The record-union., 1895-01-10

several ways of doing it, and they are
practical. They can be pitted like APP
pies, covering somewhat more lightly
and leaving a chance for Ventilation at
the top. Or they can be spread IN dry
loft, piled up a foot or more high, and at
the approach of severe weather covered
with straw, hay or mating. Light freeZ-
ing does not hurt them, if they are al
lowed to thaw gradually and not handled
while frozen; but if exposed to temper
ature lower than 150 above zero they are
liable to rot. They can be wintered in
slitted barrels and in crates and baskets
in the cellar quite successfully.
FARM NOTES.
Hogs are still in the lead in total value
of meat exports. They retain their place
as the great national bill payers.
A large sheep firm in Illinois raised
during the past season "a, 600 bushels of
turnips at cost of TT cents per bushel,
in addition to the cost Of sowing the seed.
Any soils that can be plowed in winter,
during mild periods, Will be be benefited
by the frost, which VIII reduce the
Jumps and clods better than it can be
done with implements.
A gentleman of Nebraska claims to
have a Lincoln lamb ram l6 weeks old
that weighs 102 pounds, and that he made
this gain on his mothers milk and grass.
There Is nearly pound for each day OF
life.
If the tops of asparagus are left they will
scatter seeds over the whole bed. In the
spring it will be found that these seeds
VIII germinate and cause annoyance. 1t
Will be an advantage to cut down the
tops and burn the whole bed over.
Even the smallest proportion of green
food OF any kind will be appreciated by
stock IN winter. On warm days few
hours on rye will prove beneficial as a
change of diet. Cooked turnips should
be given at least twice week as a change.
The building of a creamery in a neigh
borhood often conduces to more profit in
stock keeping. Besides affording a
market for the dairy products, it not in
frequently is a means of education up to
better methods of feeding and caring for
the products.
There is wide range between good
dairy cows and the average. The average
cow in the United States make l30 pounds
OF butter per year, while the good dairy
COW yields from 800 to 400 pounds. There
are whole dairy herds that make 400
pounds per cow annually.
For the farm, for the road, and for
every kind OF practical work the fast
walking horse is a valuable animal We
wonder W hen horsemen will awake and
pay some attention to the DEVELOPMENT
craze run away with your judgment.
The United States is said to be the
greatest sugar-consuming nation in the
world. The worlds total product of
sugar made from sugar-cane and beets
was 6,5O0,000 tons. OF this the United
States consumed about l 900, 900 tons, or
more than four-tifths of the whole pro-
duct.
The horse trots faster with a pneu-
matte tire, not only because he has less
weight to draw, but because there is lost
that vibration which is usually carried
along the shafts TO the horses body.
These vibrations weary his muscles and
hamper his movements to a considerable
extent.
The Government of the United States
took hand in road building for the first
forty years of its existence. The Cum
berland pike, crossing the States of Mary
land, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
ONO and extending to Illinois, costing
over ST, 100000, was the work of the Cen
eral Government.
}. V. Strong, Adams County, Indiana,
has Holstein-Friesianc cow that gave
eight gallons of milk per day, and made
eighteen pounds of butter on a weeks
test OF fair average feeding. He thinks
this COW at four or five years will make
tWenty-one pounds of butter a week on
good feeding ration.
A cord of farmyard manure weighs
upon an average about three tons. The
pIant-fOod supplied in one cord is. there
fore, about as follows: Nitrogen, twenty
seven pounds; phosphoric acid, fifteen
pounds, and potash, twenty-four pounds.
common tWO-horse CARLOAD weighs
usually about one ton.
We incline to the opinion that the farm
ers are becoming inclined TO depend too
much on scientists for their KNOWLEDGE of
their business. The testimony of the soil
should be studied. This is only another
name for experiment. Practice with sci
ence Is still called for to bring our work
to the most successful results.
Professor Hansen of Iowa, who has
been travelling in Russia, writes that he
hnds on the Moscow marks cts great uuan-
titles of the Vladimir cherries. The trees
may be called large bushes as grown
there. Often they are grown with several
stems like a bush. These bush-cherry
orchards are source of great profit.
The following is highly recommended
rs a remedy for diarrhea in sheen: Pre-
pared chaIk, one ounce; catechu, four
drains; ginger, two drains: opium. one
and half drains, to be mixed with a
hali-pInt of peppermint water and kent
bottled for use. When needed. shake
well, and give lamb a teaspoonful twice
day; grown sheep twice as much.
1t may be disputed whether it is neces-
sary TO warm water for older animals, but
all young stock should have water with
the chill taken off of it to drink in win
ter. The digestion of young animals is
weak, and drinking ice-cold water makes
1t worse. 1t Is this cold water that makes
rough, staring coats on calves and colts.
no matter how well they may be fed.
Fowls need great variety of food, and
IN winter, When confined to close quar-
ters, this must be supplied. When we
take into consideration that an egg con-
tains all the essentials necessary to form
ilVIng chick we can see more clearly the
Necessity OF feeding variety. Animal
food Is very necessary, but must be fed
with care, as too much is as bad as NOT
enough.
Cheap animal foods are the best sub-
stances Tor Inducing the hens TO Law.
Beef, hog or sheep liver will pay well for
the purpose. Hens require rich food in
aIDumen Wnen they are laying, and if fed
exclusively on grain will fail to produce
suLlclent eggs to give the owner profit.
Clover hay, chopped line and scalded. is
also an excellent food, and assists in I1ro-
Viding variety.
1t is true Of all poor stock that it is
never profitable, and it is especially truo
OF sheep. Weed out closely. The most
important point in successful vinto
AI@AioS VI IHo HOCk Is 10 D6gln with
strong ana healthy animals. Sheep need
to be cared for in different mannar
from most other farm stock, and there ia
more knack than luck in keeping them
in good condition through the winter
This is an age Of sanitary laws in rela-
ton to the marketing OF diseased stock
The Chicago Live Stock Exchange nre.
vents any OF its members, under penalty.
from dlsposlng or weighing OF any ami
maj apparently affected with lumpy jaw
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