Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-28
AGRICULTURAL.
For The Rsoist.r.

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Paris makes false teeth for horses.
Farmers should feel elated over the
agitation of the road problem.
Watch carefully the condition of the
colts. Rid them of worms and they
will thrive.
Grapes yielded 10 pounds to the vine
set No 4 ftssstt--5IpySSrt in rows ana . ieet
apart in the row. ".
Toads are regularly sold In Paris to
gardeners as insect destroyers. They
bring 81 a dozen.
Haul out the manure for the straw
berry plants this winter and pillow 1t
under. 1t will make the soil very rich.
Really "pigs are in clover" In the
last year or two hogs have advanced,
while the price of wheat and other farm
products have decreased.
Cows should not eat while being
MIXED. They should stand with their
eyes half closed, chewing their cud and
think of nothing but letting down their
milk.
Feed the chickens some fat bacon, cut
up In pieces about the size of grain OF
corn. Parched corn is also good to start
them to laying. Eggs are scarce, and
the market price good.
Galvanized iron pals for drinking
water should not be used. The zinc
coating is readily operated on by the
water, forming poisonous oxide OF
zinc.
Eggs for Matching purposes should
not De exposed TO a lower temperature
than 40 degrees above zero. Eggs
freeze at about 10 degrees above zero,
which kills the germ.
Ribbons and other silks should be
put away for preservation Ia brown
paper, as the chloride of lime used in
manufacturing white paper frequently
produces diScoloratlon.
You can produce eggs at cost of 6,
s, 9 or 10 cents dozen, according to the
kind Of hens you keep and the way you
feed them. You can sell those eggs at
at y, Is, is or 25 cents dozen, accord
ing to your market. Yet calamity
howlers say poultry don't pay"
The famer who has no wOrkshOp-nO
place in which to employ mis- stormy
DAYS or odd minutes in necessary re-
pairs, or the construction of odd things,
no place in which 10 keep tools and ar
ticles for repair for every ordinary
emergency, is not fully up to his own
interests.
When the tomato worm has numerous
white spots on his back do not kill
him. Let him live, even il he must
eat few vines, as those white spots
are the eggs of parasite that Will
when Matched destroy more tomato
worms in a week than man could in
q whole season.
Every farmer should have an ice
house. 1t can be made Of rough lum-
Der and need not cost much. a pond
can be made by damming up brook,
and now is the time to make it. Remem-
Der that ice put away during cold
weather will keep much better than Il
put away during a thaw.
There is a great saving Of liquid ma
nure when the winter heap is hauled or
ss fast as il accumulated. If IL is
hauled out during the winter IL freezes
and lies safely sealed until spring, then
it thaws and soaks into the ground
when it should. Then the matter Of
getting this work done when not busy
is a big item.
The strawberry is hardy plant, and
nOtiniured by frost. tits the freezing and
thawing of early spring that works the
mischief, and the value OF mulch, or
covering, is to keep them frozen. There
fore, do not mulch until the ground is
frozen solid Old hay, straw, corn
stalks, leaves, coarse manure, or old
trash Of most any sort will answer
This month or next is the proper time
to mulch.