The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-05-21
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


If a fruit shipper have you made ar
for this years supplyl
A solution of tobacco and soap will
keep the aphis away from honey suckles.
Fix up the front fence, clean up the
corners aud don't have stock in the door
yard.
"Snide" packages don't help to sell
fruit, neither do shabby, poorly made
ones.
Peas, lettuce, radishes and onions from
sets will stand quite freeze. Get some
in early.
If you wish large, firm strawb erries
furnish potash. Wood ashes will supply
it. Apply before dry weather.
Make your paintings small enough to
take care of them but large enough to
supply all you used for home use at
least.
The hay seed, broken leaves of clover
and damaged grain of all kinds can be
utilized for feeding poultry to better
advantage than to allow it to be thrown
away.
Incubator Matched chicks do not re-
quire food until tweuty-four hours after
they are Matched. Keep them in a com
fortably warm brooder away from light
or drafts.
"Cleanliness is next to Godiiness."
This can well be tackled on the walls of a
COW stable as a reminder that success de-
pends to a large extent on the practical
application of this maxim in all operations
of the dairy.
One of the reasons poultry pays on
some farms is because of the vast amount
of waste food consumed and converted
| into eggs and meat. There is no neces-
sity for feeding poultry large portion
of the year when the barnyard is ac-
cessible to the hens.
Wideawake farmers own pure-bred
fowls, which cost no more to feed, and
the ratio of profit is greater than with
barnyard stock. Why should not every
| farmer do so2 Better test this matter
thoroughly this spring. Experience will
certainly prove its wisdom.
Special attention should now be given
to brood sows. They should not under
any consideration be closely confined.
The run of a large pasture, though it
seem too dry to furnish any food, will be
of value, as the hog will pull up roots
and other green stuff to relax the bowels
and purify the blood.
Those who have never raised ducks do
not know that ducklings grow much
faster than chicks, and come at time
when the best prices for chicks have
passed. Ducks will lay at least one hun
dred and forty eggs year, and will be-
pin when six months old. The Pekin Is
creamy white, by many considered the
best for the farmer, being hardy and oi
good size-dressing, when in market con
dition, to meet the most exacting tastes
Those who have had experience il
feeding sugar beets to hogs consider then
of great value. We have lately heard o
case where farmers in Nebraska bough
sugar beets at high price to feed thei
hogs. The sugar beet, from the larg
= amount of sugar and water and the smaI
!, amount of fibre it contains, is easily dl
, gested and at the same time very nutri
= tious. As counter irritant when fe
= with corn to hogs they are doubtle'
: worth bushel for bushel with corn.
Many country dwellers have nevt
thought Of raising fruit and poultry
the same yard. They work admiral
together. A row of plum or pear tire
'e can be planted along the poultry ru
IS when the choice is made of a locationlf
of the poultry buildings. The dropptn
TT from the fowls improve the soil abouttI
It trees, and the chickens will eat t
III wormy and cureulio-stung fruit when.
at drops to the ground. There IS notht
S; better for the chickens, and for
le trees