The Penn's Grove record., 1885-12-12

bhs little usAaz,es OF Un64r gUing 4 %
garden, and they viii find enough on
the grass plots to keep them busy. 1t
is surprising how much benefit the
fowls derive film this time Of exercise.
The fowls seem to know that they are
to have a chance to get out, and are
much more quiet during the day and
If they are allowed their liberty at just
about such a time each evening they
will return to their roost without any
trouble. I am inclined to think that
an hours exercise at evening is nearly
as good as a whole day, so far as the
Health Of the flock is concerned, for IL
there is any article of diet that they are
In special need Of, they will hunt for it
an the more diligently. 1t is for this
reason that they will prefer the grass
to the plowed ground. BY such an ar
rangement Us this large fiocks of fowls
can be kept in perfect health and good
condition, although shut up most of the
time during the year.
PLowINd IN WEEDs.-There may
be some advantages in permitting
weeds to grow on the stubbles, with the
Intention of blowing them In, provided
they are not left long enough to rlpen
their seeds. A bare fallow, in which
the soil is exposed to the sun and rains,
is injurious to the land it is far better
to have the soil covered with some kind
of vegetation, II it Is nothing but the
prevalent Summer weeds. Every crop
of weeds plowed in lessons the stock Of
weed seed in the soil, and does 81 much
toward cleaning the land, If care is ex-
|ercised TO bury the weeds before the
seeds are formed. An excellent meth
cd Of covering the weeds is, to loop a
chain from the plow beam, SO that il
gathers the strip Of weeds on the fur
row and rs it turns, drags the weeds
into the furrow, where they are covered
in completely and buried where they
viii o 0 decay and enrich the soil.
THE farmer who attempts to raise
hogs and begins by keeping them until
a year or more old before attempting to
feed them out for market makes a uiis-
take and will lind the business, as a
rule, Improbable. The cheapest pork
is made from pigs that come in the
early spring and are fed out in the late
fall, at about eight or nine months Of
age, for market, though it may be bet
ter to have the pigs come IN the late
fall and then feed them out and put
them on the market in the summer
months IS it is generally true that
better average prices can be obtained
in these months than at any other time
HEAVY rains In the principal beaI
growing districts have greatly injured
this crop. Most lots will be uneven in
ripening and be more or less discolored.
Where dirt washes on the pods it rots
them, and thus destroys the beans.
For tins reason experienced bean grow
ers do rot cultivate this crop after
blossoms appear, preferring to let beans
and weeds grow together until harvest
rather than to disturb tho soil by pull.
ing up the weeds.
EVERY farmer should, at this season,
look over his stock. and set Ost for sale
OF TO fatten what VIII not be worth in
spring the cost of wintering. 1t costs
as much to keep a poor horse as a good
one, often more, for the old horse will
eat and need more grain and require
more expense in doct0ring. The great
drawback to many farmers who grow
gco1cropa and are successful in other
respects Is that they aye handicapped
by live stock that does bot pay the cost
of Its keeping