The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-10-31
AGRICULTURAL

Fowls IN ORoHARDs.-The public has
yet to learn the full advantage of keep.
ing poultry. Few seem to appreciate
what they may do among trees in an
orchard. Let any one try them in an
orch lrd of aquarter of an acre where they
may be kept by picket fence four or five
feet high; put in say l25 fowls, and OBJ
serve the result. They will avoid an
noyance in the garden, of which so many
complain. while they work amid the
trees, doing just what is needed and de-
stroying everything that can injure the
fruit trees in the shape of bugs, worms,
and other insects, and lay large num-
Der of eggs, which are q cash article, to
say nothing of the chickens, which pay
well for raising at the present time. 1
have about 100 fowls which have worked
admirably among my trees, keeping the
ground in good condition, keeping off
the insects, and promoting the growth of
the orchard. 1 am satisfied that we have
yet to learn the full benefit which may
be derived from the proper management
OF fowls; and it is quite possible that the
method 1 have suggested may offer the
best way of getting our apple orchards
Home Journal
ASSERTING FARM PRoDUoTs.-N. R.
g., young farmer who writes to the
Rural New Yorker, says that he "wants
to begin right in the marketing of what
he produces" and asks for advice, is urg-
ed to adopt the following rules
l. Grade all products sold as of first,
second and third ouality
2. Sell for first quality only that which
is "A No. l )" and strive to make all
your products reach that grade.
3. Put your name and address on all
packages, so that if they are found just
as represented your name will be asso-
ciated with them. This will help make
you reputation.
4. Never allow poor article to go off
your farm with your name attached, un-
less with true statment of its quality.
3. Remember that it is cheaper to buy
the best, do. all things in the best way,
and profitable to be known as producing
and selling the best-that it is Just as
valuable to you that customer finds
that what you say is second or third class
is so, as to find you tell the truth when
you brand your produce as first class.
Labor to get an honest name in market,
and, that gained, you will have a pass
port to prosperity and wealth, provided
you are strictly vigilant in guarding it.
SEWAGE FARMS NOT OFFENsIvE.-The
plan of spreading the sewage of large
towns on the surface of the land has
been strongly opposed Oh various grounds,
but on none more vigorously than that
it would be a disgusting nuisance to the
whole surrounding country. This turns
out to have been mere bugbear, actual
trial in several localities in England
showing that it is not attended with any
such result. Lord Warwick, near whose
park were two sewage farms, so far from
finding them nuisance, has contracted
for an additional amount of sewage to be
placed on his lands, on account of its
fertilizing properties. He says that
100000 gallons of sewage daily are
spread over 500 acres of land, and yet it
is no nuisance whatever; and he has
agreed to take the sewage from the towns
of Warwick and bennington for thirty
years, paying therefor upwards of $4,000
a year.
BEST FooD FOR HoRsEs.-A Connec-
ticut clergyman, after careful estimates
and experiments, gives the following
tables for feeding horses "For flesh,
Indian meal six quarts day, sprinkled
on hay, cut from four to six inches long
feed three times day. For speed, long
hay, sprinkled with water; oats, twelve
quarts, always dry; feed three times a
day."