Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-02-15
FARM AND GARDEN.
Culled Matter of Interest to
the Thoughtful Farmer.
DRAWING WATER FROM A WELL
Cement Replacing Boards for Floor
ing Uf Stables, Piggeries,
COwsheds, Etc.

Cement is largely replacing boards for
flooring of summer kitchens, poultry
and dairy houses, for stables, piggeries,
cowsheds, walks. Wherever the place
the principle is the same. Dig out suffi-
clent to admit from twelve to twenty
inches OF stone, large at the bottom,
with smaller to ill in the Chinks. Pound
the stone well together. SO there shall be
no alter settling and to leave as little
space between as possible. Mix one part
best cement and two parts sharp sand
with water, to be thin enough to pour,
and use for filling among the stones.
The next coat should be thicker and be
a couple OF inches above the stones and
not used until it hardens. Whe her walk
or floor prepare always for the wash
that is, have slope to drain that will
prove watershed. The beauty of the
floors aside from their indestructibility
is that they can be washed; but to have
all the good that should follow flushing
there must be drain. Some say cement
floors are too cold for poultry and cattle
sheds and pig pens. No one questions
this, but no one supposes such floors are
to remain bare, but are to be covered
with litter. Tons OF leaves have already
been gathered for the poultry house. In
one place several loads of earth have
been brought in, and it is already scat
tered two inches deep over the floors
The dropplngs, raked up once week,
go into barrels under cover for use in the
garden next spring. In the COW and pig
pens and in the stables the litter is straw, i,
and a good generous bed of it. The floors
in tire horse, cow and pig houses should
have drains for carrying the LIQUID ma
nure to reservoirs prepared to save it.
WELL VS.. POORLY BALANCED RATIoNs.
From a late bulletin of the Maryland
agricultural station on data as between
a well-halanced VS.. a poorly balanced
ration we give summary of conclusions
as follows: For fattening steers a we'll
balanced ration is very much more prof
liable than poorly balanced one. Steers
fed on we'll balanced rat on made an
average daily gain OF 27S pounds; those
given a poorly balanced ration made an
average daily gain OF IL pounds. The
increased profits from this test showing
q difference Of 0S per steer were in fa-
vor of the well-baanced ration. With a
we'll balanced feed ninety days is ample
time in which to prepare an animal for
market. Where the more nitrogenous
foods are used it is believed nearly as
good daily gains can be made by mixing
the grain with cut corn fodder as though
hay were used. The use OF cut corn fod-
der instead of hay Ill feeding cattle may
make the difference OF profit instead
OF loss. Fifty per cent more manure
was made from the animals receiving
the we'll balanced ration than IRON those
receiving the poorly balanced one. The
manure is also much richer in plant
food.
DON'T ENLARGE THE FARM.
|, Farm News SAYS: There seems to be q
very general desire on the part of the
farmers oI this country to obtain larger
, quantity OF land. There are cases in
which this is wise ambition, but sucl
instances are not nearly as common as il
the wish to obtain larger farms. Under
, the present conditions OF agriculture oul
. farmers as arule already have more lane
than they can cultivate to the best adj
vantage. AS things are now, and as they
are likely to be for a long time to come
the profits of farming are to be increased
by securing larger crops per acre rather
than by tilling larger number OF acres
|
had more land now own considerahl,
areas which have not yet been brough
r nearly up to their limit of profitable
, production. In these cases the owners
will find it much more profitable to ma
nure their present fields more LIBERAL,
, and cultivate them more thorough,
, than it will he to spread their work owe
Il large number OF acres.
BEST WAY OF MAKING HAY.
, The poor men in Finland accidental,
discovered the best way of making hav
| Having no meadows of their own, the,
3 cut the grass of waste lands, and 70
want OF roads they stuffed it among tn,
, branches OF neighbormg trees 10 wal
, the winter SHOWS, when they could carr,
1t home on sledges. After a wet season
, the farmers noticed this hay was bette
in quality than they made from bette
grass, So they made imitation trees b,
setting up poles ten feet long, with Ions
, traverse pegs and heaped the grass loose
ly upon them; the result was excellent
Even in wet weather only small por
tion of the outside was dissolved, Will,
the inner portions, exposed to the al
, beneath and protected from the rail-
above, are dried in perfect condition
: Moving can be carried on in spite o
: wind and rain, and when once the gras
is placed upon the drying poles it ma,
be left without serious damage until tn
weather changes.
DRAWING WATER FROM THE WELL.
. The cheapest and easiest method o
: drawing water from well 100 feet deel
: is by force pump and a windmill, saw
the Rural World. To convey the waite
to Il house on an elevation pipe NAV b.
attached TO II pump, and to keep up
constant supply there should be cisterl
near the house, which would hold stool
, for use in case OF failure OF the wind a
any time. Where the cold is intense il
the winter the pump may he placed il
the cellar, well protected by bank owe
it and n double door, and the discharg,
; pipe should be laid in the ground below
the reach nj the frost. 1t will be a hell
l to till the ditch in which the pipe is lai,
: with sawdust or chatf and to lay the pip,
in n wooden box, SO as to have al
around it.
: THE CLIPPING OF HORSES.
, The benefits OF clipping are that horse
at work, encountered by long, thick coat
2 ot hair, sweat prolusely, and thereb,
cause u great waste to the system, anC
/. their health and usefulness are promoteC
by the removal OF their natural covering
When sweating from any cause undul,
occurs in the horse it is always noticed
that it is accompanied by waste OF mus
. Gle, general debility and loss of tone.
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