The record-union., 1893-11-08
9ounl Bnist,tn 31niuoer.

saturated solution of copperas-a tea
spoonful is sufficient 1t does not always
pay to doctor fowls; the hatchet Is our
remedy. II is better to have no occasion
TO apply any of the above remedies.-J.
w. {. in Stockman and Farmer.
THE PoULTRY-YARD.
Let there be no delay now in preparing
for winter. There is the hen-house to
clean out, whiteWash, make tight and
warm, broken glass to set and banking
to put around. This done, how about the
nests? Are they secluded, easy OF access
and free from vermin? When all is
ready let US turn to the flocks. What
about that old hen. out Of condition, late
in moulting. and sure not to give an egg
before February? Will it pay TO put out
titty cents for feed to carry her through
the winter? How about those sickly.
Duny-looking chicks, the underlings Of
the focks? Is there chance for a cent
to be realized from them? What OF the
males? Are there more or less than are
wanted for breeding purposes next year,
and are they just what you want TO use?
Here are some OF the points to De settled
right away, so that the stock going into
winter quarters may be paying stock.
There is no chance Tor sentiment in
poultry raising, unless one carries on the
business for the FUN of ii" hence these
points become of importance at this clos
ing-in season of the year. No animal
should go into winter quarters which
will not pay for wintering. Ii applies to
the poultry as forcibly, and no more so
than to any and every other class of stock.
Clean up, weed out, reduce the feeu bill
by striking out the useless and the un-
profitable.
Having done this, the next step be-
machinery of the building to Shelling out
eggs. Not an easy task, but one within
the reach of every breeder Don't over
feed-don't stimulate. Supply fresh
ground or pounded bone daily. A bone
cutter will pay for itself long before snow
disappears in the spring. Feed clover,
boiled and chopped. Avoid concentrated
and fattening foods. Furnish the neces-
sarg bulk by the free use OF vegetables.
Keep the hOcks at work by the use of un-
threshed grain. or grain buried in the
straw, and give at ali times pure water.
There's stern logic in these lines, for if
they are followed they lead out OF the
wilderness into the clearings. where eggs
are plenty and the expenses of winter
easily borne. There should be no delay
in preparing for the active running Of the
egg machinery during the months OF
winter before us.-Hartford Times. ,Sy9.s
AGRICULTURAL BRIEFS.
Denmark is but little speck on the
map of Europe, yet England would miss
the products of her thrifty people If she
were deprived of them. Incredible as it
may appear, this little country supplies
more pork to the United Kingdom than
all the other countries of Europe COM
bineG. In that item she is, next to the
United States, the means OF supply for
Britain. Last year she sold over So, ,000,-
0O0 pounds of pork in the English mar
kets. Her consignments of butter to the
same market exceeded 100000 pounds.
Think of this little country in a year eX-
porting over S2S, 100000 more of farm
products than it imported in the CORE
spending period. The factors mainly re-
Sponsibie for this exhibit are cattle, hogs,
pork and butter, the butter being by far
the largest item IN the account.
The healthfulness of farm life is one of
its advantages over other occupations
which can not be measured by money
value. When you are inclined to com
plain of poor crops and low prices it is
good iGea 10 stop and think about the
compensating features.
The cellar is no place to store vege-
tables unless it is inspected often and
kept clean. Cellars are nuisance when
they contain deoaying matter and may
induce disease in the family. Ii it is
damp it is better TO fill it up entirely
rather than TO permit il to injure the
health of the family. The proper place
for cellar is under the barn instead of
under the dwelling house. Baltimore
Sun.
In farming it should be borne in mind
that it is better to raise thing or an ami
NAL than to buy it. What keeps farmers
poor is putting their hands into their
pockets for so much they ought to grow
or breed themselves. Something should
be growing and going all the time, and
this can only be done by keeping in view
the principle of variety of stock and
crops. A farmer who keeps horses, cows,
sheep and swine puts himself under
bonds, as it were, to rise early, which
promotes and aids digestion and keeps
up the fences, maintains the fertility OF
the farm and checks buggy husbandry
and dissipation in general. A farmer
needs to hang up, pick up, look up,
straighten up and clean UP all the time,
or be will let mis- place go to the dogs.
Long observation has taught me that any
animal-whether two, or four-legged-
pays for its keeping in manure, and so its
growth from infancy to maturity is all
proft.-H. X. Fisher, Ia Stoekman and
Farm.
Wheat middlings, with more or less
skim milk. makes ration on which pigs
Will grow rapidly and without becoming
LOO ldIs IL - al bIe OGllSI IL ullA6u WIFI
cooked vegetables and fallen fruit. There
is great amount of such feed wasted on
farms where stock of hogs large enough
to consume it is not kept. With very
small amount of corn to finish off with
the pork required for years use can be
produced at small expense. In feeding
the corn at the last end it is mistske to
give it to the exclusion of other feed. All
corn quickly stops digestion, and by
making the pig feverish Injuries the quail
ity and healthfulness of pork. a small
addition of linseed meal to the milk and
bran ration will make the pig fatten with
out interfering with growth, as cornmeal
will do.-Kural World.
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