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


Tar sleeps noses to prevent the CAD
fly.
Feed the plant and the plant will feed
you.
Don't feed the pasture or NOW the
lawn too close.
Peas and oats sown together is a crop
increasing in favor.
A little hellebore busted on the cur
rant bushes keeps off the worm.
Some farmers are all brains and others
all elbow grease, and neither succeed.
Slowly and gently, in fine spray, is
a good rule for watering garden plants.
Though the season be late nothing is
gained by planting in poorly prepared
ground.
No animal kept on the farm will pro.
duce more fertility or be better for the
feed than swine.
A number of successful fruit growers
report in favor of thinning fruit on over,
loaded trees while it is young.
A man who seeds correctly and intel.
ligently will save from 10 to 20 per cent.
over a man who follows only haphazard
method.
Garden soil for tomatoes is commonly
much too rich, according to american
CuLtigator, which recommends only mod,
erately fertile soil.
Gas a rule rocky, hard pan soil will
give a better keeping apple than a clay
soil or one tending to loan" says a we'll
known orchardist.
Now is the season when butter taints
very quickly, and none more quickly than
the choicest article. 1t is time for
special care in manufacture, and for the
earliest practicable consumption.
For breaking heifers to be MIXED,
patience and gentleness are the only
requisites. If the udder is handled oc.
casionally from calf up to cowdom the
heifer is already broken. This course
works charmingly.
So long as the milk is warmer than the
surrounding atmosphere it is throwing
off vapor and is thereby purified. It
will not then absorb Odors, but the
germs of fungi and other microscopic life
may fall into it and do it injury.
Corn and potatoes may often be top
dressed to advantage after planting, pro-
viding fine manure is used. The culti-
walton of these crops during the season
will mix the manure with the soil much
more perfectly than it could be if plowed
under.
Persons who keep fowls and sift their
coal ashes, as many do, will not be
troubled with poultry lice if they will
do the sitting in the hen house. The.
coal dust will penetrate every crack and
crevice, and the vermin cannot live
among that.
1t is generally acknowledged that win
ter dairying pays best, and for this rea-
son farmers should give more attention
10 this part of the business. To attempt
this next winter suitable feed NUT be
raised this season, and good warm
stabling provided.
A vigorous opponent of the practice of
dehorning includes among its demerits a
marked deterioration of the animal for
breeding or butter purposes. The III!
! nOiS slut Veterinarian is reported as re-
garding dehorning as a cruel act, especial
| ly when practiced on cattle over a half
year old.
When spokes aud felloes shrink aud
| the wagon tires become loose in conse-
! quence, it is the custom to have the tires
reset, at the usual expense of fifty cents
each. 1t is far cheaper and better for
the wheels 10 saturate the entire wood.
work with hot linseed oil. 1t can be
applied with rag tied to stick. This
! fills the pores and causes the timber to
swell and fill the tire as when new.
With coat of hot oil once in a year or
two there will be no loose tires, and the
wheels will last very much longer.