The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-06
NOTES FOR THE FARMER.

the surplus stock OF cockerelS.
II you we're wise you sent the old hens
to market before they began to mott.
Do not tolerate cross fowl in the
flock. One lighting hen will torment the
whole lot.
Never dump the grain down to the
fowls. Broadcast it. So that all will have
an equal chance.
of your wheat than to fed it to your
hens Wheat is the egg food
See that your houses have fresh dirt
in them for the winter. 1t will pay to
haul load Of road dust in each pen.
If you keep bantams for the children,
have separate run for them. They are
nuisance among large fowls.
One reason why western farms suffer
from drought is because much of the land
is getting poor from bad tillage.
Storm windows and doors on a farm
house will make it Just as comfortable
as they will make city house
If you can spare a day. better get to
WhiteWashing the coOps. They win stand
whitewashing every spring and fall.
A little sulphur in the soft food will
purify the blood, but it must never be
given during damp or rainy weather.
Clean the drinking fountains again.
Scald them with boiling water in which
you have put tablespoonful of washing
soda.
Sell hogs when the market is best and
keeping hogs until they weigh so many
pounds.
If the cocllerels got in a fight and tore
each others combs, nothing is better for
the wounds than vasaline or some petro-
leum jelly.
err this winter than last, you had better
get at them now, for cold weather is
near at hand.
The colds that killed the fruits of
Florida also killed innumerable insects,
and it now looks as if the supposed mis-
fortune was u blessing in disguise.
There are two things on the farm that
are an eXhaustless mine in compare
lively small way: The dairy and poultry.
Manage them rightly and they will pay.
Those neighborhoods which support
farmers institutes, are found 10 attain
higher degree of success in farming.
That means better homes and higher
vaiue of farm lands.
One direction in which a great deal of
progress can be made toward making
a home attractive is in getting good
lamps in place of the old lamps that are
little better than a taliow dip.
Lots of men are dragging out miser-
able existence under three hundred and
twenty acres and a mortgage. If they
could get out from under, and get on top
of clear forty acres, they could live
like kings.
The folks who talk about the bicycle
pelhS Supplantef oil tne morse forget
that nearly all the people who ride Di-
cycles are young folks who never owned
horses and wouldn't think of keeping a
horse II there were no bicycles.
When the farmer boy finds that his
state agricultural college is not doing IT'S
level best TO make the department of
agriculture look Insignificant in COMPARE
son with other departments he will think
more OF the college and patronize it bet
ter
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light and air-they are elements essential
to the highest degree of success. The
porker likes comfort, but don't care for
style. he will give as good results under
rail roof with straw over it as under
the most expensive slate roof.
The best time to change from poor
stock to good is always now. 1t will not
pay TO feed dear grain to poor stock
Prices of stock have advanced and will
advance more another. year, but in all
YanceS than any other, and sooner. Breed
from the best.
An Illinois breeder has figured it out
that corn fodder, when in the barn or
stack, costs him S1.44 per ton. and four
tons of it are equal in feeding value to
three tons of the best timothy hay He
puts ii through a husker and also d cut
ter, but most farmers believe that
shredded fodder is superior to cut
Farming can hardly be said to be over
potatoes every year. During the year 1S9s
we imported 2S6S. 221 bushels at cost of
81, 205,416. Most of our imported potatoes
come from Germany, whose aggregate
of the United States.
A California lady. who was greatly
troubled by her neighbors' chickens, fast
ened grains of corn to the end of a
thread, and attached to the other end
card bearing this: Keep your chickens
at home" The chickens swallowed the
corn, and took the card home for their
owner to read.
With the horse power at command on
any farm it pays to feed a good part
of the grains after grinding. The cost
of grinding is scarcely an element to be
considered after the necessary machin-
cry is once placed ON the farm. A little
experience along this line is sure to
teach any careful feeder some useful
lessons.
that more Importance is not given to
cultivating the fast walk in the horse; it
is the valuable gait for nearly every
sphere of practical usefulness, not only
on the farm, but on the road and street
About all the heavy work is done on the
walk, and in riding the fast walker is
greatly preferred. Don't train the colt
too long with the old logger.
Winter apples are better on the trees so
long as there is no danger of severe
weather. l have always found this to be
SO, and then, when 1 pick them, | store
them in crates and place them in an out
house uitil severe weather comes when
they are sorted and placed in the cellar.
The apples in the topmost part of the
tree can be reached by a ladder placed
up IN the tree.
To destroy stumps, bore hole one or
two inches in diameter, according to the
size of the tree, and eighteen inches deep.
Put in one and one-half ounces of salt
peter. Fill with water and plug up
closely. In six months put in the same
hole half a gill of kerosene oil, and then
light it. The stump will Smolder away
without blazing, even down to every part
of the roots, leaving nothing but ashes.
Grapes Sre plentiful and cheap, and
they should be freely eaten. The notion
that they somtimes cause appendicitis
has been refuted by some of the highest
are as harmless as any kind of fruit; not
only harmless, but they are actually
wholesome to most people. Don't be
afraid of good ripe grapes, especially if
more solid articles of diet
The average fowl will go on laying as
long as eggs are cheap, but with rise
in price she instantly shuts down on pro-
auction This is decidedly aggraVating,
of course. but instead OF getting angry
and abusing her as an ungrateflll bird,
we should set to work to gain her af>
fections-and eggs-by little. coddling.
After all, she may be in the right.
Would we in her place try to lay for an
owner who permitted the cold air to
stream through every crack and assure
right on our shivering bodies? Would
we not rather expend the sc1nty food we
are receiving as fuel to withstand the
wintry blasts?
The idea that the farmer is to be moth
ing but a slave to toll, poor clothes and
long hours, and must have a Wrinkled
and wearied visage is fast passing away