£ht (Cnilrr ,31 row (rat. II KLLKPO NT K , I A . iV.Q-HIC'U'LT'CJIIiIL. NKWS, FACTS AND BUUOKBTIONS. *H TIST r MI N tnom wttrim is TIII IKTILLI- Otftt'R ASIP PIOdPRRItT Of TUB EAR*** Kvery farmer in hi* annual experience diacovern unmet/tiny of value. ll'rite if anil send it to the ** Agricultural Kit it or of they J)KM(H KAT, Hellefonte, I'enn'u," that other farmer* may have the benefit of it. I,et communications he timety % ami be .sure that they are brief ami icell pointed. AT the regular meeting of the El mira Farmer's Club, held Nov. 22d, the relative merits of hill and drill planting of corn were discussed at considerable length, and the drill sys tem carried the day without any real opposition. Expose RE of cows to cold and storm, with scrimped feeding, not only causes shrinkage of milk now, if they are in milk, but even if "dry" tends to lesson the yield of milk and butter for.next season. It will pay to keep all the stock in good, thriv ing condition. KX-CoNORKSSMAN JollN 15. I\\arU of w hole corn and wheat screen ings at evening,) plenty of broken bones ami lirnc, a never-failing su|e ply of fresh water, good warm quar ters, clean nests, and convenient dust baths, do the business. Potato par ings boiled up with the morning mess furnish a portion of green food, and when this is insufficient, wo hang a head of cabbage up by the root at such a height as the hens can just reach, and let them enjoy themselves with this. Eggs are always scarce and high-priced just at this season, and a little care and painstaking pays a much lnrgcr per contage now than at any other time. There are special breeds advertised as "winter layers"—and some do lay better than others—but you will find that just such care as this will make winter layers of whatever breed you may happen to have; and that the best winter-layers in the world won't pro duce an egg once a week if com pelled to roost in apple trees or upon sheds, go without water from day to day until a "thaw" happens to make it convenient for thcin to And, and stuffed on whole corn at such irregu lar times as it may occur to some one to feed them. DR. A. M. DICKIE, who edits the Poultry page in the Farm Journal, is pleased to speak of our agricultur al editor as "level-headed." Well, ami why shouldn't he be? lie reads the Journal regularly. Do you see ? LANCASTER papers report a very comfortable state of affairs for the tobacco growers in that county. All who are willing to sell find ready (customers at their doors who are anxious to pay them cash down for their entire crop and at higher rates than even the most hopeful anticipat ed. It is said that on some days the tobacco buyers make such numer ous demands on the livery stables of Lancaster city for conveyances, as to leave them almost without horses or vehicles. DR. E. L. SITRTKVANT is writing for Land ami Ifmnr a series of pa pers under the title of "How to grow one hundred bushels ol corn per acre," from which we shall, as the corn season approaches, take the lib erty of making such short extracts as the space at our command will ad mit of. In regard to seed, Dr. S. says that e a great improvement upon the major portion of that usually planted, uml is a/icay* hard to find. Look about you and secure the first lot you can lay your hands on. He fore planting time the DEMOCRAT will again have a word to say as to the importance of raising a lot of corn under the lest circumstances and with the greatest care, specially for seed. • How to Make and Keep Saunage. NN t- find the follow ing receipts in the current number of the Farm Journal, and give them to our readers because we have tested them ami know them to be excellent. Last winter we packed two or three jar-, prepared in this way, in the center of the ice house, us we were tilling it. and when taken out and used in Au gust and Septenilier, it was superb: Take, for sausage, 55 pounds of |>ork —no beef, mind—use one |>ouml of salt, six ounces of good black and a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper; mix the ingredients and work thor oughly through the meat. Sage docs not improve it. He sureaml chop line. If the meat is neither very fat nor very lean no better sausage is brought to the Philadelphia market, nor con sumed in any farm house, than that made by the above rcci|>e. No 1s t tcr material for sausage can be found than an old fat sow. We have this last point from one who has followed the business of making sausage for over twenty years. Use small well-baked cartheu pots ; take a handful of sausage, made a* aliovc, press firmly into the pot, then another and another until the pot is in an oven 1 '*^■l —thai is, if there are eight pounds bake two hours, etc.—ami w hen done place a weight on the sausage until it is cold ; remove the weight ami fill the pot with hot lard. Place up side down on a shelf in a dark, dry corner of the cellar until wanted ; then put it into tin* oven for a very short time to inelt the lard which sur rounds the meat; remove the sau sage from the pot and when cold slice them for the table; or some like it one-quarter inch thick and made as above. More Enlightened Management. Th<* necessities of the times, when all agricultural industry is making ouch rapid trid<-*, inure than ever before call* for ihe education of the farmer vouth. To keep pace in this social ami political progress; to oo|ic with merchants nd manufacturers , in handling the soil products ; to prnfiuldy i increase the quantity and improve the t quality of all crs ; to enable them to compete successfully with their competitors —this will, and due* now, require all the knowledge, tact iwid common-sense obtain able. Our farmers are beginning to see the necessity of belter and more enlight ened management. We copy the above paragraph from bind and Home. It is all true; and the quicker we, as farmers, realize its truth and importance, and begin to make efforts toward the Increase of our knowledge, the better it will be for ns. No better opportunity has ever liecn offered the farmers of Cen tre county for the acquisition of knowledge adapted to their es|>ecial needs titan the course of lectures to tie given at the College next month, which was fully explained in the DEMOCRAT of November 27. We trust that every one who possibly can will avail theinselvea of the gen erous arrangement made by the Col lege. Cleanliness in the Dairy. • One of the leading editoriid articles in the American Pniryman for Novem ber 27 is under the title of "What is Cleanliness?" and treats of the sub ject in its relations to milking and the care of milk, and butter making. We arc convinced that the need of admonition upon this matter is quite as observable among those w ho keep only cows enough for the family sup ply of milk and hultcr, as in the large dairies, and we (plots; from the hairy maii'* article such paragraphs as we can find room for : We lined to HnprnMi upon nil (Inirvumn sonm idea of whiit is necessarily < In-snd under tli" head of clpniilinn-- in the dairy. Tlin stable must In* clean, froc from mnn u re me I nil offensively odorous mutter, nnd enough sawdust, dry dirt, plaster, or other effictive ali-orhent nnd deodori/.er u-*-*l to remove nil di-ngri eiiltle "iio'lls. The stable must !• well ventilated, and the cows have plenty of fresh, pure nir to breathe. This iuu-t h<>, in summer or winter, 11- foul nir, n- well ns foul food, will taint the whole system of the row nnd impart it* i"l"r and flnvi r to the milk. Air, food and drink mud lie pure, nml the surrounding- clean nnd sweet. * • * This i- indispensable, a- surely a- the milk is made n|, nnd flnv ured hy, what the ro-w eats, drink- and inhales, nml n- milk nh'orhs the odors of the atmosphere with which it comes in contact. A- winter is IIOW tl|xin US, we wish we could impress this lesson upon the mind of every dairyman in the Und, so that it would hear practical results, ami give every cow an atmosphere to live in that Would he wholesome and inoffensive. * The hands and person of the milker must be clean, and free from the smell of swat, tobacco, B |,d other stenches, huh are too often present. The udder of the eow must he , lean, and free from all dirt and loose hairs that * an drop in the pail The same may he sael of the body of the cow. • * * Milk pails, i sni. pan-, and strain* T, with cheese.vats, (burns, el. , mut he kept bright if tin) and white (if wo.*) and sweet a if the air from the green fields. No green coating mu-t lm allowed to gather ..ji the wo J, m*r white coating on the ttn nor inu-t there be the l**t collection of dr,.-.| milk *>r cream in the seams, crcn-e- r around tlo* * hime- I,"t all milk a!enil |h. tlml rinsed thoroughly with cold wat'-r, the - ...ner aft* r u" the ffi-tter then fidlow up immediately with ■ nr. fill washing in warm w at*r such a the haieh can )•• ar and -"Bp, whh h will rem ve all milk and grease and finally, -. aid ill boiling water and turn l-'ttom— h- Up to drain. The less wiping the h<-tt.-r, Ulie -S the cloth I- , ire/In ch all, wl.irli |s hardly p'ssild* if u I a- a wiping cloth Frequent sootirii • of the tin may !• n< < sary. Salt u* I f**i thi* p srs •- - • runtime* w ok- w.d! It i* il .li-it g. an llf fre. ejuelilly u-*d, will delay the nia*---ity for scouring with anythu.g harder an I sharp er sifter scalding, pvi the ntMilli a g.> •sl which will cost them but a trifle, and which will insure them a good crop of corn. The same kind of compost will be valuable for a root or any other kind of crop, but particularly for corn, owing to the fact that it grows in hills and requires a good start if a fine crop is cxjs'cted. We believe that a handful of this compost put into a hill, with frequent ami thor ough cultivation—and by cultivation we mean with a horse and cultiva tor—w ill produce als iter crop on ordinary land than plowing under a liberal coat of manure with a lack of cultivation. The compost pile should lie kept in a dry place where it will not !• leached by rains, and where it can Is- turned over occasionally. Tie- U* of Electricity in Agriculture. Ff ti th' \ner> an Kg' A French farmer is reported as havingsuc cssfully CXJH rimciited with an electric motor, in plowing and other work. This is a promising in novation, es|s;clally where a water |wywer could Is- utilized within a mile of the farm. The waterfall in the case mentioned is used to run a Gramme machine of 2 horse power; a cable of three-fifth* of a mile is employed to convey the current to the lmrn, where it is made to run the fishier cutters, threshing machine, root smashers, and other machine*, by fixed apparatus, and by |>ortal>lc apparatus to do field work. A jor tahle machine, with a coil of wire to convey the motive power, is all that is needed to carry the electricity wherever it may I*' desired. As to its feasibility, no certain judgment can as yet Is- made; but if electricity is ever used as a motive fores', its applicability to farm work is unques tionable. under certain c iteurastancea. I/k Well to Yonr Hrrda. Ff ■' 'he Every good farmer who does any part "of his own work can put in his time to the l**st advantage by taking care of bis own stock, and let the hi ml help do the straight work in the field or woods, for not one hired man in ten can le intrusted with the care of stock in the winter time, either from a lack of judgment or the want of care or both. To Is- a good hand with stock a man must like the business nnd have some interest in it. lie must be gentle and kind, and then the stock will like him nnd they will get along first-rate together. A howl ing wild, uncultivated fellow has no business taking rare of stock. LKJ Ureem. In Rt. XlrhoUi far THE MYSTERY Or THE SEED. rtiiMwn r Ait ynn rc*4 Th" I*l yihn th* TU* lift)* Hint **lll r*t*ln In Mirth, Init riiNw m ft nit r<4 r* n * A mnlGt. etmngo | th" •*"<), in It* *onfrie rhunf* ; F-r*l itxl !!••*? Iri It* hn*k < on* An*l th" f'li|rii llh of th" ftel4. 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