The record-union., 1895-08-21
ROYAL BAKING POWDER
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breeds, and that is why poor farmers
with scrub cattle fail to make the farm
pay.
A COW will shrink in her milk because
OF a lack of a supply of drinking water
sooner than from any other cause. and 1t
may be safely stated that insufficient
water when the cows are in the pasture
is very freqnen0 occurrence on farms.
Market gardeners find that the pea
crop returns as large profit as any that
can be grown so easily. They sell 1t
while green. and for the very earliest get
very high prices. The pea is hardy, and
tie farmer who has light. warm soil has
as good chance as the market gardener.
To have thistles appear in oats is TO
have risk of losing the oats or raising
moro thlstles The remedy is to go into
the Oat field and cut out every thistle with
knife. II the thistles are LOO numerous
to DO this. then the best thing that can be
done is TO plow the crop under and kill
out the thistles by putting the land in po-
tatoes or keeping the field clean by culti-
vation.
Few things meaner can be conceived,
says a Boston paper, than selling
farmer or gardener fraudulent seed. An
neigh boring town is to be seen q half
acre OF currants ruined by the farmer hay-
ing been sold old and worthless beliebore
by the village druggist. The same viii
lage and neighboring ones have lost
thousands of dollars through buying and
planting wretched garden seeds.
Arrange your poultry house so that all
cleaning can be done with a broom. 10
do this, keep the floor we'll covered with
dry dirt, aud when the house Is to be
cleaned, simply sweep OF the floor and
scatter fresh dirt, using al extra quantity
under the roosts.. In this manner the
work can be done in few minutes, and
the drOppings can bo placed in barrels, as
the dirt will assist in preserving them.
The deeper the soil is plowed the greater
its capacity for holding water and deriv-
ing the most benefit from rains. Ii the
land Is Sub-sOiied, and underlaid with
drain tile, it will not only be warmer and
more penetrable by the roots OF plants
but will also be IN better condition for
Withstanding a drouth than land not so
treated.
Account books at this season would be
of assistance. They enable the farmer 10
know how much each crop costs, and in
estimating the results he will partially be
guided III his next seasons operations.
The poorest farm can be made fertile
without manure or fertilizer, If time is no
objection, for nature slowly recuperates
all soils, as has been demonstrated by he
fallow system CT resting the land. This
can be done more speedily, however, by
growing something 10 turn under. Of
course. the true remedy is manure ana
fertilizer, but if they are insufficient,
keep the land covered with something, if
only scant herbage.
Those who have been liberal in the use
of manure and derived satisfactory re-
suits may turn their attention TO the mode
OF cultivation. The mechanical condition
of the soil has an influence on the crop as
great as the effects of the plant food. The
supply of moisture in the soil must be
sufficient TO dissolve the substance pro-
vided for the plants, and as their supply
/ largely depends on the mechanical con-
/ dlt1on OF the soil the Judlcious use OF tho
! plow and cultivator will affect the yields.
Whale oil soap is something that should
| be kept in convenient place for use on
| house plants. The well-known mealy
| bug Is destroyed by solution of whale
| oil soap, if it is sprinkled on the plants,
| and it Is also an excellent preventive OF
! lice on animals Being cheap. as we'll as
harmless to plants and animals, it should
be used as often as desirable.
The striped cucumber beetle attacks
| cucum bers, melons, squaSEes Cnd pump
kins, ana is not easily destroyed. Spray
the vines with a solution made by dis
solving gill of saltpetre in gallon OF
water, and then apply fine tobacco dust
There is not a great deal of difference
in the price of meat and poultry, which
is easily digested, ought to be more on
farmers tables than it is. The staple
meat product used on the farm is pork
| That is always hard to digest, ana if more
of the vital energy expended in digest
ing pork were used il pushing farm work
and planning better methods, farming
would pay better than it does. The
; trV ha ri
only a means to make money. II it
helps to max 20 farm life more attractive it
will be no less profitable than II it added
directly to the bank account.
Farmers who have aquantity of swamp
land filled with the black muck, with
which such land usually abounds, can
often make good days work gathering
it for sale to amateur gardeners in cities.
1t is true this muck Is not nearly so val
liable as i. looks, and IL should be dosed
pretty heavily with lime to make it pro-
duce much effect the first season. But it
is black, and This TO the great majority OF
those beginning to make gardens is the
sign of exhaustiess fertility. we have
known men with loads OF this muck to
sell it at % 10 10 cents per bushel, and dis
pose of thirty to forty bushels of this
muck in two or three hours. Yet tenth
part of this bulk OF concentrated manure
would produce far better results n max
ing garden vegetables grow thrftily
There is every spring in most barn
yards quantity Of very coarse manure
that has so little plant food in it that it is
hardly worth drawing TO the fields. The
coarse manure drawn and spread on the
field early in the winter has had its solu-
BILE parts washed into the soil, and by iv-
ing on the surface it has acted as a mulch.
and il turned to the bottom of the furrow w
when plowed it will make the soil dryer
than if IL were not used. There are few
seasons when coarse manure drawn on
the field just before plowng it can do
much good. But it only takes one or two
weeks if this manure is piled in heaps
and turned tor it 10 rot down to q quarter
Of its original bulk, and it will then be a
benefit to any crop to which it may be
applied.
Professor Curtis says in Practical
DGiTynldH: "Ihe operator should under
stand that the sudden cooling of the milk
when it is at rest causes the cream to rise
The best results are secured when the
milk is cooled from $50 10 500. Or, better
yet, to 39o. Very good results Will be
obtained if the milk is even cooled to 90
with the water at 50', if held as cold at 80
Tor four hours, and the diameter of the cal
does not exceed eight inches, after which
the water may be allowed to warm up tC
600 or even more.n
+ A great many farmers defer pruning