Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-01-21

Shiny matter that surrounds the seeds,
when they may be readily washed clean
and dried.
In New Zealand, where rabbits ar.
a great pest, they are poisoned with
malt, sown in burrows, as turnip seeds
would be sown; they feed at dusk
and in the early morning. In fort
night 900 rabbits were destroyed
with only eight bushels of poisoned
malt, ON the Glen Erin estate, near
Kyneton.
Cheese-making on Sunday is Great
ing some adverse criticism in New
Brunswick. The dairymen explain to
the good, but uninformed church
people who object, that the practice is
necessity, as the milk will not keep
well over the lull of the Sabbath day.
The practice is not common in our OVID
dairy sections.
A " fruit silo" is an excellent idea
adopted from Italy into orange-grow-
ing countries. The fruit is cut from
the tree (not pulled) and wrapped in
tissue paper; it is then buried in sand,
three tiers deep only, and the wrappers
not touching. This method has fine
results in the preservation of fresh fruit
for time of scarcity.
Cows should be dried off in time to
90 dry from one to two months before
coming in. Jerseys especially are diff
| cult to dry off. Many of them, in
spite of all efforts, keep up the flow
of milk until the very day of cslving.
Corn meal and other heating food
should be withheld from cows for sew
srsl weeks before calving, for fear of
milk fever. ~
Ewes have period of about ono
hundred and fifty days. If early
lambs are desired, preparations should
be made accordingly. A cross with
Southdowns, Hampshire, or Shropshire
ram with Merino eve is preferable
TO one with Cotswold or other long
wooled ram. Though the latter gives
a much larger lamb, II is inferior in
quality of flesh. aae
Tomatoes.-The long green worm
will continue to work as long as there
kill. 1t can neither bite nor sting. If
green tomatoes are desired for pickles
secure them before frost. If many
partly-ripened fruits are likely to be
caught by the frost, gather the most
promising, and place in q green house
or in sunny window.
The neatness of flower beds and
borders will depend upon the use of
stakes for all plants that need them.
Many use the painted stakes sold for
the purpose, because they think they
''look pretty" with their white heads
upon a green stake. When properly
used, the stakes themselves should not
be seen, and the fairly straight stems
of bushes answer as well as anything
Labor is carefully classified on
French farms. Laborers are usually
hired by the year, and in addition to
their wages are given the use of a
cheap house, with potatoes, some grain
and bit of land for garden. The
average wages received by head farm
ers last year were SS1 for the year and
found; herdsE-n and shepherds, $50;
workmen and cheese-makers, $50; or
dinary farm hands, $50, and women
servants S47.
Further evidence of the profitable.
ness of the live stock industry in Hon.
duras is found in the experience of the
Belgium Consul-General, who has been
engaged in it for some years. He pro-
nounces it sure investment, and say.
it pays fifty per cent. per annum.
Native horses can also be bought very
cheaply, and there is a demand for
thoroughbred or improved horse stock,
SO that horse studs are destined to bs
very profitable.
A superior system of forestry is in
operation by the government of Cape
Colony, whereby the axe is applied to
forests in sections and subdivisions,
and never to re-growth until it has
attained perfect maturity, a period
which has been fixed at forty years.
Arbor day has been introduced, and is
as enthusiastically observed as it is in
Nebraska, the State in which Arboi
day originated.
Plants that are set out for the sum.
h'r should not be forgotten. Water
as needed. The hot sun upon the
pots will bake the ball of earth, to the
great injury of the roots. If former
advice, to make any repairs to green
b2uses, heating apparatus, as well az
laying in needed supplies, has not been
needed, delay no longer. For window
plants light cellar makes an admira-
BILE potting shed and store-room, as
well as the best place to keep tender
plants that are resting.
Pasteur's system of incubation for
anthrax and splenetic apoplexy is be-
ing successfully introduced on a large
scale in New South Wales. The ex-
periments have been so successful that
many stock owners are anxious to have
their sheep vaccinated at once. Pas
teur's agents offer to vaccinate sheep at
the rate of six cents per head, of
which four cents is for Pasteur's row
atty, and two cents for the necessary
expenses. AT these figures, vaccina-
ton must prove pretty profitable to the
operators.
Asparagus.-Do not allow the top.
to be cut for decorative purposes to
any great extent; as long as they re-
main green they are necessary to nour-
ish next seasons crop. Apply coarse
manure to the bed whenever It can be
spared, but be sure to get it on before
winter. Asparagus, considering the
constant demand for it i1 Northern
cities, and the ease with which it is
transported, is a most profitable crop
for Southern farmers to ship to North
ern cities. 1t is astonishing that so
few Rave availed themselves of the
prospective profit ii offers
The great clem'C1' Il .tiI England
has been registered AS thu United Alkali
Company, with capital of $50, 900, 900
IN $50 shares.
ROBIN, MY SWEETHEART.