Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-15
FARM AND GARDEN xorrs.

Don't forget to fix that hinge to tho
pasture gate.
1t takes man, in the strongest sense
of the word, To be farmer.
IL you use steam thrcshcr, have Il few
pals of water handy; in ease of fire they
may prevent serious loss.
Where oats or other small grains aro
raised for hay, the best time to cut is lust
as they ARE in full bloom.
1t is making use of little savings that
makes the garden pay. Utilize every.
thing when it is nj its best
Remember that I'M extra girl in tho
kitchen for II few days. often prevents
the doctor from calling for several days.
The great secret of success in garden
ing Is manure and thorough cultivation.
Do not hesitate to sprnd money for good
fertilizers.
1t costs no more 10 feed good stock
than poor, and it is no more expense To
handle good manure than poor. hence
care should hr taken to have the best.
Hardly anything gives II farm u mora
slovcnly appearance than II fringe OF
bushes around every field, and clumps OF
brush growing in the middle of them.
lfy You hnvca lawn mower lay il nway
early in the fall. The lawn will he all
the better next year ami last longer il nl-
lowed To make n strong growth of grass
this fall
How much more delightful rural lifa
would appear, and how much the drrlg.
cry OF farming would hc lightcncd, il
only the outward surroundings Of the
home were made attractive.
Peter Henderson said in II recent pub.
lie address that no one should engage in
market gardening after passing mdda
life, nor one who has II feeble conslitu-
ton, for To bc prosecuted successfully
the owner must put his own shoulder To
the wheel.
This demon of waste is the licnd that
is cniinG out the profits Of our farmers.
Keeping Improbable COWS, feeding
wcnthcrbcatcn folder, and doing every
thing in the most expensive manner, and
then WASTING their breath, calling them
selves practical.
Early Matched pullcts will soon be lay,
ing, and will bc laying steadily all win
ter with proper attention. AS they ara
now growing they require more food than
old hens. Yard them separately; If nj
lowed To run together the old stock will
become too fat or the pullcts ton lean.
The cream from bran fed milk rises
slowly and is hard To churn. When the
butter il made it. will he pile rather than
the golden yellow from the cream oil
cows fed on corn meal. Bran should be
fed 10 young, growing stock rather than
to COWS. II is rich IN phosphate and
makes an excellent manure.
4 barnynrd | 10 feet by 100 feet, say.
Professor Roberts, contains almost exact
ly quarter of m acre. In the State ot
New York there are lhiriy-two inches of
rninfnll. An inch Of rain means one hun,
lrc:l tons Of wafer per acre. a quarter
Of an acre means twenty -iivc tons.
Eight hundred tons of rain fall on that
barnyard yearly.
IL is probably true that deep plowin,
is better for wheat than for almost any
other crop that the farmer can grow. 1t
is NIL the better for the wheat crop il
some suhsoil free from vegetable matter,
Is turned up 10 the surface. II may bca
rich seed bed, but cultivation will pull
vcrizc il, and the subsoil is apt on good
wheat land 10 he richer in phosphate and
mineral plant food tlnn soil nearer the
surface. 1t is To get phosphate from the
smbsoil that some wheat growing farmers
have plowcd more deeply than they 9th.
crwsc would do.