The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-15
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm ana Garden Notes,
The modern idea of winter dairyinE
advances in favor.
White Minorca poultry is attracting
much attention Of late.
Lice are a great annoyance to calves.
and will keep them poor.
Keep seed potatoes in dry, cool
place and prevent sprouting.
Cutting fodder is a saving of one.
third, according to the Rural Neio
Hork,r.
The eggs Of a bag worm can be plainly
seen in winter and should be then de.
stroyed.
An advocate of warm water for cows
says 1t will increase the yield of milk
one fourth.
Though dishorning does not always
render a naturally vicious bull docile its
tanning effect in general is well attested.
Fine-cut hay, slightly salted and
scalded with boiling water, is relished
by fowls says California poultry man.
Authority on poultry advises feeding
salt in the proportion of level teaspoon.
Iul to two quarts dry ground grain.
Never give it in excess.
John NJ. Stahl considers the COW truly
and provokingly feminine, and thinks
that in no place does politeness pay
better than in the COW stable.
Large profits do not always depend
upon large crops. One may grow an ex-
traordinarily large crop, but the expense
OF so doing may ba ance the receipts.
A Connecticut dairyman tried warming
the water for his cows to drink in winter,
and the increase of butter in ten days
paid the expense of piping the trough.
To wholly abandon a staple crop or
product because 1t is temporarily up.
profitable is to lose ones hold on the
market when it becomes profitable again.
AT the Ontario Agricultural College
an experiment with peas showed that il
requ red thrty-ive pounds more of
cooked than uncooked to make 100
pounds of pork, live weight.
Professor McMurtrie seems TO nrove
by Investigations that the much praised
and sought for '1olds" in merino sheen
are detrimental, in that they do not in.
crease the yield, and do decrease the
quality.
Sheep here do not pay as good profits
as those in England. EVERYTHING de-
pends on the mode Of management Our
farmers compel sheep to forage while in
England they are treated as carefully as
are cattle.
in speaking about the preparation of
fodder for cows, A. B. Allen saws:
when the appetite and digestion of the
animal seem to conflict with the teach.
ings of the hemist, take sides with
the animal."
The improved mutton breeds of sheep
cannot be kept in the manner usual with
common sheep. They demand good
pasture, liberal feeding and attention.
but they pay well for the care bestowed. |
There is great demand for superior
mutton.
At the recent English dairy show a
shorthorn COW proved the champion |
mixer and buttermaker. After 22i |
days from calvlng, her milk amounted TO
45t pounds daily, and her butter to "A
per cent, equal to % pounds per day. |
The total solids in this milk amounted ia .
4.2 per cent, which shows that the COW |
was not only an excellent buttermaker,
but exceptionally good for cheese.
The value of barley meal as feed for
hogs is not half appreciated. Trials at
The Wisconsin experiment station show
that $50 pounds of uncooked barley meal
were required to produce 100 pounds of
pork, live weight, while to corn meal 463 |
pounds were required. of corn meal and
shorts half and half 574 pounds were re.
quired. This is not a very striking
showing in favor of barley meal, but it
mo t conclusively that pork
can be protitably produced on barley in /
Northern regions where corn cannot be
grown at profit.
In discussing ways and means for the
OF highways it should never
be lost sight of that the roadbed can
never be satisfactory as long as it is not
thoroughly drained. In a majority of
cases this can be done by grading up
cutting tches along the sides. But the
is toward the following out of
the centre of the grade; and as the
ground is somewhat compacted, water is
held for some time, to the great injury of
he roadbed. Every few weeks, when
the weather will permit, the grade
should be dressed, filling up the de.
pressed paths made by the animals.
When thorough drainage cannot be Sc
cured in any other way, underdrain.
The same principles apply as in the
draining of land for crops.