The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-06-27
Farm and Garden Notes.

ECCufc ROOu SecQ corn early.
Starving hens make lean egg basket.
Baby lambs and calves need good care.
Succulent food makes succulent milk.
Stables should certainly be cleaned
daily.
Pears do well where the land is half in
grass.
A good tree well set needs no tying to
stakes.
Add scalded milk to oatmeal for grow
ing calves.
1t is not well to allow cattle and swine
to run together.
Dirty boots are as much out of place
on hay as on the carpet.
Buckwheat is recommended for soil
infested with wire-worms.
Old orchards should be manured and
plowed, using lime and ashes.
Wood ashes, where available, are the
cheapest fertilizer for fruit trees.
1t is usually necessary to moisten eggs
little just before Matching in nests built
high and dry"
For the first month five times a dav ia
recommended for feeding young chick
ems, by correspondent of Poultry World
Sulphur, insect powder and kerosene
should be used freely in preventing the
spread of and in destroying poultry
vermin.
Currants would give better satisfaction
If not so generally sighted. They repay
very literally for pruning, manure, and
culture.
Lay in stock of copper sulphate and
whatever other materials are needed. at
an early date. And don't forget the
spraying pump and nozzle.
On many farms it will pay better to
build large poultry yard to pen the
chickens in, than to build much longer
fence to pen the chickens out.
1t may be pleasure for farmers to try
some of the fancy breeds, but the most
profit comes from adopting one of the
general purpose kinds and breeding it
straight.
Old pear trees that have apparently
been worthless have been revived bv the
application of peck of salt and ashes
scattered around the base. Now is the
time 10 try the method.
In pruning roses cutting back closely
produces, as rule, fewer blossoms of
finer quality, while from those not so
closely pruned will be obtained a larger
quantity of smaller flowers.
When about time for setting of eggs
to hatch, the nest and hen should be
thoroughly inspected, and if there be a
sign of vermin, all should be thoroughly
busted with sulphur or Persian powder.
In planting peach and ounce trees
they should be given rich, mellow soil.
Old trees may be materially benefited if
the branches are carefully thinned out
and a good dressing of we'll -decayed
manure is given over the surface of the
roots.
Says the New England Farmer. ga
farmer will spend day in carting some |
fertilizer for which he has to pay a good |
price, when for the same time spent he /
might have had something just as valu-
able by carefully collecting the drop
pings from under the roosting fowls"
Plant raspberrics in rows five feet
apart and three feet in the row. Black |
berries in rows eight feet apart and three
feet in the row. Strawberries NAV be
set in rows three feet apart, and twelve |
inches in the row. SThe soil should be !
fertile, but good cultivation counts much.
However great possibilities there NAV
be in poultry raising, the plan adopted
by many farmers causes a loss of far
more fruit, and "garden truck and
grain, than the chickens are worth. In
elligent management and feeding are as
necessary with chickens as with other
livestock.
No one need expect to get sound,
healthy chickens from eggs laid by hens
that have been coddled into, good for
all through the winter
months. The constitution as well as the
other characteristics of a chicken is de-
termined by the health and condition or
its parents
Speaking of pasturing, New Eng |
lander says: "ln my opinion farmer |
can keep a sheep with every COW with
out any additional expense. A farmer
keeping twenty cows will find he has
just as much food if he has kept twenty
sheep with them, and they are just as
well nourished."
Wood ashes are one of the best posi-
BILE fertilizers for young trees, whether
fruit or ornamental trees. II should not
be put directly on the roots, but worked
into the soil, as it is filed in after the
tree has been set. Land plaster might
also be used in the same way, either
alone or in connection with the wood
ashes. The ashes aud plaster might also
be broadcasted about the trees and
plowed or spaded in.
The best treatment for mango in pigs
Is 10 apDly mixture of flowers of sulnhnr
and common lard. Apply this ointment
to every part of the animal, rubbing it
into the hair and skin with a good stiff
brush. The pigs should, of course, be
reno ed from the old pen and placed in
one perfectly clean. One application
will usually be sufficient to effect cure,
unless the disease has been neglected
until the animal is covered with sores;
then two or three applications may be