The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-03-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Be sure and keep your inger.nails
short, always.
Scales save a good deal of friction in
neighborhoods.
Bar hives are hives with bars across
the top to which the combs are at
tached.
Milk as rapidly as you can and as clean
as you can; if you do not your COW will
dry up.
Be gentle with your cows. Remember
you are man and they are brutes; be
thou not a brute.
Have no conversation while milking,
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.
In cold weather wash your hands in
warm water before your milk; a cows
teats are very sensitive.
Farmers who know how to produce at
a relatively low cost are always at the
the head of the procession.
If you have more han one COW always
milk them in the same order; a boss COW
does not like to be sighted.
Clean your stable before you milk. 1
know of no substance that will take up
bad odors sooner than milk.
Strain your milk from a s%trainer pail
into an independent strainer, and in this
have besides a ~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 dairy.
Give your COWS a tablespoonful of salt
once a 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 cleanliness is
most essential to perfect dairying.
Never feed your COW while milking;
one thing at a time. Make her pay at
t%ention to you and not to her feed.
Farmers cannot afford to manage their
business by guess work. The margin of
profit on their products is too small to
admit of it.
He who starts a good reading club in
a country neighborhood and puts enough
Of interest into it to keep it going is O
public benefactor.
In the experiments now in progress at
the Ohio Experiment Station, potash
seems to have 40 effect oil wheat, whether
/, used alone or in any combination.
Have all your milking apparatus
l scrupulously clean; milk being a fatty
5 substance you may need pure soap in thu
cleaning; use scalding hot water after
3 wards.
5 Professo. Wrighton says agriculture i
a born science. 1t is full of botany, zoo
logy, geology and entomology. It
full of chemistry, from the soil to tn,
growing plant, the ripening seed and tn,
animal life which is the outcome.
There is a positive advantage in get
ting gypsum fer spring sowing durins
the winter, and keeping it where it car
, absorb tn. odor from the manure pile
7 around stables. If a few handfuls ar
sprinklcd daily over the manure heaps
:. the gypsum will do more good wheI
drawn out in the manure than it coul.
possibly do if applied alone.
There are two reasons why clover ha
/, causes heaves in horses. One is that
+ often heats, and when it dries out be
/ comes dusty. Wetting the hay re
moves the difficulty. The second reaso
+, is that horses like clover hay so niue
, that they overload their stomachs, an
cannot travel. Give them only a sma.
r amount of clover, and add oats TO max
/ up the full ration, just as would be don
k in feeding timothy hay.