The record-union., 1892-11-15

the measure. but only the chinks between
the large ones, and they spoil the appear
ance and value of the whole. Cook the
small eHes and feed to the pigs with meal
or bran.
The best way TO make rat-proof corn
crib is to line ii with half-inch wire mesh.
Rats will not attempt to pass through
wire, as gnawing wire is not in their line
OF work. 1t will pay to use the wire, as
single family of rats will destroy more
corn than the wire will cost.
A man who keeps his fence repaired,
his gates swinging on their hinges, his
barn doors hung, his buildings painted,
farm machinery out OF the front yard,
brush and boards and straw in proper
places, is likely to find many other de-
sIrable conditions attending him.
Those who have tried it claim that for
family use the best butter is that which is
washed in brine before taken from the
churn and placed on the table without
being worked, the butter being as near
the granular condition as possible, but
such butter cannot well be sent to mar
ket.
1t has been shown that broadcasting
wheat gives as good results as drilling
when the season is favorable, but during
a dry season drilling is better. When the
seed Is used at the rate OF from five to
seven pecks per acre, and plowed under
10 the depth of two inches, excellent re-
suits are obtained.
Dry cows do not require very rich food,
and may be made to consume the coarse
proYender, such as straw and corn fOd-
der, but they should receive an allow
ance of grain also. While it is best TO
have them i'll good condition they should
not be made tat, as they may be liable to
milk fever at the time of calving.
Do not permit the refuse cabbage leaves
and the soft and unstable heads to waste
in the field. They are excellent food fer
all kinds of stock. Feed them in the
stall, if possible, so that all will be
utilized. If not, turn the stock in the
field as soon as you have removed the
good heads-before the rest begin to de-
cay.
There are few things more conclusive to
good health in all kinds of dOmesticated
stock tor undomesticated either, than
clear, pure, clean, running water; and
vice versa, nothing so detrimental to
health, vigor and constitution, as unclean,
impure, stagnant water. The hog breed
ers of America have this lesson yet to
learn.
The economists who in the early part
of this century feared a growth of popu
war, pestilence and famine, took no cog
nizance of agricultural chemistry. APP
parently no limit can be placed to the
product that may be put at the disposal
of man, providing he keeps pace with
the methods of science.
Pork barrels should be thoroughly
washed with boiling water and concen-
trated Iye. Add pound of the lye to
four gallons of water, and scrub the bar
rel with a hrnSh IISInCr sand also if
terred, and rinse well with plenty of boil
ing water. Leave the barrel full OF water
until ready for use, and scrub 1t again.
This work is necessary, as pork barrels
are not easily cleaned.
A word 20 the farm hand. You can Sc
cure the best wages, create a demand for
your services and be as contented as with
any other occupation bylsimply following
this rule-make yourself Indispensable to
your employer. Every Iarm laborer
should aim to so understand his duties as
to create an interest in the success of the
farm, and to make it so that the employer
feels that he cannot do without him.
Don't disfigure the lawn with coat of
coarse barn manure. Instead. make an
application OF dry, hard wood ashes, that
will at the first rainfall, however slight,
fall down in and among the spires of
grass, forever out of sight. The applica-
ton will be easier, the cost less, while the
effect will be equally productive of a
thick, green turf, and without the un-
slightly covering of the stable manure.
The following plan of storing sweet po-
tatoes has been very successful with me
for many years: Take a common flour
barrel, line it with two thicknesses of
newspaper, also bottom; sprinkle one
half inch dirt in bottom. Put in a layer
of potatoes, then cover with fine dry
dirt perfectly dry, then layer of potatoes,
and so on. Place barrel in dry, warm
place where mercury will not fall below
30, and keep the barrel six inches from
hoor.-D. l.. Cover.
If the nutritious matter of the soil is
carried down below the roots of some
plants the plant-tood may be unavailable.
But all plants do not feed alike, as some
reach down far into the subsoil and bring
up the plant-tood again, which is stored
IN the stocks and leaves. 1t is in this
manner that clover performs such excel
lent service, and the fact explains why
clover always leaves the land in better
condition than before, when a clover sod
is turned under.
VIII hogs eat hay? Try the following
method and you will adopt it: Cut good
clover hay into short lengths, and steam
OF scald it, allowing it TO remain over
night. In the morning add enough boil
ing water to warm the cut clover, and also
sprinkle the mess with bran and oatmeal.
The result will be the best and cheapest
food you can use, and the pigs viii eat it
greedily, 1t will assist in promoting
health, aiding digestion by distending the
stomach, and affords an agreeable change
from the concentrated grain diet.
The difference in the methods of the
fruit-growers and the dairymen are very
noticeable. The first thing the fruit
grower attends to is the variety. He de-
sires the best and gives it plenty of ma
nure. The dairyman buys his cows with
out regard to their breeding at all es-
pecially if he sells off the dry cows and
procures fresh ones. The consequence is
that the fruit-grower makes small farms
pay, securing as much as possible to the