Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-24
rAnM AND eAnnEN Norrs.

Do not let the pigs monopolizo all
the ''clabber-milk. Your fowls like
it, and it is good for them.
Put tincture of iron. teaspoonrul
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, and
there is but little danger of injury
from it.
Do not neglect to provide pure
water for the chicken yards. The
drinking vessels should DO cleaned
every day.
If you are going to pack eggs fol
winter use, select those from hens with
which the cocks have not run. Eggs
containing no germs keen much better
than others.
Some have an idea that the muscle
of colt grown on milk Is not so firm
as that of one fed on grain alone.
This may be true, but We are not in
clined to that opinion.
It is an old maxim that the farmer
is farthest from market who has moth
ing to sell. This may be, but is he
any worse off when the common roads
are so bad that he cannot market his
products?
Clean off the asparagus bed before
the seeds are fully matured, if posi-
BILE, then spread manure over the bed.
Use as much rs may be preferred, as
the result next spring depends on the
fertility of the plot.
Close confinement and no exercise
may cause loss of appetite. Some
writer's claim that exercise causes loss
in weight, which is true, but it fire.
quently happens that greater loss
results from close confinement and
indigestion.
Thousands of farmers are keeping
COWS which do not pay for their keep,
and thousands more do not keep their
COWS so that there is any profit result
ing from them. j 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 THAI mono of the COM
mercial acids can compare with it,
An excellent fertilizer for grape
vines is to break bones into pieces and
mix them with unleached wood ashes,
keeping the mixture damp with soap
suds. Dig around tue vines and use
the mixture literally. The bones
alone, buried around the vines, are ex-
cellent.
Six per cent. Of the butter fnt is
lost when it comes to the churning if
the cream Is permitted to become too
sour. The fat is not destroyed In
some mysterious way, but it simply
fails to come 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. 1t may be IN tho selection
OF the COWS, in the quarters and care
given them, In the way the milking is
done, or in the place which IS pro-
vided for keeping the milk and doing
VIC OhNA AthEs
Do not put sweet and sour and
evc-y other kind of cream together
wher you go to ripen it. If it must
be held over to have sufficient for a
churning the next day, let it be kept
as sweet as possible until the next
cream comes from the separator, and
ripen all together.
Provide good winter quarters for
your ducks and feed plenty OF grain
during the winter, so as to start them
laying early in the spring. If you
don't raise ducks it would pay YOU to
investigate. q They do not occasion as
much trouble as some folks think, and
there's money In them.
Neither atmospheric change nor the
quantity of electricity during the
thunder showers causes the milk to
sour, but the bacteria to which we
nov attribute the souring of milk
grow and multiply best during the
warm, sultry period Immediately pre-
ceding electrical storms.
Cows milk is almost at the bottom
OF the list of the food substances that
contain iron. As it is so important to
infant life, Professor Bunge has been
led to experiment on animals to see in
what proportion iron is present in the
sytem at different stages. He finds
that the younger animals contain
much more iron than adults.