Farm Notes.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 172, 14 February 1888, Page 2

Farm Notes.

Don’t allow the Hies to torment your teams if you can help it. Do not let foul weeds go to seed either in fields or road sides.

Soft soap is recommended for cholera in chickens. If you whip the horse for sluing you are making the habit worse.

Some persons prize charcoal highly as a preventive anil cure of costiveness in swine.

Galls and sores arc much worse during severe warm weather than nt any other time.

Prune out all useless w ood from young trees, and bring their heads in proper shape. Keeping tbo pores of farm aiiiiunls nix'll is os essential to their thrift as bathing is to onr health.

A week of exposure to the hot sun will injure the horse rake, mower, ami reajxsr more than a whole season's use. Throw a little straw under the tomnto vines, to keep the fruit ch an nnd ground moist, making much finer fruit nnd con tinning it longer.

Tile largest barn in the world is probably that of the I'nion Cattle Company of Cheyenne, near i1,,,. i,„. it livo acres, cost 115,000dn1, and accommodate 3750 head of cattle.

A few trees, evergreens, and Dowering shrubs planted among the hiies help to remove the sameness of the scene, and in summer give a grateful shade to the bees and their keeper. The greatest kindness you can do to a young chick is simply to leave it alone for the first twenty-four hours of its existence. There will be little difficulty experienced in getting it to eat afterwards. In buying pigs for breeding stock tbe best is the cheapest, though it costs a little more money, Tho reason why breeders justify themselves in saving mg runts is because sunn men are thoughtless enough to buy tlu-m at a le v pn/i. «£ All sninn apple* and others defee live in form or damaged by worms have their best market on the farm as fixsl for animals. If parked with sound fruit, even in small proixirtion, they r.xine. the price of ull often to the |s)int of loss. It is a question with some good wheal growers the manure should be

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