Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-11-30
FARM AND CARMEN /

fAhM AND 3SANptais $ II " ~
To use poor oats or hay a
economy.
The best show horse is not always
tho best breeding horse.
Body and log washes which contain
much ammonia should DO avoided.
Horses thrive best when watcr liz
given thom both before md after eat
ing.
One of the best ways of increasing
tho appetite of II horse il TO change
his diet.
Tho average pacor is moro durable
on tho paved streets than the higher
acting trottcr.
Roosts should DO plentiful enough
to allow tho fowls to find place on
them without trouble.
Give tho chickens plenty of mother.
That III, do not give tho caro- of too
many chicks TO ono hen.
If You would keep your horse in
good health see to it that tho stable il
clean and well ventilntcd.
A good way. to keep horse or colt
from chewing his halter is TO saturnto
the ropc with kerosene oil
With all fruits potash is valuable
fertilizer, and for this reason all the
wood ashes possible should DO snIcd
up md applied.
Green soiing is ono of tho most
direct methods of increasing the capac.
lily of tho farm, no far as tho amount
OF stock to be carried is concerned.
Cream sometimes becomes bitter il
raised in pans mt temperature TOO
low for Tho milk to sour. Milk in
pnns should DO sour i'll tliirty-six hours.
Keep the floor of the poultry house
covered with IN inch of dry sand. This
saves labor i'll cleaning up, and puts
tho manure i'll better shape for hand.
ling.
In Europe fowls with white, blue,
or black legs arc preferred, because
tho contrast makes the skin OF the
fowl appear winter than it docs with
the yellow legged birds
1t is quito possible that the old whcnt
on hand may be used to better advan-
tnge for feeding stock than i'll any
other why. Have you thought of this?
III not, better look into IT,
&c. Mcriwethcr, of Illinois, declares
that nh acre of oats producing about
$50 sheaves) and six bushels of corn
will winter II yenrling steer and send
him TO grass in good shape to make n
Christmas bullock.
Ducks can be successfully raised
with no more than tho necessary drink
ing water. 1t will be found that the
young ducks raised in this way are
much less liable to discnse thnn If per-
mitted free access to water.
The building of creamery in
noighborhood often conducts to moro
profit in stock keeping. besides afford.
ing market for the dairy products, it
not infrcquently is means of educa-
ting up to better methods of feeding.
One dollar year has for years been
tho average profit of the wcll-kept
hen, Init the improvem mont made in
feeding the last few years and tho bet
ter knowledge now possessed by poul-
terers IRE placing the average higher.
The farmer who centcrs his hopes
on grass and cattle will have much
more even and satisfactory course be-
fore him than ono who depends main.
ly on grain. For ono thing, he does
not find it SO difficult to keep hia land
up.
Early pens will sometimes fell to
terminate when the ground is too cold,
10 K. una IN, h. T..
order to avoid disappointment in sccur-
ing early peas q second planting OF
seed should be made rs soon as tho
ground is warm.
AS the result Of series of expert
meED Professor Baily of Cornell has
proved that peppers can be grated on
tomatoes and vice versa. In the use
OF materials for herbaccous grating
tho would should not be too young,
but rather approaching maturity.
A team on tho road requires water
often, but in small quantities. If
horses do not get water for several
hours they should not DO allowed to
take what they will drink. A full
draught, especially if tho horse is
heated as well as thirsty, is danger
Gus.
Never make nest 80 as to compel
hen to jump down upon the eggs,
for, though she may do no damage for
while, yet she is liable to break one
or more of them st any time. The
nest should be SO constructed rs to
allow her to walk in and place herself
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