The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-11-28

Soap and kerosene emulsion has been
found successful in destroying white
grubs on lawns.
A good rule in mixed farming is to
keep sufficient stock to consume all the
products of the farm.
Make your farm such that poor animals
would disgrace 1t; make your animals
such that poor farm would be unfit for
them.
Ordinary warts on cattle may be re.
moved with a knife, and the surface OF
the wound touched with lunar caustic to
prevent excessive bleeding.
Strawberry plants should not be COW
vered for the winter until after the soil
is frozen, and then simply shade them.
Do not attempt to keep the plants warm,
for warmth Is not needed, but is in.
furious.
While milk is standing for cream to
rise, the purity of the cream, and con
sequently the fine flavor and keeping OF
the butter, will be injured if the surface
of the cream is exposed freely to all
much warmer than the cream.
Do not pack pears, grapes or any fruit
in bran, 10 keep during winter. The
bran causes the fruit to ripen very fast.
Place in bran if yon desire fine color
and quick ripening, but examine often
or the fruit will get overripe.
The live weight of COW decides her
ration of support, 1t should be equal to
two and onehalf per cent in dry food
matter, or not less than thirty pounds
per day of good hay or its equivalent in
grain, straw, ensilage or roots for 1000
pound COW.
AS milk is an animal secretion manu-
factured by the COW, it must be evident
that anything which worries, frets or
torments the COW, or renders her uneasy
or uncomfortable, will certainly lessen
the quantity and affect the composition
of her milk.
The flies which annoy horses so much
may be kept from the animals by
sprinkling the litter with solution Of
two ounces of carbolic acid in a pailful
of water and by sponging the horse with
a little of the solution mixed with an
equal quantity of kerosene oil.
The best and richest milk is found to
be produced just after growth ceases,
and while the vitality is strongest. When
a COW has reached that age when she be-
gins to lose vital force, her secretions of
milk becomes less perfect, Just as her
digestions and assimilation do.
Do not neglect your strawberry beds.
Clean out the weeds and mulch them.
A good working, followed by a generous
supply of manure, then good coating of
straw, applied within the next thirty
days, will insure a good crop of berries
next year. Nextyear's berries are formed
this year.
A Southern paper says the percentage
of loss from cold is heavier among South.
eTn stock than Northern, as is shown by
government statistics. Shelter for cattle
in winter is demanded by both humanity
and economy. Unsheltered stock is un.
profitable stock, and indicates a cruel and
thriftless owner
The black rot in the fruit of tomatoe,
is caused by the same fungus which
produces rot in potatoes. The tomato is
closely related 10 the potato. and i,
sub iect to this worst of disease, which
affects the latter plant. A remedy is Il
use only artificial fertilizers and to apply
weak solution Of sulphate of iron TO the
ioil.
Professor w. A. Henry recently made
an experiment with three cows fed on
ration costing seventeen cents per day
which resulted as follows: A grade
lihoIt-horn made thirty -four cents worth
pf butter per day; a half-blood Jersey,
! forty-fve cents, and a Jersey of pure
| blood ifty-siX cents. They were all in
about the same stage Of milking,