Show INDOORS AND OUT The Farm Orchard Garden hand Household HINTS AND NOTES FOR ALL ttnckwbeat Cuttlnc Graff lUnmi Herd Book stable files Poisoned Boner i I Young turkeys and chickens fed on cooked food will be hungry neatly every hour in the day The more they eat the faster will they grow Don t waste deg tiYe force on raw food I have been a breeder of cattle andol due sheep and am satisfied that then is more net profit in Shropshire sbeci than there b in cattle This country Is i eminently adapted to their growth and proiperity Ex The yellow Persian powder or pyrethrum pyreth-rum mixed with Scotch InuIT will kill ticks in beep eflectually Dust in in places about six inches apart with u powder bellows Take equal parts oi tae suufTand the powder During any time in the next ten or fifteen days will it be proper to plant buckwheat seed It will grow mature atid ripen in seventy to seventy fivr days from the Jimc it is put in the earth TwentyOre pounds Should be sown to the acre Be sure to obtain a good quantity wheat and go ahead with the seedinc To prevent the splitting or bursting of cabbnges J J H Grceory rraomiuend to go frequently over the ground ard start every cabbage that appears to be about to mature by pushing them over sideways Heads that are thus started are said to grow to double the size they bad attained when about to burst A cheap and convenient disinfectant may be prepared by mixing one bushel of finely sifted dirt and one pound of chloride of lime If line tobacco dust be addd it will assist in preventing lice Tte dirt so prepared may be dusted over the floors or on any portion of the poultry house and it will greatly assist in keeping off disease and vermin ver-min The cost is but a trifle There are numerous systems of keeping keep-ing farm herd books Every animal may have a number given consccn lye ly as purchased or dropped This is a simple good way Each has a full page cr two paces in the herdbook devoted to him or her with record of number birth colors and markings sire and dam and former owners with sp co for times of service Jate of birth of offspring off-spring with names and numbers of the same The Prnirie Fanner speaking of the apple tree borer gives he following remedy Apply a mixture made by heating a gallon of water in which has been placed a quart of soft soap to boil soar ing then removing the vessel containing contain-ing the mixture from the fire And adding add-ing one pint of crude carbo ic acid This is applied to the trunks and large limbs early in June and July This la offensive to the beetles and prevents egg laying The same application will also prevent the ravages of the bigheaded bighead-ed borer which deposits itseggs about the same time The grub mould Le cut out in Julr and Angus when their presence c in be told by the dH loreff bark The market for good horses is always reliable and active and is gaining in I strength each day as farms are being developed and streetdarlines increased and there is no prospect that there wIll be any weakening in the demand for years to come if indeed there ever Is The horseman who expect to find buyers buy-ers in eastern markets should never calculate cal-culate to raise an animal lighter than 1OQ or 1400 pounds and then he may rely on finding ready purchasers willing will-ing to pay remunerative prices This statement is borne out by Inc experience experi-ence of those breeders who have tested it ana who are constantly in receipt of I letters inquiring for just such hones Rsl have been described and none of these I breeders find their good hones seeking in ram for purchasers hx i Even in this land of free grass a sheep that yields less than five and a half pounds of wool is unprofitable to keep I Let every such animal be marked with I a spot of paint on tbe shearing floor and be at once put into training for the I mutton market This is the only prudent pru-dent sensible way in which the number num-ber of sheep can be reduced and from I present indications in the wool market I a main factor in the proc ogettiog 1 wool growing onto a paying basis A sheep that will shear eight pounds costs I no more in time or feed to raise than the one that yields but four pounds I letter feed and better breed shoald be the order lathe future I As few cows have more then ten calves in small herds the cows may receive re-ceive decimal numbers 10 230 etc Then when they have calves these receiving tbe following numbers in each decade The first calf of No1 will be I No 2 The third calf of No 20 will be The fifth calf of No 10 will be 15 and iso i-so on Now if tbe stock bulls receive a I letter in place of the regular number 1 this letter may be med with the num her and the calfs sire and dam will be I indicated by the mark Thus B Si upon a tag wuulu indicate that the bull B was the sire and that the cow S3 was the dam and test wall her fourth calf There are other systems but few if any simpler or more useful than tllia1 hut it iot i onlr applicable to herds of Jess than lea ExIt j Ex-It is a positive fact and one perfectly easy to prove that there is a class of plants that yield poisonous honey I have now enough of such honey to sat tsfv a inousand proftssora I care not I how skeptical they are if they will cat a little of my honey or take toe testi money of hundred of witnesses that know all about it Nothing tn be more i short sighted than for a > tnnn to say that no such thingexuttb brcatixJ he has notseeuit In Ihe xiefeliMrifood where I reside Central Park Long Island there is a plant diet always yields poisonous honey It has been known by all the people there for many years and a very small quantity of it makes SICK every man woman and child that eats it without any exception 1 kaow what I MM v and do not cuem at It In our section no ono would think of eating eat-ing a particle of honey gathered while thu plant is in blossom hence It requires re-quires ranch care to get any good boner and when we think we have pure honey we sometimes find o rselves mistaken aa 1 have proved to my rrowA A practical gardener makes the following fol-lowing statement s year ago aI a teet of a lreiucul practice among erowora tf missions and fquaahes I packed tae ends of the long main shoots of ihtt melons squashes and cucumbers and left some to run at their own will One squash plant tent out a single atria reaching mow than forty feet but aid not raiiy fruit A uoiher plant WMS pinched until it formeu a cuuipu t mass of itiieimingling side shoots eight fret I square feud it bore sixteen jqnashe + The lastVear > > a musk melon pl ant thus pinched in covered ihe pace allo ed it and it act twentythree apeciine s 01 fruit the tost of them were pinched un The Pinching causes iuau lateral branches which latter produce the female fe-male or fertile blossoms while tbe main vine prodces only the male blaaima The difference in favor of a yielJ of an acre of melons treated by thu pinching process may easily amount to oue hundred hun-dred barrels A man has solved tbe problem of how to sulk with comfort in fly time bj simply throwing a canvas over the cow lie says that it work to a harm Another man has a better and cheaper remedy provided the milker has what he most needsa Darn Thi mun answering a forlorn milker who in dLpair related his trouble says that if when next time < omes a roil n he will arrange that tile xuilkliu stable can be darkened whi e milkm to a rather deeD twilight he will find tba the musical hum of tbe flies will subside sub-side and that he can milk without am provocation td indulge in frt quota LIon from the imprecatory psalms or other methods of relieving overwrought and pentup feelings V Piofexsor Cook says flies do not like the atmopbere of his stable as the barrel in which hi makes his mixture ol carbolic acid and soft soap is kept there it is not uncommon to see roll and onnt butter of good quantiy and tolerably tol-erably fresh with a c acing ot salt crystals all over the outside giving it a stale and unpleasant appearance This may be caused in several Was II tic salt used is of poor quality and particularly partic-ularly if it is too coarse in grain it fail to be well incorporated into the butter and changing to brine after the butte nas been made up it comes to the surface sur-face and takes the form of n crust The finest and best salt will work in the same way if not worked well into the I butter Again if there is more moisture mois-ture Mt it tbe butter than it will naturally natur-ally hold the salt joins wth tbe extra moisture in the form of brine This brine finds its way to the outside evaporates evapo-rates and leaves the salt covering The best means of avoiding this difficulty is to make the butter by the granular i etnod wash very thoroughly and allow al-low it to drain and dry atf well while still in the granular form before adding the salt Then thoroughly mix in the salt having it of the bat quality and as tine ai can be got All w it to stand a little while before working and putting put-ting into its final form This gives an opportunity for all the salt to dissolve before tne working and then for rrmov ing all surplus bnne All butter contains con-tains a pretty large percentage of moisture mois-ture in the form of brine and it must be kept in a moist atmosphere or else th water of the brine will evaporate more or less leaving the salt visible on tbe outside And good butter will show this dry salt if exposed long enough in very dry air It Is very much better to cut grass in afternoon than in the morning when wet with dew iCut it so late in the afternoon af-ternoon that it will not have dried at all crispy and the dew of tbe following night will not injure it in the least We have aimed to cut all the grass afternoons after-noons after the team has finished hauling haul-ing in the cnred hay It is cool then and one may run the machine until well into the evening if the work is driving and the surface of the field is Smooth andtfree from obstructions that would udangcr the machine The next morning aflet the dew It dried offt it the tedder going nil keep it busy unul noon In the afternoon tbe hay will be dy enough to go into the barn and tbere has been no expense in eking and opening out the cocks again in the morning as by the old and still quite common way When gras is cat with havy dew on it takes tbe best part of the first day to get the dew dned off and it becomes necessary to bunch it up at night orleave it in tbe winrows for another days drying By adopting the method of afternoon cutting tbe risk from bad weather is reduced about one half and the labor and cost of curing quite materially It never injures grass to get wet after being cut if it has not become much withered The heavier heav-ier the crop the greater will be the gain from the cutting in the afternoonFrom two to four hours of hot sunshine upon grass free from dew is amply sufficient for making it into the best of hay if it is kept stirred during the time with a good tedder If the crop is very light the tedder may be dispensed withJr Plums can be grown by the usual process pro-cess of jarnng the tree and catching the circulio on white shrets spread under un-der the treeand can be crushed between be-tween the thumb and finger The best time to j ar the tree lit as early in the morning as possible The curculios are then benumbed by the coldand sluggish and easily caught A sharp I sudden jar is required to bring the cur culios from tbe tree and the use of a i hard blow from a light fourpound sledge on the end of a stub of a limb that has been sawed off is a good plan II If there are none then take a half inch auger and bore a bole in the tree two ii chcs and drive it a bolt of iron four or five inches long and strike the hammer ham-mer on it Either plan la good There should be several jarriogs The first should be as soon as the blossoms have left the plums If no curculios are found try again in a day or two and as soon as found jar the trees aa long as thecurculioa are present Some arc saccetsfult In saving their plums by three or four JsrnDga at the proper time Weadvue new beginner lo try the proqM rcit often if they egad be successful TBe cost in labor where there ate many trees Js veryismall lDot over five or ten cents a tree and by thoroughly doing thework the finest crop of plums can be easily grown Tne use of May = a green in spraying will also In a great degree lave the pluas This ehould be done when the plums are small and Tepea ted aa often > aatbe rains remove the poison The UM of a heavy application of salt say a peck to a tree spread in a circle e f from trn to twelve feet has been found to kill the curcuJos that leave the plum and eater the ground to undergo the change from the Jarval to the beetle state The silt mustbe applied soon after blossoming and does no good until tbffaext year The only safe way is the use of the jarring Jar-ring process and killing the bags as fait as they fall Ex 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