The record-union., 1893-08-09

lawn. Being fed frequently. they become
very tame, and have little desire to roam
Tar from home. % The cocks are fed
with great regularity and at nearly the
same place. To this place they Will
usually come night after night for their
supper. (3l If a hen persists in roaming
OH and falling to return at night, some-
one, usually child, is sent after her, and
she is driven every night. This will gem
orally break up the habit. If it does not
do so, the hen IS killed and eaten, and the
young watched for few days near the
buildings. They seldom roam far after
the loss of the mother.
AS to the breeds. the bronze turkeys are
certainly larger than the common birds,
and should, for this reason. be bred.
They are fully as hardy as any other
strain. The white Narragansetts are
beautiful birds, flock being an orna-
ment to any farm. They are also said TO
sell IN the markets at higher figure than
the other breeds.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
No field should be left in stubble, but
should be plowed and cultivated III order
to destroy weeds. Such labor will not be
lost, as there will be fewer weeds next
season.
Too much care and judgment cannot be
exercised in choosing salt for dairy pur-
poses, as upon this depends to large ex-
tent the salable appearance and keeping
quality of the products.
Farmers are trying to cultivate too
much land. laying OFT too much labor.
A man should only plant what he can
take care OF well and manure well. That
IS the secret of success to every farmer.
An exchange says that if COW gets
choked with an apple or potato, holding
up its head and breaking an egg in its
mouth is sure cure. The same remedy
IS recommended for horses under similar
circumstances.
The yolks of eggs in butter as coloring
matter will make sweet butter rancid in
short time, as will also the Juice of car:
rots. If the butter is to be used within
short time either will do nicely; but the
butter color is best and not expensive.
What is commonly called cholera
among chickens is disease which is al
most always the result of the poor condi-
tions which surround them. With good
food, fresh, pure water daily, and clesn
quarters with good range the disease
rarely gets a toothold.
The prolonged drought in France has
had such a serious effect upon the grain
and other crops that the Chamber of
Deputies has decided to suspend for the
rest Of the year the custom duty on oats
and hay, and to reduce by one-half the
duty on barley and maize.
The Teas Lice Stock Journal saws:
Cheese kept in a cool larder or cellar with
cloth Wrung out of clean, cold water
constantly upon it, will never nave mites
upon it; or, if it has, this soon destroys
them, and also greatly improves the
cheese, keeping 1t always moist.
a farmer who tried the experiment of
rubbing the bide of an animal with raw
onion reports that the result was to rid
the animal O. lice, and it is believed that
onions will serve TO rid animals of all
such pests as nee, tick, heas, ETC., the diff
iicuity being the labor of application of
the remedy.
The London Dairy Journal tolls of a
remarkable Dexter COW years old.
which during twelve months ending
April L, 1895, gave over tons and 900
pounds OF milk. She is a small COW, as
Dexter COWS are, and weighs only little
over 800 pounds. so that her milk product
was Is times her own live weight.
Roup is disease which is very apt to
make trouble in the poultry yard in
autumn. The changeable and rainy
weather seems to favor its DEVELOPMENT.
DampnesS, filth and impure food will
help it along. Let the sunlight into the
coops and keep the floor clean and drv.
ana 1t Will help toward keeping 1t away.
A COW should be in perfect health at all
seasons OF the year. If her milk is in the
least degree contaminated the result will
be that disease will be communicated to
those who use the milk. No COW is so
valuable as TO be worth a place in the
dairy herd if there is even Il suspicion
that she is not healthy and sound in
every respect.
one of the most instructive lessons at a
recent session OF a farmers institute was
the exhibition of two sample pounds of
butter, one of which sold at ten cents and
the other at thirty cents. 1t was ex-
planned that they were made out Of the
same quality of milk and cost about the
same to make. The difference i'll selling
price was due mainly to the difference in
skill in the making.
Blessings are not showered on all
alike. Europe complains of drought,
but Cuba is suffering from heavy rains.
and will be compelled to purchase from
this country some of the articles usually
grown by her farmers. Thus it is that a
famine III one country may be met by
superabundance in another, and there is
no section of the universe that is not sub
ject to draw backs at some time.
1t is hard to tell how TO get rid of garlic.
cal&mus and Canada thistles, for what
one has tried with success another claims
to have tried faithfully with no success.
perience is that nothing equals keeping
all weeds hoed down close to the ground
cutting them off as soon as they appear
above the ground. A plant cannot live
long without leaves with which to breathe.
There is a double reason for the popu-
larity Of the chrysanthemum. 1t is not
only among the most beautiful Towering
plants we possess, but the fact that il
blooms late in the season, after most of
the other outdoor plants have finished
blooming, greatly enhances its value.
We have it now in such variety of form
and color that one may have an excellent
floral display without the aid of any other
flower.
The cost of keeping and feeding ducks
and geese should amount to mere moth
ing at this season of the year. They
should be turned loose in the grass fields.
and they will find enough young weeds
and insects to make them fat and thriv-
ing. When such weeds as parsley, pig
weeds and ragweeds are young and ten
der the ducks and geese consider them
luXuries, and they will fatten rapidly off
them Both of these birds are excellent
scavengers, and they should be encour-
aged in their good work on the farm.
Pure and Wholesome Quality
Commends to public approval the Cali
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