The Democratic advocate., 1896-04-04
Facts for the Farmer.

The best time to transfer bees from one
hive to another is about the season of
swarming; but, if care is taken, it may be
done on any warm afternoon when the bees
are actively at work.
At recent public sale in one of the
Kentucky counties, says the Philadelphia
Record, dairy cows sold for better aver
age than trotting bred horses. This shows
there are not enough COWS, and too many
trotters. The former make money all the
year around The horses would better be
bred up to larger and more useful type.
Professor Armsby, at the Pennsylvania
Station, ascertained for number of horses
during ten days that, making allowance for
manure dropped outside of the stable,
horse annually produces about 1880
pounds Of fresh manure, which can be
saved, aud requires for bedding $500
pounds of straw.
Because viewed from different points,
many differ on the feed question for dairy
cattle, and experiment stations burden us
with innumerable tables, formulas and
rations. 1t cannot be an exact science
because purposes, prices and locations differ.
As much as possible we should feed that
which we can produce.
Many man who is making dairying
side issue, and much neglected one at
that, by keeping few iIl-cared-for cows
on a good sized farm, is astonished at the
man who can keep a goodly number on a
few acres. The whole secret is in the
man and his intensified farming. No item
necessary to success is lost sight Of,
The spores of smut will live long time
in the ground or in manure, and every
care should bee taken to destroy them.
Cut out every disease stalk before it has
time to Eipen and resow itself. One pre-
venttve is to select the seed before husk.
ing time; taken from the crib it viii very
likely have come in contact with infected
corn.
Why not make record Of when each
vegetable was planted, leaving space be-
side it for the date when you began to use
it, and how long it lasted. Such record
viii be very valuable guide for next year,
and will do more than aught else to show
you the need for succession in the garden.
The Nebraska Farmer very aptly says
that it is nature way to permit Of no stop
offs on the route travelled by the pig from
the farrowing nest to the packing house.
and that regular development must occur
for the highest profit. Feeding the dam
is said to be feeding the pigs, and the food
of the mother should be prepared in view
Of this fact
Milk, as a food for the young animal,
is largely producer of heat. Sugar of
milk is found nowhere else in nature, and
its feeding value is like that Of fat Casein
and albumen of milk are nitrogenous and
flesh-formers, and the materials out of
which come the animal tissues, also the
fats The water ohviates the dangers from
concentrated food.
Hardwood ashes are an excellent fertl-
izer for every crop grown, lacking ofcourse,
the nitrogen needed to make complete
food for plants. Ashes are excellent for
grass and clover, all the vegetables grown
in gardens, and for corn. They may be
applied in any quantity up to forty bush
els per acre, aud at any time of the year.
Without doubt great deal of beef goas
to the market which has cost more to pro-
duce than it will sell for The Virginia
station made an attempt to test the matten
and, feeding eighteen steers for a period of
five weeks, found the cost a pound of in-
crease in lived weight varied from eight to
twenty-five cents What can be expected
from the unsystematic feeding by the un-
skilled farmer? Guess work must be given
up for the scales
There is cheap netting which Is ex-
tensively used in Europe for covering yalu
able fruits as defense against the birds.
This netting is made of stout fax threads
and soaked in strong astringent liquid to
add to its durability 1t is sold for one
cent square yard where it is made. 1t
is something of a mystery why it has not
come into more common use in this coun-
try