Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-24
FARM AND GARDEN No1rs.

| FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Do not let tho pigs monopolizo MI
the "clabber-milk. Your fowls like
it, md it is good for them.
Put tincture of iron, n teaspoonful
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 littlo danger Of injury
from it.
Do not neglect to provide pure
water for the chicken yards. Tho
drinking vessels should DO cleaned
every day.
If you arc going to pack eggs fol-
winter nsc, select those from hens with
which tho cocks have not run. Eggs
| containing no germs keep much better
| than others. --;lasi
Some have an idea that tho muscle
of a colt grown on milk Is not so firm
rs that of ono fed on grain alone.
This may be true, but we are not in
clined to that opinion.
It is an old maxim that tho 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 tho bed.
Use as much MS may DO 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.
quently happens that n greater loss
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. il 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
mercial acids can compare with it.
An excellent fertilizer for grape
vines is to break bones into pieces and
mix them with unleached wo ID ashes,
keeping the mixture damp with soap
suds. Dig around tue vines and use
the mixture liberally. Tho bones
alone, buried around the vines, are ex-
cellunt.
Six per cent. of tho butter fat is
lost when it comes to tho churning if
the cream is permitted to become too
sour. The fat is not destroyed in
some mysterious way, but it simply
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. Tt may he In tho selection
OF the COWS, in the quarters and caro-
given them, in tho way tho milking is
done, or in the place which is pro-
vided for keeping the milk and doing
the churning.
Do not put sweet and sour and
every other kind of cream together
when you go to ripen it. If it must
be held over to have sufficient for
churning the next day, let it be kept
as gweet rs 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 rs to start them
laying early in the spring. If you
don't raise ducks it would pay you to
investigate. z They do not occasion rs
much trouble rs some folks think, and
there's money in them.
Neither atmospheric change nor tho
quantity of electricity during the
thunder showers causes tho milk to
sour, but the bacteria to which we
nov attribute tho souring of milk
grow and multiply best during the
warm, sultry period immediately pre-
ceding electrical storms.
Cows milk is almost at tho 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 tie
sytem at different stages. de finds
that the younger animals contain
much more iron than adults.