Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-10
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
Tobacco smoke kills the green fly;
water the red spider.
Sunfower seeds are particularly rel
ished by fowls at this season.
Turni ps improve the taste of mutton
and are excellent food for sheep.
Plants for the house should be made
to grow in a closer symmetrical shape by
timely pinching back the obtruding
shoots.
In a recent talk to meeting of Illinois
dairymen. Prof. Lazenby, recommended
orchard grass as supplying a want of
forage.
The weighing of the milk, testing of
the cows, and knowing to a dollar what
one is doing is great help to the dairy
farmer.
The Southern Home and Farm tells of
a South Carolina farmer who slaughtered
a pig, only eight and one-half months
old, that weighed 3O4 pounds.
A New England fancier expresses
the opinion that those who buy hens to
fatten will always make a profit, pro-
vided such hens are free from disease
and lice.
Plant some nasturtiums in pots to
form around the windows. They are
very bright and cherry on the dark
winter days. Their spicy odor is very
pleasant, too.
There is a great natural difference in
COWS with regard to richness of the milk
they give, and this is only partially modi-
fed by feeding. If the feed be dry and
poor they will not give much.
A moderately thick whitewash, to
which is added dissolved glue and cop
peras, the whole being we'll stirred to-
gether, is designed to prevent injury
to tree trunks from mice and rabbits.
Dairvmen men way be divided into
five classes-those who live on farm or
make their own butter, those who sell
their milk or cream tC manufacturers,
owners of creameries, dairy teachers,
writers and experimenters and con-
sumers.
An Illinois dairyman has had all his
cattle dehorned. and no evil results were
noticeable except upon the mich COWS,
which decreased about ten per cent. In
their flow of milk two or three days,
when the flow returned, and was more
even than before.
Wise farmers save all the straw and
and cornstalks possible, as they are great
a.d in the fOdder,ng season. But few
wears ago straw heaps in the West, lett
after threshing, were burned "out OF
the way" Now they are proftably utll-
lied in various ways.
! The Rural World asserts that this year
corn and hay, and pretty much every
kind of fodder, are sure to be scarce and
wanted, and hundreds of thousands OF
improvident men will have either to
sacrifice their stock or carry 1t through
on starvation rations, which is worse.
! H. E. Alvord is credited with saying
that butter from cows fed on ensllage
stands in the first class inc UT most crit
ical markets, and so has for some years.
He did not mean to refer, however, to
extreme cases of irrational, exclusive
feeding on ensilege or any approach
thereto.
In purchasing a windmill for pumping
water, saving wood, or for other similar
kinds of farm work. says the Neao Eng
land Farmer, do not select too small a
size. A small mill may do what is
wanted of it in a high wind, but in a
LIGHT breeze it would be useless, while a
larger size would do the desired work.
Small windmills, small churns, and small
stoves are often the dearest. though cost
ing less money than larger sizes.
A correspondent of the Mrine Farmer
takes great pains to give his cattle all
the open air exercise they require
throughout the winter on warm, sunny
DAYS. Sunlight and exercise are two OF
the greatest factors in promoting health.
Shut up human beings in cotton, oil
cloth or shoe factory month after month,
carving them their food and allowing
them no exercise at all, and how long
before consumption will seize upon them.
If is silly to think that cotton seed meal
or any other highly concentrated food
will originate tuberculosis or pleuro-
pneumonia.