Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-03
FARM AND Garden NOTES.

ion to most farmers if they would make
corn the minor instead of the principal
ration for their breeding swine.
The farmer who thinks cattle can pick
their own living from late autumn grss
IS not wholly wrong, for they can get a
living, but the farmer must not expect
profit from such feeding.
1t is not necessary to claim that en-
silaSc is more nutritious and palatable
when it comes out of the silo than when
it went in, for il is enough to know that
its properties arc fairly well preserved
When large amount of grass roots,
and also grain stubblo is plowcd under,
The land will be benefited proportion
ntcly, and by blowing under vegetable
matter the ground will gain in nitrogen.
Wyandottes make excellent market
fowls. White Wyandottcs are being
sought after for this purpose, they look
80 tempting when ready for the table
nnd the upper price is obtained for them.
1t may cost less TO buy COWS than to
raise them on the farm; nevertheless, it
IS better to raise them, for then one may
know what they are, and they will do
hcttcr, as II rule, than cows shifted from
place TO place.
Good country roads may he regarded
as one of the highest evidences of civiliza.
ton, but there arc many places where
this evidence is not found in such
abundance us to become tircsomc TO
jewellers along them.
Thickcncd boiled corn meal and oat
meal mixed with chopped suct and a
little pulvcrizcd charcoal every few days,
will Iaitcn turkeys in eighteen days.
They should be kept in partially dark.
cncd shed or stable while being fat
tened.
If your poultry house is built with
double walls you are pretty sure of pro-
lection to the fowls against the coolest
weather. They will he laying all winter
while your neighbor has very few eggs.
Providing they arc supplied with proper
food.
No succulcnt food is more grccdily
eaten by pigs at any age than beets They
may be fed any time from the first thin
nings during the growing season to the
-
especially valuable us part of the winter
food for breeding sows, and some bects
should always be saved for that purpose.
The object OF caponizine fowls is to
improve the quality and increase the
quantity of the flesh. Poultrymen, and
especially farmers, have the impression
that it is very difficult operation to
caponizc a fowl. fraught with all sorts
of danger TO the life Of the bird. and can
only he performed byu skillful expert
This is wrong impression
The "why" for not disturbing milk
while the cream is rising, Is Il very sim
pie one. The cooling of the milk causes
currents in the fluid, the end of which
is to deposit fats at the surface. When
these are disturbed by dipping or other
wise, these currents are broken and the
PARTICLES OF fat 90 floating aimlcssy
| about, and some Of them never reach the
top.
DO not waste wood ashc.. They are
Of sufficient value to pay for saving and
applying to the soil. When applied to
the soil they aid greatly in reducing the
organic matter in the soil to its mineral
clements, and in setting free abundant
| nitrogen from ii also. Thus. being IA
valuable plant food, it is also an effective
providcr of other food substances, with
out which vegetation could not attain its
highest vigor.
There is little difficulty in retaining
potatoes i'll nearly as good condition rs
those freshly dug, provided the temper
aturc is kept so low that they will not
sprout or grow, the skin being nearly
impcrviois to moisture, SO that they will
not wilt. Bcets, turnipS, and especially
turnips, become withcrcd and dry in n
comparatively short time, and it is essential
TO imbcd them in suitable packing sub
stance to prevent the escape OF moisture.
Sometimes after thrcshing cows turned
into the barnyard at night, with access to
fresh straw stack, will pick mt the chaff
md cat enough to diminish their milk
dow. 1t is this often, rather than the
diminished pasture, That lessons the milk
yield mt this season. We have known
farmers top put fence around the stack,
so as 10 keep their COWS from iniuring
themselves at it, us simple minded per-
son is said once To have put fence
,round very poor lot to keep his stock
from grazing on it.