The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1891-03-12
FARM AND GARDEN NOTEs.
Use eggs Of good size for scttinr.

Use eggs of good size for setting.
Generally, all fowls that feather SLOWLY
are hardy.
Ducks are more free from vcrmin than
other fowls.
Many poultrymcn believe in portable
poultry houses.
The very best products of the farm
have the least competition.
The far West has We'd with the South
in sending watcrmclons to the Northern
markets this year.
a. wild fighting hen should never be
kept for hatching, as she will rarely prove
satisfactory rs n mother.
Farm work is hard work, but who can
take a leisure day and feel it less in his
business than the farmcr2
As soon rs an animal is maturcd it
ceases to be profitable to keep, unless it
is work animal and possibly sheep.
DO not expect any farm animal to
"picl up its living. IT you do it need
not surprise you if the crows should pick
its bones.
Beef or pork cracklngs, mixed with
cornmcal or wheat bran and baked.
makes an excellent feed for poultry of
ali kinds.
Pigs must be kept constantly thriving
to do well and maintain health. This
can be done by giving them plenty of
good food.
For general farm fowl there is moth
ing that will excel the Plymouth Rock
chicken when both eggs aud table fowl
arc desired.
Trees for planting that have been dug
and properly cared for will grow the
better for being planted after the soil has
become dry and warm.
Never use long, gansling, ovcrgrown
rooster for breeding. 1t is nearly i'm
possible to fill them up and they never
make good table fowl.
The little chickens that arc kept in
the brooders should be watercd regularly.
Give them what they will drink without
getting themselves wet
Geese can be picked regularly every
six weeks after the first of May, and tho
feathers secured will pay well for the
trouble of keeping them.
Rubbish under which rats can harbor
should not be allowed near the poultry
house or yards. Rats often prove very
destructive to young poultry.
An expert says the Florida phos-
pilates, though immense in extent, arc
disappointing rs to richness, and the
proportion Of high grades is exceedingly
small.
The future Of dairying must be in the
inc Of perfection. Every man must feel
;hat upon him personally depends the
pcrfcctncss Of the methods that are to
prevail.
The theory that good apples can not
DC grown in the South seems to be
disprovcn. Apples ten and twelve
inches in circumference are raiscI as
far toward the equator rs Southern
Florida.
BE on the lookout for feather eating
hens. If n bird shows any signs OF
being plucked, watch until y0u de-
tcct the offender; then the best and
easiest way to settle the trouble is to
fattcn and eat her.
If the milk hasa "cowy" odor it is be-
cause You have got manure in it; that al
ways makes very "cowy" odor. The
remedy is to keep the milk and the
manure in separate ccptaclcs--not by
straining the manure ont OF the milk :,
though; that kind Of 0 !or doesn' strain
out.
TO insure tho purity Of the Jersey, the
Legislature Of the Isle Of Jersey for the
past one hundred years has forbidden the
introduction on the island Of any animals
D! the bovine race eXcop: steers. Tradi-
ton has it that the Jersey has been known
as distinct breed over three hundred
years.
If your COW, after behaving like laly
for months, surprises you with kick,
don't kick back, but find out why she
Kicked; she had a good reason for it,
else she wouldn't have done it. Perhaps
one Of her tcats may be cracked or
scratched and very sore, or her uddcr
may be inflamcd.