Year: 1876

farm ana Garden.


Necessity of Green Food to Fowls.


The last requisite in the shape of
diet is a regular supply Of green food.
Here, again, fowls kept on grass will
need no attention; but for birds
penned up, the daily provision of it is
an absolute necessity, though most be-
ginners are ignorant of it. We well
remember, in our own early expe.
rience, how our fowls died, we could
not at first tell why and one fine buff
Cochin cock, whose only fault was
strong-yulture hook, was, in articu-
lar, greatly regretted. An expe.
rienced friend let us into the secret {;
and after that we had no difficulty in
keeping fowls, even where it is often
said they cannot be kept in health
viz, in a yard paved with large flag
stones. The best substitute for nat
urai grass is large fresh turf thrown
in daily to each four or five hens and
even in towns it is often possible to
procure this, by giving children a few
pence every week to keep up a regular
supply. Where turf is not allowed to
be taken, grass may be cut or pulled ;
but in this case must be cut into green
chaff, with shears or a shaff-machine
The latter plan is how we actually
managed for years in yard only 81 by
IS feet, divided into six pens paying
some child few pence to bring fresh.
cut grass daily, cutting it up and mix
ing it with their soft meat.-EX.


Hints About Work.


Hard work is the only remedy for
hard times. By hard work we do not
mean necessarily back-breaking, mus.
cle.straining labor. A man might
work very hard digging garden that
could just as we'll be ploWed; or he
might work hard breaking the Jumps
of manure on the land by hand that
could just as we'll be broken to- pieces
with harrow. We mean by hard
work, effective work. We mean labor
that tells.


Hard work is doing what your reason
and your better Judgment tell you
ought to be done, and doing it prompt.
ly, at the right time, whether you feel
like it OF not.


Laying Plans and writing down what
you intend to do and how to do it, is
often the hardest kind of work for a
farmer.


1t is no use laying plans unless you
carry them out. Read over what you
have written down. Make up your
mind what ought to be done first, and
then go at it and stick to it until it is
done.


The best hired men are the Cheap.
est. This is true whether you board
your men or let them board them
selves; but it is especially true in the
former case. Better give a good man
1925 a month and board than a poor
man $18 and board. 1t is worth $40 a
month to board a man. One will cost
you $35 month and the other 1923,
while good, skillful, reliable, expe-
rienced farm hand will accomplish
twice the work Of the stupid, careless
man who cares nothing for your inter-
est and thinks about nothing but his
money and his dinner.


Give the Boys Work, and take pains
to teach them. 1t is to this source,
that we must look for our best farm
men.


Furnish the Boys Good Tools. Do
not work them too hard. Do not i'm.
pose upon them, and thus disgust them
with farming. A boys sense of just.
ice is very keen. Do not let the farm
men order the boys about, and make
them run errands, and do all the disa-
greeab!e things.


Balky Horses.


The Kentucky Home Journal gives
the following directions for breaking
up the baking of a viciously stubborn
horse: ''Put on your harness and hitch
him to anything you desire, either sin.
gle or double, as you feel disposed,
and give him the commanding word to
90 ahead. If he goes, you have moth
ing to do or say but let him 60 on and
do your work; but if he refuses to go,
take him out Immediately. take all the
harnoce off oxcnnt the hridla and take