The record-union., 1892-07-29
FARM AND ORCHARD.
The Dyspeptie Farmer---Some Log
ical Reasons for Ii.

How to Select Good Layer-Feed-
ing FowIs-VaIue of the Range
Time as a Factor Miscellaneous
Items.
One of the surest crops in the country,
on the farm, is dyspepsia. 1t crops out
among the hard workers, but has not so
great an affinity for those who take
things easy" The daily life of the typi-
cal New England farmer is suggestive of
indigestion and dyspepsia. When the
farmer is in a hurry-and the farmer who
hurries at all hurries all the time-the
question of meals is secondary. II must
finish blowing this lot first" cries the
farmer, in response to the summons to
dinner; 'twon't take long-only few
burrows more" And he finishes. In
his hurry he breaks trace or snaps a
plow-point, and tired and hungry, frets
the more. It is nearly two o'clock be-
fore he gets TO dinner. He eats in I'M
usual haste to make up for lost time,
really bolts his food, and hurries away
to his work. Moreover, he has upset the
household arrangement. His wife and
daughters were to make calls in the after
noon, but now one must stay at home to
clear the table and wash the dishes, or all
wait, and flushed and heated, find less,
perhaps no enjoyment in doing what
they had planned.
the farmer drives on almost as long as
he can see, and then he has the chores to
do. 1T may be o'clock, perhaps later,
before he finds the supper-table, for he
does not believe in going to supper until
4 Sc /, SC
an attempt to read the paper, but the
farmer falls asleep over it, and at 8 is il
bed. No wonder dyspepsia waits on this
man; the wonder is that he lives out half
of his days.
The practice of this farmer is similar to
that of thousands in New England, from
blowing to harvest lme-an early break
fast, snatch of dinner in twenty min
utes, and the supper at the end, wherever
1t may come. If breakfast was at Z, dim
ner at L, and supper at 6, and this regu-
Iarity was observed strictly, even If the
hurried manner of taking meals was not
changed, there would be an improve
ment-an Improvement that would add
years to his life.
a well-to-do farmer, in the busiest
time of the year, after dinner every day
lies down on the lounge for few min
utes-fve or twenty, as the time will al
low. Why? Simply to relax the muscles
solute rest. The benefit of this complete
surrender for even five minutes is incal-
culable.
Some of our farm workmen, especially
the imported kind, light their pipes and
stand or sit in restful attitudes. but the
man who wants to get the most out of
his hour or half hour at noon lies fiat on
his back. He is nerved to greater effort
in his work, and does the work with
greater ease.
Another factor contributing to dyspep-
STA is found in the two-meal system that
rules on Sunday. Breakfast a little later
than usual, and then dinner-the only
other meal OF the day-at or o'clock,
or after the family come from church or
Sunday-school, held after the morning
service, and have time to prepare the
meal. Irregularity is the disturbing fac
tor here. Three meals on week days and
two on Sundays, with long waits be-
tween, especially for the younger mem
bers, interferes with digestion and frets
the mind. II not so much be required
on Sundays, when no work is done, then
whatever is eaten should be taken at the
same hour. The farmer who wishes to
get the most out of his horses or oxen,
feeds regularly. Why should he not
treat himself as well as his animals? The
two-meal system on Sunday makes Mon
day as well as Sunday an uncomfortable
day to many suffererS.-George Apple
ton, in Farm and Fireside.
THE WORLDS LARGEST APPLE ORCHARD,
A reliable authority at Honolulu thus
describes the famous wild apple groves
on one of the Sandwich Islands: SIN the
wild district between Hama and Haiku
in the Sandwich Islands, during July
and August, the most beautiful and larg-
est apple orchards in the world can be
seen. The Wilderness of Koonan, as the
district is called, contains a forest of
native wild apple trees, countless in num-
Der, stretching from the sea far up the
mountain sides. The trees vary from
forty to fifty feet in hight, and in the
harvest season, from July to September,
are loaded down with fruit, some white.
but mostly red. A person standing in
the midst of this orchard can look around
him for miles, up the mountains and to-
ward the road, and the only thing in view
Will be one vast grove of apple trees,
bending to the ground with the bounteous
harvest. The crop of this extensive apple
orchard, which nature planted in the
solitary waste, would fill a fleet of 100
steamers. The orchard stretches over a
country from five to ten miles wide by
twenty miles long, and many of the larger
trees bear at least fifty barrels apiece.
The fruit is delicious for table use, and
will appease both thirst and hunger; but
as yet no one has taken the trouble to
make any commercial use Of the apples.
When ripe they will not keep more than
week, but they make excellent jelly and
jam; and simply for the lack Of little
American enterprise millions Of barrels
of apples are permitted annually to fall to
the ground and rot.'
HOW TO SELECT A GOOD LAYER.
How many poultrymen can pick out a
good laying hen from strange flock !?
Not many can do it; yet it can easily be
accomplished after short study of the
Il al,n,
q. 9. Farmer. There goes hen with a
thick neck, long head, ill-shaped, walks
istlessly about, seemingly with no pur-
pose or intention in view. She doesn't
care to scratch, but hangs around the hem
house, evidently waiting for her next
feed. She gets up late in the morning,
and goes to bed early in the evening
That hen may be put down as a very poor
layer. The eggs of some of the other
hens go to help pay her keep. Here
comes another hen. She walks briskly.
snd there is elasticity in her movements
that denotes she has something in view.
She is neat and natty in appearance,
small head, with slim neck, nicely arched
or curved. She forages and scratches all
day long. and may be too busy to come
for her evening feed. She is at the door
in the morning waiting to be let out. She
snatches few mouthfuls of food, and is
OF to the meadow, looking for insects
Before she gets out in the morning, she
generally deposits her daily egg in the
nest, or returns after short forage. She
IS neat, clean and tidy, with brightness
ana freshness pleasing to the eye. That
IS the hen that pays for her food and gives
good profit all the year round. The
writer has noticed these traits since bow
hood, and knows that they are infallibie.
BY studying these traits, any man may in
a few years, by selection. have a fine laying
flock OF hens. Fanciers perforce must