Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
FARM AID eARpnN NOTES.

Put roof or the corn crib.
Slight frosts do not injure turnips.
Keep seed corn from getting damp.
Did you help make your fair a sue
cess?
Go slowly and feel YOU way il fruit
planting.
If you have squash they should be
taken care Of to help out
Ripe weeds will make better manure if
burned. Do you see the point2
Shade in the pasture for stock is
modern idea, but it is good one
Don't put off till spring any work in
the garden that can be done this fall.
1t is better to grow into special
branch of farming tnau to go into it.
Washing sheep is practice more hon
ored in the breach than in the observ-
ance.
Have you opened and thoroughly
cleaned, aired and whitewashed your
stables?
1t will not pay you to stop your paper.
Winter is when you have the most time
to road.
Thousands Of farmers are yet uuappre-
eiative Of the value of drainage to a cold
and heavy soil.
Turner raspberry must be kept from
suchering, or it is total failure. 1t
aIso likes cool soil
Do you keep book in which to note
the things to be done, and when to do
them2 1t saves time.
Prevention is better than cure this is
especially true of the diseases that are
liable to attack fowls.
In growing Strawberries, DR.. Hoslsins
says the hill system is best for home use,
but the matted row is best for market.
Tie cost of fences is one of the heavi-
est taxes on the farm. When will this
relic OF semi civilization be dispensed
with?
New varieties of fruit grown under
high state OF cultivation are likely to
prove disappointing to those who try
them.
During the moulting season, poultry
should be warmly housed and a5uudantly
supplied with strengthening food and
drink.
Keep down all growth around the
trunks Of trees. Suckers grow very fast
aud take the nourisiment that should be
given to the tree. All undesirable shoots
on trees shoald be pinched off as soon as
they appear.
Bcets for sugar should be tried as an
experiment on every farm. AS so much
depends on the soil, manure and ferti-
lizers the results OF numerous expert
ments would be valuable by enabling US
to produce more sugar.
1t is better to pick off all the fruit
from young tree than to allow it to be-
gin to bear too early in life. The tree,
like the animal, should first make growth
before beginning to produce. Prema-
ture production results in premature de-
cay.
Let fowls now have full sway among
the grass, shrubs and orchards They
will enjoy the exercise aud make havoc
among the grubs, slugs. worms and other
insects that are injurious to We getable
life. Moreover the diet is Cheap and
healthy.
It is essential that certain amount of
some kind OF sharp, gritty material be
supplied poultry in winter, as it is i'm
possible for the hens to prepare their
food in the crops without the aid of grit,
and it is equally impossible for them to
procure gnt in winter unaided.
Raising broilers is profitable business
down in New Jersey. The chicks are
marketed when ten or twelve weeks old
and weigh about one and one-haif
pounds. There is in the above State a
man who by raising broilers clears over
$1,000 year, aud that too with less
than an acre of land.
Kaffir corn is said TO be an unequaled
food for poultry. 1t is an excellent
grain for growing fowls and laying hens,
says the Germantown Telegraph. Elk.
periments have proven that it is not only
egg producing, but will put bone and
muscle III the growing bird. Chickens
shoot right ahead with such feed.