Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Make all irimps work or move on.
Remedy for worry Earnest work.
BE gentle with the colts and calves.
Carefully guard against forest fires.
Kerosene in the poultry house will keep
down vcrmin.
You will now hc watching your broods
that are coming ont. Your attention to
them will repay later on.
Indian corn should he fed sparinglv ut
this season of the year, as it has IL ten
dcncy To iattcn to an excess.
A soil may he overfcd and troubled
with indigestion as well as the animal
system, but ii is oftcncr starved
The best and most natural flooring for
hen houses, all things considered, is
clean, dry earth upon an earth floor.
If You grow Japanese buckwhcat, do
not grow it by the side Of the commoo
varieties, if you want it to keep pure.
Good onion seed will sink in water,
while that which floats either does not
grow at all or produces only solutions.
Straw scattered on Il bare knoll in
meadow will operate rs Il mulch and soon
cause GOOD crop Of grass To grow on it,
\ fertilizer applied this year may he in
II more available condition next, and bet
ter suited To the second crop than to the
first.
The farmer who grows his own food is
not likely TO starvc To death. He can
pinch on almost anything else better than
food.
Ia transplanting trees more loss is oc-
casioncd by exposure of the roots than
hy their mutiation. Both should he
avoided.
Milet seed makes good feed for
poultry and especially when young.
Care must he taken, however, not to feed
too much.
P@l,riorGar7tning is authority for the
statement that no material has been
found so satisfactory rs earth for blanch-
ing celery.
Clover SHOULD he cut when in full
bloom. Ii increases but little in weight
after that, but grows more iibrous and
indigcs,iblc
Chickens can he hatchcd up 10 the first
week in June and thrive well. Care
should De taken not 10 hatch after hot
weather sets in.
All nitrogen comes from the atmos.
p'crc 50 does water. But plants have
to draw both principally, if not wholly,
through the soil
Professor Wiley declares sorghum
seeds second in value only TO wheat.
Flolr made from it is declared superior
to bucNwhcat for pancakes.
Feed your poultry on raw onions,
chopped fine, mixed with other food,
about twice - week. 1t is better than a
dozen cures for chicken cholera.
Vegetable gardens will now Inc ready
for maturing. The droppngs from the
poultry house can he used to good adj
vantage. Have you any laid away for
use:
Waldo 7. Brown, OF Ohio, says:
'Good hay is not produced by thin seed
inc, for the grasses will grow coarse and
rank, whereas heavy seeding will give
fine, sof. hay
Pasture the rye, if it is growing, due
to the warm weather. The rye will NOT
he injured thereby unless the ground is
wet. Rye provides green food when it
can be had from no Other source
For home Use hog should never
weigh more than 200 pounds nct-1S0
pounds is better. Spring pigs of any inn
proved breed can he brought to that size
by the middle Of December and ut a lutte
cost.
The shipping of eggs for Matching has
assumed enormous proportions aud thou
sands of dollars change hands every
month OF the Matching season. There is
money in catering to this demand with
good stock.
Any kind of good tarred roofing paper
is suitable for poultry houses. Such a
roof not only takes the place Of shingles,
but the coal lar with which it is filled
gives it the additional advantage of re-
pcling ycrmin.
The presence of two or three inferior
cows in nerd affects the average prof.
of the whole. If dairying is to be con
Quoted as paying business the most i'm.
portant requisite is good COW in place
OF an inferior one.
Mr.. Willard said before meeting of
the Western New York horticultural
Society that, after an experience of five
or six years with the Early Rivers peach,
he believed it had a hardy fruit bud and
would stand more cold than any other
varieties.
The farmers wife does all the work
about the poultry yards. She make
them earn enough 10 keep the house il
groceries; yes, and the clothes besides
lie cannot find fault with that; he know
she has her work to do, and he is tht
gamer jointly i'll the end. She need
your encouragement.