The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-11-03
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
Among the Vegetables, Fruit, Live
Stock and Poultry.


every evening from now until the lambing
period. AS soon as grass fails give them all
the hay they can eat.
Throughout the entire year turkeys are
salable in lesser quantities for the city hotels
and restaurants chiefly, and they average
well the year through.
An Indiana farmer advocates cutting off
part of the tops of potato vines when they
grow too rank, and states that he had in
creased the yield by 50 doing.
One of the greatest drawbacks that new
beginners in poultry raising have is the
desire to crowd fifty fowls into the space
| that half that number should occupy.
Ensilage is said to be excellent for sheep
in winter, Merino sheep having been winter
ed on it with advantage, the wool being
heavy and the sheep keeping in health.
Some varieties of raspberries throw up
great many suckers, which should be cut
out. Not over four canes to the hill
should be allowed, so as to afford plenty of
| room.
| It is now generally believed that q solu-
ton of copperas is the best remedy known
for grape rot. It is sprinkled freely on
the ground around the vines and on the
| leaves
A sunfiower only three and half feet
high, with 5,616 square inches exposed TO
the air, gives off every twelve hours twenty
to thirty ounces avourdupois of water in
perspiration.
Do not allow your meadows to be gnawed
down into the ground because rains have
freshened them up little. 1t is not good
policy to pasture meadows severely in the
| autumn.
Lilac bushes and Towering shrubs gener-
ally can be transplanted in October or No
yember. The best time to transplant ever
green's is in the spring, little before their
growth commences.
When large flower pots are used there
will be more leaves than flowers. Often
plants do not bloom because, having so
much space, their strength is expended in
forming roots and leaves
In trimming trees always try to get one
leader up straight, allowing the branches to
| grow from it, so as TO avoid crotehes, which
sometimes split of from the tree when
heavily loaded with fruit
Grass is the natural food of horses and
they should be provided with it as often as
possible. If they are kept in the stable
during the summer liberal meal of grass
should be cut for them frequently.
A popularity of the older orange trees in
Florida this season is that most of their
fruit is borne in clusters in the tops of the
trees, where the branches were most CON-
pletely denuded of their leaves last win.
ter.
Botanists include in the grass family bar.
ley, wheat, oats, corn, rice, timothy, red
/ top, bluegrass, sugar-cane, sorghum, etc.
Clover, the most valuable of forage plants
is not u grass, but a legume.
Don't begin feeding corn to the pigs too
loon. Grass, milk, roots and refuse yege-
tables will be better until cold weather APP
proaches. Warm quarters will greatly re-
duee the expense of feeding during the win
ter.
- $685. s--s,-s=s, l-5s---.-,- iss,l- sa,st for
malignant lung troubles. If they NOPE and
lie about their beds, intestinal difficulties
may be suspected. Plenty of pure air, pure
water and varied food will drive away malig-
nant diseases.
Farmers who have kept strict account
with their stock say that pound of poultry
can be made for less than a pound of pork,
yet the laboring man who has to buy both
feels that he cannot afford to buy poultry
very often, as it costs more than other
meats.
Another course to pursue in the destruc.
ton Of ants is to sink walls or little cups of
sweet oil to their rims in the soil near the
ants quarters. They will sip the oil, which
| they are fond of, but il kills them by suf-
location, as it clogs their breathing organs
A turpentine farm is one of the curiosties
Of the South. The trees are counted into
crops Of SO many thousand and then cut.
| The first run is clear rs OIL and after being
| dipped out with ladle it is distilled,
and the hard resin is left white and clear as
glass.
npays to burn the garden over after the
| grass, weeds, ETC., are fully dried, BY 80
doing many seeds will be destroyed and a
clean appearance will be given. Fire will
perform great service against tho weeds if
freely used in the fall, and will save labor
in the spring.
When tree is to be transplanted never
leave more branches than are wanted for
| mains, four or five at most; never allow a
mass of unnecessary limbs to be crowding,
which must be cut out afterward, much to
the injury OF the tree; remove them from
the head at first.
| Movable pig pens are very desirable and
used pro6tably in many orchards, especial
iy when sows have young pigs which it is
found desirable to keep separate from
others. They may be moved to fresh soil
every few days, and almost any handy man
can build pen with bolts and fastening to
hold it together.