The record-union., 1893-01-25

strap or rope. Pour about pint of warm
milk into vessel in which the calf is to
be fed, setting this vessel in a low, square
box near the calf, to prevent the milk be-
ing tipped over. Direct the calf's atten
sion to the milk by stirring it with the
hand and putting a few drops to its
mouth. Leave the calf alone, and in
short time the milk will be gone, and no
more trouble will be experienced in
learning the calf to drink. Only small
quantity of milk should bo used at first,
as calf always jams its nose clear to the
bottom of the vessel in which it is fed,
and begins to suck. The quantity should
be Increased as desired, and it will soon
learn to eat oilcake or mill feed, which
should be given dry, not mixed with the
milk, no danger of scours thus occur
ring. If this process were patented,
fortune would be deserved by the discov-
erer, who has successfully practiced 1t for
years.
BARLEY FOR MALTING.
We take it for granted that all our
brother farmers do not know that barley
intended for mailing should not be har-
vested before it is dead ripe-until the
ears drop, and have lost their reddish
color. 1t is important for the grains to
have all one stage of ripeness-that is,
that all should be perfectly ripe. If bar
ley be grown for feeding purposes, how
ever, it should be cut before the seed
becomes very hard, and the straw not
perfectly dry. The shocked or bound
sheaves should remain while in the
field, and the grain will ripen sufficiently
by absorbing the nutriment from the
straws. The best soil tor barley is a
loose, friable loan, but it will do well on
clay soil also, if thoroughly worked, and
made fine and mellow
Weekly Gazette.
COAL ASHES.
Save all your coal ashes clean. They
are capital for mending or making walks
III spring. And in icy weather i'll winter
what can you have better to strew on the
Ice on the pathway to keep you from
slipping than some sifted coal ashes. In
our greenhouses we have another use for
coal ashes. We sift them through large
meshed sieve to separate the big clinkers,
coal and rougher parts from the ash part,
and then we sift these ashes again
through fine-meshed sieve. The ash
part we spread on our benches under our
Hover pots. Before using this stuff for
drainage we put it into tub of water
and toss it around with big stick to
wash it clean, overhowing the water at
the same time, TOR 1t is proper, if you use
drainage at all in your pots, to use clean
material, 1t makes the drainage so much
more Notwithstanding.
THE SAHARA DESERT.
A writer in the Netc England Magazine,
in speaking OF the Sahara, says that how
ever barren it is in the summer the soil is
so rich that the day following rainfall
wild grass will be observed growing, es-
pecially in the depressions, but the sun
shine in day or two will soon scorch it.
The general surface of the Sahara, al
though parched and fiery in summer,
wears mantle of green on all places un-
covered by arid sand after the first au-
tumnal rainfall. 1t keeps green all win
ter and from that verdure the Bedouins
derive their only means of life, the food
of their numerous herds of cattle, which
is the only tribute which that immense
waste pays to humanity.