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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
February
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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The tirange Visitor gives the tollovvingdlfectiousfortanningsheepandother skins with the wool or furon: "They are vory convenient for sleighs, wagons, house rugs, and many other purposes. If the hides are not fresh taken off, soak them In water with a little salt until they are soft as when green, Tben serape the tiesh oft" with a fleshiug-knife, or with a bufcher's knife withasmooth, round edge, and witli shecp skins the wool shoüld be washed clean with soft soap and water and the suds be thoroughly rinsed out. For eauh skin take four ounces of salt, four ounces of alom and pne half ounec of borax. Dissolve these in one quartof hot water, and when cool onough to bear the hand stil in sufficient ryo meal to raake a thiek paste with kalf an ounce Spanish'whitmg. This paste is to be thoroughly spread over every part of the flesh side of the skin, whièli should be folded together lengtlr.vise, wool nide out, and left for two weeks iu an airv place. Theu rcniove the paste, wash and dry the skin. When not quito dry it must be worked and pulled and sorapad with a knife made for the purpose, shaped like a chopping knife, or with a piece of hard wood made with a sharp edge. Tüe more the skin is worked and scraped as it dries, the more pliable it will be. Other skins ean be similarly tannpd with the fur on." Poultry Moiithl.v. It. te almost useless to try to fatten fowls that have their fullliberty. They majr be in good condition, but thero is no pxcess of fat. Fowls are fattcned quickest, easiest and oheapest by putting (hem in coops and feeding itli sucJi food ;is will aceomplish tho nurpose bet. Tho young stock intendedforroastcrs n the fall should be put to fatten. Everv one wuo rears large flocks of pojütry will havo a considerable surphis of cockerels on hand unless they huve been disposed of before for broilerS. But those only partlv matured can not easily be made to iatten, for they need most'of their food for growth. Adult fowls can be fattened upon grain of various softs fed for a. change. But a variety not only síimulates appetite but aids digestión; a vcry little animal food, as beef's liver or other butcher's waste pieces, may be added daily. We havefouud oatmeal, cornmeal and baileymenl, altérnatela cooked and mixed wilh milk and seasoned, to be in the best fortn and most nutritious and best adaptcd for their digeslive milis. The trough or feeding boards should be kept constantly clean, and the food plaoea outside the coop at regular hours, and cnongh at a time to be picked up clean; and when satisfied it is best to remove the boards, placing B little sharp arravel within veach to aid digestión. Roadside Planting. - Snel Foster says that in order to induce land-owners to plant trees, "ivo must convineo them that there is money in it.'' The last nuniber of the Journal of Forestry gives an example of prolit. A man who was a blackgmitu by trade, but who possessed taste and foresight, indulgedin what might be termed "arbor day" fifteen years ago, and with axe and spade prepared and planted two hundred polos of tlie comraon white willow on both sides of the street. about 40 feet apart. Nearly all grew, and they became year after year more attraotive, and the once bald and open road has bocome au avenue where people resort for pleasant drives. Lately, when the placo was oflered for sale, it 'ound a ready and eager purchaser, whose choice was partij influenced bv the linos of partly över-arching trees, wliich gave the name of Willovvdale to .his once uninteresting spot. This was he statement of W. 'A. Halo of Sherjrooke Can., before the Forestry Congress. Vaufb of Coal Ashes.- For years I ïave spread the coal ashes from my tove ander the dropping in my hen ïoase every morning. Tho hens scratch u this for the hard, white pieces. thus ceeping tho droppings loose and dry. 'his mixture I spread on tho meadows n the spring, and iind it an excellent tnanr.re. Tin first year í pread a art-load auross the center of a sandv ot, and in Jnly you could see the rank, ;reen sti-eak as far as you could see the :t, the remainder being brown and dry. The using of coal ashes in the ion house is of great benefit, as it takes hc place of shells, and also furnishes a usting placo for the hens. My hens ire not troubled vv-th lico, and have aid ofrgs a.11 winter. Note. An average two or three year old steèr will eat its mvn weight of dift'ertnt materials in two weeks. Thero is no loss ia feeding cattle well upon a variety of materials for the sake of manure alone. Two three year old cattle will add one-third of a pound more por day to their weight upon prepared hay and roots than upon the same matorials unprepared. Thero is no wisdom in working a thirty acre field year af ter jear to get fivo bushels of wheator ten bushels of corn to the acre, when with the same expense for fertilizers you could raise fifteen bushels of wheat or thirty of corn to the acre. I he eeïetal effect of liroe is to ronder available the plant food already in the soil, without itsclf supplying any significant amount. Limingcanaot, therefore, bc suceessfully repèated exoept at considerable intervals. Judge Millcr of Missouri, says he has learned hovv a full week may be gained in getting sweet-corn for boiling. As Boon as the ear is formed, break the top down orcut it off, but leave the stick eriict in order that the pollen of the tassel' may be sure to dust the silk of the ears, as they may not be fully impregnated should the stalk be stopped. More caro is required to make fme, velvety lawns than is usually sOpposed. It is neccssary to have plenty of ricli loam, sufiicient well-rooted manure or fertilizer, and the best of seed. If the subsoil be sandy or gravelly a greater depth of loam is needed, or the bottom must be partía] ly puddled with either clay or peat; if not, any manure or topdressiug of any descripción soaks awav, and disappears entirely. The secret of success in transplanting s to press the soil wdl about the fOOtsj ín setting out plants, such as cabbage' celery, etc, be sure that the moist soil s brought into contact with the roots )j prossing it down with the foot or a we, or the back of a spade. Mr. Peter ienderson urges the importance of thia matter by compacting the soil both in sowing seed and in transplanting plant-4 jushes and trees, and in setting out cutings. It appears from experiments that a leaping teaspoonful of paris green to welve quarts of water is just as certain o destroy the potato bcetle as a largar (uantity; but one pound of the poison nixed with 100 pounds of piaster may oe applied by the hand, au it is proveíl )y repèated tests that no bad resulta wil] follow taking t in tlio bare hands whpn mixed iu these proportions. The piaster is worth to the erop all tho labor expenses. Jerusalem artiehokes have long been knovvn as a most valuablc uldition to the rationa of htwa, but that they are even more valuablc as au addition to the diet of cattlo seems to bc less generally recognized. They are hardy, yield fair crops on poor and large ones onrichsoil; are ra oro nutriüous than the potato, and once planted there will be no need of repjanting. as they are not casily got out of a pieoc of land af ter they have become established.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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