The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-04-25
Farm and Garden Notes.

Inc refuse from celery trimmed for mar
ket is excellent for poultry.
Never breed a SOW before she is year
old, as it retards her growth.
Dry paths tend to comfort outside the
house and cleanliness within.
Fast walking horses are better for
farmers than speedy trotters.
Two thicknesses of newspaper make a
good lining for apple barrels.
Never attempt to keep geese or ducks
where water is not accessible.
G. NJ. Clay, of Kentucky, does not be-
lieve in the common practice of burning
stubble and refuse on the land.
All who aspire to gardening honors
should at some time get in the way of
raising many of their own seeds.
Avoid root gratis in selecting apple
trees. If only single stock has been
used for the root graft it is not so bad.
A New York horticulturist recon-
mends pure ground bone as one of the
best fertilizers for fruit trees and grape
vines.
If every man would take care of his
stock and be sure to have some to take
care of, the fertilizing question would be
greatly simplitied in the opinion of a
Florida farmer.
HoarPs Dairyman tells of a New Hamp-
shire man who increased the amount of
the solids in his milk two per cent by
feeding a half-pint of molasses to each
of his cows daily.
Separate crops of broadcast peas or pea
fallow, to prepare and manure the land
for succeeding wheat crop, furnish the
most valuable use to which the pea crop
can be applied, according to the ex.
perience of Southern planter.
An authority on hogs states that if we
take all the hogs fattened in the United
States in year, and change the time of
fattening from cold to warm weather,
one-half the grain now fed will make all
the pork. This would be saving of at
least $75, 900, 900 per year.
For cholera add teaspoonful of LIQUID
carbolic acid to point and a half of
water. Mix their food with the water, and
give the fowls no other water to drink.
Cholera is indicated by great thirst,
greenish droppings changing to yellow
and white color, prostration, and ner-
vous, anxious expression.
The Canadian Horticulturist recon-
mends as a ready means for the neces-
sary asserting of fruit for market, that
as full basket is brought in it should
be placed between two empty ones, and
as the fruit is carefully picked up the
best go into the right-hand basket, sec.
onis into the left, and the poor laid
aside.
More attention should be given tC
the growing of trees for lumber; or
every farm, almost, there is some corner
where the land is too rough OF hard foi
profitable cultivation such places should
be encouraged 20 produce trees that will
eventually be of value for timber; root
out undesirable trees, and encourage the
desirable ones, should be the practice oI
every farmer.
The disease of the skin known a
mango Is easily recognized by thd dry
/ scurfy appearance of the skin from
which the hair falls off. The skin
cracks and a yellow matter oOzes ou
and forms crusts, which must be broker
up to give effect TO the remedies applied
1t is caused both by an insect and plan
which buIrow in the skin and form diff
fercnt varieties of the diseasa. Tit
most ellectiyei remedy, says the New
York limeS is sulphur rubbed up will
four times fts weight of lard with one
fourth its weight of creosote added
well rubbed into the bare patches afte
thorough washing with soap and waite
and rubbing with corn cob TO breal
7 the crusts.