The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-08-14
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
It is highly extravagant to use low
priced mower oil.
The Wyandotte fowls are highly
priced as winter layers.
Now weed your strawberry bed and ap-
ply dressing of decomposed manure.
Better feed the inferior fruit and vege-
tables to the hogs than send them to
market.
Cut the timothy and clover when the
clover is prime. Do not wait for the
timothy.
Use the cultivator as often and as long
you can. Every time you do it you
kill weeds.
Provide a place of shelter for fowls
where they can be kept dry during hard
rain-storms.
The care that will raise good crop OF
cabbages will raise a crop of delicious
cauliflowers.
Many practical fruit growers favor
pruning in midsummer, as the wounds
then heal most rapidly.
Little pigs thrive wonderfully on oats
fed whole. Let them have a separate run
where they can eat them.
With the present standard of popular
taste, the very highest price may be OBJ
tanned for ensilage butter.
The character of the milk is largely in
the pasture field. If the COW eats badly
favored weeds, she will give badly fla
vored milk.
The weeds can be kept down much
easier if crop is kept growing than if
the land is left unoccupied. Put in the
second crop.
Ensilage in connection with grain feed
will make the cheapest butter, and butter
which may obtain more than the highest
market price.
Pigs can be reared so as to have seven
ty-five per cent. of lean meat in them by
feeding bran and middlings. Skim milk
may also be fed.
None too much rain for weeds, because
if one kind find the condition unfavor-
able, dozen other kinds have exactly
what they require.
Peter Henderson thinks every farmer
should have a few acres of root crops on
his farm and he will find them invalu-
able for feeding stock during the win
ter.
Parsnips are very nutritious, and in
the islands of Jersey and Guernsey are
considered excellent roots for dairy
cows and are extensively grown for that
purpose.
p. II. Jacobs affirms in Rurdl Neto
Yorker, thatpoultry droppings applied to
the soil are not nearly so valuable as they
are estimated. He also disapproves of
the common advice to keep them dry,
and says they are rendered more avail
able as plant food by keeping them wet.
According to A. W. Cheever the best
time for cutting grass with machine is
after o'clock in the afternoon. Any
single-team farmer can cut all the grass
after o'clock that he can handle the
next day before that hour, and all hay
should go into the barn by that time
every afternoon.
A Florida orange grower claims that
if the tap root of the tree is cut off and
a rock is laid Immediately under the
centre of the tree in planting, there will
be no real tap root again, and that the
lime water which kills the zap root in
limestone hammock will not affect the
lateral roots nearly so severely.
Not half enough is attempted in the
way of ornamental gardening with fruit,
says a Country Gentleman correspondent.
With the strictest utilitarian management
few things in the country landscape are
prettier than the blossoming or fruiting
orchards, and little taste and skill IN
arrangement will make the fruits a de-
cided adjunct of the pleasure grounds