The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-01-26
FARM AND FARMER.

The Coin FRAMR.--The cold frame
ought 10 be part of every farmers
machinery. II is necessary to econo-
my and to self-help, for 1t is great
saver and great helper.
The only expenditure OF money Is
for gardeners sash, and even if new
sash be bought, the frame will more
than pay for itself the first season.
Dig q hole in the ground on the lee
side of barn, shed or fence where
water cannot collect, three feet deep,
six feet wide and three, six, nine,
twelve feet long according to the size
of the bed; each sash being three by
six feet. If too late TO make an exca-
walton in the earth, the bed may be
made on the surface against the side
of a building.
Fill the hole with horse manure
that has not been burnt or spent, and
earth, about six inches of the latter
on top of the manure. A little expo
rience will teach anyone how TO regu-
late the heat by raising and lowering
the sash. After the bed has boen pre-
pared, it should be allowed to steam
a day or two to work off rank heat.
The first use Of the bed may be for
the promotion of health. In Zebra
ary and March sppetites are often
cloyed, and there 10 longing for
green food, fresh food, srch as lettuce,
radishes and young beets that may be
grown in the bed. This food at this
time of the year makes life little
more enjoyable, aids digestion sweeps
some Of the cebwebs from the mind,
and gives mind and body the tonic it
needs to prepare for the work to
come. .n...
The cold frame, full Of green stuff
good to eat is better than medicine
chest full Of drugs, and may ward off
many visits Of the doctor. Certainly
this is in the direction Of economy
and Of comfort. In the bed thus pre-
pared, the farmer may start all the
plants he requires for transplanting TO
the open field.
This makes a great saving not only
in money but also in time. With q
frame full of plants, it is not neces-
sary for the farmer to go into town
on rainy day to buy plants which
must be set out at once. The plants
bought may be Indifferent, may have
been out of the earth too long and
half may die. But having his own
plants at hand, they may be trans
ferred to the field with little disturb
ance Of the roots.
=, The cold frame, even q one-sash
rough contrivance, built on the sur
face of the earth, has caused revolu-
ton on many farm. 1t led at once
to better and larger frames, to grow
ing plants for the neighbors, then fOl
market, and to the introduction OF
steam heat. Further, the cold frame
has saved many a boy for the farm
and farmers life. The ooy weary
Of the routine Of the farm saw in the
cold frame all opportunity that hc
took advantage of. Let the cold
frames increase and let the boys have
then.--PurtIand Transcript.
Colon or MILK AND DUTTER.-An
c>cn0nge publishes the testimony of
an Intelligent New York da'ryman to
the effect that the butter made from
his cows was OF heightened yellow
tint, in winter, approaching that made
in summer, from the pastures, and
attributed lhc cause 10 an abundance
Of sun-iight admitted to his stables
through glass windows with which
they were generously supplied, and
continues by saying that one reason
why winter butter is whittier than
summer butter, is that cows do not
receive AS much light in the stables as
in the fields, and he believed the light
and consequent heat decreased the
consumption of food.
The latter part of this assumption is
true, beyond doubt, less food is re-
quired to support the animal system
in comfortable, well lighted stables
with good ventilation, than in ex-
posed quarters, and more of the food
consumed is diverted to the milk
yield, but it is the nature of what the
cow eats that influences the color of
her milk and butter, and nothing con-
tributes to the golden yellow COLOR