Hints for Farmer Folk

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 104, 1 March 1892, Page 4

Hints for Farmer Folk

A little oil saves a good deal of waggon. Make a special manure pile for the garden. Fowls must be fattened quickly to make tender eating 1 . Keep the sheep dry and they will stand the cold very well. A flat varnish brush an inch wide is handy to oil the harness with. Manure should be mixed with the soil it it is to benefit, not buried in it. Camphor, iv small quantities mixed with seeds, it is said will protect them ' from mice., 1 j A good milker must be a good! feeder, but a good feeder is not al- j ways a good milker. j Don't winter a single unprofitable animal. From hens to horses weed , out the nonproducers. j Unless manure is under shelter it j is wisest to get it out on the land as j soon as possible and save waste. i Use oil freely on polished tools j that are put away for the winter. Crude petroleum is good for the purpose. Give the hogs a scratching post. A rough stick from the wooas placed slanting from the floor to the side of the perm is good. It is some trouble to wash and wipe dry the legs of a horse that comes in muddy from a drive, but it is the only right way to do. '•*!■ he world's record for hop growing has just been broken at Kent, Wash-ing-ton, with a yield of 5,509 pounds tf dry hops to the acre. ihe average yielrt r in New York and in the hop districts of EnglaW and Germany is not more thai 650 poanos to the acre, while the average of Washington hops is 1,600 pounds. Several yields running as bi^h ak 4,000 pounds have been known. It makes a good deal of difference in the quality and flavour of the meat whether a duck is fed on any or everything or given a dean, wholesome diet. Tt is well known that the peculiarly delicious flavour of the wild canvas back is due to its habit of feeding on the celery, and the same effect may be produced, by giving celery to tame ducks when fattening them to kill. Ducks that are not allowed to freqnent ponds, streams or dicches, but are fed in yards on well prepared grain food, etc., are delicate and tender in flesh.