The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-08-11
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Pigs on Dairy Farms.

A dairyman writes that he finds there
is no more profitable stock to keep on
dairy farm than good pigs. He keeps
two pure Berkshire brood sows and one
boar, and raises four litters each year.
The litters average eight each, and the
pigs are sold when they are between
four and five months old to make room
for the new litters. They then weigh
from 100 to $50 pounds dressed, and sell
for seven cents pound. Last year bis
pigs brought him in over $3.50, and they
did not cost $50 outside of the skinned
milk and the buttermilk which they
consumed. He has tried several kinds,
Chester Whites, Yorkshires, Suffolks,
grade Berkshires, and pure ones, and
finds the pure Berkshire and the half
breed of this breed and Chester White
the best feeders. The meat of these
two kinds will sell more readily than
any others, being lean and fat mixed,
while Essex, Suffolk and Yorkshire are
all too fat for sale in the summer time.
He cures the hams and the sides for
bacon, and finds it is more profitable
than selling the carcasses. lie don't
think anything on q dairy farm pays
so well as good pigs properly managed.
How TO Have Chickens Fit TO Eat.
Don't imagine that 1t makes no diff
ference how your chickens have been
brought up. Don't suppose that they
will be good anyhow. Chickens have
stuffed, and vet they were not fit to eat.
There was flavor about them that no
soda rinsings could cleanse and no sea-
soning conceal. These were chickens
that had picked up their living around
| pig styes and other unolean places A
chicken may be spoiled in dressing it to
cook. If killed with full crop, and
allowed to lie for hours before il is
" drawn" or relieved of its internal
organs, it gets an unpleasant flavor.
Fowls should be caught and shut up
without food for twelve hours before
they are beheaded. Then the crop an6
intestincs will be empty. and the task of
| picking and dressing it will be greatly
lessened. Old fowls are not necessarily
tough-only cook them long enough.
after they are killed than if eaten imme-
diately.
! TransplantinR by Night.
A gentleman anxious to ascertain the
effect of transplaning by night instead
of by day, made an experiment, with
the following result: He transplanted
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mencing at four o'clock in the after
noon. Those transplanted during day
light shed their blossoms, producing
little or no fruit, while those trans
planted in the dark maintained their
condition fully. He did the same with
ten dwarf trees after the fruit was one
third grown. Those transplanted dur
ing the day shed their fruit; those trans
planted during the night perfected the
crop and showed no injury from having
been removed. With each of these
trees he removed some earth with the
roots. The incident is fully voLched
for. and if few similar experiments
produce like result, it will be strong
argument to hortjculturists, ETC., to do
much work ut night.
PrOpaRatInR HOses.
1t is always very desirable, with
those who have very few choice roses,
to have some extra ones, either to give
friend or to enlarge the flower garden.
To do this, select ripened shoots, we'll
branched, near the ground (preferring
those limbs that, if cut off, would make
a nice bushy plant), and with sharp
knife hack or notch the under side,
so that, when bent it will come in con-
tact with the soil. These notche
should be five or six in number, through
to the heart or pitch. Now bend the
limb down, and with the knife slit the
limbs one and one-half inch up toward
the end of the top, just below the
notches, and be careful not to break the
limb. Cover two inches in the sandy
soil and lay brick or stone over it to
keep 1t down. Keep the soil moist,
and by spring the roots will have
formed, often four and five inches long,
when it can be easily removed. The
most difficult roses root easily this way.
-AnacricIn CultiUGtOr.
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