Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Throw plenty of dry dirt into the pig
pen and on TO the floor of the stalls.
Don't handle NOW Of smoking hay if
you have some poor, dry FODDER to throw
on 1t to take up the moisture
Farm horses kept in well ventilated
stables when not nj work will fare better
usually than ut pasture fighting flies.
There are now about five million own
crs OF farms in the United States About
one million Of the farms have been nc.
quircd since 1880
y sealed package all the way from
krainburg. Austra, in which was a queen
bee. arrived lately mt Mechanic Falls,
Maine. Tho bee was alive and well.
Glover sown among corn Mt the last
cultivation and plowcd down for the next
crop is a cheap and practical way Of cap
turing the fugitive nitrogen so much
needed.
No gases arise from frozen droppngs,
but the poultry-housc should be clcanscd
daily, if possible, and dry earth should
tie sprinklcd on the floor, which permits
OF sweeping the latter with broom.
81 would recommend to every farmer
says Country Gentleman correspondent.
WHO wishes 10 know which is best
spring or fall plowing-to try both ways
on his own land, half and half, instead
Of reading the arguments Of writers who
live hundred or thousand miles
away"
Color goes for a great deal in horse,
especially if it is desirable to make Il
matched team. 1t is worth while to
study this in breeding. To mate Il
breeding mare to Il horse whose only
point Is his own excellence only insurcs
disappointment. If the male is pure
bred it will probably mark the colt, both
in action, size and color.
The Great Bear River Canal is to b,
one of the grandcst irrigation projects in
America. Two million dollars have been
provided for Its construction. This canal
will irrigate 200, 900 acres in Salt Lake
valley and 5000, 900 on Bear River. i'll
crcainS the value Of the land to 500 per
acre, while fencing, building and tillarc
will double this valuation in a few wears.
a Western man, sixty-iivc years old,
went to Louisiana a year ago, saws the
.SMrr Bo'cl, and on thirty-fvc acres of
land, with the help of only nincycar
old hoy, raised nine bales of cotton and
3O0 barrels Of corn; also, aided bv n
l,rSe garden, supporting family of five
mt cost of tifty-eight dollars. Next
season he will work fifty acres and ain
for fifteen bales.
a good average dairy cow ought to
give ut least four thousand pounds of
milk in year, which should return the
farmer, whether sold or made into butter
and cheese, at least cent "A pound. 50
that such COWS ought to bring in at least
torty dollars year per head. This is
the calculation of Hon. Josiah Shull,
Secretary of the New York State Dairy.
mems Association.
y close fence around berry match
should be avoided where much snow pre-
walls. y heavy bank of snow sInothcrs
! Strawberries and breaks down the canes
oil raspbcrrics and blackbcrrcs. The lat
ter will usually hold enough snow over
the surface to keep the ground from frccz-
ing very deeply, and with this protection
they may prove hardy, while an equal
cold without the SNOW would show the
canes dead in the spring.
No matter how small the village, there
are probably some men in il who keen
horses or COWS, and do not have any use
Tor manure. 1t can often be bought by
nearby farmers at cheaper rates than
! they can make manure in their own barn
yards. Manure in large cities is mostly
gobblcd up by market gardeners, who
often pay much more than farmers can
afford; but the country village supplies
can be fairly claimed by farmers who
live in the ncighborhood.