The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-12-05
Farm and Garden Notes.

France grows but twenty-five per cent.
OF the wool she uses.
Cleanliness on the farm does more for
its excellence than the expenditure of
money.
Farmers who must have hired men to
help them in their farm work ought not
to forget their overworked wives. There
is as much need of extra workers in the
kitchen as on the farm.
The farmer who thinks that to make
money he must go where land is cheaper,
should consider we'll whether he would.
not make more money by making the
land he has deeper and richer.
Wheat bran, being light, apparently
has but little value, yet ton of it con-
tains forty-seven pounds of nitrogen and
over sixty pounds of phosphoric acid,
with large proportion of potash.
Don't pasture the young clover. It is
the dearest of all feeds. If closely
cropped its growth will be checked so
that it may winter out, or at least will
not make vigorous start next spring.
Hogs on clover will thrive splendidly.
says the Lire Stock Indicator, but thew
should not be turned on till nearly time
Tor 1t to bloom. But it is well to re-
member that they will do much better if
they are in good condition when turned
in the clover fields.
Great care should be taken to raise an
orchard. The soil should be thoroughly
cultivated and fertilized and the Young
trees protected. Mr.. Moore adds: "Un.
less the fruit-grower has time properly
to take care OF his orchard, it is useless
to spend money for apple trees"
Breeders should go on carefully i'm
proving their tiocks by judicious crossing
and a rigid selection of the best. The
supply is not equal to the demand. So
long as any man raises better cattle and
horses than the average of his neighbors.
SO long will there be profitable demand
for his stock.
Moses and liehens iniure trees, not
by depriying them of nourishment, but
by aftording hiding place for insects,
as well as by shutting out light and air,
Whitewash made from fresh lime will
remove them, or they can be taken off
with tree scraper. After a rain it can
be done most easily.
A pig that has the snufIles should be
removed from the herd and cared for as
tine disease is contagious. Put pine tar
in the slops and smear both the nose and
face with it. A free use of carbolic acid
both externally and internally, should
also be made. So advises an experienced
Western stockman.
Here is the Arab test of a good horse
which every farmer can apply. Ii is
simply to observe your horse when he is
drinking out OF a brook. If, in bring
ing down his head, he remains square
without bending his limbs, he possesses
sterling qualities, and all parts of his
body are built symmetrically.
No variety Of potato, however good in
quality, or excelling in production, will
long remain popular if it has deep
sunken eyes. The best part of the potato
lies next the skin, so that the deep par
ing that sunken eyes necessitates is
doubly wasteful. The deep eye is de-
ceptive in planting, as the farmer cannot
know whether it will grow or not. Tn
der different circumstances he NAV have
a much greater or less stand of plants
from a similar seeding. Where the po-
tatO eye stands out prominently on the
surface nearly all will grow.