The record-union., 1893-07-05

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lnsuring strong growth, with the
weight of the crop near enough to the
trunk to prevent breaking by winds.
The third form of peach pruning consists
in picking off from one-half to one-third
of the peaches by the time they have
reached the size of filberts. ."-Nick's
Monthly.
EXPERIMENTS WITH WHEAT.
The Ohio Experiment Station made
some careful experiments with stored
wheat, and found that when grain is
weight by storage is only l-3 per cent.
on the average. The last weighing was
made when the grain had been in the
BINS three years. Another experiment
proved that condition of weather affects
weight of stored grain. Twenty bags of
dry wheat were put in a bin in January,
1892, and left through the extraordinary
wet spring and early summer that fol-
lowed, being reweighed in July. 1t was
found that the aggregate weight of the
twenty bags was few pounds greater
than when stored. one cannot test corn
with eXactness, as its condition in the
fall and that of the cob are so variable.
\ friend made test with one lot, leav-
ing it in a crib until late spring, and the
shrinkage from its weight in the fall was
nearly 20 per cent.
Arrange your work so. now that the
hot days are upon us, that you can give
the fowls fresh water twice a day. You
will be surprised to see how eagerly they
drink of it. They do not fancy water that
has been standing in the drinking vessels
in the sun, or that has become stale, any
more than person would. Do not neglect
them during the hot summer months.
Do not forget that they need shade. |
ha in " f1iinItc bn
started out to make living with poultry.
II e had excellent success in Matching, but
when it came to care the stock died right
and left. L saw that young man swing
ing in hammock during hot weather,
while his chicks and fowls were out in
the hot sun with not the least means of
shelter, and with not a drop of fresh
water. After the water vessels were filled
he would not replenish them until they
were empty and the poor fowls were
compelled TO slack their thirst with stag
nant water. Did he succeed? ? Not a bit
of it. How could he? And yet to-day he
is not slow in trying to prove that there
is nothing but risk in the keeping of
poultry.
FARM NOTES.
Store up several loads of sharp gravel
for winter use. 1t is rather early to talk
about preparing for winter, but find
when such things are left to the last mo-
ments they are apt to be forgotten until
work is in such shape that it becomes
more of task. The same may be said
of gathering and storing road dust for
baths in winter.
There is nothing that increases the
price OF farm lands so much as good farm
ing, and in neighborhood where the
barns are large, the houses nicely painted,
the roads good and the people are con-
tented, there Is where the land is worth
from $50 to $40 per acre; and one poor,
shlttless, weed-grown farm hurts that
neighborhood more than all the trusts
and comb bines OF which so much is said
\ man may succeed on fifty or one
hundred acres and double the size of his
farm, but he receives little more income
than his smaller acreage had given him.
| However, there are exceptions to all
rules, and if man should take up stock
raising-sheep, cattle or horses-he might
be able to do a more extensive and profit
able business with very large farms. but
not SO if he is engaged purely in limited
agriculture.
Hire the cows to come up at night by
giving grain ration. A ton of shorts is
worth pack of dogs for this, and so
when in at night, before milking. reward
each with a dish of some kind of grain:
Sj per ton oat-dust is excellent, and is
about as good as bran as a milk-producer
Dogs are fruitful source of bovine abor-
ton. While grain may not show in June
and July, the return appears later as a
sort of reserve force that keeps the COWS
up.
docs poultry keeping pay ?" is always
an open question for discussion among
farmers. One way to decide this for your
self would be to invest, say $40, the price
of good COW, in good fowls. and then
take as much care of them as you would
| the COW, and keep account of the expenses
and receipts; but remember that Won
would not let the cows stable go month
without being cleaned, nor would you ex-
pect it to pick up its own living. Poultry
keeping does pay, but how we'll depends
upon the man and his methods.
If you have not the time to do so your
self, it Will pay you to hire a man to
whitewash the henhouses. Clean up the
floors and put good coat of the wash on
the walls and the ceilings. You will not
only greatly improve the appearance but
get the advantage of the lice. While there
are more or less lice on the premises the
entire year, it must not be forgotten that
the month of June is the time when they
become the most prolific, and it is high
time that something be done to get ahead
of them. Clean up-if you have cleaned
up, do it again.
There is no trouble to raise chicks with
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plenty of shade. | find that by making
coops about 2X24 feet there is plenty Of
room for a hen and her brood. and if
these coops are placed in an orchard. saw
a coop under each tree, there would be
no trouble TO get the necessary shade and
the chicks would do very well. Besides
the chicks will keep down the crop of
bugs which do so much damage to the
trees. 1t will pay to raise chicks the
whole year round, as the prices for sum
mer brOllerS and rOasterS are very good
during these months.
You must not forget to put in an extra
crop of vegetables for the chickens while
you are doing your farming. Remember
that lettuce, cabbage, onions, turnips.
beets and all such kinds, make the very
/ best feed for stock IN winter. And, of
course, all the small potatoes and refuse
pumpkins can be used. In New jersey
some of the poultrymen cut sweet pota-
toes in two and let the fowls eat them
raw. Cooked they are too fattening.
Considerable of this stuff can be stored
away for winter use, and such as lettuce
can be given in season when the fowls
are confined to yards.
a good deal of nonsense is talked and
written about farmers debts. Some
would have us believe that under no con-
sideratlon ought farmer incur a debt of
any kind, yet many of the best farmers
that we know commenced by going in
debt for their land, aud have often as
sumed further debt for the pur-
pose of making needed improve
ments. 1t depends wholly upon what
the debt is incurred for as to its wis
dom. 1t is foolish to go i'll debt for fast
horse or any needless luxury, but when
the debt will help one to make more
money, and so become Independent the
sooner, it is a very different thing.