The Dickinson press., 1894-02-17
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes.
In using 4 feeder take out the divis-
ion-board and one frame and put the
feeder in their place.
Powdered borax is often used al.
though pure lard is better for driving
away ants which ray be located under
hives.
An ingenious apiculturist has calcu.
lated that O single bee visits Is, $50
flowers for each ounce of honey 1t gath.
erS.
The early swarms invariably make
the most successful colonies. The ear
Tier they come in the season the more
valuable they are. The time the old
stands win send out swarms Will de-
pend somewhat upon their condition on
coming out Of winter quarters.
DO not waste time and money trying
to grow profitable crops from land
whose need is thorough training. Save
your money and put 1t into good tile,
properly laid, and in a few years 1t
will he returned to you with compound
interest. Farmers who have tried this
know its truth.
We learn from personal investigation
that many farmers have not sOWn their
acreage OF wheat, being discouraged
from it by the low price. The question
Of how best to employ this land left va
can't is Il matter over which some pro-
titable studying may I've done this win
ter.
A good hay Grip is always an easy
thing to sell and usually at Il price that
appears to leave Il very satisfactory pro-
fit. A good many men are thinking
this way and SO preparing to grow less
grain and more grass. But it must be
remembered that the hay takes away a
good deal of fertility from the land,
and if you do not want the farm to
grow poor you must arrange for re-
storing this. The best way to make the
hay crop profitable is to feed it ut home
and return the manure to the soil.
Milk with dry hands. Mixers often
dip their fingers into the pail of milk
or milk into their open hands and
smear the teats, the drippings falling
into the milk pail. 1t Is a filthy habit.
Evapornted Sweet Potatoes.
w. r. Massey, of the North Carolina
experiment station, says that sweet
potatoes are easily dried. even in the
sun, and few people know how handy
the dried product is about the house.
He says:
At best sweet potatoes are a trouble
some crop to keep, but when dried or
cured in an c%vaporator they are really
no trouble to keep and are always on
hand for use on the table at short no
tice. They should be sliced and then
e%vaporated. Then to use them they are
soaked to restore the evaporlted mois-
ture and then baked in pans as the
fresh ones often are. They are an nd.
mirable article for buildings and pies.
For this purpose 1t would be better to
grind them INTO meal, and put up In
packages with directions Tor making
buildings. Put up in this way it ought
not to be much trouble to create q mar.
ket for the dried sweet potato. If an
e%vaporating plant would but undertake
the putting up Of the sweet potato meal
in packages the article would sell well.
G%rOcerymen arc slow to take hold OF
such products in the crude evap0rated
state, but in such packages, with q few
attractive hand bills and q lot or re.
ceipts for making the many delicious
preparations that can be made from
sweet potatoes, q market could soon be
made for a product that eastern North
Carolina cnn supply In limitfess quaint.
ties: Who will start this enterpriser
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