The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-05-30
Farm and Garden Notes.

Nlean anu thorough culture tells.
a foul stable will sicken the horses.
Prune grape vines to two or three buds
of last years growth.
Though fat pork is more costly than
lean 1t is not so good.
Buckwheat is recommended for soil
infested with wire-worms.
Radishes are divided into two classes,
summer and winter. The spring radish
must make a rapid growth 10 be crisp
and tender.
Parsley may be sown thickly, in drills
twelve inches apart, in spring and Sep
tember. First soak the seed in warm
water over night. agasss.s.
There are in every flock some sheep
poorer than others at this time of year;
they should be put in pen by them.
selves and fed extra rations.
Remember that no lawn can be main.
tanned in good order long, without sue
cessive rolling. Rolling should be done
before the ground becomes dry.
Good, well glazed earthern Jugs are
excellent packages TO keep maple syrup
in, if filleI full and sealed perfectly; but
they are inconvenient and unsafe to ship.
The enormous quantity of ensilage
c.rn which can be grown to the acre,
and the cheapness with which it can be
put into the silo, makes it a commenda.
BILE fortifcation against our summer
drouths.
The carrot should always be furnished
a good, deep, rich soil. Sow in drills
about an inch deep, the drills about one
foot apart. At thinning the plants
should be left four to ten inches apart,
according to the variety.
A swamp containing rich muck is q
great help in restoring land to fertility.
The muck may be used for litter in com.
posts and decomposed by lime, and one
load may be made worth more than the
ordinary COW manure on farms.
An experiment made at the Michigan
State College n feeding steers of differ
ent breeds, gives a very good showing
for the Holsteins. This test, though not
conclusive, shows that Holsteins are
worthy place among beef breeds.
Trees in the poultry yard grow very
rapidly and afford shade to the fowls in
summer. Peaches and plums are less
Liable TO disease when grown in the
poultry yard, while the hens greatly as
s.st in preventing the attacks of insects.
To plough well and deeply is but half
the work. The seed must have place
in which the little sprouting rootlets may
take hold upon and assimilate the ele-
ments of plant food that can come from
nowhere else. and without which vigor-
GUS growth is impossible.
The story is told that Connecticut
farmer, some years ago, captured some
wild geese, and after clipping their
wings crossed them with native geese.
The grade was much larger and the meat
of a finer flavor than the native, so
much so that they brought price full
as high as tarkeys.
Pigs often evince a strong appetite for
coal or charcoal. 1t is natural desire
for some corrective of ac.dity of the
stomach, to which hogs fed upon sour
and otherwise decomposing fOod are
subject. A handful of charcoal once or
twice a week would be very useful to
hogs under any circumstances, and we
do not think soft stone coal will be found
at all injurious to them. But we would
rather give them some charcoal or
charred wood. No medicine is re-
quired.
For several years, says farmer, l have
dissolved bones with unbleached wood
ashes, putting them in a vessel in alter
nate layers of two parts of ashes to one
of bones. Keep them as wet as possible
without draining, and while you are
about farming you are making fertilizer
that will be valuable. Put little of
this mixture in the hill or drill of crops;
it is especially fine for melons and Gu
cumbers. Another way is to place lye
in waterproof vessel and put the bones
n this until softened.
When the hens have swollen eyes,
it is usually one eye and seldom both.
The reason is that when a hen is on the
roost there is a draught of air on her
head, and directed principally to the
side on which the eye is swollen. All
that can be done is to make a close
search for the opening through which
comes the draught. 1t may be only
crack or a creyice, perhaps no larger
than a pin hole, but II will be enough
10 kill the hen if she roosts in the same
place every night. Look to the ventila-
ton also, especially if at the top, as
current may come in, strike a board,
aud be directed to one side of the head
of the hen. Swelled heads and sore
eyes nearly always comes from draughtI