The record-union., 1891-01-22

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ireeZlng milk solid and distributing it in
SOLID blocks. The process has the adj
vantage of enabling tt to be stored in case
OF an oversupply.
To feed young lambs, after they begin
10 eat, make pen, and have a trough in
the pen. The opening into the pen should
be only large enough to admit the lambs.
| robbed by the adults.
the farmer to look after is the insurance
on his buildings. 1t is often deferred
until the very day it is due, and many
instances are known of losses few hours
| after the policy had expired.
Feed your turnips to your sheep, and
the ewes will be in better condition at
lambing time. Too much grain may
food should also be given literally.
Clover hay is excellent for ewes.
We know man who makes his hens
''hoe" his garden, at least partially. He
makes long box with slat sides and top
which will just fit between the rows, and
in this contrivance the hens are left to
scratch to their hearts content.-RurdI.
Farming the land without feeding it is
like drawing milk from the COW and al
lowing no food. There is nothing in the
land but that which is added to the soil
except its primitive eisments which soon
become exhausted by supplying food to
plants.
Feed your roots to stock at this season.
Turnips, mangels, carrots, parsnips and
potatoes. A change of food will prove
benefit to the stock. Dry food through
the winter causes the stock to gradually
lose appetite. They desire succulent
ration.
Machinery is accomplishing wonders
iS,S hot I,
biscuits were eaten that were made from
flour, the wheat of which the flour was
made having stood in the field, in grow
ing condition, ninety minutes before the
biscuits were made.
1t literally makes ones blood run cold
to step into some stables and pens these
cold days and see how little attention is
given to the warmth of animals. And
they are expected to thrive and fatten just
the same. Weather strips over crevices
and straw for beds save feed.
Pansies require rich, moist loan, and
to be protected, as far as possible, from
the midday sun, and from winds, and
during the warmer summer weather
should not be allowed to get dry. In this
country pansies are generally raised from
seed and for one crop of bloom only.
Cut straw can be used for so many diff
ferent purposes, in the shape of bedding,
as well as Tor food, that it really possesses
a greater value for the farmers uses than
the prices quoted for straw in the mar
kets. No farmer should sell his straw.
1t is worth more on the farm than can be
realized by its sale.
The feeding of heifers for the first year
determines their value. 1t is easy to
spoil the best bred one by high feeding or
rough treatment Grass and roots, bulky
food that has tendency to enlarge the
intestines and strengthen the digestive
organs, are much better for heifers than
rich concentrated food.
The great secret of raising large shoots
of asparagus is to give the plants plenty
OF room. Set the plants or roots in rows
four feet apart and three feet apart in the
rows. Keep the land free from weeds and
manure every year on the surface. No
man who has a plot of land should be
without an asparagus bed.
Improved methods of preparing honey
for market are, first, to inclose the frame
without glass In a paper box when re-
moved from the hive; second, place thin
strips of wood on each side of the box.
one side being partially covered with
lSinglaSS. The consumer has no reason
to pay the price of comb honey for heavy
glass. ut
Guinea fowls will go into house to
roost if they have been accustomed to it,
though they like to choose a place for
themselves, and have decided liking for
trees 1t is necessary to keep them in
pairs, as they are homogeneous They
are not remarkably, belligerent, but il is
not advisable to confine them with other
fowls.
There are people who have been milk
ing cows and making butter for forty years
and yet know nothing about the philoso-
ply of the business. There are beginners
who, of course, know little or nothing
about it; neither, perhaps, think much of
the dairy as farm industry. A thorough
study OF the subject would likely change
the minds of both.
To mark tools, first cover the article to
be marked with a thin coating of talloW
or beeswaX; then with la sharp instru-
ment, write the name in the tallow. Clear
with feather; fill the place written-the
letters-with nitric acid; let it remain
from one to ten minutes, then dip in
water and rub off, and the marks viii be
etched into the steel or iron.
Long warts on cows teats can be cured
by clipping them off close to the skin.
then coat the wound with powdered sui,
phate of copper. If the warts are broad
and Hat, molsten them with strong solu-
ton OF sulphate of copper. Before this
application rub the corroded surface with
sand-paper, which prevents soreness.
Warts are said to be contagious.
Many farmer is daily enviously com
planning because he has not money
enough to buy lot of pure bred cows.
TO improve what he has by better feed
ing and care, the use of green fodder
crops when the pastures fail and good
WINTER Keeping, and so on, would be bet
ter for him in the end than herd of cows
costing 81 Observation-Disclosures Agricultas-
1ist.
Have smoke-house and smoke your
i "a a
IN It's preservation. 1t affords a change
OF diet from fresh or salt meat. and for
cooking with some kinds of vegetables
has no substitute. One advantage in
raising hogs to provide meat for home
use is that of feeding hogs in a manner to
produce meat better than can be easily
procured elsewhere.
When should horses be allowed to
drink? In France some worthless horses
We're killed for dissection to detern1ine
whether water should be given before or
after eating. 1t was found that in those
given water after feeding some of the
grain eaten was undigested in the intes
tines twenty rect beyond the stomach.
and that 1t had caused inflammation OF
the mucous membrane.
The method ofcorn-shelling practiced in
Mexico, according to the report of the
United State Consul at Manzanillo is ne
follows, A lot of cobs are tied together in
a round bundle of any convenient size.
which man kneeling down takes be-
tween his knees, and with an ear in each
hand, rubs them across the upper larger
surface OF the bundle. The shelling is
done speedily and effectively.
a feed trough should never be used for
poultry, nor should food be kept before
the hens in feed hopper. When feed
ing. poultry it is better to scatter the
grains in order that each hen should bnnt
tor herself, and each secure her share. as
well as exercise at the work of SCRATCHING
The feed hopper induces overfecding. and
the hens soon become too fat to Law.