Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-14
rAnM AND oAnnnN MOVIES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Give animals pure water daily.
Feed we'll but waste no forage.
Are you ready for The ice cropi
BE punctual in caring for stock.
Avoid foddcring on the ground.
Money we'll invested in fertilizers pays
better than in bank
Forest leaves for bedding cost only the
expense of gathering.
Ii you have N abundance of straw, do
not be afraid to use il literally rs bedding
for your stock
One who has tried il finds mix turc Of
coppcras and glue the best for keeping
rabbits and mice from trees.
Dairy sail stored in the vicinity of cod
fish or kerosene, or turpcntinc, is apt to
contract ilnvors that niurc the butter in
which it il used.
The man who starts out to break n
colt with II whip in his hand makes
mistake. Ic also makes II mistake il he
plays with the colt or leases il.
Every lost, broken or wOrn-ouL screw
or bolt should be replaced with new
one before spring, 30 that each implement
will be ready FOR work when spring
comes.
When paths arc constantly troddcn
they are kept clean, but when abandoned
the weeds choke them up; 30 weeds
choke the mind in the absence of ON
ploymcni.
Every bnrn roof should hive II gutter
so as TO send the rain water ont of the
barnyard. In addition, the old fashioned
bnrnynrd Itself can sometimes be nbol-
ishcd with profit to the owner.
One of the hest cultivators Of fruit in
Michigan never permits his orchard to
bear amy other crop than the fruit, after
the third year, previous to which he raises
hood crops only among the trees.
The Ynai CO.'S isa wonderful mnchinc
almost n creator; for, feed her $40
worth of appropriate foods per annum,
and she will furnish family with more
food than they can buy in other as p,la-
table forms for 500.
An orchard was suffering from wet
aibsoil. The growth was stuntcd, and
there was little fruit. The orchard was
tile drained three or four feet deep be-
tween the rows The trees started Mt
once into vigorous growth, and bore
we'll.
Chickens are rs pcrycrsc rs people, and
Just us n man will often drink vile liquors
when he can get pure sweet water, so
fowls will often abandon their drinking
Il ,I,.l- 4, Al
paddle. With them prohibition is the
only safeguard.
Dry lime is too causiic TO be given
alone. Keep vessel of lime water con-
veaient, and mix II small quantity with
soft food and also with their drinking
water. Lime water is II corrective Of
bowel diseases. and it is also n remedy
for soft-shcllcd eggs.
TO keep apples in winter, spread
buclewlicnt chnlf on the barn floor, and
on this place the apples, and then cover
them with claif two feet thick Fill the
ntcrsticcs with chaiT Other fine chaff
will answer. The chnG will exclude cid
currents, and absorb incipicnt decay.
A grape grower in Central New York
'Ss h'H Nihto lCtt llJiIL III liic IOWt
and aftcrward grated every alternate
oAc with another sort. The gratis all
died, thus leaving the vines twenty -four
feet apnrt. The ample room thus af-
fordcd gave heavier crop, and of better
grapes, than before.
Two ncighbors set out strawberry beds
mt tie same time. One had fourteen rods,
did not enrich his bed, and had three
bushels of fruit, or at the rate OF thirty
four bushels per acre. The other planted
only four rods, and heavily mulchcd the
bed with manure in autumn and in spring.
lie had seven bushel of berries, or at
the rate Of $50 bushels an acre.
Make fresh dust baths and sprinkle
them with carbolic acid. Provide n
plentiful supply of grit or sharp gravel.
Keep feeding troughs and drinking-vcs-
sells clean and wholesome. And toward
the close of the moulting season make Il
! number of nice new nests, for hens thus
cared for will paJ for the troublc By
hca2ing your egg oas.5ets when the mar
ket is ut its best.