The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-26
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
silage is partial substitute for green
grass.
silage may be made an efficient ally of
or a good substitute for soiling crops.
its no sign that hen meditates evil
to her owner simply because she lays for
him.
Be sure and set out some fruit--a few
berries at least-and how about the cur
rants and grapesl
The first eggs from pullets should not
I've used for Matching if hens eggs can be
had conveniently.
Some who keep cattle up in summer say
that silage is even more valuable in sum
mer than in winter.
A lath fence is the first thing to plant
for farmers garden. 1t will pay the
best of any one crop he can put ",
The common school is the farmers col.
lege, and the parents ought to visit the
schools and be interested in their work.
The persimmon is naturally slow
grower, and although plenty of fertilizer
Is given, they seem to grow only just about
80 much.
Farmers are not putting business method
enough into their work. They must make
their brains do little more and theii
hands a little less.
If you have any mongrel cocks or those
from which you do not wish to breed, get
lr,l go tbay,, Of II &c n nnn1lacc n
pense to feed them.
An important advantage resulting from
the use of ensilage all the year is, that
manure made from it is available for use
not scattered at random over the farm.
A COW should never be idle more than
| six weeks at one time. She will last
longer and earn more than COW kept the
usual way-milked seven months, hall
fed and idle five.
In selecting fertilizers remember that
gypsum, or land plaster, is a cheap and
valuable form of plant food. 1t is es-
pecially valuable for mixing with hen
manure, ashes and compost.
Among the latest notable features OF
the poultry business is that of Matching
ducks by incubator and fattening them
for early market. 1t is claimed to be a
very remunerative business.
Have no fear of feeding potatoes to
COWS giving milk, but be careful about
feeding them a few weeks before time OF
calving, for they stimulate milk produc.
tion and at that period may cause garget.
The butter product of any State can be
increased twenty-five per cent. with the
cows now used and without additional ex-
pense by feeding liberal balanced ration
and giving the cows and the milk proper
care.
Boxes in the kitchen windows provide
probably the best and most convenient
/ way to raise plants from seed for the
home garden. Sow seed about six weeks
before time to transplant to the open
ground.
Bees should be furnished water if q
good supply be not close at hand. Take
| salt barrel that has just been emptfed,
soak it in water and set it out near the
apiary, and the bees will show how they
appreciate such tonic.
From the earliest streak of dawn to the
last ray of the setting sun, ,there is some
thing that can be done. 1t is not al
drudgery. Much of it is pleasant labor
but it is work that must be done, an6
done thoroughly at the right time, or i
will not be made a success.
To clear pear trees of the scurfy bari
louse scrape the scales off during cole
weather and as soon as spring opens, ,anC
when they begin to hatch syringe tn
trees and their limbs with a solution o
washing soda Chalf pound to an or
dinary pailful of water. Prompt treat
i ments of this kind will destroy them
/ Some pomologists paint the twigs ant
branches with linseed oil for this pest.
Silage is made in stacks in Englan,
Just as hay is stacked; but the stack
covered with an air-tight roof, draw
down very tightly by means of powerful
, screws attached to foundation timbers IN
: der a tight floor. This method is fire
, quently failure, as the fodder is spoile
2 for a considerable depth and sometime
o., the whole stack is damaged.
y For a disease of the bean consisting {
i parasitic fungus growing in the tissue {
the pods and producing large brow
. spots, recent bulletin of the DepartmeI
of Agriculture suggests to a Louisiar
correspondent to try spraying soon aft
the beans begin to form with a solution {
I one ounce of hyposulphite of soda to
, gallon of water, repeating the operatio