The record-union., 1893-06-21

wasn't worth dollar. Soon afterward
be died of broken heart.
The craze for fine sheep to improve the
breeds was not confined alone to Ken
lucky. In New York State the Werinos
were eagerly bought at $500 or 81 900 a
head, and even as high as 81, 800. That
was in 1910 and 1911. But the speculative
fever ran only short time. In 1915
merlnos sold for 81 apiece.-Jndiana
Farmer.
BAD-FLAVoRED EGGS.
Speaking of the i'll flavor OF eggs, the
JOuy7tdt Of horticulture, London, re-
marks that it is the result of one of two
causes-either the food on which the fowls
are fed, or the substance on which the
eggs are laid-and adds: This may be
easily tested by shutting up a laying hen
and giving her garlic or matted barley to
eat. In few days the eggs will taste of
the food. We have tried this ourselves,
and know it to be correct. Another
theory is-but we cannot speak of it with
the same certainty-that an egg laid on
any strong-smelling substance will con-
tract 1t. This is explained by the fact that
the shell, when the egg is first laid, is
comparatively soft and impressionable,
and only hard after contact with the at
mosphere. Let your birds be whole
somely fed on plain food and your nests
be made with clean straw. Hay nests
have a tendency to make eggs taste. Fol-
low nature and you will have nothing to
complain of.
HINTS ON APPLE TREE PLANTING.
The Ametjcau Cider Maker suggests
that when apple trees are first planted
it is advisable to be very careful that each
variety be kept separate. By planting
all of one sort in rows of their own the
gathering of the fruit is not only rem
dered more satisfactory and profitable
by the avoidance of possible mixture,
but spraying is facilitated and made
more effective by the arrangement, since
different kinds of apples do not all bios
som at the same time"
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Ordinarily the man with a small farm
makes just as good a living as the man
with several times as many acres, and
with much less worry.
There is no necessity to plant whole
potatoes, for the seed will be expensive
and nothing gained by so doing. Cut the
potatoes to two good eyes, allowing a
large proportion of the potato to each
cut.
The simple operation of throwing out
grain to a flock OF poultry may be done
in wrong manner. The whole flock
should be given fair play" by scat
tering the grain widely and on clean
ground.
A little pruning every year is the only
righi way, and saving off large limbs is
apt TO do mortal injury. The skilled
removes the sprouts with the
finger point when they first issue from
the bud.
1t is impossible to wear out the soil if
systematic rotation of crops is followed
and the needs of the soil supplied. Soils
are exhausted by growing the same kind
OF crops on the land for several years in
succession.
The bull will be more serviceable, and
of better disposition, if broken to the
yoke and made TO perform labor. 1t is
done in Europe, and can be done here.
Ii properly handled when young a bull
can be put to good use in hauling loads or
working tread power mills.
Too much Importance cannot be at
tached to cooperation in the home. The
farmer who does not fully cooperate in
all his transactions with his wife, and
with his children as soon as they are old
enough to take interest IN all matters per-
tanning to the business features of the
farm, makes grand mistake.
1t is better to begin with a small farm
than to attempt farming on large area,
as taxes are an item to be considered, and
the cost of the products on large farm
are relatively greater than when the labor
and manure are concentrated on a smaller
surface. The best farmers are those who
make every square foot of ground pro-
duce to its fullest capacity.
Every tree planted and cared for is
worth more TO the community as a whole
than 10 the individual. If A plants a
grove of ten acres on his farm every
farm in the neigh ghborhood is benefited. ii
one-half the farms in county
were provided with ten or twenty acres
of forest each it would greatly increase
the value of the adjoining farms.
AS manure from the COW differs in COM
position from that in the horse stalls, it
will be proper to mix them in one heap,
with some absorbent material. The urine
is more valuable than the solid matter.
and 1t should be added to the manure
heap also. 1t will be an advantage to
use Kainit with the manure in the heap,
in order to preserve the volatile matter.
Last year Kansas had yield of over
II ,000, 900 pounds of zinc, l4,000000 of
lead, and five counties furnished 80 ,8OO,-
Ignite, $1,000; salt, 100000 barrels;
gypsum ! 400 tons. This and other i'm
portant productions make the State feel
like she was wearing her first pair of new
boots. She is no longer purely "hog and
hominy."
We often see farms on which the ex-
penditure OF $40 in cleaning and fixing
up yards, roads, ETC., would improve the
looks of the place 500. 1t would sur
prise some men to see how much $40
worth OF labor well directed in this line
Will do. There should be but three piles
upon the farm: the manure pile, the wood
pile and the rubbish pile, and the latter
should be burned once month.
When you have nothing else to do take
q ride through the country and count all
the neatly kept barnyards you see, and
take note Of some of the others. Broken
down fences, cartwheels, cart racks
and bodies, bob-sleds, farm wagons.
aud what not turned over against the
fence or lying around loose'' generally,
and frequently that means half-covered
by mud, water and manure. Such a con-
dltion suggests its own remedy.
The practice of wetting the hands with
milk is a nasty one, and is, moreover,
much more likely to make cows teats
sore than in milking dry. Both bag and
teats should be brushed or wiped clean
with a rag used for the purpose, and this
will remove the small bits of dirt or other
offensive matter that are usually found
on COW after she has laid down ali
night. If any of these get into the milk
pail no after straining will make the milk
what 1t ought to be.
The seed OF the parsnip, dry, hard and
slow of termination, needs generally
more water than it usually gets to
properly start it. For this reason soak
ing il so that it is nearly ready to put out
u germ is a great advantage. In planting
these soaked seeds, press them firmly
into loose, moist soil and afterward COM
press the earth over them by stepping on
it. Thus planted parsnips will be up in
advance of the weeds, making the early
cultivation much less difficult.
Much that is planted in the front yard
should be in the back yard. The finest
things on q home ground are not for
snnAE or dress naradA tln1uars Shnr,IA