The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-01
FARM AND GARDEN.


Do you know what each crop costsi
For hard times-industry and econ
omy.
Secure good help for both field and
kitchen.
Newly set trees are often given too
much water.
Can we produce English mutton with.
out feeding turnipsl
Keep the raspberry canes pinched back
about three feet high.
Before using it, sift all dairy salt
through hair sieve.
Let the boys and girls prepare some
thing to show at the fair.
Good cattle will not remain good on
poor pasture and short feed.
Remove all useless growth from fruit
trees while it is young and tender.
Rich, moist land is essential to the
production of nice, succulent vegetables.
Insect powder, freely busted on, will
destroy ants and other insects on shrub
berry.
Burn the limbs trimmed from your
fruit trees. Byso doing you will destroy
many insect pests.
Destroy all blackberry and raspberry
canes as fast as they become useless, and
thus destroy insects.
In trimming cut off all limbs that
cross each other. Leave only what grow
upward and outward.
Feed your fruit trees if you want them
to feed you with good fruit Try mau-
uring on an old orchard.
Plan to have a good supply of vegeta-
bles to store away for winter as we'll as
during the growing season.
All young animals should be brought
under the process of education from the
very beginning of their lives.
When the udder is inAamed milk fire.
quently and apply cold water. If it is a
very bad case apply a linseed mesl poul-
tice.
Give the birds chopped onions occa-
sionally. They are among the best of
foods, and are often preventive against
disease.
Meehan, the Philadelphia horticultur-
ist, says the fibrous roots, like the leaves,
perform their function for the season and
then die.
Breed well, and when you have
heifer calf as the result of such breeding.
feed well and train properly and you will
have good COW.
1t costs at least two ounces of butter
per COW before the effect of a bad
fright, caused by strange dog running
through the milkyard, wears away.
II that dog insists upon having fun
with the COWS on their way to or from
the pasture tickle~him with some cold
lead If there is no other way to stop him.
Let the LATEST man or boy and the
best-natured one drive the COWS to and
from the pasture, and never complain
about his slowness if he keeps the COWS
moving.
If you are sending a mixed lot of hens
to market it will pay to grade them, so
as to have each coop as evenly as posi-.
BILE. They will sell more rapidly and at
better prices.
Look out for the rats and other yer.
min. These things greatly lessen the
profit of the poultry business. For stop
ping up holes broken glass in cement or
mortar is excellent.
Are you crowding too many chickens
into one roosting placer Are you per.
mitting chickens under four months to
rocst other than on floor or coopl If so,
correct these mistakes.
During the warm weather have made
frame large enough to cover the milk
tank; cover this with mosquito bar. This
will keep out insects, and at the same
time not interfere with the heat passing
Off from the milk
The practice of testing cows for milk
and butter, was until ten or twelve
years ago, almost unheard of, but with.
in that time, and especially during the
last half of the period, some astonishing
results have been demonstrated.
The Pearls of Bahrein.
The pearl fishery is the great occupa-