The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-29
Farm and Garden Notes.

Gentleness cannot be kicked into ami
mails.
Even impure air has q deteriorating
effect on butter
Walnuts are the latest wrinkle for
fattening turkeys.
Turkeys too closely confined will lose
flesh, no matter how much feed is given
them.
'Teed is more important than breed, I"
is the conclusion of DIR. E. l.. Sturtevaut,
after six years experimenting in butter
making.
Warm cooked food early in the morn
ing, with little pepper in it, will warm
up the hens and assist their laying in
winter, says poultry man.
A COW needs a volume of water in pro-
portion to the amount of milk she gives.
II the water is too cold she drinks little,
while the milk shrinks in the pail.
A pailful Of FIRE h water in the morning
and another at night, both warmed to
keep from freezing, will now do much
toward coaxing eggs from the hens.
Cows fed with meal mixed with straw,
cut and moistened, says Prof Arnold,
give more milk aud considerably richer
than when fed on the best hay alone.
The farmer gets a much better return
for the manure used when the land is
plowed and re-seeded than when the same
amount is put on as top dressing, writes
Professor w. w. Cook.
At the Ontario Agricultural College. a
recent experiment with peas showed that
it took thirty-6ve pounds more OF cooked
than of uncooked peas to make 100
pounds of pork, live weight.
A Wisconsin apple grower says he
made his money by reducing his orchard
fifty per cent, and giving the part which
he reserved the sameAmount of care for
merly spread out thiuly over the entire
field.
Twelve hens are as many as ought to
be kept together in one room; in build
ing 20xS0 feet, thirty hens will lay more
eggs in winter than fifty hens. If you
keep one hundred hens in one house,
have eight pens for them.
Nothing will pay better for time and
means expended, than to card your cattle
every morning. 1t helps to lay on fat,
promotes the health by keeping the coat
soft and oily, and, in case OF milch cows,
the milk is more pure and healthy.
Few things will do farmers more good
than well-managed Institutes, few
things will do more to make guy of in
telhgent agriculture than poorly managed
Institutes, where politicians and other
interested parties are given space, thinks
the R4rdJ Neto Hork,r.
= No land is cheap but good land; one
acre that will produce thirty bushels of
wheat is worth a good deal more than
three acres that will produce but ten
bushels each. MANY man who has
struggled for lifetime on 100 acres of
thin, hungry land would be better off if
he had given his farm away in early man
hood" says the Philadelphia Press.
Corn cobs should be saved for using in
smoke houses. They are excellent for
tuning hams aud shoulders the right
kind Of brown. The housewife, too.
finds their ashes very strong in potash
In olden times corn-cob ashes were often
used, as saleratus is now, for correcting
acidity. Much of the mineral substance
in the corn crop goes into its cob, and
this may often be of value for highly fed
stock, to correct acidit of the stomach.
The complete fertilizer for potatoes is
best applied broadcast on the plowed
ground and narrowed in; the potatoes
are then planted. 1t is worth in the
market about $40 per ton or less, accord
ing to the locality. Any dealer in
fertilizers can supply you or procure it
for you. \ good home made complete
fertilizer may be made of 500 pounds of
unbleached wood ashes, 200 pounds of
supeTphosphate of lime, and 100 pounds
of meat and blood fertilizer. This is
enough for one acre.
At least once year says the Culti-
Gator, the farmer should take account of
stock and make careful estimate of his
property and of his gains or losses dur
ing the year. For some reasons, this
month may not be as good time for the
farmer to do this work as would be
March or April. The hay in the barn,
the corn in the crib and the vegetables in
the cellar are greater in amount, and if
they must be accurately weighed or
measured, it would be quite task. But
there is more leisure time to do this
work than there would be in the spring.
and it is not difficult to make an esti-
mate of amount and value of all that is
on hand which will be sufficiently ac-
curate for all practical purposes.