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


Farm and Garden Notes.
Fariy manuriug has many advocates.
Perfect cleanliness must be the rule in
good dairy.
Canadians use peameal largely for
growing stock.
Hens should be kept scratching in
order to be healthy.
A smooth, glossy coat almost invari-
ably Ind Gates health in an animal.
Mr.. Betsinger New York beekeeper,
claims that he can cure foul brood with
salt
Clean off cows and oxen. They will
be more comfortable as well as more
slightly.
Throwing down fodder upon the
ground in the barnyard is the cause Of
much waste.
When feeding for milk, good wheat
bran should be mixed with meal. They
go well with clover hay.
Sulphur sprinkled in the dust fur
nished hens at tins season for bathing
will aid in preventing lice.
Fowls without gravel or some substi-
tute for it are like people without teeth,
according to New England farmer,
For hog feed nothing is better than
sweet potatoes, collards, Spanish pea
nuts and sorghum, says the Souther.
CuitiDdt0r
Wheat bran applied directly to the
crops, like superphosphaN, has been
found good fertilizer by some who have
expsrimented with it.
The Ayrshire and Jersey, or Guernsey
breeds, crossed, supply the most nearly
perfect family COW, according to the
American AgricUliUrist.
A noted Kentucky short-horn breeder
says, in HOdr}'s Dairymdn, that he never
tried anything that compared with
sorghum as a flesh and milk producing
food. 1t makes very rich milk and very
thick cream
Professor Henry, of the University of
Wisconsin, who is well known as a con-
servative and careful agricultural expert
menter, advises where cornstalks are to
furnish the principal rough food, the
following as days ration for COW, to
be fed at two or three feeds: Cornstalks
cut, 10 to 1S pounds; clover hay,
pounds; bran, 6 pounds; corn mea'.
pounds.
horse should not be allowed to drink
freely 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 a cons der
able quantity of beans had been washed
out of the stomach, and some of them
were found in the intestines.
As an example of what some men can
do with an acre of land by iudicious
management and the sKillful application
of chemical manures, Scotch farmer
recently harvested crop of greentop
Swedish turnips which we 'ghed over 80
tons per acre. But this record is out
stripped by another Scotch farmer, who
has crop of turnlps calculated to aver.
age so tons per acre; the roots of good
shape and weighing from 10 to II pounds
each.
Here IS bit OF practical knowledge
which may be utilized in both winter
and summer Some one who apparently
knows from experience whereof he
alfirms, dsclares that, although at first
blush II seems like taking hold of the
wrong end to drag log by the top, even
smoothly trimmed one, little CON
sideration shows that the log, being in a
degree conical, or wedge-shaped, must
go easier with the small end foremost.
Any one ought TO see this at once if at
tempting to propel a sharpened lead
pencil along sandy or dusty surface.
Who that has seen a COW stand and
rub herself against post will not agree
that currying roughly and thoroughly is
as agreeable and necessary for cows as
for horsest" This is the conundrum of
a contemporary, which it answers in this
wise: They get comparatively little of
it, as horses are usually the pets, and the
COW, il she has food and shelter, is ex-
pected to look after her own comfort
otherwise. But the brush and curry
comb, using the former on cows thin in
flesh, and on the more sensitive portions
of their bodies, are great advantage to
cattle of every kind"
In discussing this subject one of the
speakers at Farmers Institute in
Missouri pertinently said that the privi-
/ lege of the farmer was to make his home
as pleasant and comfortable as possible.
! He should supply the house with all the
conveniences and labor saving appliances.
/ The grounds should be kept neat and all
unsightly objects removed or hidden. A
warm, cheerful and well-hghted room,
with table covered with books and
/ papers, tends to keep the children at
home. A farmer clear of debt and
possessed of clear conscience, a COM
Portable home and happy wife and
children, is the happiest man on earth.
Sad Suicide OF Two Sisters.
The sisters Josephine and Julie Berger,