your
fruit trees "on sight"
The results of good feed are often
credited to the breed.
One strong colony of bees is worth
more than two weak ones.
Late turnips make fine pasturage
for sheep in the South.
Thin shells are caused by a lack of
gravel among laying hens.
Vermont sheep are winning medals
and diplomas in foreign lands.
Keep full supply of choice fruit
for the family, and sell and feed the
rest.
The best plan of feeding turnips is
to cut or slice up and sprinkle with
brand.
Keep the weavlings by themselves
50 the bullies cannot abuse and rob
them.
Give the hen plenty of dust TO wal
low in and she will keep herself clear
of lice.
Wisconsin's crop of wild small
fruits amounts to over 100000
annually.
The sheep that is always thriving
produces an even fillbred and strong
wool.
No other sheep produces larger
proportion of red meat than the
Southdown.
Be sure that you keep over no
more stock than you can properly
feed, shelter and care for.
If hogs follow cattle and eat the
droppings, why should not cholera
follow the hogs?
Keep your pigs growing and thrift
ty, and you viii have little trouble in
fattening them.
Beans imported from Canada or
Europe must now pay forty cents
per bushel of sixty pounds.
A barn and stable should fulfill
four conditions comfort, cleanli-
ness, health and convenience.
The Canadian government has re-
moved the export duty on spruce
and pine and other sawed logs.
Don't let your hogs sleep on fer
mentlng manure pile, unless you want
them to be sick and rheumatic.
Keep the cows healthy and thriv-
ing, feed them good-favored food
and they will produce good-aavored
butter.
The duty ON binding Irvine has
been placed at seventeenth of cent,
which is fifty per cent, lower than
the duty fixed in the Mills bill.
A lady expert says that two or
three days is long enough to keep a
dressed turkey or any other meat
before cooking it. If kept longer,
it loses flavor.
A great many of the oranges on
the west coast of Florida have been
for 81 per box on the trees. This is
a better price than In previous
year.
The best authorities say California
will this year pack fully 1900 900
boxes of raisins. This is about TWEEN
ty times the raisin output of ten
yeare ago.
Every dairyman ought to know and
dispose ali of his cows that do not
pay living profit; but If he fails to
test and sort his cows. he is himself
the chief sufferer.
Englishmen, jealous Of the pros
perity of others, have circulated the
falsehood that Spain could not nego-
tate q reciprocity treaty with the
United States for the Cuban trade.
1t is understood that nearly one
hundred tons of peach pits will be
sent East from California this year,
to be used by nurserymen for seed,
on account Of the failure Of peaches
| in the Eastern States.
A half-century ago there we're
5000, 100000 invested in agricul-