The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-01-11

Old wells may readily be rendered
worm proof by having 10 feet Of the wall
taken out and backed with cement as re-
laid. 1t will pay every person who uses
well water to attend 10 this matter.
Farm and Garden Notes.
A dusting box is indispensable for
| fowls
The manure is no small item of profit
in poultry keeping.
Blue grass should be mixed in all pas
lures, says f. d. Curtis
Don't feed poultry on the floor; use
shollow boxes or troughs.
Natural bone ground fine is said to be
the cheapest form of this fertilizer.
l.. 5. Dunham finds in the Shropshire
just what he wants for a general purpose
sheep.
w. II. Manning says the hedges can
be trimmed as well and much more
quickly and easily with sickle than
with shears.
Hoe the garden thoroughly and rake it
over in the fall, and you will destroy many
weeds that would otherwise start up
early in the spring.
Girdling grape vines is occasionally
resorted to as means of producing
large clusters for exhibition. French
growers claim that it does not injure
either vine or fruit.
Mr.. Cushman, of the Ohio Horticul-
tural Society, says: "There is no other
berry that can he planted in our Sec
tion of the country that | think will
bring as much money to the grower as
the early harvest blackberry ~
p. II. Springer asserts in the Ne,o Eng
tdRd Farmer that men may talk and write
of the sheep and wool interest and the
horse interest, but the fact remains that
nothing on the farm can be raised at a
greater profit than good hogs.
Farmers do not yet fully appreciate the
value of wood ashes or they would not
sell them to soap men, but would spread
them upon moving lands or apply them
to growing crops. They contain all the
essential inorganic elements of plants.
H0drd's DdirymdH thinks that a dairy
COW can as well eat fifty pounds of good
ensilage day as not, without affecting
the quality and stability of the butter.
and thinks it quite as well as twenty
five pounds day. with hay for the bal
ance.
In raising the small varieties of corn,
say large sweet and northern varieties,
and thinning, or planting the rows far
enough apart to allow free cultivation
and degree of sunlight, a much less
amount of water exists TO be hauled,
handled and sliced
With the help of hen manure spaded
into the ground before planting, and of
muriate of potash and nitrate of soda ap-
piled on top, after planting, we have
grown Golden Heart celery this season,
says the editor of Orchard and Garden,
that would take the premium for both
size and quality at any fair.
A Minnesota grain grower says that
any farmer can have good seed if he will
constantly practice careful selection. In
the spring OF 1888 he procured from a
dealer fifteen kernels of Welcome oats
for trial. He has raised four crops from
these oats, and their produce, the last
giving him ia bushels, machine
measure, and they are the heaviest oats
in the market.
An exchange remarks that when trees
or shrubs are set in habitually dry
ground, pail or two of water, applied
when the trees are planted and when
the hole is two-thirds filled in, will be
beneficial. If the hole be then Fl led
with loose earth, and a mulch of straw
added, the roots will be likely to keep
moist throughout the season, and the
ground will not become packed on the
surface.
According to a writer in the Rural
Wrld, sheep are among the best kinds
of stock to keep in orchards. After a
little practice they will pick up the
fallen fruit quicker than hogs, and this
is often very important, as the codling
moth worm generally leaves the apple
soon after it drops But with either
sheep or hogs, sufficient food must be
supplied or the trees will be barked.
The food thus given goes, however,
where it will be likely to do the most
good in the production of the largest
and fairest fruit
An orchardist AYERS that the form in
which an apple tree is trained has much
to do with its early OF late coming into
bearing. The trees which grow very
erect, as the Northern Spy, are very slow
in becoming productive. This upright
growth may be corrected by cutting out
the centre while young and bending the
outer branches slightly. As soon as a
branch begins to bear it is naturally bent
down by weight of fruit, and this con-
tinues the productive habit. In the de.
pendent branches the flow of sap is some-
what checked, and this insures the
formation of fruit buds.