Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-20
Farm aud Garden Notes

NACCS lIOiA nice.
Hens must be warmly housed if eggs
are to be secured
The sashes of cold frames should be
lifted on mild days.
Potatoes in pits need plenty of litter
or coar e manure to keep out frost
Keep the best fodder back and feed it
out to stock toward the end of the
season.
Clean and house for the winter all
tools that will not be used again till
next season.
If you want to kill burdocks cut them
off closely and pour petroleum on the
short stumps.
In no business is attention to very
slight calls more requisite than in
poultry raising.
Swill for hogs should be fed while
fresh, and not allowed to stand until sour
and disg sting.
From this time forward grass is worth
more to the pasture for winter protection
than to the farm animals for food.
The great secret Of successful farming
is to keep the soil increasing in fertility
by the abundant app ication of manure.
Spare-ribs to be used while fresh,
may be hung up where they will freeze.
and will not spoil SO long as they remain
fro en-.
Onions are said to be valuable as a
cape remedy for chickens. They should
be chopped up and mixed with the food
in winter.
The manure-heap should be packed
tight enough to avoid the escape of
ammonia, and loose enough to avoid
fre-fanging.
Combining sheep husbandry with
grain growii G pieces out an uncomfort-
able gap in the finances, in the opinion
of Rural Hume.
Most of the apples now upon the gen.
eral market are supplied from the State
of New York. Systematic orcharding is
q good business.
The dairy requires careful manage
ment to be profitable in winter. Good
COWS. good food, good care and modern
appliances make it pay.
The american CultiUqt0r calls atten-
ton to the great amount of waste there
is in feeding grain unground to any
stock except sheep and poultry.
According to a Southern correspond
ent of the american Agriculttuit a crop
of COW peas is one of the surest ways of
restoring vegetable matter to a WORKOUT
soil.
The most critical period in the life of
Calf is the first winter, but it will bring
no serious risk if the animal has abund-
ant food of good quality and good, CON-
Portable quarters, with freedom from
parasitic insects.
A poultryman claims that milk will
give far larger and quicker returns if fed
to fowls than if given to pigs. Milk,
he says, resembles in composition tn,
egg far more than almost any food it is
possible to obtain.
If land is plowed in the fall for corn in
no way can manure be more advantage
ously applied, according to one author
ity, than by hauling it out in the winter
and scattering it over the plowed ground
direct from the wagon.
Loss sometimes oc urs from not sailing
pork promptly after it is cut up. If it
freezes it cannot be we'll salted until
thoroughly thawed out, and the expan-
sion and contraction caused by alternate
free ing and thawing does no good.
Major Alvord says that in nearly all
cases OBJ iectionable Odors and tiavors do
not exist in milk as drawn from the COW,
but are absorbed from the air, the ex-
terror of the cow or the clothing and
person of the mixer, or while the milk
stan $ in the sta lie.
The consumption of mutton is increas-
ing in this country, especially in our
large cities, and it has become profitable
to supply this demand. 1t is profitable,
rst, because the pri is remunera i've,
and secondly, because 1t Is prOmOtive of
good husbandry, the improvement of the
soil
Beans are good food for COWS. The
bean meal is probably the best form. But
if the beans are boiled until soft they
may be fed with profit Waste beans on
the fam, or damaged stock that can
sometimes be bought cheap. should al
WAYS be fed. Beans are rich in prOte n
or heterogeneous matter.
At the Onta 10 Agricultural College,
an experiment OF feeding eighteen he I'd
of store cattle with tive We pounds OF hay,
thirty five pounds of turni and nine
hounds of wheat bran per head daily.
and al>o the same amount o. Law and
roots, but with di erent kinds of grim,
resulted in the lowest cost Of production
on the bran ration.
No dairyman but knows that if his
cows a~e exposed to Indictment storms or
compelled to submit to privatiOns in the
matter cf God they will immed atelv
register the effect in a dim nished dow of
milk. Because these ects are seen at