Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-01
EARN AND GARDEN Snrl.s.

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Keep eggs in cool dry place Till
marketed.
Red raspbcrrics and blackbcrics NAV
he allowed TO grow from two 10 two and
Il half feet TALL should then DC nippcd
back
Let your horse stand loose, If possible,
without being tied up to the manager.
Pam and WEAKNESS from Il confined posi-.
ton induce bad habits.
Half of the wear to tools on some farmA
comes from unnecessary exposure to the
sun, and wind, and rain. A convenient
shelter is far cheaper and looks less shift.
less.
Pick tho tomatoes as fast MS they ripcn
this will hasten the maturity and ripcn7
ing of the crop. Pick off all imperfect
and spotted specimens as you come across
! them.
Winter calves are just as good and aa
easily raised as spring calves; and your
fall and winter calving cows will average
more milk per year than those calving in
the spring.
DO not allow The weeds TO go to soc1
If you can help it. OF some plants, tho
seed from single stalk of this years
growth will be sufficient to produce hun
drcds of plants another season.
If you notice young bird in any brood
that is especially nice, do not kill it, keep
1t while longer to see what kind of
fowl 1t will make. The very best is
none TOO good to keep for breeding.
When COW runs in good pasture,
free from weeds, and has ration of grain
or is fed on hay, ground oats and bran,
In a clean stable, what is there in her
milk that can be an odor, unclean, un-'
healthy or oiTcnsive2
s. b. Parsons, who is authority OH the
rose, writes to the american Agricultur-
ist that for hardy varieties he likes
best General Jaqucminot, La France,
Caroline dc Sausal, Baronnc Provost,
Charles Defcbrc and Harrison Yellow.
Lice multiply quickly, and constant
care is required to keep poultry clear OF
them during warm weather Good
pyrcthrum or buhach powder thoroughly
busted into their feathers is prcvcn-
tive for the several sorts of lice on
chickens.
According 10 the American Cuuirator
many instances have occurred where cat!
tie which have eaten largely of wilted
wild cherry leaves have exhibited sympI
toms of poisoningand died in short time
while if the leaves are eaten green they
seldom produce injurious effects.
Undraincd lands suffer from hot and
dry weather. the reason for it being, ac-
cording 10 authority on drainage, That,
although there may be water within a
few inches of the surface, the ground
becomes so compact and baked that il Is
not sufficiently porous to draw up moist
IRE.
Air. G. II. Powell, an extensive fruit
grower, is reported in Countyy Gentleman,
as practising thinning out" with great
determination and perseverance, and no.
where are its good effects better shown
than in the vineyard. Mr.. Powell be-
licvcs that with some varieties he has
gained three weeks time by thinning and
this may often be question of crop or
no crop
The idea is general that water lcachcs
down so rapidly through sandy soil that
it takes all the elements of fertility out
of the reach Of farm crops. Mirror and
Farmer thinks there is strong evidence
on the other side of the case and asserts
it ms fact that men who have the cou;-
age TO plow manure into sandy soil ret
better crops than when they leave it on
the surface TO be washed down.