The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-07-12
Fnrm and Gnrden Notn..

Farm and Garden Notes
No system of farming is complete
that dispenses with clover as rotation
crop.
1t is asserted that nine .tenths OF the
foot and ankle ailments of horses are
traceable to standing on dry plank
floors.
Sow mangles, sugar beeis, carrots and
parsnips as early as possible, and fit the
land thoroughly before putting in the
seed.
DR.. Augustus Voelcker commends the
soiling system and charscterizes pastur-
ing as most wasteful way of keeping
stock.
Melons, cucumbers and squashes are
cultivated in the same manner, but they
should never be planted near each
other.
One acre of land we'll prepared and
we'll titled produces more than two
which received only the same amount
of labor used on one.
Do not throw away the young beets
that you thin out of the rows. Tops
and roots make delicious sort of
green's and are healthy.
Self-interest demands that farmer
should raise nearly all he consumes,
which will enable him to pay cash for
all he is compelled to buy.
Do not turn the manure in too deep,
but we believe in turning it under the
surface as soon as it is put upon the
field. Especially is this true for potato
land.
Every one understands that those
hens which are most marked by patience
and gentleness are the best fitted for
incubation. Choose hen in this re-
spect for her stolidity and want of live
liness.
The Germantown Telegraph recon-
mends keepers of fowls to grow sun
flowers in the out-of the-way places for
the seeds, which are excellent for the
poultry. And it might have added that
the plant is good protection against
malaria.
A New England man affirms that il
you take balky horse from the wagon,
and with one man at his head and an
other at his tail, whirl him around in
the smallest possible circle, until he is
dizzy, he will be cured of balkiness. At
least he will be after two applications
of the remedy.
Glover seed may be sown on fsllli
seeded fields nf re, wheat or grass,
and the surface narrowed with light,
fine tooth harrow, or rolled with an
iron roller, or both, as the character of
the soil may demand. II the surface is
light and full of cracks and the soil
moist most OF the seed falling into the
cracks will germinate and grow.
The London Lire Stock Journal gives
two methods of starting a balky horse:
1. Tire your steed out by remaining
perfectly quiet until he starts of his
own accord. 2. When horse refuses
to draw at all, put him in q cart in q
shed and keep him thefe until he
walks out, In one instance the obsti
nate one was thirty-six hours in the
shafts before he gave in"
The Hon. George Geddes mentioned
at o recent meeting of the Onondagn
IN. " FMmers' club that one OF his
fields, to which no barnyard manure
had been applied for seventy years, and
which formerly had a bad reputation,
is kept fertile by clover and plaster
alone, and that the late John Stanton
Gould once spoke of its crop of timothy
as the largest he had ever seen.
The best treatment for mare in foal
is to give her moderate exercise daily,
care being taken against over-exertion.
The food should be good clover and
timothy hay, we'll cut and salted.
ground oats, and bran mash mixed
with potatoes or other roots Feed
some corn or meal, but not too much.
in order to guard against milk fever.
See that the colt promptly relieves the
udder soon as possible after birth.