The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-01-21
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Do not let the pigs monopolizo all
the ''clabber- milk" Your fowls like
1T, and it is good for them.
Put tincture of iron. teaspoonfuI
to the gallon of water, in the drinking
water of the fowls. 1t is an excellent
tonic.
Skinned milk is an excellent feed
for growing colts. They relish it, aud
there is but little danger of injury
from it.
Do not neglect to provide pure
water for the chicken yards. Tho
drinking vessels should be cleaned
every day.
If you are going to pack eggs for
winter use, select those from hens with
which the cocks have not run. Eggs
containing no germs keep much better
than others.
Some have an idea that the muscle
OF colt grown on milk Is not so firm
rs that of one fed on grain alone.
This may he true, but We are not in
cllned to that opinion.
1t is an old maxim that tho farmer
is fnrthest from market who has moth
ing to sell. This may be, but is he
my worse of when tho common roads
are so bad that he cannot market his
products?
Clcan of the asparagus bed before
the seeds are fully matured, if posi-
BILE, then spread manure over the bed.
Use MS much as may be preferred. rs
tho result next spring depends on tho
fertility of the plot.
Close confinement and no exercise
may cause loss of appetite. Some
writers claim that exercise causes loss
IN weight, which is true, but it fire..
qucntly happens that greater loss
results from close confinement and
indigestion.
Thousands of farmers are keeping
cows which do not pay for their keen.
and thousands more do not keep their
cows so that there is any profit result
ing from them. II it pays to do any
thing well in any line. it is in butter
making on the farm
Bacteria, those microscopic forms
of plant life which produce the ripen.
ing changes in cream, not only grow
and increase with alarming rapidity.
but each exudes minute drops of acid.
which is so sour that mono of the com.
mcrcial acids can compare with it.
An excellent fertilizer for CRANE
vines is to break bones into pieces and
mix them with unleachod ood ashes.
keeping the mixture damp with SOAP.
suds Dig around tue vines and use
tho mixture literally. The bones
alone, buried around the vines, are ex.
cellunt.
Six per cent OF tho butter fat is
lost when 1t comes to the churninp if
the cream is permitted TO become too
sour. The fat is not DESTROYED in
some mysterious way, but it simpIv
fails TO como out of the buttermilk.
Truly, most of our losses come from
lack Of care
1t is not always the housewives fault
that creamery butter can outstrip her
IN prices. It may be IN tho selection
OF the cows, in tho quarters and cnro
gwen them, in the way tho milking is
done, or in the place which Is pro-
yldcd for keeping the milk and doing
the churning.
DO not put sweet and sour and
every other kind OF cream together
when you 90 TO ripcn it. II il must
he held over TO have sufficient for n
churning the next day, let it be kent
ms sweet rs possible until the next
cream comes from the separator. and
ripcn all together
Provide good winter quarters for
yonr ducks and feed plenty of grain
during tho winter, so as to start them
laying early in the spring. If Won
don't raise ducks it would pay Won To
investigate. aThey do not occasion rs
much trouble rs some folks think, and
there's money in them.
Neither atmospheric change nor the
quantity of electricity during tho
thunder showers causes the milk IN
sour, but the bacteria TO which vo
nov attribute the souring Of milk
grow and multiply best during tho
warm, sultry period immediately pre-.
ccding electrical storms.
Cows milk is almost at tho b,ttor,
OF the list Of the food substances that
contain iron. As it is so important 10
infant life, Professor Bunee has beon
led to experiment on animals 70 see in
what proportion iron is present in tho
sytem at different stages. He finds
that tho younger an1m@ls contain
much more iron than adults