The state herald., 1910-11-25

temperature of not over 160 degrees
Fahrenheit, bottled and sealed while
hot, will usually, II kept In a uniform
ly warm temperature, keep liquid for
year or more. But there is q great
difference In honey. Some will candy
much more quickly than others. Cold
atmosphere is quite favorable to
candying OF both extracted and comb
honey. Cellars and cold rooms are
poor places for honey.
AZ pasture for pigs in the produc-
ton of pork and for the feeding OF
brood sows during winter, branch
OF farming which so often goes hand
In hand with dairying, alfalfa cannot
be too highly recommended. In fact,
for all animals on the farm-horses,
cattle, sheep. swine and poultry-al-
falfa is well nigh Indispensable. II
corn is king. alfalfa is surely king OF
kings.
Where gullies have been formed by
soil washing during the summer 1t Is
well to fill them as early as possible
in the fall while the leaves are still
on the brush with which they are
filed.
Horses at pasture will need no other
protection than a shed II they have
enough to eat Cold, dry weather will
not injure stock as much as cold rains
and damp. foggy weather.
Young cattle and dry COWS should
not be haltered up in close stables dur
ing the winter: give them roomy
shed with hard dirt floor. Bed heay-
lily with straw or leaves.
This years sprouts may be pulled
from the peach trees with the hands II
II is done this fall. when II should be,
which will save considerable work
next spring
The average annual honey yield per
colony for the entire country should
be from 25 to 30 pounds of comb
honey or 40 to so pounds OF extracted
honey.
The COW that wanders over bare pas.
lures and looks wistfully at growing
crops she cannot reach. is not happy
nor contented. and will not produce
we'll
The men who have followed diver
sified farming for years rarely ever
are pinched with crop failure be-
cause OF a variety OF products for an
income.
An occasional handful OF oil meal
will do the horses good. especially II
their main grain IA corn. The pea,size
oil cake is handiest for this purpose.
Wheat sown too late TO come up the
year It is sown. II the soil still con.
tains some warmth. will start to
sprout in the ground and take root.
Many a colt has been spoiled by In.
discriminate pettlng and handling. Let
the master pet and govern the young
sters until they know who Is boss.
Like the strawberry, little more
pains should be taken when setting
asparagus plants In the fall. TO get
them well mulchod before winter
Old raspberry.canos should be re.
moved from tho patch before the
freeze-up and the new vines mulched
with oatstraw or barnyard litter,
Those old hens which have Just com.
pleted n tnrdy molt win fatten now.
Cast up their egg account and make
up their deficiencies with meat
II never pays to starvc a colt Thlr,
" bushels Of oats will coat about $40
and bo worth twice that much TO any
wollbrod colt next winter
Tho constitution and general sound.
ness Of the farm horse very much dc.
pends upon the treatment he receives
during the winter
Wheat. or amy other OF the grasses
will not do their best unless N. seed.
bed IL worked down To fno aud CON.
pact condition,
After weaving the foal. the young
animal should not be neglected and
permitted TO rough Il the iirHt winter.
Carrots. potatoes. boets md other
root crops should be dug m soon nv
possible now, dried. and stored In the
cellar
Every farmer will admit that good
new fence on the farm II beautiful
and useful
There In nothing quite 20 good M
fne brush 20 catch and hold soil wash
Altar bUinF built tho fonro muHt RI