The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-23
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

FARMERS who live in sparsely-settled
districts, Astounding in large dry pas
lures, can afford to give the time of q
faithful and intelligent lad the whole
summer through, to be devoted exclu-
sively to rearing turkeys. The young
broOds must be watched as constantly
as ever she pherd watches sheep in a
region infested by wolves. Every night,
or during the day on the approach of
rain, they must be driven to q roomy
shed with a tight roof. The mother
birds and the young can soon be
trained to being driven as easily as
cows are driven to pasture. Give good
forage ground, and keep out of rain
and dew, and success is almost GER
tain.-Ihe Poultry World.
THERE is one point in poultry man.
agement to which we wish to call espc-
cial attention, as but few persons who
rear poultry for profit ever attach much
Importance, Notwithstanding it has a
great influence upon the profits. 1t is
to keep your birds tame, whether they
are kept up in suitable Enclosure dur
ing the entire year or permitted to have
unlimited range, for it pays to do so, in
many ways. If you keep your birds
tame, so they will come to you quickly
at the call and eat out of your hand
without any sign of fear or distrust,
they will always be quiet and content,
and will fatten and thrive much better.
This matter is we'll understood by
breeders of the larger kinds of stock,
such as cattle, horses, sheep and swine,
while there are sensible few who apply
the same principle with poultry. Many
a fine nest of eggs has been destroyed
by wild and frightened hen, a hen
which had early learned to fear her
master or owner. If uniform kindness
and gentleness had been resorted to,
the hen would suffer herself to be
handled while on the nest, and never
once think of leaving it in such hurry
as to endanger the eggs. If the poultry
on the farm is kept tame, it is not a
very difficult matter to catch one or
more when wanted for table or other
uses.-American Poultry Journal.
IT pays to have a garden, if you will
take care of it; if you can't or won't,
don't attempt it. Perhaps dozen of
your neighbors are in the same fix; in
which case you might club together
and hire gardener on the "co-opera-
tive PLAN" If you make a garden, it
pays to enrich the ground literally.
Nothing from nothing is one of Ma
lures bylaws, if not a part of the con-
stitution of things. Stable manure is
adequate for nearly all purposes, but
good superphosphate is more con-
venient, and has the advantage of being
free from weeds. The value of wood
ashes, especially for potatoes, peas,
early beans, ETC., is also very great. 1t
pays to withhold your seeding until the
ground is dry and can be thoroughly
pulverized, particularly for all root
crops, and for corn. The distorted and
crooked parsnlps, satisfy and radishes,
and the slow growing and stuntcd corn,
are results generally due to soggy and
lumpy soil. 1t pays to have walk
through your garden, each way, made
with loose foundation and filled in
with coal ashes. 1t pays to SOW your
vegetables in long rows, instead Of in
the old-fashioned beds, and to use
stakes and line in planting everything,
that your rows may be straight and
even. It pays to rotate crops from one
spot in the garden to another. When
the ground is wormy it pays to use
lime. 1t pays to kill weed wherever
and as soon as you see it, Golden Rule.