The record-union., 1893-03-22

a successful butcher or dealer in the buy
ing OF stock. To dairYman's son, also
the art of handling and treating milk in
manufacture ought TO be easy of acquisi-
uon: The trades growing out OF agricult-
ure IN TINS country are OF immense finan-
clal Importance, and no better than farm
pred timber is needed to supply their
ranks. In whatever sphere OF life one
may be, the value of an education is
priceless. If man is tilling the soil for a
HYlng and an income, learning will raise
him better crops and cause him 10 sell at
betteEprices than if he had to depend on
hablt&nd no knowledge for practical in
tructIon.-tarmers' Home Weekly.
SYSTEMATIC FARMING.
System in farming is important. He
who carefully lays out his farm in proper
nelds, making a map of the same, devot-
ing each held TO a succession OF crops,
With suitable manuring, basing the rota-
ton upon The adaptation OF one crop to
ut particular soils and pursuing ali his
operations with plan tor doing every
thing just at the right time aud with
discrimination to make experience and
tne lights OF science as available as possi-
Die IN his calling, will undoubtedly reap
the most abundant reward for mis- lahors
10 complete the system he must keep a
record OF all his farm operations, Tor in
no other way can he be said TO have full
knowIedse OF his business. He should
keep an account of all the expenses, loss
or gam; IN what particular branch Of his
business he IS most successful; what crops
are most profitable for him to raise; the
most profitable disposition to make of
them; the best and most profitable stock
TO raise, and how best to dispose of il.
GENERAL FARM NOTES.
y cement made Of sand and white lead
paint will stop leaks in u roof.
The refuse from the kitchen, properly
prepared, Will add 10 the poultry pronts.
=. Sawdust makes good absorbent for
liquid manure ii used for bedding.
In nearly all cases when the pig is fully
grown ne should be ready for market.
All VINO can do so should look up pri-
Nate customers for fresh eggs, ana thus
get top prices.
The man VIII always be poor that con-
unueS TO ralse tifly-dollar horses at a cost
ofseventy-five.
a good breed OF men is as essential in
business and society as good breeds OF
live stock in farming.
' There is hardly anything better for the
cI1cheu ana sore teats OF COWS than rich,
o!d, boiled linseed oil.
a a; single season of high prices for pork
VIII cause thousands 10 rush into hogs.
See If it doesn't, and note the result.
Never use the currycomb more than ;s
necessary, as it hurts the horse and spoiIs
MS temper. Brushes are preferable.
Don't use racks that allow dust and
nay seeds TO sift down into the woolly.
parhs or necks OF sheep feeding at them.
When going to the shop TO have the
team sAod, don't choose Saturday, unless
you wish TO waste time there waiting tor
others,
Farmers are not the only parties who
are taken IN by sharks. Neither bankers
nor merchants nor manufacturers are
shark" proof.
Every farmer that keeps sheep should
learn 10 be judge of the fleece, as to ITS
thing OF its value.
Look out for the March winds. A draft
from a crack or knot-hole will give your
hest fresh cow Inflammation oil the udder.
ana perhaps ruin her.
Take the colt beside a steady horse
Whenever you drive TO town. He will
get used to everything before you know
IT, ana never need whipping.
Statistics prove farmers to average
longer lie than most other workers.
fact due to the even Lives they lead and
steady employment the year round
NO butter, however well made. will re-
eN-'A 80 80 iAeAN VI dllI aroma more than
ten days or two weeks, and to pet its
greatest value it should be sold and eatan
at once.
Timothy hay, though highest in mar
ket, IS poorest for sheep. Give them
clover II you would see them Drosper ana
make you do the same
Better relieve pussy of her present
family before their eyes are open. She
can rear one cheaper next fall, when the
young broods OF chicks are too large to
be a temptation to her.
DO not place much confidence in the So
calIeu early" sweet corns. The crop
TUiIsists 700 greatly OF smut and worms
he perfect ears at twenty-five cents n
oozen are not very profitable.
Milk is wasted ut the rate of half mint
TO quart per COW by some mixers be-
cause they fail to hold the pail pronerlv
Wnlle milking. The loss OCCURRING twice
daily IS big one at the end OF year.
a good garden fence will be temper
saver, and will also save the Green
lhlhSs growing all around" inside when
me 4esIlNe mems set out TO forage for egg
making material little later i'm Iia
season. ''0
DO not crowd. Many poultrv-kAapars
have an idea that fowls ueed dosiI,tr 80 -
Keep them well when they are ali riSbt
OF TO MAKE them lay. Hence resort is
made to so-called condition Dovders
poultry foods, egg foods and The Iite
Let IL De SAID at the outset that healthy
poultry need no such nostrums: All thev
want is good, plain, wholesome food i,
variety. A00" III
Tho removal OF large limbs in orchards
at least should be left till the active flow
of sap i'll the spring. and may be contin-
ued, 1t necessary, till the month of June.
The cut should be made close down to
the trunk, the wound. especially in the
bark, pared Off smoothly with a sbarn
knife and then covered with grating wax
or some similar substance, to protect it
from the weather until it has healed over.
Where it is possible, poultry houses
should be built near running creek.
part OF the creek being fenced in each
run. This constant supply of fresh water
is not only grand treat to the fowls. but
great saving of labor 1t very often
happens that the henhouses are erected
UP against the barn, while very desir-
able site on the banks Of a stream is al
lowed TO grow up in weeds. 1t is a mis-
take TO build henhouses near the barn. as
chicken lice are great pest to both horses
and cattle.
Bell, Greer & Co.'s sale.
At 10 A. N. to-day Bell, Greer q Co.
will hold their regular Wednesday auc-
ton colo at tbair Solas-OoD,S ~, s4roo+