The record-union., 1891-03-06

Always treat cows gently. Keep your
finger nails cut short, and wash your
hands thoroughly in warm water. A
cows teats are very sensitive, and the
restiveness is often owing to the
fact that she breads rough ways and
touch.
Clean your cow-shed thoroughly be-
fore you milk. Hardly any substance is
SO easily contaminated by foul odors as
milk.
Have your utensils rs clean as your
hands. If of tin, set them out in the
sunlight. If you have long tin cans,
hang them up SO that the open end is
near the earth. There is no better de-
odoriZer than the soil.
Never feed your cows when you are
milking. One thing at time.
Clean the cows udder well before you
to milk. Do it with dry cloth
or brush. Avoid water for this purpose,
but, if necessary, let the water be warm,
and then dry the udder perfectly.
Give little salt in their feed; it will
keep the bowels regular, while if you
give small quantity once a week it is
apt to act like a physic.-Montana Stock
Journal.
FARM NOTES.
It is poor police to keep pigs of all ages
and sizes together.
Poor roads, small loads, exhausted
horses, lost time, wretched wagons.
Good road, big loads, happy horses, time
to spare, solid wagons.' OF all men,
farmers cannot afford to have poor roads.
Peas can be put in somewhat early, as
they are hardy. They endure little frost
and grow better when the spring is not
too warm. Prepare plot for successive
sowingS, as the dwarf kind sdldom allow
of more than two pickings.
The farmer takes not only cost but his
living out of his receipts before he begins
to count the profit. The merchant counts
as profit the difference between the buy
ing and selling price, less the cost of the
transaction, and then lives on his profit
I. b. Terry says: 81 believe that at the
present day, in the vicinity of good mar
kets at least, a sure plan for keeping
poor and hard up on small farm is to
try to raise a little of everything that
will grow in the latitude where one
lives"
CheeseS of the size of seventy or eighty
pounds are now being made, the size be-
Ing the same that was preferred twenty
years ago, and which is believed to be
about correct for economy of shipping
and for lessening the loss in rind, as well
as loss from other sources.
Some say it is not necessary to ventilate
a cellar in which bees are kept, as the
ventilation of the hive will be
sufficient. DR.. G. c. Miller wants to
know ''how much upward ventilation
will make the air pure in cellar filled
with rotten cabbage?''
Dr.. Hoskins says that if paris green
We're soluble in water it would kill the
leaves upon which it was sprinkled. 1t
is, however, soluble in the bodies of in
sects. London purple is slightly soluble
ic hnnra oil
less harmful to foliage.
A calf can be prevented from having
horns by an application of crude potash
to the spot where the incipient horn can
be felt-so Waldo f. Brown says. The
cost is next to nothing. The plan of de-
horning is gaining in favor, and done in
this way has much to commend it.
Dig around the peach trees and exam
inc the base of the trunks and the main
roots for the worms and maggots that do
damage at this season. The best remedy
is to pour boiling water around the tree,
which kills the insect but does not harm
the tree. The boiling water will also
flow in on the borer and destroy it.
One of the advantages in keeping a few
pigs to produce pork for family use is
that the pigs can be fed to produce meat
OF an excellent quality. One cannot
easily buy meat of as good quality as he
can produce it, and this fact should be
considered as important as the cost.
Quality as well as quantity is worth some
thing.
Never cut fowls wings by clipping off
the quilts, as it makes them look un-
slightly. The best way to cut their wings
to prevent flying is to spread the wing
out and cut the feather portion from the
quill. This will leave bare quills, and
when the wing is closed it rarely shows
that the wing has been tampered with
Only one wing should be cut.
The average egg weighs about two
ounces. The fresh egg is composed of 10
per cent. shell, 60 per cent. white and 30
per cent. and the yelk 50 per cent. of
water. The whole, as to its solid con-
stituents, is nearly pure albumen. The
yeik contains the constituents of flesh,
bone, nerve, sinew, etc. -Wyandotte
(Aiich.) Herald.
Professor w. A. Henry says, "I should
think ten pounds of hay sufficient for a
horse literally fed on grain. AS rule
horses consume much more hay than is
best for them or profitable to the owner.
The practice of filling hay chute or deep
manager with large amount of hay and
allowing the animal to eat at will should
be avoided. With little experience as
certain the real needs of the animal, and
keep him to that.''
Dwarf trees that have been maintained
under proper cultivation and that have
been properly pruned, may be seen pro-
ducing excellent crops of fine fruit after
half century of existence, says George
Ellwanger, in Popular G0rde9,inq Most
of the dwarf pear orchards throughout
Western New York are neglected in
most, if not in all, the above require
ments, and, therefore, their lease of life
is short and unsatisfactory.
Many persons make the mistake of
planting carrots, parsnips and beets too
late. They are crops that should 90 in
as early as the season will permit, as they
have as long growing period as
possible. Another advantage of early
planting is that they have a chance to
grow before weeds and grass. The seeds
are slow to germninate, and much time is
often lost by grass covering the ground
before the seeds of the root crop come
through. Make the soil very fine.
Pure charcoal, or charred wood from
the stove, when fresh, is an excellent aid
in arresting bowel complaints, and is both
simple and harmless. Where the hens
have not had variety, parched grain,
nearly burnt, affords an agreeable change.
and serves nearly the same purpose as
charcoal. Oats, corn, wheat, or even
bran. will be readily eaten by hens when
they have been regularly fed on same
ness of diet, and such food will greatly
aid in arresting diarrhoea or other bowel
disorders.
Some recent statistics show that verv
rapid increase is being made in vine
culture in this country. There are now
under vine-culture in America 4OO. .OOo
acres, of which about 100000 acres are
bearing. The estimated value of the vine
yards and wine cellars is Sl55 600 900. In
California there are 10000 acres under
vine-cuiture, and large proportion of