Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31
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Supply good Sroen stun 10 poultry.
Give the chicks little corn these
cold nights.
Straw. leaves or ehaff mako "A cool
scratching door.
The corn row will not be straight il
you look behind you.
,Any skim or bphLarinilk Won can
spare will be appreciated byAhn fowls.
II yon plant your crop at tho VILLAGE
store you viii not find much of il at
harvest time.
An overcoat OF wet snow is OF no
benefit 60 sheep. IL improves neither
wool Lor carcass.
Plat memorial trees OF the birth
days and your children will always
have n monument.
II nine-tenths of the dogs tails were
cut OF up to the ears the country
would be better off u thousand fold.
Fresh meat, oil meal, cut bone or
something of that sort adds variety Co
the feed aud gives tone 60 the system.
If you so without new suit OF
clothes this winter and buy thorough
bredsbuIl calf he will buy new clothes
for all the family n few years from
now.
1t is mistake TO turn ha!f.grown
calves with COWS in n common pasture.
Calves that have been taken from their
dams when young will often months
later earn to suckle COWS to which
they have access.
To protect apple trees from borers
and rabbits, the most successful of
many methods tried is to take common
barn paint. thick enough TO be easily
applied, and add 1 pounds pulverized
copperas for each gallon. Mix thor
oughly and apply. 1t will last two
years.
. Farming is by no means an exact
science. Like medicine, it is the
growth OF centuries of experience and
the experience of farmers under
similar conditions, climates soils and
circumstances is worth far more than
the experience of farmers not similarly
circumstanced.
As health measure, where large
numbers OF fowls are compelled Go
range on limited inclosure, air-slaked
lime should DO literally used. Let it
DC scattered late in tho evening after
the chickens have gone 60 roost. It
will greatly counteract tho decomposing
matter whichis so deleterious.
1t is better practice TO prune the an.
pie trees In the spring time when tho
leaves are we'll started; the wounds
then heal. more CIicklyand efe,tuallv.
The extremes OF winter Teather are
sufficiently exhaustive to the tree
without having any superauous de.
mauds made upon its vital forces.
Dry corn cobs do not burn with a
very fierce flame, but saturnte two or
three OF them with kerosene oil and
they will easily light fire. They are
the very best material for this purpose,
as they will hold more oil than any
kind of wood. 1t is by saturating
something with kerosene oil that this
should always be used for kindling
fires.
A farmers methods of farming can
be pretty fairly estimated by hunting
up his plows and harrows, his drills
and rakes and binders, in the winter
time. IL these are found in the fieldg.
or even IN tho barnyard, unprotected
from the snow aud rain and sunshine.
you may pretty certainly conclude that
the farmer is not-a good model, and is
not getting rich.
The best water troughs arc Of wood,
the usual shape. and made to hold a
bucketful OF water. Troughs become
Shiny after a while, but may easily be
washed with soap-suds and IN old
broom. II costs but small sum to
make trough, hence new one should
be made every year. The trough should
be filed every morning, but should be
rinsed before filing.
The danger OF Transmitting tuber-
culos's from man TO COWS is empha-
sized by all fair minded experts. The
expectoration Of consumptive persons
if licked up by cattle may impart the
disease. Too much Gaze cannot be
taken by consumptives to avoid such a
result. This is another fact demon
strating the impossibility o. stamping
put tuberculosis entirely.