The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-12-26
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


FARM AND GARDEN NOTES,
An idle hen Is never good layer.
An overgrown, excessively fat fowl i
a nuisance.
A little stimulating food for the fowl!
Will not come amiss in moulting season
In seeding let every one remember it il
far better to drill in your seed than t,
depend on broadcast sowing.
The best table fowls arc the games,
Cochins, Houdans, Brahmas, Langsnans,
Wyandottes and Dominiqucs.
Crude petroleum and crude carbolic
acid will emuisify witn soap III the same
manner as is used with kerosene.
There is no difference in any respect
between chickens Matched in an incuba-
tor and those Matched under hen.
Numbered with good window plants
are rose and scarlet geraniums, fuchsias,
English ivy, wax plant, Gala and be-
gonias.
Poultry OF any kind intended to be
dressed before seniiug to market, should
be kept from food twenty -four hours
before killing.
The rakings and scrapings of the farm
may possess but little value, but if
thrown on the manure heap they serve
as absoroents.
The right stage for harvesting pears
may be rold by the rca illness of the stem
to separate from the twig wnen the pear
is gently raised upward.
Wick advises in pruning the grape to
cup the vine and bud higher tnan it is
intcnded to have it grow, and rough oil
the bud just below the cut.
Gleason says that horses nostrils are
his fingers, and with them he feels arti.
clcs to find whether they will hurt him.
lie smells every new object thorou shly
10 decide whether it is good or bad.
Walnuts boiled in water and the juice
put on horses and cows with a whitewash
brush or anything suitable, will cause
the flies to Immediately fly off upon
alightinS on them. Smart may be
added.
Every farmer who is troubled by molcs
ought to try a few castor bean plants.
An old gardener who WAS noted for rails
ing vegetables, always had few dozen
of these plants scattered about MS glrdeu
for the purpose of keeping away moles
Go over the strawberry rows and pull
out the weeds, in order to prevent them
from seeding and continue cultivation
between the rows until late in the sea-
son. Any advantage gained now in the
growth Of vines will be of value next
spring,
You can raise ducks and geese without
an abundance of water. There is more
fun, of course, in seeing them swim in
brooks. rivers or ponds, yet if you give
them enough pure water to drink, and
allow them an occasional plunge bath,
they will thrive tirst-rate with no water
range.
One of the best tonics for chickens,
and probably one Of simplest, is to keep
% Va otu Lllc
rust on them, the bettcr-in each dish
from which they drink. The rust is the
oxide Of iron sold by the druggists, and
the home made is as good as the sale
article.
If chickens have sore eyes Though
they ought not to. aud won't if your
is correct from the begin.
ming, before the eggs are laid and on),
you can apply glycerinc to good advan
tage, one small drop to each eye. This
will soften the edges OF the lids so that |
the bird can open them.
Clear rye bran alone should never be |
fed to fowls, on account Of its swelling |
and caking in masses in the crop, and |
proving fatal to chicSen-life not unfre- |
quently. 1t will thus sodden and in.
crease in bulk very rapidly before digest
ing, causing rupture of the crop, il any
great quantity has been eaten.