The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-08-15
Farm and Garden Notes.

DO not cut the lawn too frequently
when the weather is dry
Do not neglect to support the tomato
vines with brush if nothing else.
The general aspect of the dairy animal
is thinner, sharper and more angular
than the feeding animal.
Buckwhcat sown just late enough to
escape early autumn frosts will give
larger yield than if sown early.
! Fodder corn is always best planted in
drills. Sow from half bushel to a
bushel an acre, according to the variety
/ selected.
A hundred rods of fence above actual
need become tax on labor and material
that may better be cut oil by removing
/ the fence.
| 1t makes no difference what the feed of
the COW is if she is not supplied with
/ plenty of water. Without water she can
never do her best.
Take a little pains and don't let the
/ pigs stop growing. Whenever the pigs
come to a standstill all the food then
I given them is so much lost.
The first, last and always necessary
item in poultry raising is good care, ana
no one should undertake I.the business
who has not time to give this.
Secretary Giff6eTt, of the Maine State
boarSa-I6f Agriculture, in recent far
rfner's institute, said that cottonseed meal
I is much safer food for animals than
corn meal.
A hundred acres of land half titled may
give no profit, while fifty of the same
acres, well titled, may yield more salts
factory crops to bring substantial gains
every year.
A good coat of paint will preserve the
buildings, add to the beauty and at
tractiveness OF the premises, and trans
form old rundown farmhouses into neat
and tasty homes.
1t is a queer idea that some farmers
have that grass will grow after soil is ex-
hausted by grain cropping and that grass
will restore fertility after 1t is so far gone
that seeding must fail.
The cheapest and best mode of keep
ing lice out of the poultry house is to
add quart of kerosene oil to each bucket
of strong soapsuds on washing days and
thoroughly saturate the floor, walls,
roosts, and every portion of the poultry
house forcing the liquid into the cracks
and crevices. 1t will kill the vermin as
soon as it shall touch them, being one of
the best insecticides known.
An authority on forest culture considers
the American elm "the best and most
appropriate tree TO plant in village or
city, as it needs less trimming, is long
lived, and arches over street beauti-
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metrical nor as good a shade tree as the
sugar maple, not being so thick, but in
many respects it is preferable, as the
maple, when trimmed, is spoiled of its
beauty and symmetry
The Illinois State Entomologist, Pro.
fessor Forbes, has written to the Agri-
cultural Board that he finds cut worms
more numerous this year through Cen
trail and Southern Illinois than he has
ever known them before. The fact is
due, doubtless, to the dry weather Of the
last three years. The root web worm is
also especially abundant, and likely to
join with the cut worm in doing serious
mischief when corn is planted after
grass.
Dr. George A, Bowen, of Woodstock,
'NA'As1 fNiAtN gN'A' eSN bNEuh NADNll-
ments in a small way in planting the nuts
and seeds OF native forest trees. lie
learned that if a board be placed in the
bottom of the tren in which the seeds
are planted the would be-tap- root will be
turned from its downward course and
become more branched and fibrous, max.
ing better tree to transplant. Success
in small way encouraged more planting
tlll his little garden nursery has become
the source Of supply for many planters.
There is nothing better than the large
red clover for hog pasturage. Where
many hogs are, field should be sown
with clover in the spring of the wear be.
fore it is wanted, so that it is a year old
before it is pastured this should be done
every year. One acre for Sc fen head is |
the usual allowance. If the hogs are
ringed SO they will not root out the |
clover the pasture will last for two years,
ana may then be turned under for corn,
with greater benefit from the clover |
than from $25 worth of fertilizers per
acre.
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