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For theOrezco ..Pork Roixing. DEWEYC How. emu 86 thoakim duillt of.the alty, gecuis to bos qncsuon with farmers, Whom parity .Angwor in thd Youkee) - ion calves ennnwh to keep good, > doncaHe' aniingl; the pug iTo is the most | ~ <conpmical mum the farmer can have hol ___ Ametalipntable article of 'tood : W uglcuhutlsf. The farmer who ls always o .. way, I “mafia. \Shill we feed it (6 OUT atanges over whitch hé ling 16° Gohitrol inter- ‘ or reat more ealyés?\~T auewer rear | Terp. - chile may bo ilfintegred-fronr abhniver Aad foed the romnindey to tir fouch abused | gtiead in his plowing, it will enable lim to tor convertiug mummies of the dairy andt i Raq- Inland . BY mmmm gA'l'HLWAY. This 18,0 gmd motto for everybody, and' It te an ludicpanaublu ang\ ~teithe aucbessml Yluahlmlhmu‘l in his work cannut \ ancceed, but if he keeps a little abead of its retunl |- he will reap, profits. unleis glrcum- | every stepartment of his Inbors, _ If he: i- |. luke advantage of a forward segson, and thus render the perfecuon of certabt hg portant cropq almost a certainty, | A few days' delay-in- sowing or planting is some 605 \mud deserves .n more creditable position in ~ agrisulture thas the-prejndices of men are - ~~S@ilfing to. sllowefim, ~ting farmerg who © tulle good card it fink- ather atotk, ornelly * neglect their\ swine, They nre given the poorest. shed olehaJunmJumauLgma care-. -~lessly ppd sonntily feds arefl‘xnpellenl, d ent, sleep, and wallow in the filth of their. ~ Apartments, whic are-seldom clenned ; are nade to the Iwa'of «thelr natures, nad then blmned because they don't keep -olean, -and - grow fat. | I have owned hogs that would not fatton readily, because-they were. the breed, and better onl _- .1m];lgfi_,tp_j__p fences thay-take on flesh : | but T hever owied a pig thatwould-not try should give their ewing batter care. I be Hove pigo p‘fiififly cured for will anales bet- ~ sot . ter average returns than almost any other stock, or farm grap Pork raiding is dis- tinctively un Amerlean industry, and one 66 snme-time.fur improvement. great maguitade | The bacoo ind hams wlone which we send to Engtund, exceeds by about one-half in value all the other an- imal foaf alive and dead, which we export to that country, and we. grow nearly thrce timoa'ghe swine of ny other ’\ clmmfillmltnlverln~pmptwllnu do ont. population, | Pork rslaltig, however, shoutd wot bo so muuch coffined 40. the West, mort j dmrymen cau Keep a few more pigs profitn- - Miy. 'The pig's stomach ie® tintoral recep. ~tnole far ult sorts of sgraps, ments, ° les, npplrn. 510ml. wimost everything nutri- tive that would otherwies hoy leat can here R a huqnmxmmdenuJL'unuulu wéicle uf M food, _I would not tindertdke to say which - 46 the-best breed, becaiume Toshould And] o with me, who are ns wit trhe right do I am, besides there in gréat stffeence in individiud animals of tho awe breed. - I6 I wore to drliuente the ply for pork, I wouldemy it should te nf Tonith, FUMLM wlong the Lick, boldin® up beond nerows the a shoulders and | hams,. Ufiid | between the eyes, should hive Ivrmul well arched +> * amall gare, short gaoul, had fine thin bait Buch a.pig of any brew-d will make a profit- nbie feeder, ~Buck pizn, however, are ouly found among the {improved hreeda and their which helps wundeefuily to aus that *'hlood will tell.\ - Those who doulit the marvelous improvement of stock That tins been made by judictons and intelligent hrcedxngmh-etlmg, shoold stinly the ori- \ fin of the domestic pig. nud get those doubts R “minh for bfseding 4 ‘ or 156, ing tt bo rememberalt that CA ; Bevery pig is pqu,\ and that it com ortlonately as nich to produce offal, Rértavrproduce nice hams and - stould- ' ora. - I would venture the opition: that tie wmall or. mediam sized breeds, like the ___ Berkshire, amail or Essex, will produce the first 800 Ibe of asent cheapér than-Uis larger hreeds, although my expd- rieweo b mostly with pure: Berkshires I betiete pig potlfll péconfited the most pal cotts {fir whet produced from whnlmc‘fmxfifln worthy of an epicure, inflame! agnl t pogk eatingy and the, squeamlah notiony of same of out antlhog ladies and gentleman, will sutely make purk raloing unprofitable. ir the R mantis-dull utflllugfim amen can mutetrnwnvntkzfl Sultpmkcommuds WIHrimponannlmuurmem [ing . how to work Anating. bu Magt as an important and profisble industry, vibes, a) deep. body, stiorg: fogs, Hac bunt; hand is not wostft. the time and talent of nu (the-foot of the lndder in any of the profes- never materially affect thg market, so as to. Timon: Tatal to The perfection uf the crop.\ If wa keep nhead 'of the weeds in the corn- 'getd by prompt egiture, the labor is greatly diminished and the yield is increased The man of waman who keepg ahead will | fiud aneasional Boursfor recreation and so-} cial ment. These are as necessary for .the health of mindand body as labor itself, - One reason why there are ay many spivitless, broken-down. people in the. world, is because they have dragged throuit's the world behindhaud, and never found time to enjoy life. Those who are ahead to their own busl~ | nes, find it mmpxuulively easy to tnake the wnrhl in thom, und if they really | ainnthin-need of -help, are likely to find ath- |/ ers willing to lend a Land ; for it.ds well mown, ftiat tre rmin \prompt about: bis work,fs aisn prompt to pay his debts. The man who keeps ahead generally To keep nherd is a good reccipt 'for a ewert tewiper and & contented (Late sowing . and planting, unsengoned wood, and late dinoors, do not neually | ° eonduce to quietness and pprce of mind. The mav'or womnn who keeps ahead, tho' . over aofull of. cestless a: exgy, enjoys ense of mind, while. those who ure bebindhand nro always in an gucomfortable: frame of mlud. | \) The Fruit Business for Hoyw Elftson Purdy, son of the editor, makes the following sensible remarks in the Prwi¢ Recorders \Tvis too bad. tor that lny tp be [working in a nursery, he ought to he learn- & farm. . 'The frail busi- wess, you know is upt a Insling business,\ Ho remarked a young. facmer who lives near us, I do not know what he meant by n inews, for certainly there will at- ways be a demand for fruite, and as long as there is a demand, there will be some oue to But be probably meant that it will .not energetic youug man. | here is no room nt gious, or in farming, but thero is always room at the top. | It is this way with fruit growiog. | In this day of competition It takes bruius, energy, sod stick.-to.itivences to make « successful fruit grower. . But upou the amme conditigns fruit, growlug brings in just aa. good results, and may be as safely chosen for a life business ns farti- img - ifroit qpeowhug bro- wnderiaken wil Htute capitat, but It Is a long way up the hill from working bay to the pro- feesional farther, __ However, fruit ' growing is seldom a Insting bustacss to 8 man Who line studied @ Tawjer, a doc- tor, and tried farmirig.@nd-failed in all, The HL! first Ornnada thistle, of broad-eaved. bur- \toekreauses him to frint, aud he looks for rome other | business Inwehlch there. aro no weeds or other oppositivne:to contand with. d eow thet amoug those who try fruit Mag are- dome of that class of people whwpnder from one thing to another, and by charge flightlng on this industry, fail in fit; hut glaze have tried darmiug, and have always ted theipkoftlo upside dowa when t rained pordidge. Whereis em opening for men, who will, 'by cantinuous effort, leara how to produce laggo crops of- Grst class berries from « small . (amount of lnnd, add at the least cost. The cal“; Tor agt farnit 00k. the growth of a plant. or Animal from day to [day, over when that grow- firemen. \Bo form a corfeot idea of.the: progress or pn.| in all clee that relates. to the well' lmlug 'of | a sition of, Anything\ we. nmswmnparelr, with standpoint the 'farmer'of to-day,\ to get the: priiger Winter Treatment of Milch Boi ,. 'The sim in the trentgfeh'. of mileh c‘ows in the wimer,.shnnld be to ooutmue the Mam-move, fnd yet conditions of summer as. nearly as possible. | We gannot (observe: the cows~such as warm‘stables— but pot too warin; vél‘nfilnflon, 'to control temper- atureand admit Trgsh air, hut not. directly on the nmumla, floor well littered wltlf fine | I 'In looking ab This requires comfortable quarters, not only farmyard or stable, I ngainst the inclemency of the weather, \but | especially | to younger \ animals, yearlmgs all winter; And in 'spri no larger than in the\ pmfim mich f the fodder they consuthe is was TMucl ded is cm tance, suppose I feed foor culvfinfl tifey aro t will gives pile of manure © proporti | estimate of his success, we aced to go back and.contrigt his preseuhc ndition with that A.; will show that he lms in almost every-flung portaining-to his methods, \aut foundings and manhood, made greater pro- gress thin men-m almost any other calllng mhmflufisainmlook tnrfbr the proof } of this, and one of the first things that will [attract our attention will be the improved | implemeyte by which the | caproity . of the man is largely incrensed, wbxlo by the sub- stitution of horse. power, th§ labor of the farmer 18 greatly diminished. © It is encour- | aging to note also Lb?! this has net been ac- complished by a engrifice of Umroughnms, bit Uit the quality of the work done has improved ns much as the quaptity and the enee with whic Ils performed. not. enmnerate . tiie different tinplements which have been lnlroduced Tor the farmer who ia fifty years. ald can easily recall the Tbno-when-implements were few and.crude.. He was nearly a man before the renper was utenuuhreshemns unkunwo, was approach- jug middlg life when the farmer learged he could plow corn=swith two horses, and was growing gray when ho. first saw a sell-bin There is scarcely an implement used on the farm but has been so much improved that no farmer would think it possible to go back-to the old one. der. vegelable _ material “lul—nnd honest | odorep sided by plaster, \thus securing a clean, dry, soft bed to lio and stand on; carding; plenty pf good water, convenient» ly obtained;. ocerglonal out door airing and fprclee, without theh exposure to cold and . wet; getting as, much \Suplight os possiblé and pvéiding great clanges of temperature; kind treatment, ~mnlfing the cow fecl at [home. - Give Food to meet her requiryients; if in calf, let the\ nitrogenous element be Fofa- an with the sumer dict, uch as roots or an- silugg, | with earfy ou clover well cured. Feed early and Into, aud a few times during the day, keeping the cow niostly eraployed with slight feeds between the two principal rations, the night serving for rest, | Begin the winter feed early, in order to avoid ex- posure to inclement weather, and to realize a late fall and early winter harvest of but- ter, for which a superior price fsobtained. y|- -It - many farmers-to. allow their cows the range of the farm, thas getting more exercise than is good for a milcb cow; Trampling the fiekis and mak- ing muddy paths, while the frost bitten food that they pick is of reduced benefit; and leaves the fields bare and exposed 'to, the winter's severity 3 It is an error to sug. pose that Inte grass, frost-bitten and bleach- We need tain life and loopmotion, and this, 'of-Gourge,. is necessary, such additional food a8 i niny have-will baturally; if it isn't required to keep it from freezing, (which is often the case) inake growth if a young ong; 'and') morte flesh if it is matured: or full grown. This growth, or increase: wul be according coarsg or weak, such the. auimal. cannot... consume. more-tbap.} enough to maintain vitality, hence stmngerx s or richer food is essential to, profils. I surrounchigg. . The wood pilo has dimp- lc fruit growing as welt ux I have known fins lerge' {Sharpless berries to seflat.ffteen cents per f quartwhite:common berrice were booting #) @ve:cénts. Our farmer friends wn sir—fruit gromag, segad 'as an upenme toxary, and onvde 1, ~ But-the change in his mellmmz though great, are aot more notlogable than in his t pelted Tram tho frout yard? the dld Virgin- in tuil feace before his door hus given piace to one mote elegant; the hoge do not foam the Inghways and are not fed before the front dear, the market, which, fifty niles away, was the distance of a week's travel and at gome gersons of the year innfcessible, in- now withim a few hours of liim and brought by the railway atation to his wery door ; the-bighway,-which flr a part of the | \ year was a quagisive, 1a now mild, muce ndumized street ; the burdocks and 'other weeds, once so common fu his door yard, nre-now rarely, found, und their place i ac- copied with flowers._.._His home has more books aud prpere, and bis nook shows batter breeding. 'The farmer himself, as a man, has grl‘m ly improved. - He rends and Shinks more, atul no longer: sneerw at . \book farming.? A larger proportion. of farmers belong to and well a good org»nization, such as n grfuke farmers club, - 'The farmers' lnctltutes not only 'well attended, but many farmers are foon:lamong the Reeturers at them. ' Agricultural colleges are now es- inblisbed in most, if-not lull the tates, and although they are not all doing for the farm er what is desired, yet tho leavon is work- ing, und each year brings them newer what | they. should be... Experimental stations are being established both by the State and by pnvnta individuals, ond we can -Jook (Gr ward to- seitlibg of inaoy important ques t ed, is of more: value as feed \than for pro- uufed is to effect green manuring without tre expense of it under. game time favor our cows also. well, as now the time can be well afforded, and the. cows. are continued in good condi- tion without break, ylelding a contivned lib- eral supply of milk, All rash changesin feed and in treatment should-be avoided; jo the lenst, mmbml milch' cow will never do her treat. R new in all this, which mhkegtlun much the better, as it has'the experieace of the inost anccessful dairy men, -yielding the larg- est quantity of the best milk and man fo- ceased percentage of butter from it, be- stdrs benefiting the cows;=fCor. Country e'utilm ned plant food. | Leaving: the grase 'By thus favoring our fields, we at the: By putting hem up carly requires attention, but pays ind above all, do not intermit the kindoess 'Thére is nothing Gentleman. ___ 'The Hop. « 'The constituents yielded by the condi- tion & the hop flower when disintegrated under the influence of heat and solvent.ca- pacity of work extract may be described os volatile oil, bittgr principal, resinous mat- ter and famnin. At one time it was sup- posed that th® volatile oil was extremely valuuble, many brewers adopting the dome and other foring of condensing copper for the purpose of preventing the esespe of volatile hop extract; while practical exper: lence bae proved that what the brewer loges 'with thale menl,- I-should-consider their Lcontracy, would_bo tled In stable with halt. |. through the evaporation of his wort Cat well bo spnfod, and that beer, always dad to absorb fords and | to the fodder eaten, but if will 16 ,\ more thah the. cost of the_Jnligr in Taking care of the stock. In order to realize an gain on these aniinfls T must wilt forthe extra growth they may make infhe aunimer pasture. - This: undoubtedly, 16; nettial result of wintermg a- large pruporllnn. of the young cuttié in this countrys~~1 hey ari © fed wough to keep therg alive, ar ji may be better than this, to: enable them to. about hold their 6wn, that is, not to fall. away MUM and let the feed be largely | much,. \Brethren thaig fim profit {n that' wlent character, to keep in line/kind.of maungetmont, na you cap all see. When tn animal is fed enough. to maid- to the kind of food should expect to obtain this wnhtbnjlvesflw giving thom ench a quart a day of bratrafid off-meal, nixed, 'two. parts. bran. and 'one part off meal. They would he keptin a foomy atable with a rack for hay ou one side and feedboxes for the meal an. “power, and a trough in the stable for water, to be carried to them. . 'T would not let these calves out of the stable! ferrule dufing—wwnter. It.stould. be cleared oft everydny, and a little fresh litter scattered on the floor. If-these calves lind a feeding. of roots management about perfect but all the roots t had might. be needed for the fattening cattle. Buttbe culses would get all the buy they would eat. The yearlings, on the ers. This treatment wouldgetthem acous tomed to being handled, malting them #ehl- tle, They would be fed double the quanti- ty of the same mixture, Bran'and meal, wnh a charige from hay to cornstalks. They would be turnéd into the' yard inthe middle of the day for drink. 'This two quarts of meal would make growth, and in they were in tha fall, and in eqnel, if not better, condition. This would m- 'than' pay for the meal, because they would go into pasture strong and vigorous. and be- gin.to grow at onee, which wold not be the cabe if they had nothing In winter but the coarse fodder, for then it would trke a montinperbaps to get them started so that they would thrive, ' ~ Increase of Good Stock. y- Tt is safe to say that thero nra nt léast ten owners of thotougbbred animals in the U “Bu States UOW, to where lhfilfl whs ons gight or ten years ago, | Those who nre. tot closely watching local changes in this direc-. ton meshed could they'make a slurp; in place of the strapJ 3 . och, rope: eleven feet\ longs: about., ees bo TEe‘EIz‘g nf th , firmly to the rope; page\ thé r6p ba tween the fore legs, which wil bring file ripg directly under the waist. gh of the ~' nnitmal} pase the loose end up over I and down to the ring and the, > Thi be required for fodiiig we' proper for each of the iris: Icted, let them be brought iy # consider-pa ~ this bo well saturated with the draining» Jet the leaves be uncovered and turned oger, from the.time of- eollecth Ahnves of flow decomposltl a 1mgided3-aa those Of: tumult tof d spring I would-expect them-to-be-larger-than hobbedaand pits. Wm Lalso be- avoided, but thote of the oy amen, No-one my travel very. animal To Prepare Vegetable Mouldqmcklyn As karly as the leaves of trees a cngbe coir, ble quantity, into a close place, and .l up therein the form of a Incl—bed. -_ from the dung heap, with sudgfrom the wash house, with urine from the stable And cow house, where this latter article: © procured. Letithis bed or heap be and lined with fresh stablo dung, 1 It heat. -- : When the beating is sufficiently subal to make to mix the dry and the wet well amber, ard if moistufe be required let \them brave. it of the same description; repeating j process till all be reduced to fine mould. 'This will be Teady for \ mm‘o‘fimflhn' to prevent any waste of the llqulirrecom-t“ 'mended, a Iyer of fusideo ei ' feet thick, should bo which would otherwise run to liGwever, are the best for. retain 3 elm, alder, mfipla, and all the soft: better suited for thpurpuae. Thi 8 kep dry, in an airy about constructing a we water free from Impoti as low ug is desired, a ging out the Foside. plpo-al covered over with a flat alone, ihrotigh lonltue biel aco.nose lo dount There bever-has beeo a unLe or a country where the calfing of ths farmer was more hnnored aod gespected thin this. . No Nother Chiss df sien whovearn Their living by tbeir . own labor nre | 82 independ- ent. | The teudéncy of the nge is to form jn|utstock 'dompaties aod 'great corpora- tiona for mnmflncturkng purposes, nod the anubstituting: of machinery mnd the subdL witign off labor has a t pdency-to reduce the” Intelligence nf their so that the, proportion of intelligent skilled me. clfanics 18. 1g8e than formerly. - But no such effect has resulted from the nuws finplements and méethodsion the farm, | Werepeat, then, ”Wiggins farmer of to-day can |stiow greater progress than men in almost mlllulfi’k d believe he can look op#. and eonntfence to the ting a autflol’ency, at any rate, of volatile [tom hop matter; Brewers as a bodyy_believe, we presume, that the bitter princigle of hops ing from ondnuon.~—[Wasterfl Breyer. . constitutes the antiseptic or preservallve capacity that hop extract undoubtedly pos- sesses; but there {s reason to suppose thit the greater portion of 'the preservative in- fluence in this particular direction bioges upon the activity of the hop resin. | If this be correct, 4t only shows us that greater at [tention than over should be paid to storage, since tho resinous constituent may be described as changeable in nature, whife the bitter principteds not; so that-hops may o a a Their pre- servative eapacity tirgagh shrugs: result- ~ How to Exp ay 'Ogomen ur pox. -An orchard may be kept. In good offer- 'Comprehensive comparisen of 1874 nud 1964] in this purttouta: Phere is batdly a neigh- borhood in which some improvement in the quality of breeding stock is not going on; and in many places you cannot travel many miles without passing a- farm which foes bred stock. | It. may be accdltyor a bull, a penpleflrqail ato have never h co, not dontaia something in 'the tins. of well-] a fepealiegp or Hogs, or a giary' An pooltry-]. but; evidence presents ltaell evqrywherk [It \arnied; directly over 'pipe as the filling proceéds Upl the surface, wher a pomp canbe A well of this kind is: reliable ahd. cent, requiring no repaits; tha and I {reaffirm mum-flies Lhato p
