Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-04
Farm and Garden.

SoasOnablo Notes Tor Dolv0fS IN tno SOAAs
The Poultry Monthlv, of Albany, N. Y,
gives, the following directions for feeding
poultry "All kinds Of fowls should have
sufficient food given them, regularly, two
or three times day. If confined they
should he fed oftener than when at liberty.
Full grown fowls should have just as
much as they will readily eat and no moro:
The food should consist of oats, ground
and unground, barley meal and corn, mid
dlings, bran and buckwheat, pieces OF
bread and vegetables of all kinds, scraps
of meat chopped fine bone meal and milk,
either fresh or thick, will fatten or make
hens lay if there is any fattening or laying
to them" There are many ways published
from time to time to bringup chicks
and manage grown fowls, but the forego-
ing appears to be all that is necessary.
Tryit.
Some celebrated reporter of agriculture,
in the height of his conceit, exclaims ::
"Give me good cOrnfOdder, meal and
a better quality of milk than l can with
the same quantity of grain with hay"
This is the testimony of Mr.. Wilbur, the
proprietor of the well-known "Le Mont
Farm near Newport, r. l., and then
some equally great man adds, i" 1t is in
general the testimony of all farmers who
have made thorough trials of the feeding
of fodder corn in dairies where the manu-
facture of milk is the leading object" We
should say, humbly, and almost in whis-
per, give dairy cattle either one or the
other they will do their ''level best" as
Horace Greeley, who invented the phrase,
used to say. Anybody with a grain of
sense, mixed with either corn meal, shorts.
hay and sO-fOrth, would not hesitate long
to conclude that on such prOvender the
milk and cream and butter would be forth
coming. What does Bailey, of Billerica,
with his solos and ensilage say to this?
August is the best time for setting out
new beds of Strawberries. Some persons
defer it to September; but in order to get
a pretty fair crop next year, it is better to
transplant in August, and perhaps the
earlier the better. 1t is hardly worth
while to enter upon any particulars in
making strawberry bed, the fruit has be
come SO common that it is grown in al
most every garden. Il is we'll to dig deep
ly, pulvcrize well, manure literally witt,
stable dung set out the plants when they
are wished to be grown in hills, in rows
q feet apart and the plants about fifteen
inches in the lows. The tops and
portion of the roots should be
pruned pretty we'll, the plants set rather
shallow, and the soil he firmly pressed
about them. The situation should be
rather dry, and the plants should he COW
cred lightly in the winter with straw
manure from the horse stable. There are
a number of varieties that will produce
good crops, there not being nearly as much
difference in the flavor rs some suppose.
So far as our own experience goes, We like
the Captain Jack as we'll as any other.
Seth Boyden is good the Sharpless Seed
ling is considered among the best then
there are Triomphe de Gand, Monarch
of the West, Jucuntla, Charles Downing,
Crescent Seeding, Wilson's Seeding, &c.
The army worms, says the Rev. Thos.
Mccormick, of Baltimore, who is now in
his Goth year, suddenly made their ap-
pearance in the year 1900. A fine wheat
field adjoining the Newlin mill property,
was the first attacked. They were count
less IN numbers, and, after stripping the
wheat, continued their march into the ad.
joining wood lands, which they left entire
ly denuded of foliage and presenting the
appearance as if mighty hail storm had
passed through the woods. The wheat
field had at the east end running stream
of water that the worms could not have
crossed, SO that the eggs must have beer