Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-01-17
FARM AND ORCHARD.


Crops. General NOTES.
Do not crowd your animals, but
sell off the, surplus. Too much
stock is as Improbable as too much
land.
Always slice your turnips, carrots
or other roots that are fed raw, as
the COWS are liable to be choked
when this precaution is overlooked.
The cold, porcelain nest-egg is a
thing Of torture to the hen in win
ter, especially as she is compelled to
bring her body in close contact with
it.
No farmer is compelled to search
for a market if he has a superior
article to sell. 1t is the inferior
articles that become drug. Choice
goods are always salable.
1t was an old-time expression
that careful farmer always had q
hammer in his hand and some nails
in his pocket. At this season of the
year it is applicable yet.
A bushel of peanuts, subjected to
very high pressure, yields one gal
lon of oil. In some countries the
peanut, castor oil bean, and sun
flower are grown extensively for oil
alone.
A stylish horse is appreciated by
all, but for family, where horse
is required for the use of timid Ia
dies, or for children, an old gentle
horse will relieve the farmer of
much anxiety in regard to the safety
of those who ride. When horse
stands in the stable for a few days,
it is sometimes too frisky for timid
person.
The remedy which Professor
Maynard recommends, which he
thinks will cure yellows, if timely
applied, and which will doubtless
be useful in any case, is to spread
broadly around each tree equal
quantities of muriate of potash and
nitrate of soda, with about four
times the weight of ground bone.
The application to be made early
in spring.
A correspondent of the Horse
Breeder gives the following mild
treatment for warts: "Saturate the
warts every few days with pure cas-
tor oil, and they will disappear,
leaving the surface as smooth as
though they were never there" We
have known of several cases where
warts were removed from the nose
of colts by simply rubbing them
with lard occasionally.
| Fannie Field, in Farming World
says that if the eggs as they are
gathered are rubbed with good fresh
salt butter, and then placed in a jal
with the thick end downward, and
covered with salt, it is the best way
to preserve them. They dare moi
touch each other. When the jar is
full an inch of salt is put on the
top. Two inches of salt is put in
the bottom, and covered with thick
paper. They will last six months
Many farmers know little of bacon
says the Farm Journal. They are
acquainted with pork, but never
took the trouble to prepare any ba'
con. 1t can be done as easy as to
roll off log. Cut the sides of the
pig into strips four to five inches
wide and salt with this pickle. For
one hundred pounds of bacon make
a brine with six pounds of salt, foul
ounces of saltpetre and one pound
of brown sugar. Cover the meat
and keep it in the brine six weeks
and then give it a light smoking
Sew the pieces in cotton cloth bags
and paint them with lime and ochrt
mixed with water.
A Saline county (Mo) cores
pendent of Coleman's Rural Worlo
writes: 81 have had some practi
cal experience this year in the val
ue Of the rotation of crops. On my
own farm 1 have regular system
of rotation-wheat, clover and corr
and corn is never planted more
than two years in succession. This
year twenty acres were rented from
a neighbor, just as good or better
than my own land, but had beer
planted in corn for four or five years
The yield is thirty or thirty-five
bushels of inferior corn, while mine
with just the same cultivation, will
average fifty bushels or more Of
good, solid corn. One of the great
est evils of this or any other coun.
try is the tenant system. The owner
will not, and the tenant cannot, care
for and improve the soil. Under
such system both people and sol
deteriorate. The ownership Of
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