Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-01-10
Farm and Garden Notes.
Get rid of all surplus stock.

Get rid of all surplus stock.
See that the pullets have comforts.
BILE quarters.
Sell off all hens that do not show
signs of moulting.
The early Matched pullets will lay
twice as many eggs this winter as the
old hen.
1t will pay to have the garden plo
all cleared and ready for plowing this
fall. In fact, won't it pay to plow it
as soon as the crops are off?
Those contemplating the erection of
beet sugar factories will do we'll to re-
member that for expert assistance and
management small factory will cost
quite as much as large one.
The secret of winter eggs is Hatch
the pullets early and keep them grow
ing; have warm quarters; do not crowd
too many in small place; keep them
exercising, and feed properly.
If any of our readers neglected to
repair and oil the harness last spring
when it should have been done, they
should make note of the fact and at
tend to it at the first opportunity
Again we say radical changes in the
food of animals should be made grad
ually as possible. This is especially
true of COWS, for sudden changes effect
the quality as well as the quantity of
the milk.
Corn and alfalfa go splendidly to-
gether, especially for feeding fatten-
ing animals. Corn being deficient in
protein, and alfalfa rich in the same
ingredient, serves to more nearly bal
ance the ration.
Hauling corn fodder up from the
field every few days as wanted during
the winter is, in most cases, very
slavish and unnecessary operation
No time should be lost now in getting
it into NOW or stack.
On many farms we see the stock still
tramping over the meadows as it has
done ever since haying. We never.
thought it paid to thus secure little
fall picking at the possible expense of
the hay crop the next year.
Here is the way prominent stock
man puts it, we are going to have the
best times we have seen in fifteen.
years, and the stock raising interest
will, with proper management, have
its full share in the general prosperity.
One objection urged against winter
dairying is that it is so much trouble
to raise the calves when they cannot
be turned out on pasture This diff
ficulty is not serious one if you have
good, warm barn, clover hay and
ensilage.
Those of our readers who took our
advise and saw that the pigs and shoats
received through the summer fair
proportion of bone and muscle form
ing foods, have now a staunch frame
upon which to lay the fat produced by
a corn diet.
Professor Plumb hit the nail fairly
on the head when he wrote that the
farmers of Indiana ought not to allow
pound of skim milk to go to waste
from the creameries or farm dairies.
1t can be fed to great profit to grow
ing pigs, for it will assist in rapid flesh
development. What is true of skim
milk in Indiana is equally true of it
elsewhere.
The use of butter which contains
neither salt nor coloring matter is said
to be increasing in New York to such
an extent that it may now be obtained
at some of the best hotels and restau-
rants, while other houses are using
butter containing about half the usual
salt. OF course, customers can sea-
son the fresh butter to suit their own
individual tastes. Hebrews are the
largest consumers of unsalted butter.
A bunch of hungry hogs will do
good job turning and fining coarse,
straw manure if some grain is sown
upon it. Occasionally, their roofing
propensities may be utilized in other
ways. A Maine farmer is said to re-
move stumps by fencing them in, MAX
ing holes under them with crowbar,
placing grain in holes and turning
hogs into the enclosure. In roofing
among the roots, the hogs are said to
root the stumps out by the roots.