Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-12
Farm and Garden Notes.
Have roOsts low.

EarIn unu NOtC3.
Have roosts low.
Feed and water stock regularly.
Arrange for good seeds and sircs.
horticulture is an art that is constant
~ growing.
Farmers arc not the only onos who
abuse the orchard.
Plant tree Mt the corner of the house
and it will never live
The best place for n sick bird is tho
bottom of Ia flour barrel, straw being used
for bedding.
Never use kerosene on tho legs or
body of fowl, as it often irritnLcs and
does damage.
New land is best adapted 10 the growth
OF berries. Constant cultivation also is
IL dcsidcrntum
Many birds gradually droop and die
from internal injury due to constant
jumping to the floor from high roosts.
A farmer who is so obstinate TINT no
persuasion will induce him to try nm OK.
pertinent may be driven TO it Ivy want.
If roup and cholera can be kept out
of the flock, half the battle will be
won. To avoid disease of any kind fol-
low these hints.
Crop bound usually results from tho
bird eating long grass, old rags or rope,
or some substance that stops the passage
leading from the crop to the gizzard.
Never have your fowls too fat, and YOU
will seldom have cases of egg bound,
double yolk egg, or soft shell eggs.
Hence do not feed largely of grain.
Butter Mt forty cents pays n good profit
to the producer, but there is wide
ran.e between sixteen cents for poor and
forty cents for good butter, when it
takes as much cream TO make one as Tho
other.
properly raised sheep between the
ages OF three and five makes tho best
mutton. Turnips are n cheap crop, and
when fed freely to sheep with their other
feed, make the juiciest and tcndercst of
mutton.
The man who feeds ground oats, bran
and corn meal in equal quantities, will
get good many per cent nearer cor
rect feeding method than is usually
reached, taking our dairymen and farm
ers as class.
Now is the time to make hives for
your years increase, 10 buy your sections
and honey boxes cheap, and to read up
and decide upon some p!an of man
agement for the season that will increase
the average product of honey from each
colony.
In order to secure surplus honey YOU
must learn when the honey flow usually
commences, get lots of young bees in
the hive, by that time, and put the sur
plus boxes on rs soon as the bees by
their act 'ons show "that there is lots
more honey where this came FROM"
In trausplanting trees, all the roots
which may have become bruised or
broken in The process OF lifting should
be cut clean away behind the broken
part, rs they then more readily strike
out new roots from the cut parts. I'm
all such cases the cut should be a clean
slOping one. aid made in M upward and
outward direction.
The cheapest growth is made on young
animals; after the maturing period the
cost OF gain increases rapidly. IL we
double the time needed to grow hog,
about thrce.fourths of tue food is used
for maintenance, whereas but little more
than onc-half of the food need 20 for
maintenance. BY doubling tho time of
feedingw halvc the profit of feeding.
In cold weather especially the feed of
fowls should be dry. Whole or cracked
grain is better than fine meal. 1t is
better to give the gizzard something to
do rather than have it relax from in.
action. Give fowls access TO clean water
at all times, and they will drink all they
need, but do not compel them to take
water in order to get their accessory
food.