Show n INDO < JRS AND V OAT The Farm Garden Orchard and Household J NOTES AND HINTS FOR ALL Alfalfa andlts Effects on StockMoths Care of Meadow Land Simple f pIe Remedies for Many I Different His I 1 writing to an A Colorado man exchange in reference to alfalfacom lucernbeing a suit monly known as with able feed for horses etc say effects of alfalfa on regard to weakening behind the times to horses It is quite effect of alfalfa Its plead this as the qualities are now effects and nutritious such plead any too well known to longer effect from feeding it to teams Horses it and thrive upon and mules love it are mucltstrongcr when fed upon it and I and will do require much less grain much more work than when fed upon other liar that I know of It will any onthe at first for a few weeks operate on kidneys but will not weaken and soon they will be all right It also has the loose effect to keep the bowels just well enough to thrive and teams feel that every man and active I am sure who feeds his team for three months alfalfa will ever after prefer alfalfa upon to any other hay and he will find that large growth wellmatured coarse hay Th t lhist J which is also the best for his team That teams straw almost as course as pea will do exceedingly well upon If they much They should be are not fed too required to eat UP the stems though of the the fine part well as coarse as halfmatured alfalfa is alfalfa Fine or not so good for teamsit is too washy or like green grass The fine or young alfalfa cut when matured or the product of poor cuttings in a season is much preferable for producing milk but workhorses alfalfa horses require for best results more mature or cut when fully in blos in I born or even seed formed in part have fed my teams three and a half years upon it and this is my experience I cut from 300 to 400 tons per year and fully believe it to be the best hay ever fed for horses and all stock Even pigs do well on dry alfalfa I am cutting alfalfa now that is three feet high and will yield two and a half tons per acre of dry hay It is well matured excellent excel-lent feed for horses It was sown on old meadow stubble and it grew well I have mowed it now three years and it IS fully equal to any sown on the old ground that had been plowed and that sown on the meadow without any previous or afterculture It is fully equal to allY I have showing clearly h easily and cheaply our meadows may be well stocked with the most I valuable productive remunerative and grass I belIeve now known Meadows should not be closely grazed at any time and especially not in the fall They need to have fertilizing materials added to instead of taken from the soil Young animals are ranch more injurious than mature ones while fullgrown stock that are being fattened and are fed rich grain rations may by i their droppings add materially to the I fertility of the soil Younggrowing stock withhold a large share of the potash pot-ash phosphoric acid and nitrogen of tbs food to build up their bodies leaving I leav-ing the manure comparatively poor On the other hand mature fattening animal need very little of these three chief elements of soil fertility Aside from the loss of plantfool the close feeding of stock on meadow land does mechanical damage If the soil is soft the feet of the annual injure it and the close grazing pulls much of the grass up by the roots Meadows like winter grains are injured by freezing and thawing thaw-ing and the plants need to be in a vigorous vigor-ous condition in late fall with a good growth of aftermath protection from the frosts winds etc Wellrotted manure applied to the meadows as a i topdressing will strengthen the plants and insure a fine crop the next season This application is best made soon after the hay is removed Later in the season sea-son much of the soluble material is washed out of the soil by the fall rains Quickacting manures should be used in I the growing season otherwise loss is sustained Take good care of the meadows for they suffer greatly if abused They are easily and often injured in-jured by animals in late autumnEx Rice is not properly appreciated bv many home providers It is easily kepi always ready at hand at all seasons without risk of loss or depreciation Rice is most healthful and nutritious many hundreds of millions of our race subsist almost wholly upon it It is a cheap food There is no waste material in it If bought in quantity it is not much more costly pound for pound than the highest grade of wheat flour A bushel of potatoes GO pounds contains only an average of nine pounds of food the rest is water wInch will escape as steam if potatoes are baked dry The composition of this nutritent part of potato is very like that of rice Thus rice at 6 cents pound bought at wholesale and potatoes at 54 cents a bushel would cost the same for the nutriment with the quality Of the nutriment in favor of the rice There are many ways of cooking rice The Prairie Famrcr Here are eleven simple medics for that many common ailings Try popcorn for nausea Try sun baths for rheumatism Try ginger ail for stomach cramps j Try clam broth for a weak stomach l Try buttermilk for freqkles Try a hot flannel over the eat of neuralgic pain mid renew frequently I Try taking cod liver oil in tomato I sauce if you wish to make it palatable I Try a nap in the afternoon if you are going out late in the evening I Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the neck at night for the sore I throat I Try walking with your hsmds behind I you when you find you are bending forward I for-ward Try a newspaper over your the t ueneath your undershirt as a cllet protector in extremely cold weather A dressing lime often has amexcel lent effect in making wornout soils pro ductive and is quite as apt to be eirec he > con land that has an abundance of lime 17 in its composition It undoubted JJ makes more plant food available Without directly adding to the amount and should therefore be used in rota tin hon w here other methods are adopted I maintain soil fertility I The Medico Legal J t Tlf gives the following information in reference to poisonous canned goods Itis of interest inter-est to everyone and should therefore be read carefully i The cases of sicknessrresulfing from eating canned goods never were caused by decay of the contents 1 = They were cases of corrosyjje poisoning poison-ing from muriate zinc and p muriate of tin Reject every article of canned food that does not show the tofrosin around the edge of the solder of the cap the same as is seen on the seam at side of the can Reject every can that does not have the name of the manufacturer or firm upon it as well as the name of the company com-pany and the town where manufactured standards have all this JYhen the wholesale dealer is ashamed to have his name on the goods fight shy of them Press up the bottom of the can if decomposition is commencing the tin will rattle the same as the bottom of the oiler of your sewing machine does If the goods are sound it will be solid and there will be no rattle to the tin Reject every can that shows any rust around the cap on the inside of the head of the can If housewives are educated to these points then muriate of zinc amalgam wi i become a thing of the past and dealers in swells have to seek some other occupation Fanny Field says in the columns of the Prairie Farmer How to make hens lay in the winter when eggs bring the highest price is one of the things that ano one who keeps poultry for profit wants to know but how many farmers ever stop to think that a comfortable poultry house goes is long way toward inducing hens to lay when the mercury gets below freezing point By a comfortable ortable house I nJop not mean eC that can be warmed artificially but one so constructed that the temperature inside will be above the freezing points even when it is several degrees below zero outside out-side Such houses need not be expensive expen-sive cheap building materials of some kind stone rock straw prairie hay or rough lumber and building paperare within the reach of the poorest farmer and any man or boy of average strength and gumption can do the work Now is the time to build Dont put it off You should have the house done and the fowls in it before the cold rainy sand s-and nights of late fall get along A gentleman living down cast gives his experience in feeding a calf to make it weigh 1200 pounds at one year old It weighed 119 pounds at birth and gained gain-ed 1070 pounds in 365 days or nearly three pounds per day The calf was fed new milk three days then fed on milk set twentyfour hours and the cream taken off The second week a very little oil meal andwheat middlings were added add-ed During the second month one pint of oil meal one halfpint of wheat mid dlings and one gill of corn meal were added to the milk The meal was scalded I scald-ed with one quart of hot water twelve hours before feeding The meal was increased as the calf would take it and the milk increased until one common sized pailful was fed at each feed Besides Be-sides this it had grass in the summer and good hay in the winter B P Roe the noted horticultural novelist says I keep Catawba Isabella Diana and lona grapes by picking them in a clear day using grape scissors so as not to handle much removing all imperfect im-perfect berries and putting in clean dry earthen jars in layers a bunch deep I fill the jar in this way and then place a double sheet of paper over the top layer and put on the lid I next paste strong unbleached muslin entirely entire-ly over the lid completely covering the opening so that no air can enter When this covering has fully dried and hardened hard-ened the jars are buried on a dry knoll sufficiently deep to be beyond the action of frost a stake being placed over each jar to locate it An excellent lime was for painting outsides of wooden buildings and fences can be made follows Take the usual quantity of fresh lime slack it with water and when the lime has made the water boil add a moderate quantity of grease and salt Too much grease is as bad as too little Add a qaantitv of fresh cow dung to the liquid sufficient to make it as thick as it can be applied with an ordinary whitewash brush Add coloring if desired and stir it up thoroughly This makes a creamy or pasty paint that makes the wood partially partial-ly fire proof besides keeping out storms Marshall P Wilder says that an asparagus bed may be made to last twenty or thirty years that the plants are never infested with insects and that the crop never fails He did not believe in the economy of expensive preparation prepara-tion of the bed i it has been pretty well established that annual applications of manure are sufficient The gieat ecret in applying manure is to JJ veit well decomposed and put it near the surface i He thought a very large stalk of asparagus aspara-gus more watery and not as good as those of moderate size The old English adage Let asparagus aspara-gus spin grow up when new peas come in is in Great Britian a common practice and although for a time some is cut later than June it usually is but sparingly Their beds arc often quite oldand yet areln good condition Here the practice is to cut itS long as people will buy it which will usually be all July The old shoots should not be cutoff cut-off until killed by frost and quite dry then apply the manure which fork in next sprmgEx The Dairy tells us that a cement floor is not the best for a dairy as it absorbs the drippings of milk and becomes foul in a short time A good floor is of matched planks with tight joints and painted so that it will absorb no moisture mois-ture Whatever drippings fall from the churn may be washed off such a floor without leaving nay traces Brick is quite as absorbent as cement A flagstone flag-stone floor with close joints set in cement is the best of all Hairs Journal of Health says a towel folded several tunes and dipped in hot water and quickly wrung and then applied ap-plied over the seat of the pain in toothache tooth-ache or neuralgia will generally afford prompt relief Headaches almost always al-ways yield to the simultaneous application applica-tion of hot water to the feet and the back of the neck Take good sweet cider direct from the press boil and skim it until thor oughly clarified and no more and while hot put into bottles and jugs falling fall-ing them up to the cork Cork tight Set in a dark cool place You will find it to be the best cider you ever drank It clear pure and good as wine A physician who had seen over forty I thousand cases of smallpox says he never met with a case of the disease in if person with red haiiEr We always have had a personal opinion of the advantages of red hair Now we are convinced Whole cloves are now used to exterminate I exter-minate the merciless and industrious moth Itis said they are more effectual either as a destroying agent than tobacco camphor or cedar shavings |