The record-union., 1891-04-03
FARM NOTES


Union should have a law on this order.
FARM NOTES.
In setting out strawberry plants an i'm
portant point is to spread the roots well
and give them plenty of room in the
ground.
If the beets are too thick in the row
when they come up they may be trans
planted or used on the table when green
the leaves being edible.
Usage orange hedges are beautiful and
serve to ornament a farm as well as to
confine stock, but unless the hedge is
kept neatly trimmed and in good order it
will detract from the value of the farm.
poor hedge is worse nuisance than a
rail-fence.
Cows must be turned on the pasture
with caution in the spring, or they will
be affected by the early grass. All stock
that are allowed on the pasture will be
more or less liable to scourS if permitted
to have free access to all they will eat
when the grass is young.
The milk of sheep is quite largely used
in some of the old countries for cheese
making, says the National ,StockDldn
Sardinia makes over 100000 pounds of
this cheese annually. In some of the
Italian factories the milk of cows, sheep
and goats is mixed in making cheese.
The dairy calf should be handled, led
by the halter and familiarized with stable
usage from the time it is four or five
months old. AT this age it conforms very
readily to desired methods in training,
and the plan avoids a deal of trouble, a
year or two later, when the animals
working age begins.
The Ohio Greek cheese factory in Gun
nison County, Col, made this year. up to
the first of December. 10000 pounds of
cheese, besides 125 pounds of butter a
week. Furthermore, a number of hogs
were iattened from what was left over
after the butter and cheese were made.
This is a No. record.
When fall blowing is done in prepara-
uon OF a crop, or only for its mechanical
action on the soil, it should cover up and
incorporate all the surface vegetation that
Will be of benefit to it when decomposed.
Many of our best cultiVators prefer
spreading barn-yard manure on the
plowed ground to turning it under deeply
at time of plowing.
There is but one way of getting rid OF
the borer in the blackberry canes, and
that is to cut out not only the old wood
but also every new cane that is affected.
Growers should combine to do this. de-
stroying all the new and the old wood re-
moved. Two or three seasons work, by
united effort, Will either exterminate the
pests or so greatly reduce their mum
ber as to allow them to do but little dam
age.
Running dairy of cows so as to have
them dry in the winter, and have nothing
to sell from them when butter and cheese
are highest, is just about as smart fiuan-
cially, for dairy farmer, as it would be
for manufacturer of reapers TO so gauge
his business that nc would not have a
reaper to sell in the early summer, and
could only fill orders late in the fall when
the snow was flying and there was no
repairing to do.-HoarGS Dai9y0eda.
Colonel Curtis, of Saratoga County.
New York, says: Gapes are caused by a
worm. A remedy is to make a chicken
lnhale lime dust. Sometimes it kills the
worm and sometimes the chicken. Chol-
era is caused by diarrhea, which runs
into an infection. Do not keep chickens
on the same ground; remove all the well
ones from the flock. If a man can realize
81 62 net profit on each hen in a flock OF
thirty-two, is it not more profitable to
keep hens than COWS at the present aver
age price for cheese and butter, cost OF
keep and care of each considered?
There is difference between kerosene
and kerosene emulsion in their effects on
plants. The emulsion is an excellent
insecticide, and also harmless to animals
anu pants. 10 make the emulsion cut
up half apound of hard soap and let it
boil in one gallon of water. When boil
ing add two gallons of kerosene, but first
remove the vessel from the fire to guard
against danger. Churn the mixture. and
jelly will result, which will dissolve in
water without the kerosene rising to the
top of the water. The emulsion as recon-
mended will answer for twenty-five gall
Ions of water.
foreign authority on poultry says
that fowls exhibiting want of stamina
at molting time should be disposed of
for the table, as they are practically not
worth much as egg producers. In fact, it
is more than probable that n much
greater average sum for every such fowl
kept would have to be written on the
debit side of the ledger at the end of the
ensuing year. Those fowls that molt
out early have usually the advantage OF
warm and settled weather while those