Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-02-01
Farm and Garden Notos.

Save your poorest hay for tho latter
part of spring.
To make the butter, milk from healthy
cows only should he used.
Avoid excitement of tho COWS, pro-
duccd by chasing with dogs.
Harsh treatment lessons the quantity
and reduces the quality of milk.
Milk vessels should DO thoroughly
cleaned, scalded with boiling wntor aud
nircd to keep them perfectly sweet.
The lawn will be tho bcttcr for fino
top dressing, but do not mako it nm.
slightly by strowing with coarse Jumps
OF manure.
There is little danger of manuring
land too heartily for vegetables. Hoavy
fertiliHing will always improve tho
health and quality of tho plant.
1t is better to fill up tho water trough
before it is quito empty than to let the
cows get very thirsty and drink SO mnch
they don't care to ent for two hours.
An Indiana fruit-growcr puts n dozen
moles i'll his fivo-acro strawberry patch
each year, and claims that they save
much in tho grubs that they dcvour.
1t is said that horseshoe nailed on
the forward fcct of n COW or steer will
prevent jumping fences, rs the foot can
not spread, hence tho animal cannot
spring.
In spare moments nail up tho loose
bonrds on fences, sheds and barns, rake
up and burn all useless rubbish and put
things generally in good trim for severe
weather
There is no danger that tho business
of raising eggs for market will DO over
done, rs long rs VIC are obliged to import
several million dozen each yoar, in order
to have enough TO go around.
There is an urgent demand for some
succulcnt food for hogs in winter. as VIC
now have only concentrated grain feed
with which to supply them. and this is
not wholly satisfactory for growing ami.
mals.
About the dust -bath-dry road dust is
tho best material for the dust-box. Some
perfectly dry wood ashes may he mixed
in, or box of carbolic powder, but
don't use cloar wood ashes for dust.
bath. They arc too strong.
A lady of Indiana says that when any
Of her hens in winter do not seem ia
relish their food and their crops look
full. she makes them fly from some high
place and they get along ull right. Dc
you SEQ the philosophy of it?
Tho swarming box should be made of
light material, two sides being cleatcd like
honey board, for tho bees to pass
through, and one end must be open or
movable. The poles for the handles can
lie attached as best suit the user.
Ono of the best fertili7ols for house
plants is land plaster. Sprinkle it around
the stem. and then work it carefully
around the roots with table fork.
Gcraniums and fuchsias arc especially
benefited by an application oncea week.
Choose warm dry for fastening comb
foundations in frames and sections Tho
foundation must DO warm enough Ia
press into the wood nicely, and the wood
should be warmer than the foundation to
do the work to the best advantage. A
putty knife will do tho work quite we'll.
If you did not build silo but did cut
up soa.e corn fer fodder before all the
goodness was dried out of it, get it from
the field before all the goodness is wasted.
Snow, wind and rains do not improve
fodder in The shock; house or stack il
near where you wish to feed it. DOM
forget this.
A fowl should be quick in picking ny
food, for when one is slow in feeding
occasionally taking q grain and then
moping about, something is wrong. One
can, soon become expert in detecting
other symptoms of disease rs rnffled
, plumage, lustroless eyes, pale comb and
wattles, droppings sulphurous, green OIL
watery.