Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-09-27
FARM AND GARDEN NorEs.

IL Is mistake TO stop iecding young
turkeys when grown.
A noted English agriculturist advises
farmers to try cnsilaging instead of hay
making in securing the hay crop.
The best and strongest chicks ar,
hatched-somc will be raised two months
hence, but thcyarc not considered as good
rs the early birds.
If too late TO set out cabbage or celery
where the early vegetables were grown,
clear off the land and SOW rye, it will be
fine to turn under this fall.
Ripe timothy hay is worth very littlo
more than straw for milk and butter,
while timothy cut when the grass is in
early blossom is much more productive.
John Gould says i'll the Western Rural.
that he sold $114 worth OF milk from ono
acre of ensilagc, and $22 worth of bran
and clover. The milk brought 81 so per
cwt.
There is no more dismal sight than n
sparscly painted farm house without tho
shcltering shade of small tree and with
bare earth where luxuriant grass should
abound
Have the fair in mind while ut work
about the garden, any fine specimens of
vegetables, crowd-cxhibit ut the fair
and then save the seed for next wears
planting.
According 20 Professor l.. Morrow it is
better, in draining wide, nearly level
tracts, to have two, three or more lines
parallel by each other than to have one
main drain with short bitches Mt right
angles.
Where animals-horscs and sheep, TO
wit-havc their teeth sound and com
plcte, it is claimed there is no advantage
to be gained by crushing their grain ra-
tions. 1t is otherwise i'll the case of old
horses, cattle and pigs.
If you have few choice cut plants
that are endangered by cut worms yon
can save them by winding strip of
folded paper round the stem. Cabbage,
sweet potato and tomato plants can be
fully protected in like manner.
In old garden land which has been
for years heavily MANFRED and cropped
the most troublesome weeds are apt to be
purslanc, barn-yard grass and chickwcct,
these are all ANIMALS and if they are
kept from going to seed they may bc
soon got rid Of
The habits of the crow form an inter
csting subject for the study of the or,
nithologist. The crow has n larger
brain than most birds, and all his cncr.
gies are directed toward procuring food.
Crows will destroy the nests of quail in
the absence Of the old birds.
The cost of harvesting timothy hay is
less per ton when the crop is heavy than
when it is light. j. N. SIuncy, in tho
Ru'ul Me@ Yorker, gives the following
estimates when loaded by londer and
pitched of by hand: When the crop is
light, Sl.0S per ton, at 1000 to 1900
pounds per acre; crop three times MS
large, sixty-five cents per ton.
e. r. Root tells in Bee Gleaninqs that
the imported Italian bees are not only
the gcntlcst bees he handles, but Just as
good and little better honey gathcrers
EIe says there is something in the eli
matte conditions of Italy that produces n
hardy, gentle and industrious race of
bees. Mr.. Roots impressions of the
Carniolans thus far appear not very favor
able.
A correspondent of Garden and Forest
thinks it a question whether it pays to
stake tomatoes. In the home garden it
is well to stop the growth of the vine by
pinching to encourage early fruit; but for
late fruit he lets them run ut will. Thin
ming out the laterals to give free circula-
ton of the air is good practice and helps
to prevent rot, but the fruit often scads
if exposed to full sunshine.