The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-05-15
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOIEs'
Farmers should limit and control the
cost of production.
Corn should be ground in the ear; it is
better than to shell it and feed the COW
separately.
Everything points to the silo as one Of
the best and probably the best way to
harvest corn.
Farmers who raise rye should sell the
straw and buy grain and fertilizer with
the proceeds.
Careless, hasty seed-sowing accounts
for the failure of many amateur attempts
at gardening,
A mixture of kerosene and lamphlack
is a good application to keep steel sur
faces bright.
One speaker thought that a little pure
water added to thick cream would assist
in its separation.
If the whiflletree breaks, don't throw
it into corner. Remove the irons.
They can be fitted to new wood.
Corn for ensilage should not be cut
when the kernels are in the milky state
1t should be allowed to glaze little.
BY keeping the cattle off the pasture
one day longer in the spring you may
keep them upon it two days longer in the
fall.
i Farming is like other industries; if
you expect to be successful, you must
adopt some special line and make it a
study.
Cows should have plenty of fresh water
and salt daily. Always feed and milk
regularly. Keep stables clean with good
bedding.
The farther you are from market the
greater is your need of condensing pro-
ducts by feeding grain and stover to your
animals.
A handy thing to have is a box con-
tanning an assortment of bolts, nuts,
rivets, nails and hammer, pinches and
cold-chisel.
Rye straw is considered to be worth
only $3.50 per ton as fertilizer. 1t
brings from $40 to $15 ton at the straw
paper mills.
Trees about the house make it more
homelike and attractive, and shield it
from the cold winds of winter and the
hot sun of summer.
eff l were to preach sermon on
horticulture | would take as my text
Stir the soil, ," was said by one of our
best horticulturists.
Forty pounds of good corn ensilage,
with five pounds of hay and six pounds
of cotton-seed meal and shorts is full
ration for S00-pound COW.
A silo and good ensilage is necessary
to making good butter in winter 1t
cheapens cost of production, and i'm
proves the quality of the butter
1t Is impossible to make first-rate
quality of butter from poor milk; hence
the making of good butter commences
with the COW, her food and care.
A grapevine over the out building will
not injure the building, will increase the
attractiyeness Of the premises, and will
furnish wholesome, agreeable food at
slight cost.
The best land you have got is not any
too good for Strawberries, but any land
that will raise first-class crop of corn OF
or potatoes will raise a good fair crop of
| strawberries.
When the garden gets as much atten,
tiOn as the swine lot, and the fruit trees
as much feed and care as the cattle,
there will be more health and good humor
on the farm, and just as much money.
Many people make mistake in turn.
ing their flock out in the pasture too early
in the spring, before there is sufficient
food for them to nourish themselves, and
in that case the wool will commence to
shed, aifirms a sheep-owner of many
years experience
The paint brush that proved to be a
bargain was cleaned in turpentine each
time its work was done, dried, and hung
up by its handle. Keep few panes Of
window glass and paper of tacks OF
some putty on hand. When the window
pane is broken, don't make-shift; replace
it.