Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-15
FARM AID GARDEN NOTES.
Toll The lawn carly and often.

Make AL tr:,mpS 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.
lon will now be Watching Your broods
that are comm" out. Your attention to
them will repay later on.
Indian corn should he fed sparingly at
this season Of the year. as it las I, len.
dency 10 iattcn TO IN excess.
4 soil may he ovcrfcd and troubled
with indigestion rs well as the animal
system but il is of,cncr starved
The best and most natural flooring for
hen houses, all things considered, is
clean, dry earth upon an earth floor.
Ii you grow japanese buckwhcat, do
moi %row ii by the side OF the coinmon
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 bare knoll in a
meadow will operate as mulch and soon
cause Il good crop Of grass To grow on it,
a fertilizer applied this year may be in
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 20 starye to death. lie can
pinch Oh almost anything else better than
food.
In transplanting trees more loss is oc-
casioncd by exposure of the roots than
Ivy their mutiation. Both should he
avoided
Milct seed makes a good feed for
poultry and especially when young.
Care must be taken, however, not TO feed
too much.
Po2.niarGarlsning is authority for the
statement that 40 material has been
found - satisfactory rs earth for blanch-
ing celery.
Glover should be cut when in full
bloom. 1t increases hut little in weight
after HAT, but grows more ibrous and
indigc.tiLc.
Chickens can be Matched up to the first
week in June and thrive we'll Care
should be taken not to hatch after hot
weather SETS in.
An nitrogen comes from the atmos.
phcrc, 50 does water. Bat plants have
10 draw both principally, if not wholly,
through The soil.
Professor Wiley declares sorghum
seeds second i'll value only 10 wheat.
Flour made from it is declared superior
to huckwhcai for pancakes
Feed Your poultry on raw onions.
chopped fine, mixed with other food.
about twice Il week. II is better than a
dozen cures for chicken cholera.
Vegetable gardens will now be ready
for manuring. The droppings from the
poultry house can be used TO good adj
vantage. Have you any laid away for
use.
Waldo +. Brown, of Ohio, SAYS:
Good hay is not produced by thin seed
ing, for the grasses will grow coarse and
rank, whereas heavy seeding will give
! fine, sof. hay"
Pasture the rye, if it is growing, due
10 the warm weather. The rye will moi
he injured thereby unless the ground is
wet. Rye provides green food when ii
can be had from no Other source.
For home use hog should never
weigh more than 200 pounds net-1S0
pounds is better. Spring pigs of any i'm
proved breed can bc brought to that size
10y the middle Of December and at Il little
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
I money i'll catering to this demand with
good stock.
Any kind Of good tarrcd roofing paper
is suitable for poultry houses Such a
roof not only takes the place of shingles,
but the coal tar with which it is filed
gives it the additional advantage of re-
pcling vcrmin.
The presence OF two or three inferior
COWS in Il herd affects the average profit
of the whole. If dairying is to be con-
Quoted as Il paying business the most i'm
poiiant requisite is a good COW in place
OF an inferior one.
Mr.. Willard said before a 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 n hardy fruit bud and
would stand more cold than any other
varieties.
The farmers wife docs all the work
about the poultry yards. She make.
them earn enough TO keep the house ii
groceries; yes, and the clothes besides
He cannot find fault with that; he know.
she has her work to do, and he is tn.
gamer jointly in the end. She need.
your encouragement.