The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-04-10


Chicks only are subject to gapes.
Cholera is always known by intense
thirst.
Gapes is the result of suffocation
caused by a small, slender worm.
Remember that the horse needs daily
exercise and likes a variety of food.
1t is claimed that sheep take readily
to good, sweet ensilage and do well on 1t.
Carelessness with hot ashes from the
house fires may result in serious loss by
fire.
Small potatoes will often prove more
profitable if fed to pigs and poultry than
if marketed.
Roads and road making is now the
subject of general interest and discussion
among farming communities.
Avoid the mistake of sowing seed too
thickly in hot beds, as crowded plants
spoil quickly if not transplanted at Just
the right time.
Whenever old hot beds are replanted
with asecond crop, give them a thorough
smoking to kill the lice with which they
are apt to be infested.
Professor Henry is reported as affirm.
ing that uncut cornstalks make ensilage
of the best quality, but the labor of get.
ting them out of the silo Is too great.
DR.. Hoskins says, in Garden ana
Forest, if there is a best apple we surely
have it in Hunts russell, sometimes
called the golden russet of Massachusetts.
Among new breeds of poultry whose
future popularity appears to be well set,
tied, p. II. Jacobs includes the White
Wyanndottes and White Plymouth
Rocks.
Testing the vitality of oats designed
for seed should be common practice.
With ordinary methods Of field culture,
probably less than one-halt the kernels
sown produce mature plants.
The way to have good neighbors is to
be good neighbor yourself. But neigh
! borliness does not cover the borrowing
or lending of the small, every day farm
| tools that every farm should have.
One farmer reports that apple pomact
| proved disastrous as fertilizer, but wa,
a "squelcher" on Canada thistles and
! obnoxious weeds. The pomace was that
made by the old style of pressing and
contained much acid.
One of the best preventives against
lice in the poultry house, or in the nests
of sitting hens, is tobacco refuse, such
as the sweepings of cigar factories. By
the use of 1t, with kerosene on the roots,
there need be no fear of lice.
A deep cut made by sharp calk or
the shoe 5hould be dressed by in Getting
little turpentine or liniment, and ther
putting plug of Int dipped in this into
the opening so as to prevent the surface
closing before the bottom is healed.
The shorter the line of communica,
tion between the producer and consumer
the larger is the proportion of what The
latter pays when he reaches the pocket:
of the former. Why not plan to reach
directly into the consumers pocket
bookl
Soft feed for chicks is undoubtedl,
the cause of a great deal of mortality
among them. A mixture of cornmeai
old bread, bran and middling, with jus
enough milk to moisten it, is a gooC
feed, and broken rice may be given for
change.
Many dairyman who is glad to ge
twenty-five cents a pound for his butte
might have forty or fifty cents if h,
would employ his best talent to find ap
preciatiye customers and keep them sup
piled regularly with product up to til,
standard.
Feather pulling is due 10 idleness, anC
not to a lack of something in the fooC
as many suppose. Active birds, il con
fined and not exercising, will pull feath
ers, but the habit is easily acquired
from any one of the flock by the othe
members thereof.
-Four pounds of cornmeal should max,
an increase of one pound live weight il
good young pigs, and fourteen pound
skinned milk should also make poun,
of increased weight Then seven pound
of milk aud two pounds Of meal ough
to make the same weight Of pork,