Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-02


way is to provide clean nesting material.
If you suspect that your sheep have
been exposed to the contagion of foot rot
stand them for few minutes in trough
containing one part of the strong carbolic
acid to 200 parts of water to disinfect
them.
After the chickens are old enough to
be given free range the feeding coops
should all be gathered up and stored
away until needed another season. 4
little care in this respect will save ex-
pense.
If the fowls appear droopy and lose
appetite, it will often be good plan to
feed them linseed meal. a gill of the
meal given to ten hens twice week will
aid in maintaining good health and
thrift.
Nest-egg gouris make the best nest
eggs: they are light, cheap, convenient,
and there is practically no danger of
breakage by the other eggs rolling down
against them, az is the case with
porcelain.
To test eggs dissolve two ounces of
salt in one pint Of water. A fresh-laid
egg will sink to the bottom; an egg one
day old will sink not quite to the bottom,
and for each day old the egg will swim
nearer the surface.
Cornneal and water makes poor food
for ducks during summer. They need
but little grain, but will thrive better If
given rather coarse, bulky foods, espe-
cially where they are given good range
and have access to pond.
Many promising young man is tenn
porarily or permanently injured on the
farm at the harvest season of the year as
result Of over-exertion. The pride of
the young man is his strength; but it
should he used judiciously.
All thing beng equal, patronlze the
nearest reputable nursery to your own
home. Trees will not be so long on the
way, and will come in good shape with
less damage Evergreen trees which
have their roots exposed while being
transported are most likely already dead
when planted out; keep the roots moist.
The late cabbage should be worked af-
ter each rain. Never let the ground be-
come hard or baked around them. The
frequent working of cabbage is nearly
equal to application of manure, and, a:
cabbages are gross feeders, they viii!
thrive on sod land that has been we'll re.
duced, and will accept any kind of ma.
nure
Perhaps everyone does not know how
easily can be had fresh apple blossoms in
winter. Get the ends of branches with
plump flower buds and place them in
water in a warm, sunny window, and
they will soon bloom. No doubt many
other kinds of trees and shrubs will give
as good satisfaction as the apple. Here
is an interesting field for experiment.
In answer to the subscriber who asks
whether sheep should be fed on
turnips while carrying lambs the Chicago
Times says that the moderate feeding of
turnips or other root crops at that time is
not considered by good shepherds injur-
ious to either sheep or lambs, but too
heavy feeding of any root is. The same
is true of esilage, as far as the lambs are
concerned.
1t is said that the dairy people OF Den
mark have become such experts in max
ing butter that they can sell in London
a better article and at a lower price than
can be produced at the best English fac
tories. Their COWS are fed on cultivated
grasses and clover and in winter on bar
ley, oats, linseed cakes, straw and hay.
They give special attention to regular
grooming and are neat in all respects.
Pickles to be marketable must not be
too large. Care must be taken in pick
ing them to watch the patch closely, for
they will, under favorable circumstances,
grow a great deal in one night. AS soon
as they reach the length of three or four
inches pick them. Some firms use them
much smaller than that, but in this it
will be necessary to consult the desires
of those to whom they are to be sold.
Experiments made in France with the
sunfower gave return of 1778 pounds
of seed from an acre, yielding fifteen per
cent. of oil (275 pounds) and eighty per
cent. of cake. The product varies, o.
course, with the kind, the climate, the
soil. The common oil is used chiefly for
wooden dressing, lighting and soapmak,
ing in Europe. The purified article is
largely employed for table use, and is
considered equal to olive oil.
There seems to be an agreement
among the results of potato tests that
good, average sized, well-ripened tubers
need to be used for seed; that they need
to be planted with plenty of room for
healthy growth, and kept clean Of weeds