The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-10
FOR FARMERS LEISURE MO.
MENTS.

Weather unfavorable.
Don't seed too hastily.
Keep a vigilant eye on your stock
We have serious misgivings as tc
the oats already in the ground.
You who have green houses OF
grow house plants, remember that
sudden changes in temperature is
death to "Flora's children"
The st. Louis Globe argues that
the half million dogs in Missouri
initiate against the mutton crop
annually, to the extent of at least
$50, 100000, and that the CANNES
cost on an average 25c. per head q
week to keep.
THE WAY TO SET HENs.-The usu-
al way is to allow a hen to set where
she has been accustomed to lay.
But many times this is where other
hens go to lay. As a consequence,
dispute and rough contest will
often occur for possession, during
which some of the eggs will be brok-
en-. A sitting hen should be pro-
vided with quiet place, where moth
ing will molest her during cold
weather. We have known hens to
forsake their nest when in cold
and airy corner, even when they had
been sitting week or more.
PAYING PoULTRY.-Poultry might
be made to pay better than they gen.
orally do. The older hens should
now be Weeded out, keeping, as a
rule, nothing over three years. Fresh
cockerels ofsUitable sorts should be
secured at once, for nothing more
rapidly deteriorates from in-and in
breeding than barn-door fowls. The
hen-house should be in a sheltered,
warm situation, ceiled so as to Sc
cure more equable temperature,
whitewashed at least once a year,
and cleaned out every week. Where
there are facilities for feeding the
poultry in the house or yard at
tached, they should not, during the
winter, be allowed to run for more
than a few hours in the middle of
the day. Good dry food such as
oats, barley, refuse wheat, Indian
corn, with an occasional mess of
boiled meat given warm, should be
supplied night and morning. Chop
ped meat or butchers refuse, mixed
with a daily meal of warm food,
greatly helps the production of eggs.
On PoTAToEs.-I once found IN
my garden the half of good sized
potato with a very strong sprout
several inches in length, growing di-
rectly from the center Of the cut
portion, and on other occasions 1
have noticed sprouts growing from
the cut surface a short distance be-
low the skin; also from the cut
sides where the skin had been pealed
off to some depth.
Now though l do. not think the
eye of the potato goes to the heart,
there may be dormant germs in the
body of the potato which may de
veop themselves on certain condl-
tons, as we all know that when the
sprouts are broken off they will again
make their appearance, this occur
ring even on arepitition Of the pro-
cess. In that l am inclined to sup
pose that it is these dormant germs
that develop themselves, and send
their sprouts through the cut por-
ION Of the potato.
Another point is the mixing of
potatoes in the hill. 1 know that |
many of our most intelligent farm
srs hold to that opinion. consider
t as more likely that turnips or
)eets should mix in the row; they |
Eill only hybridize in the seed the |
iame as any other plant. / freely
admit that potatoes are often found |
mixed in the hill, but l never doubt
ID but that the mixture took place
n the basket before planting.
] think that / have seen instances
Yhere potatoes bred back in the
oW. In the instance of the Car
let Chill, which I raised for several
ears, every year l found two en-
rely different potatoes among them;
lso different from any variety that
had planted. One of these was a
lood-red, long potato, and the other
round light russell potato. These
always took to be progenitors of
be Garnet Chill, as / never found
lem among any other variety in the
ame field.-Cor. Journal Of the
arm.
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