Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-02
Farm AND GARDEN NOTES.

Horses should not be left oft IN the
chill rains which we will have from no "
on. When colts are shivering in the
open air, with their backs bowed AMI
heads down, such negligence is costly,to
say nothing of the cruelty.
The friction due to the passage OF
water through a long pipe is SO great
that if half-inca pipe 300 feet long il
used the water would not each the outlet
To bring the water this distance it would
be necessary to have the upper half OF
the pipe at least one inca in diameter.
One of the commonest and most stupid
faults seen in stock raising is the semi
starvation Of young animals, particularly
calves and colts. With good care their
growth is more chiefly obtained than any
other time of life, and young animals are
almost sure, With ignorant farmers, TO be
raised on diet that prematurely dwarfs
them for life.
Clover hay, cut very fine and steepei
in boiling water over night, and
sprinkled VITA eorameal slightly, fed
three times week, IS excellent, but IN
less it is exceedingly fine the chicks can
not eat It. One of the best invigorators,
however, is the decoction from the
clover Glover tea). given in place Of the
drinking water occasionally, but it must
be fresh and not stale.
One who has tried the Horned Dorset
sheep is very emphatic in his assertion
that they cannot be excelled by any Others
as general purpose sheep for the middle
temperate zone. They are especially
noted for their proli6cacy of breeding,
usually raising two lambs per eve per
aunum. They are large bodied, heavy
meated, produce an excellent quality of
mutton AMI a good fsecs OF alum
coarse wool.
If one pipe is to supply two outlets,
the supply pipe next TO the spring must
be large enough to fully fill both of
them. Otherwise the water will take
the easier way of escape aud leave the
other pipe without any water. IT the
stream will fill a one-and-a- half inch
pipe at the head, the other pipes may be
one inch in diameter, because the larger
pipe will have capacity of two aud a
quarter times that of the one-iuch pipe.
Keep your eye-and nose too-on thu
linen crea strainer, All the rag used
for washing the milk aud cream cans,
the caurn aud the butter worker. AL
these things need close watching during
the hot days, which arc so productive o!
microbes and musty conditions. Hot
water aud plenty Of sun aud air are the
requisites Tor keeping things sweet, aud
under no circumstances car the dairy
man afford to ignore their free and lib
era use.
A single GOV, III cold weather, will
be more profitable If fed generously
than two cows fed stingiiy, and if botf
housed aad fed we'll, it will pay better
than dozen fed and housed poorly
One.half the rations given in winter
is often necessary to supply animal heat,
Avoid this waste by having war.n quar-
tiers. If the milk is allowed to shrink
at the beginning of cold weather, by
neglecting these precautions, it will bC
difficult to revive the supply.
Fowls at the moulting season undergo
& great drain of the system to supply
the growth OF new feathers. Deaths
from this cause are, apart from little
direct pecuniary loss, not looked upon a;
misfortune. The sure eye of naturl
has picked out the very ones that yoy
would be glad to be rid OF could you de
tect them, and left you the hardest indi
viduals to breed from, the weakness o.
such particular ones, moreover, Offer
consisting in some profound fault tina
does not show itself.
The clover plant is no exception to the
rule that very large growth of leaf i
apt to be at the expense of the seed crop.
But there is one way of manuring clover
to make it seed 'abundautly, and that il
with mineral fertilizers While stable
manuring tends to excess of vine, the
large growth produced by applying phos-
phate aud potash increases seed proper
tionably. Much, however, depends on
the season. Dry weather, after the first
cutting, which forces the roots into the
subsoil for moisture, is usually favorable
to seed production.
There can be no dispute about the fac,
that it is wisdom and &c )nomy both, in
fowl breeding, to "feed we'll from tbs
she'll" upward. If your birds are intead.
ed for the market only, they are always
in readiness thus for killing; if for breed
ing, to ''feei we'll from the shell" up
ward. If your birds are intended fol
the market oaly, they are always in
readiness thus for killing; if for breed
ing, they are thus always in the best
condition for the purpose; if for the
show pens, there is no fattening or fore
ing to do at the last hour to render then
in presentable shape. So we would,
therefore, recommend good care, COOS
feed, and good quarters for poultry all
the time