Evening Capital

Farm and Garden Notes.
The lady bugs are great destroyers of animal lice.
Corn is splendid feed in cold weather to keep up the animal heat.
Seed growing is a profitable pursuit and the ground has not been half covered yet.
Salt is necessary to every animal in a state of nature, and under the care of man.
Those who grow millet, sorghum, or broom corn will find the seed the best kind of food for small chicks.
The cost of pond construction for carp culture is small, and once they are stocked the cost of maintenance is small.
Soil covered with living herbage or dead vegetable matter is colder in summer and warmer in winter than bare soil.
Put sitting hens in a small box pen with no roosts or nest, give them plenty of food and water and treat them kindly and in a few days they will get over the fever.
A remedy for sitting hens is to put them in an airy coop where they can have fresh earth and feed them all they will eat of mixed grain, fresh meal, etc., with plenty of grease or fat of any kind.
Give a little ground feed daily to calves, and teach colts to drink milk if you have it, and give them a few quarts per day. Colts may be taught to drink milk, either sweet or sour, by mixing a little corn meal in it at first. If they are grained heavily while young they will always require heavily graining thereafter to keep them in good order.
A young pig should not be fed much corn, and it is from young pigs that the greatest amount of growth is secured for food consumed. But on a farm where cows are kept and butter made the corn may be turned into pork by feeding it to the cows. This will pay in milk and butter, and an abundant supply of milk with little meal is just what is wanted for growing pigs.