Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-06
Farm and Garden Notes.

Most cellars are too warm and dry to
keep celery well.
Walnuts are the latest food suggested
for fattening turkeys.
A straw binder to harvesting machin-
cry has been patented.
Do not try to winter more stock than
can be kept comfortable.
north hill side is the most fayorble
locality for fruit orchard.
The question of dehorning cattle is re-
ceiving much consideration.
Some swine breeders regard a solid
earth floor as best for pig pen.
Want Of winter protection Injuries
many blackberries and raspberries.
DR.. Loring asserts that the stable
should be as we'll taken care of as mans
house.
w. D. Phibrick says that potatoes and
roots of all kinds keep best in pits out OF
doors.
A contemporary says there is no small
fruit so certain in its crop and altogether
80 wholesome as the raspberry.
A poorly bred sheep costs as much for
keep as l-bred one, says Rural
World The Moral is apparent.
DR.. Nichols says that fruit is perfect
food, the apple alone being sufficient to
sustain life and health long time.
Winter dairying pays better now than
ever before. because the public demands
freshly made butter the year around.
Paris green for the codling moth and
the Earring process for the curculio are
the reliable methods of determination.
To keep we'll in the cellar apples must
not be too warm A temperature two or
three degrees above freezing suits them
best.
Use care to see that mice are not en-
couraged to gnaw the bark of trees by
being fostered by the mulch put about
their trunks.
While farmers are divided on the sub
iect, there is general opinion distinctly
favorable to stirring the stubble or
breaking grass lands in the fall.
1t is recommended to give the trunks
of fruit trees a coat of thin whitewash,
in which a spoonful of carbolic acid has
been mixed to each pail of water.
| A successful flock-m master tells that he
winterfeeds his sheep on straw during
! December and January, with either I'm
| seed iI-cake meal or corn meal or ground
| oats.
Clean up the yard and make the farm
neat. Nothing helps our country towns
more and increases real estate value faster
than to have the farms neat and thrifty
in appearance.
Cabbages that are fully headed are
| buried with the roots up, those that are
expected to grow and head up are buried
s.right side up" and with roof Of rough
boards covered with earth.
Corn fodder piled up to a depth of
more than three feet will usually heat
| if it is at all damp. Stored IN most
weather it would be certain to heat II
placed in deep bays or in bins.
A daryman should.keep as many COWS
only as he can feed well. 1t is not econ
omical to divide the food among large
number, when the same results can be
secured from a smaller number, we'll
fed.
Though hens do not eat the curcullo,
their presence around and under the
trees makes this shy insect more cautious
about depositing her eggs. Pairing the
soil under plum trees answers the same
purpose.
An exchange says the man who lets
Canada thistles, wild parsnip, and other
noxious weeds 90 to seed by the road
side may Glove mis- neighbor as himself, y
! but II so he must De eACeculnSiy oAOA' VI
self-esteem.
A writer in Tick's Magazine says that
after reading an account OF how they
made honey from pears in Switzerland
he determined to attempt something OF
the kind himself. He tried and sue
ceeded perfectly. The honey was OF the
pure Juice of the fruit, and had the pear
flavor.
Vick's magazine confirms the statement
that basic Stag, the refuse of steel works,
when freed from iron and reduced to
powder, proves to be valuable fertli-
izer, principally on account OF the phoS-
phorus it contains. Mountains OF biach
slao have accumulated about the IRON
| and steel works of this country, all OF
which can be proftably worked over and
made into Il valuable manure.
If sprouts appear on new set trees you
can now easily pinch them off with your
thumb and finger, and throw the growth
where it is wanted. But do not cut OF
all the growth. If the roots are gooC
Won will find a great deal of sap sent VI
from the roots, and top enough shoulc
he allowed for the roots to grow. II you
dwarf the top of a young newset tree tina
is making rapid growth, you arc dwarf
ino the roots If you allow too much tot
I I on a feeble tree you will Kill the tree J
Cbrvsanthemums are vigorous feeders