Hemm for the Farmers.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 224, 19 August 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)

Hemm for the Farmers.

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An experiment was tried some years ago m England as to the relative value of horses and oxen for agricultural labour. The oxen ate £501bs of turnips a day, each horse *te 161bs of oats daily, both having oat straw "ad lib." The conclusion arrived at was that there, on farms, horses should be employed exclusively. v IV ratten young poultry they must be cooped up m a clean, airy, but shaded coot) set up some distance from the floor or ground. The coop must have a ' slatted bottom so as to allow the droppings to fall •'• through and be removed or covered with "dry loam. Feed regularly as often as three or four times a day, as the birds yill eat up dean. In a week they will do to kill and send to market. -^ '■'.' ' "" - ; - „*.',,. I- An Am_ericaappultry farmer gays :. "Store away a few bushels of dry . road dust for the hens to dust m next winter. Give them, enough bfit, and have it entirely dry,, so they can '; make the dust fly r all through the hen house and cover the roosts and fiU the cracks, and the lice must movtf out. This does not sound quite so nice a& soapsuds, • acid, kerosene, perfect cleanliness, &c, \hai --it';. is* moire practical and moire likely '. ; W : be done on a farm where washing henroosts is not the main business. Dust is also good to sprinkle on young stock/ but should be carded and brushed out of . the hair after the vermin have left.";? • y ■•*. Dairy " says that sulphur- . pus acid is a most effective antiseptic and anti-ferment, and may. be produced by burning sulphur upon live coals upon a shovel or a bed of coals carried into a stable with perfect safety. It will also be found an excellent method for freeing dairy rooms and cej|ars from the spores of mildew, which have a very injurious > effect upon , the milk and upon butter or cheese made from milk that has been exposed to them. In fact, from constant prevalence of^ these spores it might be useful id' make a practice of fumigating dairies . pccasionally, especially after a bad* damp spell of weather during the summer season.

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