Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — Farm and Workshop Notes. [ARTICLE]

Farm and Workshop Notes.

Sunflower fed in small quantities, impart a [beautiful gloss to the plumage of poultry. “ 1 ; Remember this, that apples keep letter in damp, cellars than in dry ones. In the'iattejr they become dry and shrivelled; in the former plump and juicy. Wild birds are uniform in colbr. Domestication causes a breaking ut> of col-'randa variety of shape. When an individual commences breed'rur to a staudard by selection he secures uniformity again. j A veterinary writer condemns h’gh mangers for horses, claiming tuat they irritate the fihrOa&and create a tendency to heaves. He says the manger should be on a level With the feet, as that is in accordance with nature. It is the opinion of many that a fowl fattened quicklp 'Will make a far more juicy and toothsome meal thau a chick. One thing is certain, a three-year-old fowl will make much better brlMfc for an invalid than a six-months cbickeb. The weight of hens’ eggs range from fifteen to twenty-four ounce* dozen.

’A weight es twenty-two and a half ounpes may be rakeh ftaAiair average for good-sized eggs, although a weight of nearly four ounces is Rot unknown for single specimens of eggs, j --i/., The largest cotton producer in the world is Mr. E. Richardson,'! of Mississippi. He ha? 52,000 acres of land, and raised last season 12,000 hries of cotton. He expresses the oil from his cotton seed, obtaining thirty-five gallons from a tou, worth $12.25, whlle.the cake sells at from $8 to $7 per ton. Sheet zinc is largely, used for ceilings in Germany, especially where the beams of the upper floor are made of iron". The use of wood is eutirelv dispensed with, and excellent decorative effects are pro iuoed by stan ping,|patntiug and gilding, or bronzing a part of the ornaments. Stable manure is preferable to any other fertilizer. No farmer can .afford to waste his manure. AU of It Should be saved aud untilized. In many casss farming would be more profitable if less land was cultivated, with h'ghn: fertilizatiou. One acre highly manured should pay better than three but halt manured aud half cultivated. Why will grass not grow under our trees ?M. Paul Bert hasshoWn that green light hinders the development of plants. Plants inclosed in a green glass frame wither and die as though they were In darkness. M. Rsgnard finds thatplauts specially require the red rays. Ir sunlight is deprived of the red rays the plants soon cease to thrive. / Professor Voelcker pays \: “Bones are the first manure which a farmer usually buys and wlffoh.farmifigcomniHui - ties demand. Wherever agriculture Is improved th»-ough-out the world the first lack of the farmer 1b phosphates. The easiest sotirce of supply Is bones, and not until, that lack has been supplied in the soil does he begin to search for ammoniacal manures.” Design and Work days that grease for belts, which readers them moreadhesiv- and more durable, can b* obtained oy mixing off of resin with 10 percent, talc. The grease is spread On the belt with a brush several times, or until the leather will not absorb any more. The operation is repeated after some weeks, a smaller quanlty of grease beieg used. The belts retain more flexibility aud resistance, adhere better to the drums and do not slip. The greasing Is only required every few months. ; Danish butter, perfectly worked but never receiving a panicle of salt, proves that salt, so far as butter is concerned, is not ft preservative agent. No amount of salt will preserve butter when proper working has been neglected: neither ia the washing of butter at all requisite to the preserving of butter. Washing saves working, but the best butter is made without washing. The great object in working butter is to extact the buttermilk, because it contains cheesy matter in which putrefaction ?oon commences, adding the production of rancidity in the fat of the butter. When young poultry have bee® allowed to contract the habit of roosting in the treta no time should be lost ip' breaking them Of it. Confinement to the poultry house aud yard for/a day or two will generally effect a cure. Get your dust baths ready for winter. Sand and finely-sifted coal ashes, with a pound or sulphur to each bushel of the mixture, is the best. Tnls should bp put in large boxes aud kept out Of thp rain. Whitewash the houses, putting in a gill of crude carholic acid and* a pint of common kefoseuepit to each pailfuil of slaked lime. |, | ,i F