The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-03-06

OAOlA ldi &c OAOuSu IOE udTh0G. lie
calves rarely have a drop of milk,
but the quality OF new milk, which
has been taken away as cream for
making into butter, is partially made
up by adding corn flour as a heat pro-
ducing and fattening substance. This
corn flour, although, of course, not
equal to butter fat, answers the pur-
pose well enough tor producing veal
of quality sufficient to command
fairly good price. Calves kept and
fed thus until six or nine months of
age not only pay for their feed, but
return fair profit.
A noteWo rthy fact of recent bee
keepers convention was that most of
those in attendance were farmers
(nOt merely professional bee-keepers)
who followed the business as one of
the minor industries of the farm.
They unanimously agreed that in
this way they found the work fairly
remunerative, giving good return
for the capital and labor required, ard
urged its adoption upon their brother
farmers. There is no doubt but that
in so generally neglectiug this matter,
as they now do, the great bulk of the
agricultural community stand direct
ly in their own light. There Is no
wax, good article always finding
ready sale at good price, and it
must be remembered that the food of
the bees, to a large extent, is sup
piled lavishly by nature, aud, when
not harvested and utilized by them,
only goes to waste.
We hear great deal about the
necessity Of looking carefully after
the horses feet, but few stop to think
that the feet of the COWS should have
equal attention. The COW, more than
any other domestic animal, is subject
to that painful and Injurious disease
-foul-in-the-fOot. The main causes
for this may readily be found in the
fact hat the COWS are cloven-footed,
and that habits and surroundings
often lead tenn to wade through mud
and filth. When any kind of filth
becomes lodged for a time between
the boots the part becomes intiamed,
swells and discharges matter, while
at the same time a fungoid growth
develops. The disease may also
originate from tubercle and from
strain in the foot. When the troy
BILE has come from the lOdgment of
filth, the foot should be washed,
pOulticed with linseed, and afterward
dressed with sulphate of copper, car
bolic acid, or butter of anthony.
The foot should be kept clean, and
the COW indoors to rest.
If you intend to grow cucumbers or
melons in your garden this season,
get ready now to fight the striped
bugs. Better than any insecticide
that can be bought for this purpose
is the SCOT from the stove pipes,
When taking down the stove this
spring it will pay to save all this
carefully and put it away in a dry
place. Do not wait for the bugs to
show themselves before beginning TO
use it, but dust it lightly over the
plants as soon as they are out of the
ground. By the way, there are few
things that will pay better for good
care than cucumbers. There ia al
most always a SAFE tor small ones for
picking ut from 1919 to 80 cents per
hundred, and even better prices than
these can be obtained by keeping
them in brine and selling later in the
season. The writer has gathered 1900
salable pickles from hundred hills.
AS :, 800 hills can he plated to the
ace, it will DO seen that the product
may run up to large figures, 1t will
always pay to make the ground rich
for them, by placing we'll rotted ma
nure in the hills. In this way it will
not require as heavy an application
as though the manure was broad
casted, and will be more directly
efficacious. Cucumber and melon
vines are apt to die down quickly
during a drOuth. If water can be APP
piled, however, they will keep up
their fertility aud productivenees
during a remarkably long season.
Under ordinary conditions and in an
ordinary season L am inclined TO
think that irrigation will double their
fruiting capacity. j. Il. E.
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