The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-05-09
Farm and Garden Notes.

Flowers, shrubs and trees add both
beauty aud value to the rural home.
The farmer who put away his plow
last fall inside a coat of grease is now
rejoicing.
Sheep do best in roomy house or
pen where they are not exposed to cold
winds or wet.
Do not be in haste to have newly
Matched chicks eat, as they need nothing
for twenty-four hours after leaving the
she'll
Every poultry-yard should have a
peach tree planted therein as the peach
thrives well in poultry-yards and is
protected from the borer by the hens.
Dessicated fish is new commercial
poultry food. 1t is the heads of perfect
ly fresh fish, dried and ground, and
should be fed in proportion of one pint
to twenty fowls, in their soft food. 1t
should be fed in alienation with ground
meat. Some found an increase of twenty
per cent. in the egg basket since using
/ it.
Plant plenty of sunfower seeds if you
would have your birds with handsome
plumage, they are invaluable for birds
raised for the show room, in fact, they
are excellent for young chicks as we'll
If the seeds be failed out when dry and
then reduced to meal, they may be mixed
with the soft feed, and will greatly as
sist the feathering of young chicks.
Any soil upon which water does not
l'sfns lESiF6ssthc, cah tb6 male L; Sfow
small fruits; in fact, any soil which will
produce weeds will grow them; but as
there are few soils which can produce
two crops at the same time, it is better
not to try to grow a crop of weeds and
a crop of strawberries on the same soil
together.
The udder of COW is very compli-
Gated affair. Outwardly it consists of
series of muscular bands crossing each
other and attached to abdominal muscles
for the support at the mass of the organ.
The teat is not a simple tube, as has
been supposed, but consists of large
number of ducts, which run into four,
five, or more channels or tubes, each of
which discharges separately in the ori-
fee of the teat.
The infertility of many soils is due
more TO their mechanical condition,
their texture and relations to heat and
moisture, than to lack of plant food.
Such soils want amendment first and
manure afterwards. Some soils will
give good returns for manuIing; others,
without irrigation or amendment by
drainage, tillage, use of lime, mari or
muck, or otherwise, will not.
A horse should not be allowed to
drink Immediately after eating. Hon.
John NJ. Russell, ex-Secretary of the
Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, tells
of seeing some horses in France fed on
coarse beans then watered all they
would drink and Immediately killed and
dissected. He observed that consider
able quantity of beans had been washed
out of the stomach, and some of them
were found in the intestines.
The bean weevil, commonly called
bug, is small beetle, which lays its
eggs in the green pods. The pea weevil,
another species, does the same for peas.
The young larv,e find their way into the
young seeds, where they grow with the
fruit, often destroying the meat, but do
not interfere with the germ. There is
no remedy for the depreciation, but since
the beetles do not fly far, if the seed con-
tans no images there will be no infest-
ing of the crop. One plan to kill the
images in the seed is to pour boiling
water on the seed and pour off imme-
diately but the best way is to sow seed
not infested