The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-24

A good yield for tho large fowl is 100
eggs IN q year. and for tho I.eghorns
and other small breeds $50 eggs year.
flocks seldom exceed these figures, but
Individual fowls often do, and when
such can be selected they arc the ones
70 breed from II egg production is the
object. II they can be induced to give
one-quartcr OF that during the winter
months twill pay for tho whole years
feeding.
Clover hay, early cut and properly
cured, contains s per cent OF albumin
oids or flesh forming elements, and
good, bright straw wheat, oats or bar.
ICY contains per cent, while good tim
othy hay contains about 81 per cent.
One ton OF clover hay and one ton OF
good straw would have, when mixed, al
most exactly the feeding value OF two
tons OF tho best timothy hay.
Pears love rich soil. They show it
by tho way they thrive in every garden.
Lack OF richness is doubtless tho cause
OF many failures in pear orchardins.
Why should not pears demand quaint
ties OF plant food" They grow Justify
aud bear quantities Of luscious fruit
rich III sugar and other nutrients. Keep
oil the pests and feed well and tho pear
bills.
Creamcries should be cautious in re-
gard 10 trying TO trying toincrease their
profits by keeping pigs to cat up the
skinned milk and buttermilk. The
odor IRON the pens sometimes imparts
a flavor to the butter which is not liked
BY tastidious consumers, and the loss OF
a few cents pound upon the price OF
butter is not compensated Tor by the
value OF the pork made.
The sweetness OF sorghum is its great
est recommendation rs feed for cows.
10 offset this its stocks are hard and
not easily eaten unless crushed. Tho
bagasse or refuse from sorghum after
crushing is readily eaten by cows. It
contains much sweetness that cannot
be squeezed out OF it, but it is difficult to
keep it from souring long enough to
iced large quantity.
The irrigated lands in Dakota have
been doing very WELL but it is doubtful
II in many cases the record OF those
near Huron have been surpassed. Ac-
tual measurement showed that the lat
ter lands produce iifty-thrce bushels
and twenty pounds OF wheat per acre,
100 bushels OF oats and tifty-fve bushels
OF barley:
W. d. Hoard, OF Wisconsin, recently
said: 1.-THE expense OF the dairy is inst
as great with poor COW as with 4 good
one. The profit depends on the delicacy
OF the machine. l have found that the
chilling OF the COW decreases the amount
OF milk secreted, while warm drinks re-
store it."
In England there is a law regulating
the amount OF water in butter. The
limit OF water is 10 per cent, but good
butter contains not moro than Is per
cent. A man was recently arrested in
that country and fined S., because his
butter on examination, was found to
contain 20 per cent OF water. .
A 500 put upon an acre OF straw
berries the first season. may be al! lost
for lack OF mulch, or by putting on too
much mulching OF any kind; the plants
exposed are easily killed by. the chang
ing weather oil winter ii unprotected,
says the CORRESPONDENT OF Prairie Farmer.
Theodore T. Longnecler, of Dayton,
o., says: BE cautious in using buck
wheat as a green manure either for
small fruits or vegetables" He men
tions several instances where straw
berries werc injured by mulch OF
buckwhcat straw and.by plowins down
green buckwheat. IT
An orchard will not thrive in flat, wet
soil. Undertaking will put the soil
in good condition and cause the trees to
thrive. The drains should run between
each row, or every other row, and be
put down three feet deep. Either drain
the orchard or dig up the trees.
The state Of New York deposited
$4,000 900 small fish in her waters dur
ing the past year. There were tom.cod,
smelts, yellow perch, Holsters, pike,
white fish, frost fish, muskalongc, shad,
brook and lake trout, ETC.. This should
help to increase the food supply.
At.the Ohio Experiment Station they.
find it profitable to SOW onions in the
hotbed in February or March, and
transplant in April or May. The early
sorts. such as New Queen or Barletta,
Pearl, Bermuda, etc, gave best results
under this treatment.
ar- HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.