Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-01
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Keep the sheep out of the mud.
Make note of amount of seeds sown.
Proiitablc-clean and thorough Gull
turc.
Fix tlowcr-beds for the feminine
folks.
Sowing impure seeds brings evil
weeds.
Good feed all the year improves
good blood.
1t is strange there are not more pure
bred sircs used.
No feed should be left fir ON one feed
ing time to another.
The scrub steer has found its place
at the bottom of the market.
Good pure water should ALWAYS he
provided summer and winter.
Feed literally, but not in excess of
what the stock clean up nicely.
Skill in breeding and in feeding is the
s'ockman's "way out of the miro"
Churning without thermometer is rs
difficult as s;earing ship without n com
pass.
Among cures advised for cracking of
the pear is regrafting the trees with some
other varieties.
If you want to give your pansies a con.
genial home, locate them in moist soil in
some shady corner.
An English court awarded three
gulncas for damages done by thistle seed
blown three hundred feet.
Scatter air-slacked lime with liberal
Eand over the floors of the hen houses
and restricted poultry runs
Don't overwork the brood mare. The
seedcr is Il bad place for her if YOU have
low wet ground to turn upon.
Successful peach orchards are found
OIL elevated sites and warm, sandy soils.
or localities near large bodies OF water.
A foreign exchange writes of admira-
BILE results obtained by bagging speci-
men tomatoes, plums and pears. What
rext?
Manufacturers estimate that twenty
per cent of the wear of farm machinery
comes from neglect to keep the bearings
properly oiled.
In feeding all classes of stock the value
OF the feed is the same, whether it is
supplied to the scrawniest of scrubs or the
best of full hoods.
Keep the calves in good order with
ample food properly prepared, and they
will bc i'll prime condition to take on
flesh when put on pasture
The farmer who grows strawberries
enough for family use deserves we'll of
his country. He has made ut least a part
of the world happier because of his
thouyhtfulness.
fair crop of asparagus may be ex-
pected the third year from seed, or in
one or two years from the roots, accord
ing to their age when planted, and after
that full crops every year.
Mr.. E. G.. Fowler, of the Oranqe
County Farmer, urges those who have
given the garden scant attention in the
past to just try having good one this
year, land see how it works"
Some fruits will not bear an extension
of their season. Peaches and water
melons that would keep into the winter
would find slow market. Such pro-
ducts are for warm weather mainly.
Nature has things about right.
Those who desire to "bag" grapes
that is, to cover them with paper bags
to prevent grape rot-should remember
to do it as soon as the grapes are visible.
The mischief, if done at all, is done in
the earliest stages of grape growth.
A Boston florist says that he seldom
fails to root slips of the most tender and
rare kinds. He credits his success to q
layer of oats placed under the usual layer
OF sand in which the slips are planted.
When moistened they net as stimulant
and feeder to the tender roots OF the
slips.