The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-02-27
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
with wire, care should be taken to SEQ
that they do not get too tight and choke
the tree.
If pruning is begun when the tree is
set out and properly followed the neces-
sity for reverse pruning is avoided.
In the garden or orchard the best plan
is to spread the manure as fast as it Ia
hauled out, scattering as evenly as pos
siblc.
If the cows have been fed literally on
bran the manure is valuable for the onion
bed, as these plants require considerable
nitrogen.
good rotation in the garden is as es-
sential in securing the best results a. It
Is with the field crop. Plan it out now.
TO cure black knot on the plum apply
a mixturG Of tupentine, kerosene and
linseed oiA 1n1norc than is
necessary tSY ROW. 100 diseased part
thoroughly.
DO not allow the bushes or suckers 10
grow around the apple or pear trees.
Keep them trimmed or pinched. They
take much flom the tree hat should go
to the limbs or branches.
Have 4 row of horseradish in the gar
den. 1t should be set out early in the
spring-as soon us the soil will admit Of
proper working. Use sets and plant
tolerably deep.
Plant the plum trees near the poultry
house and give the fowls 4 free range
among them. They will do a good work
in destroying insect pests that injmc
both the trees and the fruit.
Trees planted for n wind-break should
be of a quick-growing and dense habit,
with as nearly perpetual foliage as pos
sible.
In places where they will aot be mo-
Tested by stock grape vines can be trsinc
on the fences,
When the garden plot is used contiE-
uously a regular system of rotation
should be carried out.
POULTRY NOTES.
Make the house to face the south.
DO not keep a hen Or rooster over four
years old.
1t is the attention paid to the details
that insurcs success.
Dc not undertake to hatch ont young
poultry now unless you have q warm
place for them.
Fat should always be avoided with
laying hens if You expect a good supply
of eggs.
A dry clean dust bath will enable the
fowls to help considerably towards clean
ing themselves of vernin.
There is no economy in dosing fowls
that are well in order to keep them well.
1t is bad enough to be obliged to doctor
the sick.
AT the. first sign of sickness among the
fowls separate all that are ailipg from
the well ones rs soon as possible.
If fill and winter layers are wanted
the eggs must be set and the chickens
Matched out early.
There is no gam in Matching ducks.
geese or guineas too early. Chickens
should be Matched first, then turkeys,
then ducks then geese and guineas.
The principal object in raising pea
fowls is for the feathers, although occa-
sionally one is used on the table. Gem
crafty they are more ornamental than
useful.
Under Ordinary conditions the feathers
from the ducks and geese can be made
fully as profitable as the fowls or eggs
But if this is done they must be picked
regularly.
Poultry that brings the most price must
be of good quality, well fattcned and
properly prepared so as to present q neat
appearance when placed on sale.
Che advantage in early Matched chick
ems is that they will bring in money at a
time when there gre few farm products
that can be sent TO market; this is often
quite an item.
1t Is easy to spend more time and
medicine on a sick fowl than it would be
worth If it was well with the chances all
against a cure. Some chopped meat and
an occasional feed of table scraps soaked
in milk will be found much better, "a
well as more economical, than a steady
feed of grain, even though of different
kinds.
Young ducks, II given comfortable
quarters, will often begin to lay carly in
January, but old ducks generally will
not before the middle or latter part Of