The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-22
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
Tobacco smoke kills the green hy;
water the red spider.
Sunhower seeds are particularly rel
ished by fowls at this season.
Turnips improve the taste of mutton
and are excellent food for sheep.
Plants for the house should be made
to grow in n closer symmetrical shape by
timely pinching back the obtruding
shoots.
In q recent talk to a meeting Of Illinois
dairymen. Prof. Ia7enby, recommended
orchard grass as supplying want of
forage.
The weighing Of the milk, testing Of
the cows, and knowing TO a dollar what
one is doing is great help to the dairy
farmer.
The Southern Home and Farm tells of
a South Carolina farmer who slaughtered
q pig, only eight and one-half months
old, that weighed 304 pounds.
An exchange says: "The prejudice
against too fat breeding sows is due
chiefly to fattening them on corn. 1t is
the worst feed possible for sows with
pigs"
A New England fancier expresses
the opinion that those who buy hens to
fatten will always make a profit, pro-
vid, such hens are free from disease
and lice.
Plant some nasturtiums in pots to
form around the windows They are
very bright and cherry on the dark
winter days. Their spicy odor Is very
pleasant, too.
There is a great natural difference in
cows with regard to richness of the milk
they give, and this is only partially modi-
fed BY feeding. II the feed be dry and
poor they will not give much.
A moderately thick whitewash, to
which is added dissolved glue and cop
peras, the whole being we'll stirred to-
gether, is designed to prevent injury
TO tree trunks from mice and rabbits.
Dairymen men way be divided into
five classes-those who live on farm or
make their own butter, those who sell
their milk or cream &c manufacturers,
owners of creameries, dairy teachers,
writers and experimenters and con-
sumers.
An Illinois dairyman has had all his
cattle dehorned, and no evil results were
noticeable except upon the mich cows,
which decreased about ten per cent in
their flow of milk two or three days,
when the flow returugd and was more
even than before.
Wise farmers save an the straw and
and cornstalks possible, as they are great
/ d in the fodder ng season. But few
years ago straw heaps in the West, left
after threshing, were burned ''out Of
the way" Now they are rro6tably util
lied in various ways.
| The Rural World asserts that this veal
corn and hay, and pretty much every
/ kind of fodder, are sure to be scarce anC
wanted, and hundreds Of thousands o.
improvident men will ha either tC
sacrifice their stock or carry it through
on starvation rations, which is worse.
II. Z. Alvord is credited with saying
that butter from cows fed on ensilagt
stands in the first class ino ur most crit
ical markets, and so has for SOME years
He did not mean to refer, however, t.
extreme cases of irrational, excluSiv,
feeding on ensilege or any approach
thereto.
In purchasing a windmill for pumping
water, saving wood, or for other simila
kinds of farm work, says the " 40 b 9
hnd Farmer, do not select too small
size. A small mill may do what
wanted of it in a high wind, but in
light breeze it would be useless, while
larger size would do the desired work
Small windmiIls, small churns, and SINAI
stoves are often the dearest. though cost
ing less money than larger sizes.
A correspondent of the Atine FarKo
takes great pains to give his cattle a
the open air exercise they requir
throughout the winter on warm, sum
days. Sunlight and exercise are two {
the greatest factors in promoting health
Shut up human beings in cotton, OF
cloth or shoe factory month after month
carrying them their food and allowin
them no exercise at all, and how Ion
before consumption will seize upon then
1t is silly to think thai cotton-seed me-
or any other highly concentrated foe
will originate tuberculosis or pleur,
: pneumonia.