Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1881 — Farm and Workshop Notes. [ARTICLE]

Farm and Workshop Notes.

Young cows do not give as rich milk as do those of mature age. A lean cow gives poor milk and a fat one rich milk- * » 4 J Keep sheep dry under foot. This is even more necessary than roofing them. Never letsheep stand or lie in mud or water. There was a white frost and a thin formation of ice in Ban Francisco Nov. 19, and at the same time orange trees were laden with flowers aud fruit. A farmer ol experience in wool growing says that there is more money in growiug wool at even twenty cents per pound than in loaning money at 10 per cent, interest. If tbp owner of a cow will realize the fact that unless she pays him in clear cash $44.50 yearly she is kept at a loss, he will soon become interested in the subject of the improvement of cows. Pear blight has in several instances been arrested in affected trees by syringing them with a weak solution of potash, and in some cases it has proved a preventive when applied to the healthy trees. One reason why our wheat crops are only about half as much per acre as in England is because the British-former employs sheep as grain growers, while with us sheep are only considered as wool or mutton makers. Both for its effect upon fattening and upon health a small amount of wood ashes should be given to swine. The food-without this is rich in phosphoric acid,' but has little lime, aud the equivalent should be thus supplied. Too much attention can not be paid to the cleanliness and ventilation of stables and pens. To insure the health and comfort of animals they must be kept dry and warm, and have plenty of light as well as pure air and pure water.' | ’ A lady correspondent of the Coubtry Gentleman claims that by dipping the joint or fleshy ends of Turkey, geese or chicken wings into astrong solution of copperas they are made moth-proof, as well as more durable than when treated in the ordinary way. To get a gear wheel off'a shaft upon which it has been sunk, take it to the foundry and pour some melted iron around the hub, and it will heat and expand so quickly there will be n.o time for the shaft to get hot, and the gear will come off easily. To pinch off the top of a shoot is not to produce a shock, but to change; not to impede, but to send the flow of the sap in other directions, by which the fruit is benefited, while the leaf power is not materially interfered with, ihe axillary leaves affording the needful supply. It has been proved by Mr.; Waite’s experiments that a highly polished . bearing is more liable to fri-lion than a surface finely lined by filing. The lines left by the file serve as reservoirs for the oil, while the high polish leaves no room for the particles between the metal surfaces. Farmers should endeavor to sell as little as possible of that which comes mainly from the soil, and as much as possible of that which comes from the atmosphere. Butter and fat stock sold will improve a farm, while cheese, milk and lean stock sold will keep the farm lean, unless manure or fertilizers are bought, .The seed is a storehouse of conceiitrated plant food, intended to nourish the germ till the root and leaf are developed. Il the seeds "of the cereals and of many other plants the chief ingredient is starch. Another class of seeds, of which linseed and mustardseed are examples, contain no starch, but in its place a large quantity of fat.-