Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-02-27

merely a har dsome tree.
The skim milk is an important by
product ia the butter dairy.
Cheese should have butter fat in it to
make it good to sell and to eat.
Keep all seeds in a dry place where
mice or rats cannot get at them.
Are you giving any thought to next
seasons garden2 Better do it now.
Mature bulls, from three to eight
years old, make the best dairy sires.
Spread out the roots nearly equal on
all sides, so as to brace the tree well.
The COW that turns out the most butter
or cheese for the least feed is the most
profitable.
Hard-hearted indeed is the man who
cuts down handsome shade tree in the
pasture lot.
Close planting of pear trees is now be-
lieved to be advantageous, as they pro-
tect each other.
If frozen roots are thawed in com
pactly pressed mellow earth, the tree
may be made to live.
Strong butter never forces its way to
the 'front.' 1t shows its strength By
forcing customers away from IT.
If the roots of tree are frozen, and
then thawed out of the ground or in
contact with the air, the tree will be
killed.
If needed this is a good time to haul
out manure on the lawn. Wood ashes
or fine stable manure can be used to adj
vantage.
A small, thrifty tree, with good roots
when set out, will be a good bearing
tree sooner than large one with mutt.
lated roots.
Don't plant tree without good roots.
If it lives it costs more time aud good
work than you can afford to give an Or
binary tree.
Parsley, pepper and tomato plants can
be kept growing all winter if put in boxes
OF pots and treated the same as window
or house plants.
Trees should always be set about as
deep as they stood in the nursery or two
or three inches deeper, to allow for the
settling of the earth.
Blanket the horses we'll when left to
stand in the street, especially across the
breast aud over the loins, and put the
blanket on so it will stay there.
Sunfower seeds are excellent for poul
try in winter. They are very fatteniDg,
and should be used only two or three
times week in small quantity.
CHAT from the barn floor or strawstack
is a good material to give the fowls to
scratch over. 1t can be thrown on the
floor of the poultry house at this season.
Care of dairy COWS should commence
with the calf. No calf with scrub care
till she becomes a mother will make the
COW she would if proper care had been
given.
The advantage with wheat or rye
patch convenient to the poultry house is
that when the snow is OF the ground it
can be used to a good advantage as a
green feed.
In pruning make all cuts slanting aud
smooth, and if liable to hold water, paint
over with shellac or linseed oil. Clean
up the brush and burn as soon as the
pruning is done.
While meat scraps are good for p0ul-
try, especially the laying hens, better
results can be obtained by cooking them
thoroughly and then chopping them up
fine before feeding.
With many the failure to secure a
thrifty growth with house plants is be-
cause the air in the roomis kept too warm
aud dry. Keeping vessel filled with
water on the stove is good remedy.
Are there any pins or nails sticking
from the walls of the stables where the
young horses are to ne stabledl AS small
a thing as a nail or splinter in the wall
may ruin an eye for promising colt.
Join in any movement which will have
a tendency to elevate the standard of ex-
cellence of the horses of your ueighbor-
hood. An increase in the value of the
horses will bring many dollars into a
community.
1t may be true, that horsemcn, like
musicians and poets, are born, not made,
but there are few who may not add much
to their knowledge of horses and become
skillful in their management by study
and practice.
1t is mistake to touch butter with
the bare hands, or use the fingers for a
thermometer. Both are wholly insult
able for the work. Keep your fingers
out of the cream and your palms out of
the butter. Use thermometer.
Embrace every opportunity that pre-
sents itself for seeing aud examining val
liable horses. One way to become a
good judge of horses, or rather a Judge
of good horses, is to mingle with the
owners of such stock and pick up all the
points you can.