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Show htliln Liubi for Market. supplying the English trade. That water. The treatment DAIRY AND POULTRY. been A. Craig says In preparing Is Prof. J. trade that we are trying to supthe are loaves any time when ply with our product, and that trade off, and Just at buds are starting la lambs for the early market the best to his knowledge Is that made by INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR requires a very firm article In the way' MATTERS OF INTEREST TO the spring. The Ohio law of 18H6 of gain lambs at the New York Cornell three of cheese. READERS. OUR boards RURAL of for the appointment AGRICULTURISTS. fruit commissioners by the township station, which made a weekly gain per 5.36 pounds, extending over a trustees, upon the written petition of head of Standard Varletlei of Chickens, ona of llluta About Culllaa-tio-a five nine weeke. Another lot of (law Mureeaaful Farmers Opr rats This The law Is manda- period The Golden Wyandotte Is marked A of Farm the Department of tho Boll and Yield Thereof tory upon the trustees, requiring them three made an average weekly gain of like the Silver, excepting that the colllluta as to the Care of Lire Stuck (.47 pounds per head, extending over liortlcaUaMh Vltlenltere and to appoint these township fruit comand black Instead of or la golden-ba- y and Poultry. missioners upon petition, as stated. a period of twelve weeks. In neither block. The White variety white and Wherever fruits are grown and the case, however, la the composition of la, perhaps, the favorite of ths Wyantffj N the soil are found trees are affected with any or all of the the ration or the amount of grain re(Condensed from Farmers' Review dotte classes, from ths fact that it la he decaying remtroubles mentioned above, such com- ported. The best gain in the writer's stenographic report of Wisconsin not so difficult to breed to feather, the - experience at the Wisconsin station Uound-u- p nants of plants and mrsBloner7are DrovldedWfor L by the matInstitute.) plumage being pure white through-ouanimals, which con ate. Bulletin 73 of the Ohio Experi- il as been made by four lambs that were TAYLOR reason ths spoke for are this They vjC. tain considerable ment on how to get good more practical fowl for the farmer, or Station, Issued under the require- fed a mixture by weight of four parts quantities of nitro- ments of the law, describes the black-kn- of bran, four parts of corn meal and cows. There are those who keep poultry for market. gen; the rocks from and San Jose scale, and one lart of linseed meaL When the that The Buff Wyandotte la in color a rich, three things yellows which the uoll has Information concerning them. experiment started, the lambs were enter into success- deep, clear buff, uniform In shade gives been made usually It also contains a copy of the law as an about three weeks old, and they were ful dilrylng: First, throughout, except the tall, which is contain an appreci i appendix. This bulletin will be sent fed fur ten weeks on this grain ration, the dairy tendency of a deeper buff or copperlsh-bronx- e able amount of hi- - free to secof the cows; wjj0 apply and In quantity receiving In addition the milk of their color. The Blacka are of a rich, glosajj mothers. The average weight of each trogen, and every of sy black, with greenish sheen, exceptclerks and fruit commisthe townBiijp ond, fertility rain washes from the atmosphere Into sioners the farm and Its ing breast primaries, secondaries, tall having use for it, upon appll lamb at the beginning of the experithe soil small quantities of nitrogen cation to Station, ment was 18.6 pounds, and at the end, the Experiment ability to provide and fluff, which are pure black. The compounds, says an experimental sta- Wooster, 0. Complaint has been made 62.5 pounds, an average weekly gain food for the cows. standard weight of cocks Is 8V4 tion bulletin. Then the roots foraging that In some the trustees per head of 4.48 pounds. They each The third thing to be taken Into con- pounds; hens, 6ft pounds; cockerels, townships for food and sending out shoots here have refused to appoint commissioners ate 26.6 pounds of the grain mixture sideration Is the dairyman. Then it Is 7V6 pounds; and pullets, 5V4 pounds, and I here in their quest take up by upon the presentation of proper peti- during the ten weeks, costing eighteen necessary that there be the ability to means of an apparatus carried by all tions. This matter of their refusal cents per head. apply modern dairy methods. If he be I)nlopla( UfMii are now root hairs, wherever and whenever they was submitted to The results that come next to these not a dairyman he will never succeel. the Attorney Generhatched pullets The early can, bodies containing nitrogen. But, al of Ohio. He Q. Should a dairyman raise his own large enough to permit of Intelligent gives an opinion to In profit were obtained from feeding a it may be aBked, since it is a well the effect that where or grain mixture consisting of two parts cows? black-knselection. The culls should bs disposi known fact that of the at- peach yellows Is found to exist ths of ground wheat and one part of ground A. Yes, sir; If be can, and as much of, and the best reserved for laying aid not mosphere is pure nitrogen why docs township trustees must appoint such corn by weight. The lambs were about as possible. breeding, says Farm Journal. If the plant take this element directly commissioners upon presentation of a four and lf weeks old when the Q. Can you Increase the percentage cockerels have become sufficiently m froln the air? The reason is simply in compliance with the stat- experiment started, and averaged 26.1 of fat In the milk of cows? tured to be troublesome, they should thli: That all the higher plants can petition ute. Ho states: A. That can be done only by good separated from the pullets and fattened, This duty is not a pounds In weight. When the experitake up nitrogen only when it is com- discretionary one, but is. mandatory ment ended, fourteen weeks for market Although the pries later, they breeding. bined with other elements. The leaves In Charles Thorp spoke on handy things be low now, it seldom pays to kes upon them tthe trustees). If the trus- averaged seventy-seve- n pounds can take it up when It is united with tees fail or refuse to perform any weight, having made an average week- on the dairy farm. He said that every early hatched birds for fall and wintt another element to form ammonia; and duty enjoined upon them by this act, ly gain per head of 3.63 pounds. They man should have a dairy house on his sales. To develop the pullets Into goo ths roots prefer it when it Is combined the proper method to compel the per each ate 40.5 pounds of the grain mix- - farm. Ilia dairy house Is located near laying hens, an exclusive diet of cor In the form of nitrates as, for example, formance of such is by a pro- - Iture In the fourteen weeks, costing 33.3 the well, where every dairy nouae must be avoided. They need bone an duty saltpeter. Yet there are plants, as re- ceedlng in mandamus Instituted in cents. Buyers do not always make should be located for the purpose of muscle, but to get enough of this otf cent experiments have demonstrated, the Common Pleas Circuit or Supreme difference for unwashed Mer- having the water handy. The house la of corn they must eat an exceudv'; that, by slightly indirect means, can Court. It Is also to be understood inos. One or two parties that had that 30 by 14, the first twelve feet being quantity of it and this will produce to' tAke nitrogen from the air. Among the that the cost of mandamus proceed' grade of wool received 9 cents per used for the dairy room proper. Then much fat This caution must bs heqd many microscopic organisms dlscov mgs may not be paid out of publlo pound last season. Ths standard price there Is the cream vat, which le a ed when the pullets have only a limits ered in the latter days and Bhown to monies, but will fall upon the trustees for washed fine wools was 13 cents a great saving of labor, and should be a run and but little pasture. In these clr be the cause of many subtle material personally. difference of only 316 cents. part bf every outfit By Its use we cumstances with the corn ration, green' changes, some exist with the power of have to churn only once a week. It grass, clover, green fodder and some Tobarculoala InraralileT la eatlug free nitrogen, or of taking ni' used to be necessary to churn every vegetables, with milk and cut bone, The agricultural experiment station Poultry Kotos. trogen from the air. They, the nitroor every other day. Now the iraam or meat meal must be supplied to ss---' day of Indiana in a recent bulletin (No. 63) gen eaters, will live on the roots of cerhave We noticed no that Is business can be held sweet by the means of lc curs a healthy development. Ths farmtain plants, though, as far as our makes the broad statement that cura- without Its troubles, and that the poul- for a long time. The next six feet of ers flock that has the range of ths In the treatbusiness is no exception to the rule. knowledge goes at present, not on all. tive means are unknown try When a plant is fortunate enough to ment of tuberculosis or consumption. Disease and disaster hover around this meet the demands of the nitrogen at On this statement National Stockman as well as other occupations. It is ers its supply of nitrogen compounds Is comments as follows: We think this therefore best for the poultry raiser assured, if all other conditions are fa statement could not have been made, to take everything philosophically. vorable. The minute organisms will or at least unqualified, for In cases However, It is Just a little hard for settle on the roots of the plants and, ly where the disease has been taken at him to look with equanimity on the means yet unknown, will cause the ni- the outset there have been known some taking off of bird after bird that has mortem cost him either much work or much trogen of the air surrounding the roots complete cures. At the post bodies the of at Paris money, the examination be will tnat to enter into combinations been found that quits acceptable to the plant This, however. morgue it has cent of the bodies showed a The per return. The time of the year has come when large Is not done without a just and lice are near to us. mlnule organisms need for their well healed tubercles; that is, the subject both road-dusome The dust may be a good thing to bring being such organic aubstances as the had had the disease but owing to of life the progress of the dis- - into close contact with the lice, and plants can produce; these are taken change from the roots of the plants, and the ease had been arrested and the patient may result In their extermination. It nature of the disease iB easy now to get the road-duand organisms are thus Been to be parasites recovered. The cases these leave Indisput- - hardto exterminate the lice if you at-la such that which to The on the plants. plants these "nitrogen eaters" will attach able evidence of the facts. The prog- tempt to do It otherwise than by use marked disease the is the of ress of the by of dust Using the dust makes the themselves are the members results which the In of memgerms hen do the work. She will be only too growth leguminous family; Important bers of which are the pea and lucern. the breaking down of the tissues, and glad to take a dust bath, which is her in cases where the disease has been way of getting clean. We hare now considered in a very elementary manner the Importance of the checked Its former presence is marked Immense quantities of eggs and pounitrogenous compounds of a plant to by the healed tubercles. The Rural the farmer, and the sources on which a New Yorker published some time ago ltry aye used by the hotels. One writof a case where several er bs been trying to find out how plant depends for Its supply of nitro- an account to the tuberculin many eggs the large hotels of Boston difwere cows several subjected Is a fact that gen. Since it ferent kinds of nitrogenous substances test and showed reaction. Instead of use, and he puts the number at 1,440 WYAHDOTTES. FEATHERS OF SILVER-LACEare found In all plants, we may now being slaughtered they were removed per day for an average of the three could have an largest hotels, the largest user taking logically ask: are all the nitrogenous to a stable where they substances found In plants of equal abundance of pure air. and sunshine 175 doxen per day. Thus each of these the building Is used for a storage fields, and access to a great rai value aa flesh formers? The answer and at the end of a year they were hotels uses more than half a million room. The rest of the building Is used food, may thrive on a ration the vast number of hotels In the coun- for an Ice room, which every man because it Is not their e: to the question of the last oaragraph Is again subjected to the test, but showbetry It Is not hard to realise that the should have. diet We have, however, ol emphotlcally, no. All the bodies con- ed no traces of reaction, and upon be whol- number of eggs used In these places is wer to found be In slaughtered may ing any plant Mr. Thorp then showed his system farmers premises where fori two taining nitrogen divided Into two classes; those that ly cured of the disease. There Is as yet enormous. of making artificial Ice by natural cold. three hundred yards from ths e a effect will no that medicine but cure, in an animal used building by He had on exhibition a model of a long the poultry had eaten evei may be There are many concoctions urged box In which the ice Is frozen. The muscular tissue, and those that may with either man or beast If the case la except weeds that was abundance of pure for the various poultry troubles. It box In which he freezes his ice la 14 thing closed by chicken proof fence not The first class is made up of sev- not too far gone an If of cure-alls, them doubtful are do Is so. will any often Ths 2 feet wide and 1 foot deep. runs become eral members which resemble each oth- air and sunshine feet polluted and as it Is, and let and it Is more than prbbable that iome .The long, of the box Is waxed with suffer for the lack of insects nd Inside er In composition and in general be- disease Is bad enough one no value of gteen in reality. Good DarBffine wax whlch makes It easy to food. The ray of hope of them are havior. They all, further, resemble the us not take from It owner feeds thi I more of value of care is than chance -trecovery. he anything move the lce when It la frozen. The ry corn ration and wondei white of an egg or albumen, and are, his else. But diseases will sometimes must be done during a warm flock do not thrive and the pullets do therefore, called albuminoids, like alwaxing the of in best care. In despite creep Applet. might bumen, The other class of nitrogenous day, and the wax should be used boil- not lay. The development pullets The rule Is that aged trees which so the wax will stick to the for laying is very much substances may be called non albuminoids. e that of Relative Profits. Thera hare been ing hot, In three In the study of the albuminoids. have gone through the period of acbox. In freezing he puis heifers for giving milk, only icentrated affect- many ways to estimate profits In farmof wster at a time and lets that grain diet overtaxes the d estiva or-IIt has been found that they weigh very tive growth are not soarcvitally inches aa soil So the w retained Its long hen aa ing. with ed youngblight as much times they a In and more. He has gans and produces fat. D before putting quarter nearly six succu fertility, the number of acres freeze the nitrogen they contain. Since er, and there Is more sap wood, says original three of these boxes.. for lent food, that which contains the been using or sown be could was , .. that . the planted . Is wood , The most Homestead. sap usually are presa8t tew year'M the bone and muscle making material, la although no part of test of success. It is common even yet boxes you can an ice house very necessary to secure the ent only In email quantities, the chem- subject to blight, to estimate south are subject to it is ex- in the by the team When you loosen the Ice tion and thrifty growth. healthy digesist very often determines all the nitro- the trees that Willow and Wag-.on- help that the planter can command, quickly. Tallinan, The multiafter empt. contains of these boxes you have a a one from and, gen plant are very susceptible to blight, and which ranges from one mule upward. of ice 14x2x1, which la sawcake plying it by six and a quarter, calls It In the northern, and especially In single Intelligent Dairying. Dairying retheir presence on some soils during But eastern ed the size desired. cakes into Crude Protein. constant study an jl Intelligent success In quires states, the of and farming establishgrowth the period A feed cutter comes very handy cu thought. It requires years: In which to on number of not or the acres, ment is a distress and a weariness of depends . team help, but on how much manure a farm, If it be not in such shape that build up a profitable herd of cows and Ohio Townuhlp Fruit flesh f any lover of trees. Neverthe Black-knbe had to use. Many a market! It has to be set up every time it Is to to learn how to feed and care for can Bulletin: Ohio Station the merits of these and other theless, them an to handle the product. of plum and cherry is found wherever are such when "they Hardener on less than ten acres makes be used. ice housv The man who can an do build IIow Q you the than yelfarmer are a Peach of successfully breed these trees grown. and fruitful that thev are greater profits and bow do you pack the tee? and feed a dairy cow ha a mind above lows appears to occur in all portions A. I would build It about as I would the average, lie Is a student, a keen, ne BUudnrd aUhenVcea that blight'readny'are roW anythln ,ex.fpt of Ohio where peaches are commer- common building, but I would bright business man, an jl you will not any has scalo Jose San rown. The daily tbe walls 'double, with lath and find this class of men dissatisfied with make been Introduced probably within reven and after they start they rapidly, on the Inside, and then I their business. will Ills tfe class of men' of cost its plaster promarketing destroy or eight years at a great many points should be seeded down so as to make would paint the walls. I pack the ice who are constantly cha piglng from one Ex. fits. In the state, exclusively In nursery the growth slower. This may not work with dry snow, and the cracks between branch to another met who do not do stock Infested with this Insect. With on all soils, but It has been our observHorses. Gingering horses the cakes I pack with dry snow also, much figuring and ciMnot tell how Gingering Ohio's orchard Interests the need for ation and Is worth trying. They need horse the sad- I do not put the tee shows, tbe at especially the out- much their cows earned individually or e great care In preventing the spread of north planting, with thin soil dle horse to make them carry their tail side wall, but leave aagainst who hav Intense hatred h space collectively these enemies of fruit trees Is readily and only a moderate annual growth. Babcock id test for all cream- to the an t. for and fill with unusual I present which high up may apparent to every one. Black-knmen. Kansas Farmer. and animation W. of Decker ery on amount John appear smart, spoke ibe prevented by the removal and burn Green Manuring. Grow clover, cow Is a The cheese industry la In betdisgusting and deceptive jockey :lng of all knots each year, before peaHB and other crops on the land to trick that should be prohibited by the ter than It has been before for It Is a Rood thing to have two poulshape March, if possible. Peach yellows Is be turned under In some shape, make In this country many years, due largely to the passshows horse of rules yards, so that In one either oats or burn-ling try manure on possible the .held In check by the removal and all the coarse In will doubtless filled laws since other grain can be sown that will of some It cheese. as against England, New age . . of all Infected trees each season, , !am, then supplement these with lib-- , Wisconsin start and furnish the hens a good are a and and Hum York prosecuted ths t1 In get the great form of . The San Jose scale requires vigorous1 erai supplies of potash states. At the South supply of green food. at grooms ths cheesemaking of or or Infested In sulphate potash, mUrlate Badly .measures, likewise. shows. The veterinarians con- - and In some parts of the North .trees should be taken out and burned tslnlt; and with phosphoric acid in London the practice ss painful to the lug Is not carried on to any great When butter is worked very dry the or bone phosphate rock; and while Insects and trees are dormant. dissolved a fraud and the 8o states the upon Judge. tent that' make cheese grains of salt left In It are not dis Trees lees Infested may be pruned and if the nitrogen Is not secured from the have will tq solved and remain in a gritty condl- supply pot only nitrate of soda. .treated with whale oil soap solution air as It should be, buy la s thief of time, tho others. Canada has tlon. but (elvM VanDeman. of E. 1V6 H. soap pounds made by dissolving FARIT AM. GARDEN. I pro-rld- ea ta free-holde- ft rs. 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