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way. Also, lay up supply of sifted dry

away. Also, lay up supply of sifted dry
dirt.
Parsley may be kept in condition for
use during the winter if covered with a
box having pane of glass in the top.
Some Pennsylvania farmers keep sau-
sage by cooking it, packing in crooks
| and pouring melted lard on the top of the
sausages.
The stalks of cabbages should be put in
the ground with the roots well covered,
so as to have them sends out sprouts and
supply early green's in the spring.
Where the crab grass covers the ground
completely it is best to wait until it dies
down and then burn the field over. Plow-
| ing it only protects the seeds during the
winter.
Until the frost destroys all green food
| give the pigs no grain until compelled to
do so. They will thrive better on bulky
food, especially if skim milk is also al
| lowed them.
There is about one pound of solid mat
ter in every two gallons of milk, and this
solid matter is concentrated and free
from water, containing more nutritious
matter. and in more available and dI-
gestlble condition, than can be derived
from any other source.
The large yields of grain the past sea-
son can be repeated nearly every year.
| Only one bushel more in the yield of
wheat on every acre makes a difference
of millions Of bushels, and it can more
than be obtained by thorough cultivation
and the use of fertilizers and selected
seed.
One way to lessen the number of in
sects next season is to rake up all material
that may serve as harboring places. 1t is
in the undisturbed localities that the eggs
OF injurious insects are deposited, and to
clean out the corners of fences and the
| heaps of litter, which should be burnt
! Will save time in the spring.
| To procure eggs in the winter season,
warm quarter for the hens is very impor-
tant. Hens that are fed nothing but grain
during the winter will not lay, as grain
is deficient in the materials that produce
| eggs. Feed a variety of food. Chopped
clover hay, scalded meat, milk. potatoes
and cabbage should be allowed in addi-
ton to grain.
A pint OF oats, with all the clover hay
she can eat, is an excellent ration for one
eve. If strong and vigorous lambs are
desired, the ewes must be fed literally
during the winter. They do not require
a large amount of grain, nol should they
be made too fat, but they should be kept
in good condition. Plenty of hay is bet
ter for them than surfeit of grain.
The roads are costly if they are not in
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and labor to travel over a bad road than
over good one, and there is a liability of
| injury to horses and vehicles when the
roads are rough. The selection of road
officers should be from those who are
capable, and the road tax is one that will
greatly benefit the community if rightly
applied.
1t is reported that farmers in the North
west had great difficulty in securing ca
pabie laborers during the past season.
Farm hands who thoroughly understand
all kinds of work to be done on farm
are always III demand, as there is the har-
vesting of crops in the fall and the care of
stock in the winter to be attended to. Or
dinary iaborerS, who have had no expert
ence, are not always serviceable in farm
| work.
| Every farmer knows how difficult it is
to keep the cows dry in the stalls, and to
prevent them from soiling the stalls with
manure. a farmer who has expert
mented in that direction advises that the
stalls (tloors) be only OF sufficient length
| to leave but an inch or two at the rear of
the hind feet, where pit foot deep
should be kept filed with fine, dry earth,
which should be removed daily. In this
manner the cows will be kept clean and
all the liquid and solid manure more
easily saved and composted.
Bulk adds nothing to the manure heap.
1t IS IN the spring, when work is press
ing, that labor Is more valuable. Dur
ing the winter the farmer should make
all the manure possible, but he should
aim TO make it fine, by cutting up all
material intended for the manure heap.
Even the litter in the stalls, to be used as
bedding, will serve as absorbents with
better advantage if fine, while the work
of handling the manure SO made will be
greatly lessened in the spring, both in
the hauling and spreading.
While bushel of corn may be con-
verted into a certain number Of pounds
of milk Or meat, the benefit from the
corn does not cease there, for large pro-
portion of the food passes through the
body of the animal, and is retained on the
farm to produce more corn next season.
While the animal is producing meat or
milk it also makes manure of the food at
the same time. change taking place in
the food while it is passing through the
body, much more quickly than would be
the case if the food was added directly to
the manure heap.