The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-12-01
THE ADVOCATE.
THE FARM AND THE FARMER.


them for use in the manufacture o
prussic acid.
If window gardeners only would
learn that market plant growers
avoid over-potting. as they do frost
less complaints Of bad luck would be
heard.
Good roads increase the value OF
live stock, land and living generally
Ii a horse can do one-third more
work on good road, then his value
is increased one-third.
Your gooseberry bushes will bear
all the better next season for timely
severe pruning. BY removing branch
es where too thick, especially of old
wood, and heading struggling branch
es back, you will not go far astray.
Good animals, good crops, good re-
suits all around on the farm are not
the outcome of good luck. 1t is pa
tient, continued, intelligent effort that
brings success in agriculture, not a
hit-or-miss, happy go-lucky course.
When planting an apple orchard Sc
iect land that is high, dry and open to
a good circulation of air. Then the
buds will not develop as soon in
spring, and thus will escape the dis
astrous effects of late frosts. An or
chard so situated and well cultivated
should not have any off years, but
should produce regular succession of
good crops.
In small yard, where the flock is
Kept for months, every square inch is
covered with droppings at some time
during the occupancy of of the space,
and the fowls cannot pick up the
smallest substance without swallow
ing portion of the filth. TO avoid
this the yards should be scraped over
with a hoe when the ground is hard,
or spaded when the ground is not
frozen.
Bones will soon be used so extern
sively for poultry that the fertilizer
manufacturers will have difficulty in
securing as many as formerly. Wheat
and corn will be partially the food for
poultry. The green bones from the
butcher and the finely chopped clover
hay, scalded, will not only cheaper
the cost of eggs, but will increase the
number. The green bone mills are
revolutionizing the method of poultry
feeding.
If there is a supply of water avail
able get it into the house and barn, if
possible, before winter sets her seal
upon Mother Earth. 1t il useless to
deny the fact that the indications
point to scant supply of water be-
fore spring, and yet upon nearly every
farm there is never failing spring or
stream which might be made to sup
ply the family and stock. Look well
to the water supply for the coming
winter.
Part of every small horseman's edu-
cation should be the names and loca-
ton of the different parts of a horses
anatomy, and the ability to discover
anything wrong with him; to know
by his mute signs when the saddle
rubs, the girth pinches, the bit is too
narrow, the nose-band or the throat
latch too tight, when he picks up a |
stone in his hoof, ETC., ad libitum.
They are little things in themselves,
but it would be safe to wager that one
half the people who ride don't know
them.
No one ever hears of any prosecu-
tions in America for having too much
water in butter; of course, for the
reason that there is no law against it.
In England, recently, a man was fined
80 and costs with forfeiture of his !
butter, for having sent to market
firkin ofbutter with twenty-nine per
cent. of water in it. The law allows
nineteen per cent, and anything over
that incurs prosecution. The ordi-
nary percentage of well-made butter
is put at fifteen or sixteen.
When cold weather comes give
charred corn to the confined fowls
few times a week; it is a substitute
for charcoal, and the fowls like it.
Take an ear of corn and put it into