The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-21
Farm and Graden Notes.


quicker than chilling the COW.
Geese are harder and easier to rear
than turkeys, and if fat bring a good
price
Bury old boots at the foot of an apple
tree, which will feed on the suppl ed
ammonia.
1t should be the aim of every man who
gets his living out of the soil to add to
its productiveness.
An Australian farmer finds the thistles
which infest his lands make ensilage that
the cattle eat readily.
Warming drinking water for cows may
be less costly than warming it after it
/ gets in their stomachs.
Foot-rot is bad disease among sheep,
but keep the flocks on dry ground, and
they cannot contract it.
There is no better agency for protect
ing an orchard from insect ravages than
large flock of fowls chickens
Many colored people from the Gulf
States are cultivating cotton with con-
siderable success in Southern Kansas.
Kalamazoo, Mich, has :, 900 acres de-
voted to the cultivation of celery
with a stated average profit of S400 an
acre.
If the soilisp properly prepared, manure
may be applied to advantage at any time
of the year, so that it does not interfere
with more pressing work.
A writer cautions farmers from using
heavy wheelbarrows. There is no more
useful implement, but a light one Is
easier to work and all-suffcient.
Old leached ashes which have absorbed
ammonia and formed saltpetre, are said
to produce better results on crops than
the unbleached. But all wood ashes are
valuable.
Cows fed on meal mixed with straw
cut and moisteued, says Professor
Arnold, give more milk and consider
ably richer than when fed on the best
hay alone.
Sunhowers are disinfectants, or serve
as y preventive of miasmatic fevers.
They absorb nitrogen more rapidly than
other plants, and will evaporate large
quantiEes of water daily.
In this country nearly three dollars
worth of milk, cream, butter and cheese
together are sold and consumed to every
dollars worth of beef. The market for
dairy products is practically inexhaust-
ible.
The GTmdn'opn Telegraph suggests
that while root-pruning may do for
dwarf pear trees, grape vines and cherry
trees, it would 'cost more than it would
come to" to extend it to large standard
trees.
The New Orleans Times. Democrat says
bone-meal and ashes doubled the crop
of grapes in Tangipahoa parish the
second year after the application, and
increased the size and quality 100 per
cent.
Potash should enter into the compost
tion of manures for grape vines, the ele-
ments in the soil being generally in bad
condition for assimilation; potash carries
forward with it in some way the other
fertilizing principles.
There is no use saving the common
turnip for late feeding. Soon after Janu-
ary it becomes pithy, loses its flavor and
feeding value. The rutabaga is better
keeper, but it also becomes pithy later in
the winter. Beets and mangels are much
btAANl 4NNho AOl NONH ldAG III lllC otdSOu,
and have the advantage that they give no
bad flavor to the milk.
Although analysis shows little ma
nurial value in coal ashes, they are un-
doubtedly beneficial as mulch for trees,
keeping the soil open and allowing rain
to soak into the soil without pushing the
surface. They are also good absOrbents
of odors, and in the henhouse or privy,
mixed with their contents, they make
these valuable manures more convenient
TO handle.
What is required by hen, for place
for her nest in winter, is snug, warm
location; in summer she wants a cool
place, say dry earth for a bottom, with
soft hay under it, A broken egg will
cause lice quicker and easier than any
thing else. In the hatching season see
| that the hen has no lice, give her sound
/ eggs and she will fetch out a lively
brood if she has comfortable nest.
An example of what some men can do
with one acre of land by judicious man
agement and the skilful application of
chemical manures we learn that Scotch
farmer recently harvested a crop of
green top Swedish turnips which
weighed over fifty tons per acre. But
this record is outstripped by another
Scotch farmer, who has crop of turnips
calculated to average eighty tons per
acre, the roots of good shape, and weigh
ing from sixteen to seventeen pounds
each.
A Kansas writer in the New York
Witness tells how 10 get borers out of
peach and apple trees. So soon as
newly planted trees start to grow in the
spring he puts pint Of soft soap in two
gallon bucket of water, stirs it up well,
takes an old broom and scrubs or washes
the trees several times. This, he says, is
complete preventive of mischief from
borers. But the ground around the
trees should be kept clear of weeds, a
mulch should be put around the trees,
and if it is very dry they should be kept
growing by watering regularly. Mulch
ing, by covering with leaves, straw,
sawdust, or in fact anything that serves
as cover and protection, should also be
used as winter protection to strawberries,
to prevent them from freezing out"