. The New England farmer . ,sown March 22d on adjoining land, is aboutfour inches high, and sutiering much from thedrought. I am using the winter oats for earlyfeed.—A. D., Da Quoin, III., in RuralNew Yorker. Dressing Mutton.—Everybody, says theWorld, knows that the oil which lubricateswool is disagreeable to both taste and slitting and taking oil the jielt, it is difH-cult to prevent a contact of the woiil with thellesh along the lines where the skin is firstsevered, preparatory to being stripped accomplished butcher cannot wholly pre-vent this contact, and he therefore veryt
. The New England farmer . ,sown March 22d on adjoining land, is aboutfour inches high, and sutiering much from thedrought. I am using the winter oats for earlyfeed.—A. D., Da Quoin, III., in RuralNew Yorker. Dressing Mutton.—Everybody, says theWorld, knows that the oil which lubricateswool is disagreeable to both taste and slitting and taking oil the jielt, it is difH-cult to prevent a contact of the woiil with thellesh along the lines where the skin is firstsevered, preparatory to being stripped accomplished butcher cannot wholly pre-vent this contact, and he therefore verythoroughly scrubs the parts exposed with sal-eratus, dissolved in cold water, which whollyremoves the disagreeable odor and farmers, for a long time, were not awareof the necessity of such purgation, whichshould be applied at once, as soon as the pelt,by the greatest activity, can be done, the meat is as free from the taintof wool-oil as the meat of any other animal. 1871. NEW ENGLAND FAKMER. 305. ON PRUNING APPLE TREES. habits—and*• (^l Wki especially badones—cling topeople withwonderful te-nacity. So doold personscut their grassto this day witha hand scythe,who can wellafford to ownmowing machine.[any farmers, keep-g a large stock ofcattle and horses, did thisfor several years aftermowing machines were well tested,and boasted of the advantages ofthe hand scythe over the mower inpoint of economy !But the most persistent and ruinous prac-tice still prevails of ?pruning apple trees in thespring. The change, however, in this respect,has been very great, as not more than one-third as many persons do it now as formerlydid. Why-should any do it? The charitableanswer would be, perhaps, because they arenot aware of the injury caused in so this be so, it shows the importance of inves-tigating every branch of farm labor for our-selves, instead of blindly following the prac-tices of others. A good deal has been said and written
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