Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1882 — FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND GARDEN.

Halve a plan for making your co: n crop and work it. Hens seldom pay expenses after they are three years old. Much is to be sained by the use of good varieties of seeds. The main point to be kept in view from first to last in making countrv roads is drainage. * Advices from Missouri, Nebraska and Indiana are very encouraging as to the wheat prospects for 1882. Never sow seed for hedges in the place where they are Intended to grow, but propagate in bed and transplant. An acre will yield about three tons of basket willow, which sells at from SSO to SSO per ton,according to quality The golden wax and the wax of butter beaus generally are almost stringless. They ripen early and are very tender. Japanese persimons can be grown in tuns, like oranges’ and transferred to the cellar late in the fall for protection against frost. A writer in the Homestead says: “I dos not believe there is any thing like it—so handy and effectual —to dispose a young heifer to keep her hind feet still at the first lesson of being milked as a small rope tied around the body back of the forelegs, and twisted tight with a short stick.” In Europe the carrot is grown to a great extent for feeding to cattle in the winter months. Roots of some kipd are fed the winter through to the cows. An lowa raiser of Jersey cows says he is accustomed to feed carrots, of which he usually raises 600 bushels per acre. Carrots"increase the flow of milk and improve the appearance and quality of butter. Beets are preferable to carrots for increasing the flow of milk; the milk, however, which is prodeed from beets is not as good for butter. Salicylic acid, whose preservative powers on fruit ought to be better known, is being used in Germany for various diseases of domestic animals. Veterinary surgeons find it very useful for cureing sore mouths. Eruptions about, the eyes and head of poultry are cured by touching the affected parts with weak salicylic acid but this acid is now used as a preventive oi disease, being given to horses and cattle at the rate of one-third of an ounce daily (costing about one cent)to each full-grown animal. The acid is dissolved in warm water.

Jn Southern France, where the industry of making cheese from sheep’s milk is rapidly increasing, and is found profitable (this is the noted Roquefort cheese),the sheep used are a peculiar breed, reared for milking qualities mainly. The ewes have four or six teats, udder large, wool rare, little yolk, ears large. A ewe nets about forty .eight frances yearly. Sixfquarts of milk make one p jund of cheese. In France, for instance, capital is being invested and many experiments are now in progress, with a view of plowing by electricity. Plowing by steam is gaining in popularity; the soil being tilled deeper and snore thoroughly by this than by any other system. The electric motion power as applied to plows,can be sent along wires for a distance of several miles. The horse like his driver and the dog like bis master A nervous, timorous man is almost sure to have a skittish horse, shying at anything, unsteady, and a runaway if he gets a chance. Many a cow is spoiled by a lack or patience and vuietness in the milker, and the amount of milk depends more on the milker than the pasturage. If a man is afraid of a horse, the animal knows it oefore he gets into the stail. A nonsy boisterous fellow about fattening stables will cause a serious loss in gain of flesh to them when they are digesting their food.—Exchange. It is reported by the Farmers’ Review, that Messrs.Congden & Waller, live stock dealers.at the Union Stockyards, Chicago, recently “bought twenty Southdown sheep, averaging 152% pounds each, one of which weighed 106 pounds net. The shrinkage on the lot was only 33 per cent. The sheep were raited by J.D. Gillett, the well-known Illinois stock-breed-er, and were bought for the Smithfield market of Chicago, which is always on the look-out for fine stock.’ Fowls to be pali table and lender shoqld be fattened quickly, From eight to ten days are sufficient. Place the birds in a roomy coop, in some out building, where they be free from draught and in a modified light, The morning food should be given as early as possible, and should consist of good sweet, yellow cornmeal, mixed with one-third its quantity of wheat middlings, mix with boiling water, and in the water should be chandler’s scraps sufficient to make the water quite greasy. To every two quarts of feed, every other day, mix a tablespoonful of powdered charcoal before tne water on the feed. Let it stand covered up for twenty minutes then feed. At noon use the meal, leavihg out the middlings, and in its place put in all the table scraps you can get and some finely chopped cabbage. Tse the charcoal only in the morning feed. At night feed corn that has been boiled until it has swollen twice its natural size. Every other day add to noon feed a little buckwheat(in grain).Give water after each feed. Warm sweet milk is best if you have it to spare. Give during the day, but always give water for drink at night. Do not feed anything for at least twelve hours before killing, and let the last feed be soft food; and if you like a nice gamey flavor to the meat’ let it contain a good portion of chopped celery. Fowls fed in this way fatten very rapidly, and their flesh is tender, juicy, and tempting.