Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1891-03-14
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Be sure ard keep you 6nger.nails
short, always.
Scales save good deal of friction
in ncighborhoods.
Bar hives are hives with bars
across the top to which the combs
are attached.
Milk as rapidly as you can and as
clean as you can; If you do not your
COW will d.y up.
Be gentle with your cows. Re-
member you are man and they are
brutes; be thou not brute.
Have no conversation while milk
ing, nor stop at a "what did you
say ~ from your fellow mixer.
The better way to start in the bee
business is to begin in a small way
and gradually grow into it.
Give your cow a name and call
her by her name; she will learn to
know it sooner than you think.
tn cold weather wash your hands
in warm water before you milk; a
cows teats are very sensitive.
Farmers who know how to produce
at a relatively low cost are always
at the head OF the procession.
Clean you stable before you milk.
l know of no subsistence that will
take up bad odors sooner than milk.
If you have more than one cow
always milk them in the same order;
boss COW does not like TO be slight
ed.
Strain your milk from a strainer
pail into an independent strainer,
and in this have besides q strainer
cloth.
A good strong mixer ought to
milk ten cows IN an hour, but he has
not time to carry the milk to the
diary.
Give your cows a teaspoonful of
salt once day in their mess of mill
feed; it will keep them in good
health.
Clean your cow with brush or
cloth before you milk; perfect cle.n-
illness is most essential to perfect
dairy ing.
Never feed your COW while milk
ing, one thing at time. Make her
pay attention 20 you and not to
her feed.
Farmers cannot afford to manage
their business by guess work. The
margin of profit on their products is
to admit OF it.
He who starts a good reading club
in a country neighboorhood and
puts enough OF Interest Into IL TO
keep it going is public beneiactor.
In the experiments now in pre-
gress at the Ohio Experiment Sta
ton, potash seems to have no effect
on wheat, whether used alone or in
any combination
Have all your milking apparatus
scrupulously clean; milk being a
fatty substance you may need pure
soap in the cleaning; use scalding
hot water afterwards.
Professor Wrighton says agricul-
ture is born science. II Is full OF
botany, zoology, geology and etc.
mology. 1t is full OF chemistery,
from the soil to the growing plant,
the ripening seed and the animal life
which is the outcome.
There is positive advantage in
getting gypsum for spring sowing
during the winter, and keeping it
where it can absorb the odor from
the manure piles around the stables.
If few handfuls are sprinkled daily
over the manure heaps, the gypsum
will do more good when drawn out
in the manure than it could possibly
do if applied alone.
There are two reasons why clover
hay causes heayes in horses. One
is that it often heats, and when il
dries out becomes dusty. Wetting
the hay removes the difficulty. The
second reason is that horses like
clover hay SO much that they over
load their stomachs, and cannot trav'
Ell. Give them only small amount o.
clover, and add oats to make up the
full ration, just as would be done in
feeding timothy hay.
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