Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-10-19
Farm and Garden Notes

There is money in poultry.
Provide shade for your fowls.
Give your fowls fresh water twice
daily.
1t is not good practice to feed grass
fields
Feed the unstable vegetables to the
poultry.
1t costs no more to keep good fowls
than poor ones.
The application of salt water to the
bark of apple trees VIII destroy the bark
louise.
Scaly legs are caused by a parasite,
which collects in immense numbers
under the scales, and, multiplying,
causes the scales to rise.
Bees are no respecters of lines, lands
or persons, but roam at will for miles
around in guest of honey, which they
carry home and store away.
1t is good plan to dig up the earth
around a clump of bushes, and throw on
a pan of ashes occasionally. The hens
them free from lice.
If the ground be well lined after the
grapes are harvested, and later i'll the
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with another application in the spring,
the rot can be prevented.
In termination, heat and moisture are
the powers which awaken the germ of
action, and no plant food is needed at
this stage of the plants life, except what
the seed in itself contains.
AS soon as the plant begins to send
out its little rootlets it must have food
in abundance, of suitable kind and in
suitable shape for its assimilation, or it
will starve, the same as an animal would
If deprived of food.
AS acid phosphate contains soluble
phosphoric acid, and ground phosphate
rock is practically insoluble, the former
is worth more than the other; 100 lbs.
of the acid phosphate is more usful to
growing crops than 500 lbs. of the
ground rock.
Use the very best seed, and you will
realize from the products more than
enough extra to pay the difference in
cost. This same rule will apply to
breeding stock and poultry, and in fact
everything on the farm should be of the
best quality you can get.
There is probably no more beneficial
wild animal living i'll America than the
skunk, which does an untold amount of
good in digging up and devouring the
common grub worm, the larva of ZACH
nosterna fuscd, pest to all grass land
and curse in strawberry beds.
The time to trim young trees, whether
for shade or fruit, is the first season, as
pinching off bud here and there will
save labor in the future. If deferred,
the saw and pruning knife must be re-
sorted to. The first year Of the life of a
tree is the period when it should be
given the most attention.
All goods sell better if put upon the
market in neat shape. This is true OF
honey; crates or surplus cases for hold
ing the section boxes should be made
neat in form. Sections Of honey well
completed and nicely arranged in such
crates will bear very rough handling,
and will remain we'll preserved if the
sections have not been removed after
taken off.
A firm obstruction in the teat which
prevents easy drawing of the milk,
should be treated by cutting with a
proper surgical Instruments tube with
a concealed knife in it, which is released
by spring when the tube has been in
serted Or plug of hard wood or bone
may be inserted to stretch the tissue.
The plug is made slightly thicker in the
middle and must have head on it to
prevent it passing into the teat.