The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-05
ABOUT THE FARM.

A cleel stall makes clean COW,
and a clean COW makes clean milk, and
clean milk makes good butter,
It is said that 100 sheep regularly
folded will fertilize eight acres Of land
in one year so as to increase the yield
100 per cent
The stock Of hogs kept on the farm
may be expected to improve or retro
grade, according to the ability with
which they are managed.
Don't get the idea that high color
ing of butter can make an inferior
grade bring a first-class price. 1t
won't work on the same customer but
once.
The records show that the United
States now export annually about 25,-
900 pounds less cheese than fifteen or
sixteen years ago. Last year showed
n further decrease.
The Germantown Telegraph says
that, If a cheese factory is located In
q good dairy district and farmers per-
sist in sending only inferior milk to
1t, the closing of that factory is only a
question Of time
Observe regular hours in feeding.
says a writer. The stock that Is fed
at stated times soon learn not to look
for feed at any other time and is more
contented than It would be II fed
whenever IL comes handiest.
1t is very easy to keep a customer
for your butter product IL you can give
him an article Of fine quality and one
that is uniformly so. A good lot to-
do nd 60 xxyiIl
ruin your reputation in any market.
A writer says he knows a man who
made $4,000 breeding and feeding
swine, but he did not know enough to
stick to the business. He is now
pauper. The hog is a better friend to
the pocketbook, years together, than
almost any other stock.
1t is believed that to this date some
60,000,000 bushels of wheat have been
fed to live stock, chiefly to hogs, and
that If wheat remains low and corn
continues at good prices, 10000, 900 to
90,000,000 bushels of this years wheat
crop will be fed to domestic animals.
Most all of our weed pests are an
nuals, and we are to blame for their
temperance because we let them go
to seed yearly. Even the dreaded
Russian thistle is of this class, and
can be got rid of If fought persistently
in this manner. determination is the
word for all our "tares."
1t is quite possible to feed bees in
the winter on sugar syrup, and to take
most of the honey in the fall. Sugar
is much cheaper than honey, pound
for pound, and honey is more than half
water. The purest white sugar is used
and boiled to thin syrup. This pre-
vents souring, which would otherwise
occur and would be fatal to the bees,
as it produces dysentery.
Give the hogs the run Of a pasture,
with good water and comfortable
quarters to sleep, and feed ground,
soaked feed, and there will be hand
some profit on the investment. II
hogs are kept up in a small lot and
fed on dry corn alone, and that shovel
ed out in mud, dirt and cobs and drop
pings from the herd, you need not ex-
pect to come out without loss.
An exchange says We have dug
several sugar beets, weight four
pounds and over. Suppose we raised
four-pound beet on every two square
feet of ground on an acre; that would
be equal to $4,000 pounds At 1914 per
cent. Of sugar that amount would give
10000 pounds of sugar. At four cents
per pound this would be worth S400.
An example of the enormous de-
crease of the value of farm lands in
England is afforded by a recent sale
| of 5000 acres for IS an acre. The
same land was sold thirty years age
! for $40 an acre. The land tax and the
! tithes which are collected for the sup
! port OF the church amount to so per
cent. of the rent paid for the use of the
land at the present time.
1t is estimated that the Arabs have
two methods of estimating what will
be the height of horses. BY the first
cord is stretched from the nostri
over the ears and down along the neck
this distance is compared with thai
from the withers to the feet; the coll
will grow as much taller as the frs
distance exceeds the second. By thu
other method the distance between the
knee and the withers is compared witt
that from the knee to the coronet. 1
it has reached the proportion of two II
one, the horse will grow no taller