Notes for the Farmers.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 126, 23 April 1884, Page 2

Notes for the Farmers.

„.. r Do not forest to supply jour fowlg, especially 'ihoaSili&V'&Qe 6onftned, : with fr«sh bonnes,, o w g|kpVAckei ; Large,' cdarsV'plgV are r bo longcv favourUes, , Dealers prefer pork weighing trotn^ t^wi/lirfeVßunSftifi founds. The " Maryland Farmei" says that the base bf^the hofHS--HHd^fche inside of the ears of a co^f being good golden yellow aheiis suyje to be a good butter cow. V if More than 500; stallions are now annually imported '^from France to the United .States. .The^firet, cross of a Percheron stallion^ v^f a, pati ve mare, it is claimed, douflrar th^ selling value of:tlie colt whea mature. *.'^..- Tin vessels so worn tliat the iron U ex^cfeied aro ihof fiAnfon . -use m the dairy, and should be discarded. Sour cream will; be unpleasantly affected by leraainitfg iivcontact \fith the iron. Potatoes 'intended fdi*seed should bo . kept m a coplj^dvy pUce, so^that they will-not sprpur.r, i^^ftl^togs .thai have Bproiited are -weaker uud more inclined lo disease thairthose that do not sprout 'untit ! pidnt>id ! f 1 ' l ' '•■)«o;i{oj.-!r f -%L Kew, -says^fcuat he gave a dies^rig of salt (eight bushels to th.c acre) tp land badly infested with White grubs', and for'yhiefc years after raised gbo'd 'ct opsS; was impossible previous to~thts application. Tliere^ is probabblyTfo' : ie6d ! 'so good for raising r animals as warm. a ; kim toilk- \v^th t^niix|;ure of moderate quantity of ground oats scalded. The 'milk ana'^kfe ; eonf am' ' a large amount of muscle and bone material, and, as a consequence,^^ -J^ave a cow wUh excc 1 lout con stilution^ ; and a good-sized fraiue. f J... --^% If^fowls^arejiioi*-^owed full range theyishould have «sjpeai of soft cooked or ground .fgpd givjefi them early m the morniug, a^r^ter" their long fast it satiafies .theirj Jtmme4wte».WAms. On the same paniuple, give the wnole gram m the evening to preveufchanger through