The record-union., 1893-12-21

Small Pigs-slovenly Cultivation
Farm Notes.
EDS. RECORD UNION: I am sub
scriber for your paper and notice IN one
of your columns, headed Farm and
Orchard" information in regard to cult
ivating onions. VIII you please inform
US how to care for onions after they are
ripe? Do the tops need breaking down?
This is a cold country; Will freezing
iniure them materially?
Respectfully yours, j. ID. RUGGLEs,
Summer Lake, Dec. II, 1888.
When onions are ripe and are removed
from the ground the tops die and are
easily removed. If placed in a dry cell
lar they ought to keep well. If it is too
warm they are liable to sprout, but they
should be kept from freezing, as that will
ruin them.
REARING OF POULTRY.
We know of no work more interesting,
no study more absorbing, no pleasure
more delightful than the mating and
rearing Of nne poultry. We believe that
no person with true eye for the beautI-
full can stand before a pen of any of our
4ine-bred fowls and not admire the ele-
giant markings, exquisite pencilings
shapely forms and brilliant colors there
displayed.
An artist viewing these beautiful and
useful creatures cannot fail to see how
perfectly all parts, colors and forms are
united 10 make these handsome speci-
mems.
How different they all are, each variety
having its distinctive plumage, forms and
characteristics, and all beautiful. Even
the most sOberly dressed OF any OF our
thoroughbred fowls have features so ad-
mirable that an examination cannot fail
to disclose them.
What is more exquisite than the dainty
and graceful carriage OF the beautiful
Leghorn and Hamburgh; more lordly
than the giant Brahma; more majestic
than the full-teathered Cochin? Here are
the kingly Games and the aristocratlc
Black Spanish, the imperial Langshan
and beautiful Plymouth Rocks and
Wyandots. one after another we pass
before them, and in all we behold such
exhibitions of the breeders skill and toll
that we cannot wonder at the labor and
study the live fancier is willing TO bestoW
uEon his faVOrites that he may have them
leave his hands as perfect as possible.
The true lover and breeder is not only
willing to devote his money, but his toll
and brains, to the producing OF better
birds each year. How fortunate that it
y
has small lot TO be able to breed some of
those beautiful birds. The inexperienced,
however, should not fall into the com
mon error that IL is an easy thing to breed
such birds as are seen at our fairs and
shows. Here we see the cream OF the
seasons work, the finest OF the breeder S
trials, and which represents the work not
of a single season, nor OF two, but the
work and study Of five years and ten,
and perhaps fifteen, the results OF many
failures and disappOintmentS, of much
toll and sorrow and finally success.
Can one wonder at the enthusiasm with
which we hail the blue and red ribbons
that denote that at last our efforts have
been crowned with success, and that we
have attained the object for which we
have striven so long?
Better, far better, for the beginner to
obtain his foundation stock from breeder
who has passed his trials successfully
than to begin with poor stock because it
costs less money. We are safe in saying
"Once fancier, always tancier." 1t
may be that business or other causes may
compel breeder to temporarily suspend
this occupation, but ii a true fancier,
dyed in the wooP' tancier, the love of
the feather tribe will cling to him as long
as he lives, and he will always be ready
to lend his support and enthusiasm when
needed.
Let us reason little further. You may
say the love for the fancy is no profit
y ou ask, lis there money in t?'' l say
yes, there is money in the poultry busi-
ness for any person who goes into it ear
nestly and Systematically. There is
money in it for you as long as eggs are
imported into this country from Canada
and Europe by the million dozen every
year.
There is money in it whether you raise
just enough eggs for your own family to
live on or whether you go into the busi-
ness to raise chickens and eggs for SALE
There is money in it for people living in
the country. There is money in raising
even common barnyard fowls at ordinary
market prices and much more so in rails
ing pure-bred fowls, to sell stock or eggs,
or both.
Therefore we say to the workingman
who has lot or two in the city or town,
keep dozen or two of chickens for your
family's benefit, and to persons in the
country there is an immense field opened
TO them. There is always sale for good
fowls and fresh eggs, so give the business
a trial, you who have never tried it, and
see for yourselves if the caption of this
article is not true.-Paper from the
Frank fort (O.) Institute in Ohio Farmer.
MANURE MAKING AND FEEDING STOCK.
During the winter season all work
must be done under shelter, except at
such times as the weather may be warm
enough to draw the frost out of the ground
and permit of doing something in the
field. Should such opportunities arise,
the farmer will not make any mistake by
using the plow, as it will be the proper
time for destroying insects, as well as
permitting the frost to get down into the
soil and pulverize it. Frost power is a
great boon to the farmer if he viii utilize
hTaf nj n n Il
is plenty of work in winter If farmers
will determine to lose no time, and especi-
ally on stock farms. In fact, there is more
work to be done with stock in the winter
season than il summer, and the most
successful stock raisers are those who
give their animals their whole attention
in winter.
How many farmers go to the expense
of oyerhauling the manure heap, yet it is