The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-12-12
Farm and Garden Notes.

Clover is a renovating crop every time.
r. 1t is an easy matter to have small
steady income to meet the little outgoes.
Eggs should be served abundantly on
the farmers table, and in such variety as
not to make them tiresomc.
When the clover dies it is a great ad.
diton to the fertility, and the sod is in
better condition for other crops.
Do not expect your horse to be equally
good at everything. The horse, like the
man, must be adapted to his work.
There should be supply OF Nd pep.
! pers kept during the winter to be fed TO
the poultry with their regular food.
A crop of clover will increase the nitro.
| genous elements in any soil, whether it
is cut and cured in the form of hay or
whether it is fed off.
Teas aud corn fit for table use will
grow and produce earlier crops than ripe
seed, and plants from immature seed are
more feeble than those from ripe seed.
I he most prosperous farmers are those
who rarely go to town without a package
of butter, basket Of eggs, some roul-
try, fruit or vegetables to help pay the
bills.
DR.. Sturtevant is credited with saving
that "carefA experiments have s.shaRn
that unripc tomato seed will grow df,d
give gain of fifteen days in Aearliness
over ripe seed from the same plants.
To find the pressure of water in a
penstock, multiply the height of the
head in feet by 62t the pounds weight
of cubic foot of water. Then every
Square foot of the penstock will have to
bear a pressure equal to this sum in
pounds.
Sheep are better HSoaYengersafcPs ANAL,
Hnripe, wormy apples than are swine. A
wcll-fed sheep likes the bitter taste of
the wormy apple that the pig has to be
starved into eating. Besides the sheep
will 90 around nights and early in the
morning after fruit, while the pig will
lie abed until hunger forces him to get
up.
No branch of farming is more profitable
or conducted with less labor than
orcharding when sroaucts,aaps Ne
sold even at a moderate price. Besides
this, apple trees may be planted on land
too rough for root or grain culture, and
high attitudes are morRs.e<einpt from
killing by frost tlfSh orchards in the
valleys and lowlands.
When the use of one kind of manure
is continued for several, weeks upon
house plants, the plants1feceiving it do
not respond to its stimulating influence
as readily as when it was first given.
When such is the case give a few water
ings with clear water, and then apply
some other kind of manure, and health,
and vigor will be continued. ss
Few farmers realize the amount which
an acre of grapes will bring if the crop
is a full one and prices are very low.
Three cents a pound seems ridiculously
cheap, yet at this price an acre of any
productive variety will bring more money
than an acre of grain or any kind of farm
crops. Two tons per acre is q small
yield, but three cents R~potfnd gives a
gross return of $120 per acre.
The cause of cotted wool is the heat
ing of the fleece by the sheep lying
closely together when the wool is wet.
Warmth, moisture, pressure, and soap
cause wool to felt and cotting is simply
| the fe,ting of the wool on the sleeps
back. 1t is avoided by keeping the sheep
In shelter during wet weather The soap
| required to complete the felting is pro
Vided by the solution of the yolk of the
wool. which is really soap, in the water
held by the fleece.
Exposure to rain for a lengthened
| period will cause serious in iury to the
| kim of horses and colts. The skin be.
romes covered with a hard, thick coat
ing, which consists chiefly of the soft
underhair matted or clotted together.
This prevents healthful action of the
skin, which is thickened with covering
of dead tissue, forming hard crust.
This thould be carefully loosened grad
ually by thorough currying and brush.
ing. The way to prevent it is obvious.
If red clover is cut for seed or is per.
mitted to ripen seed on the ground it viii
last for several years. When the seed is
produced the plant has completed its
functions and then the root perishes, but
when it is kept mown or fed down it will
continue to grow. Naturally red clover
is biennial plant and dies when it has
seeded the second year of its growth.
The pea vine clover is a perennial and is
the best of the clovers for pasture, but it
IS not suitable for horses, as the late
growth causes profuse salvation.
James Stevens was a poor man, and one