Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-03-23
ERE AND THERE.

Plant out onion sets as soon in the
spring as the soil can be worked into
o good tilth. Have the soil rich.
Under good management straw
berries should yield 1000 gallons to
the acre; raspberries, 700; blackber-
ries, 800, and currants from 400 to 500
gallons.
Warmth is very important for
young chicks. The early chicks pay |
we'll, and this is the season when they
should receive extra care.
Whenever you whitewash slake
stone lime with boiling water, and
then thin down to the desired consist
ency with skinned milk and it will
be much more durable.
The 40, 600, 900 hogs raised in the
country are valued at 5000, 100000.
The Mississippi Valley claims to have
raised three-fifths of the number
"A COW that takes on flesh and fat
freely will not, as a general thing,
make a good mixer, and one making
liberal large flow of milk will not ut
the same time be a good animal for
beef.
The surface OF the soil in the or-
chard should be kept reasonably level.
In plowing plan to secure this. Make
your surface drainage by running out
the necessary burrows, taking pains
always to avoid washing.
Use your wood ashes on your fruit
trees and vines. For peaches it is the
best fertilizer known. Broadcasted
over the orchard ground it will great
ly increase the growth of new wood
and invigorate the trees.
When you put out young peach
trees cut the sticks back to within two
feet of the ground. A low tree is less
affected by the winds, and will grow
better. Young trees can be trained to
any shape desired by iudicious prun-
ing.
There is an advantage in using
walnut as shade tree, and that Is, in
addition to securing more or less nuts
to use, it is freer than the average
from insects, and during the summer.
when a good rest is desired, this is
quite an item.
Avoid using kerosene on peach
trees or applying it to vines in order
to destroy insects, as it often destroys
the trees or vines. 1t is a dangerous
| substance to use on trees for any pur'
pose. As lice destroyer in buildings
however, it has no superior.
Feed the brood sows that have lit
, ters of pigs literally on warm, SLOPPY
( food. Skim milk or buttermilk is eE
celent, but if this is difficult to Obtain
3 give her all the scalded ground grail
1 she can eat, with mess of cooked
D turnips or potatoes to which has beeI
added pint OF inseed meal.
4 "A hen that lays 100 eggs per year
l the eggs averaging eight TO the pound
+ produces more in weight than does
s hen that lays 120 eggs year tina
: | Wolgl bW0lNo W OhS PSe.aAN' 80
8 should be sold by weight. 1t is no
always the hen that lays the create
number OF eggs that is the most serv
0 iceable.
9 Grow only such crops as have bee
found best adapted to your soil an
q climate. Any attempt to grow some
. thing that is not well adapted to tn
!. soil increases the cost of productio
! and lessons the profit. All new var
. cites should 1rst be tested in sma
8 plots before attempting to grow ger
i. eral crop therefrom.
q The direct cause Of hog cholera
4 the presence of bacteria or diseas
d germs on the grass and in the wate
n These cause Inflammation of th
/ stomach and bowels. BY feeding q
n abundance Of bone and muscle-forn
+ ing foods, such as wheat middling
II clover, pease and oats. we can rait
It strong, healthy pfgs which will NJ
IS readily succumb to disease -Goloni
ia D. Curtice.