Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-09-06
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Name the homestead farm.
Keep the fence corners clean.
Never hurry important work.
Nurse the backward corn crop.
How about sowing fall turnipsl
Keep staying bushes, briars, etc.
Spade up yards; keep the fowls
scratching.
There is more profit in feeding young
animals than old ones.
Keep the raspberry canes pinched back
about three feet nigh.
A mixture of glue and fine sawdust is
good to stop nail-holes
Make your pig-pen hog sanitarium-
clean, dry, sweet and airy.
Twenty-Five healthy fowls are worth
one hundred half sick ones.
Next years crop often depends on this
years cultivation of the soil
Provide shade for your poultry yards
during hot days. 1t is necessary.
Keep the surface of the soil clean
around the trunks of your fruit trees.
1t is no sign that the hen meditates
harm to her owner because she lays for
him.
If your hens lay soft-shelled eggs they
are perhaps too fat; put them at work
scratching.
1t is important that the corn-crib be
cleaned out and fumigated so as to dc
stroy insects.
Beware of that innocent, measley,
abominable pet cat. We don't like it
around chicks.
The use of the mower prevents the
seeding of weeds. Cut down all growth
in the stubblefeld.
Keep your chickens tame. They do
better in every way; besides, it is great
deal of satisfaction.
Forcing chicks too hard In their feed,
where they have a limited range, will
lop over the combs of cockerels.
If you are searching your focks for
the good layers, select the pullets that
have large combs and long bodies.
Give the growing chicks a variety of
food and don't allow them to become
stunted in the first two or three months
of growth.
A good dairy farm is one that pro-
duces good pasture and hay and has
plenty of good water and is owned by a
wide-awake, enterprising farmer.
The farmer who has advanced to the
point of knowing what he is feeding to
each animal will not long be satifed with
wasting good feed on inferior stock.
A gallon of lard oil and pint of kero-
sene make an excellent mixture as an
ointment for scurf on hogs. 1t also de
stroys lice or other vermin that may in
fest the animal.
Put all your dairy salt through fine
hair sieve before putting it into either
butter or cheese and see what you can
get out of it. The contents left in the
sieve may be interesting to you.
Glover cut very fine and scalded is an
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have been weaned. A mess of the cut
hay given once a day will promote their
appetites and keep them in health.
The farmer who grows poultry for
market should have eggs to sell when
they are in demand, half grown birds
when the season arrives, and grown fowls
to market when the winter winds blow
Lice do not fancy wading up to their
chins in fine dry ashes and lime over walls
and roosts. 1t is well to have two sets
of roosting poles. Change every few
days, keeping one set out in the weather
all the time.
A farmer raising several hundred chicks
each year sets his hens in small coops
During three weeks they are never al
lowed to leave the nest. He has tin
cup with water and one with corn before
them constantly. His success has been
very good for years. This shows that
eggs need no cooling, as some believe.