Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-27
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

help otherwise, can cut from nifty to sixty
hogs in day american Ag, iculturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Never scare the fowls.
A fattening pen can be made profta-
bic.
Watch the market and ship accord
ingly.
Fowls that we use to fatteu are usually
very hardy.
Do not try to grow a crop on soil not
adapted to it.
Make it point to send to market in
good condition.
a pullet is called hen when she is
fully year old.
Be sure that you put the right crop in
the right place.
What is called road making is too
often mud making.
Burn the rubbish aud destroy the eggs
and Larvae of insects.
Never throw tne food of an animal
into dirt of any kind.
Slaked lime is valuable on most soils
aud does no harm to any.
The man who keeps his stables, sheds
and yards the cleanest is the man who has
the best-looking and healthiest stock.
Somebody makes the sensible sugges-
ton that ''the best way to keep boy on
the farm is to send him OF it occasion
ally"
1t is suggested that every farmers in
stitute should display good collection
of the best grasses and forage plants,
roots and all.
Use plenty of straw in bedding ami
mails. 1t will pay in the additional
manure and In the comfort and cleanli-
ness of the stock.
1t requires more nerve than most dairy
men have to weed our their poor COWS,
because in very many cases they are the
best looking COWS in the dairy.
Every farmer who grows ten acres OF
wheat should have tanning mill of his
own and clean his wheat on the farm.
The saving will pay big interest on the
price of the mill.
Trying to cultivate more land than can
be properly attended to is like the greedy
boy trying to hold half dozen apples in
one hand or the hen trying to cover twice
as many eggs as she can possibly keep
warm.
Shippers of farm produce should al
ways send an invoice of each consign-
ment by mail Immediately after the goods
are shipped. This is a very important
matter to both shippers and receivers,
and should never be overlooked.
You cannot afford to let the COWS
shrink their mess because the pasture
gives out, any more than you can afford
to go without fire in winter because the
fuel is exhausted. There is no profit in
the one and no comfort in the other.
Wherever mice or rabbits have gnawed
the bark from trees so as to girdle them,
take scions from the same tree, cut in
shape of graft at both ends, and insert
under the BARK above and below. Then
cover with earth aud the bark will soon
grow together.
In a recent experiment at the Iowa
station a varied ration wheat, bran,
meal, corn fodder, hay and either ensil-
age or mangels-produced the cheapest
gain in fattening steers. Shelled corn
produced gain more cheaply than the
same value in meal.
A good, we'll kept, tasteful farm, with
good buildings, handsome animals and
fine crops, advertises its owners quail
ties, and you conclude at once that no
isn't badly depressed nor hankering to go
West. The East is pretty good place
if one only thinks SO.
Teach the boy to do his farm work so
that it will be admired, and you give him
something to think about that adds rest
to his work. Teach him to be as neat
aud tasteful in his work as in dress, aud
you develop valuable qualities, such as
may hold him to the farm.
Experiments at the New Jersey Ex-
pertinent Station have demonstrated that
potash is good fertilizer for sweet po-
tatoes. On one plat SIP worth of muri-
ate of potash gave net profit Of $2159,
or $50 per cent. Potash almost doubled
the value of land for this crop in four
years.
If a crop is removed and another gar
den crop is not required SOW the land
with rye; if COWS are kept the waste of
a moderate garden will go far toward
keeping one COW, and the rye will form
acceptable food in both fall and spring.
Pease may be used for the same purpose,
but they end with the season.
Lime has the advantage of being bene-
fcial at seasons, though its effects in the
sol may not be immediate. 1t never in
jures land, if properly applied, and,
though its results may be unsatisfactory
at first, yet the effects are lasting, the
ling applied this year proving beneficial
in the future. Lime is cheap and SHOULD
be used freely
Az general rule the natural life of
animals is about five times as long as the
period required to attain maturity. This
rule may be modified by artificial con-
ditious. Thus certain breeds of cattle,
sheep, and swine have been brought by
careful systems of breeding and feeding
TO mature at much earlier period with
put materially shortening the length of
life. But these exceptions do not affect
the general rule.
A Literary Curiosity.
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Of four lines each has often been allnded