The examiner., 1882-03-18
FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm an0 Uaruch Notcss
 Hens seldom pay expenses after they. are three years old.
 Separate all breeding ewes from the other sheep in the fuck now until after lambing.
 Orchard grass, though suitable for orchards, can endure more sun and drought than blue grass. The first eggs laid by bullet or hen after melting may be slightly blood stained, but it need not give any eAuse for alarm.
 The special advantage of green man. uring, or the blowing in of green crops, is in the large amount of humus which the soil acquires.
 It is a mistake to allow sows to breed before they are at least year old, as they are not then sufficiently matured and pigs from such are sometimes to weak to live.
 Nearly all kinds of trees do well on mixture of superphosphate and wood ashes. Lime is not suitable for straw berries but excellent around apple, peach and pear trees.
 Like the blackberry, the raspberry bears the fruit upon the cane of the previous years growth, which, after fruitage, dies, the next cane coming for ward for the next years crop. Grapevines should be pruned as early as the season will permit. If deferred too late they will allow an escape of sap (bleed), even if trimmed a little while before 1t begins to ascend.
 young again, but by good care, pruning s% 1,<ar Ia %N hna fair crop until 8 young orchard can be set out and brought into bearing. By training pet lamb to come at the call. and afterward putting 1t with the flock, the owner can call his sheep wherever they hear him. as the pet will come followed by the other sheep. One of the many cures for roup is to wash the head of the fowl with warm water and afterward bathe it with 8 so- lution consisting of four grains of sul- phate of zinc dissolved in an ounce of water.
 Fine flowers require thoroughly rotted manure and wood mold mixed, and tomato or other early plants can Ee grown in boxes, and afterward trans planted with better results with such a mixture.
 The geuera1 effect of lime is to rem der available the plant food already in the scil, without itself supplying any significant amount. Lining cannot, theref' re, be successfully repeated ex- cept at considerable intervals.
 IT it is desired to change bees from one locality to another the hives and boxes should be gotten ready for use now. Bees should be changed before they are ready to fly out and become accustomed to the new locality.
 There is little if any absolute fertiliz- ing value in coal ashes, but when mixed with clay soil in large quantities they render the soil lighter and more porous, and allow the air and sunshine to pene- trate it. For this purpose they are highly esteemed by gardeners. ...
 For ordinary work horse of average size should be fed twelve pounds of oats or other grain food, and fifteen to eighteen pounds of good hay; but, if driven on the road, two or three pounds of hay, morning and noon, and eight or ten at night, with the same quantity of grain.
 Potash for grape vines is being tested in France. A variety of the black mus- cat has been found defective in color where potash is defective in the soil, and writer recommends that one vine of this grape be placed in every grape house to show by it's full or by it's de- fcieut color whether or not the border for the roots has sufficient supply of potash. -....- +-. s.e. --. .-..
 Chickens should not be allowed to roost till from four to five months old, and then on broad perches, two to three feet only from the ground. Exhibition birds are better roasted on shelves, covered with sand and filtered with straw; but then they must be kept very clean, and the straw must be ire queht1y changed. On.no account place pe1ches one above the other, so that the droppings fall on birds lodged lower down. Cleanliness is the great key to success, and the roosting- places should be scrsped out daily and resanded. The greater tbe number of fowls the greater must be the care. -z-...- F..