Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
Farm and Garden Notes.

anu -NOACS.
GentIeness cannot be kicked into ami
mails.
Even impure air has a deteriorating
effect on butter.
Walnuts are the latest wrinkle for
fattening turkeys.
Turkeys too closely confined will lose
flesh, no matter how much feed is given
them
Feed is more important than breed, :"
is the conclusion of DR.. Z. L. Sturtevant,
after six years experimenting in butter
making.
Warm cooked food early in the morn
ing, with little pepper in it, will warm
mp the hens and assist their laying in
winter, says poultry man.
A cow needs volume Of water in pro-
portion to the amount of milk she gives.
If the water is too cold she drinks little,
while the milk shrinks in the pail.
A pailful of fire, h water in the morning
keep from freezing, will now do much
toward cOaxing eggs from the hens.
Cows fed with meal mixed with straw,
give more milk and considerably richer
At the Ontario Agricultural College, a
recent experiment with peas showed that
it took thirty five pounds more Of cooked
than of uncooked peas to make 100
pounds Of pork, live weight.
A Wisconsin apple grower says he
made his money by reducing his orchard
fifty per cent, and giving the part which
he reserved the same amount of care for
!, .1,,1I- hn tIra
field.
Twelve hens are as many as ought to
be kept together in one room; in build
ing 20x8O feet, thirty hens will lay more
eggs in winter than nifty hens. If you
keep one hundred hens in one house,
have eight pens for them.
Nothing will pay better for time and
means expended, than to card your cattle
every morning. 1t helps to lay on fat,
promotes the health by keeping the coat
soft and oily, and, in case of mich COWS,
the milk is more pure and healthy.
Few things will do farmers more good
than well-managed Institutes, a few
things will do more to make guy of in
telhgent agriculture than poorly managed
Institutes, where politicians and other
interested parties are given space, thinks
No land is cheap but good land; one
acre that viii produce thirty bushels Of
wheat is worth a good deal more than
three acres that will produce but ten
bushels each. MANY a man who has
struggled for lifetime on 100 acres of
thin, hungry land would be better off if
he had given his farm away in early man
hood, > says the PHILADELPHIA Press.
Corn cobs should be saved for using in
smoke houses They are excellent for
tuning hams and shoulders the right
kind of brown. The housewife, too,
finds their ashes very strong in potash.
In Qlden times corn-cOb ashes were often
used as saleratus is now, for correcting
acidity. Much of the mineral substance
in the corn crop goes into its cob, and
this may often be of value for highly fed
stock, 10 correct acidit of the stomach.
The complete fertilizer for potatoes is
best applied broadcast on the pIowed
ground and narrowed in; the potatoes
are then planted. 1t is worth in the
market about $40 per ton or less, accord
ing to the locality. Any dealer in
fertilizers can supply you or procure it
for YOU a good home made complete
fertilizer NAV be made of 500 pounds OF
unbleached wood ashes, 200 pounds of
superphosphate of lime, and 100 pounds
of meat and blood fertilizer. This is
enough for one acre.
At least once a year says the Guilt
rGtor, the farmer should take account of
stock and make careful estimate of his
property and of his gains or losses dur
ing the year. For some reasons, this
month may not be as good time for the
farmer to do this work as would be
March or April. The hay in the barn,
the corn in the crib and the vegetables in
the cellar are greater in amount, and if
they must be accurately weighed or
measured, it would be quite task. But
there is more leisure time to do this |
work than there would be in the spring, |!
and it IS not difficult TO make an est |
mate of amount and value of all that is |
on hand which will be sufficiently &C
curate for all practical purposes.