The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-10-28
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


When two limbs cross cut the weaker.
Give the fowls green feed every day.
Every boy likes fruit. Teach him to
cultivate it.
A spare hour is never lost in cutting
unripe weeds.
Corn and clover are said to deepen the
color OF the yolk.
II you have milk to spare, try its effect
as an egg producer.
Chickens kept on low, wet land are
pretty sure to have gapes.
Domestic animals need good shelter
in the changeable weather of spring and
fall.
In breeding stock do not expect TO
get better animals than those you breed
from.
Ground bone and wood ashes or pot
ash and phosphoric acid are good for
fruit.
If you want to check the growth OF
tree, trim it when infull leaf OF just be-
fore.
Raise your "greens" instead OF hunt
ing them in the lots. 1t saves work and
time.
Gull out the poorest Of the young
roosters from the flock and eat or sell
them.
Don't stuff your pigs or hogs with
corn. 1t is better to pasture them on
clover.
If sheep are KEEP! for mutton and wool,
take we'll selected ewes and breed to
thoroughbred rams.
When fowl ceases to give a good re-
turn for the feed given, it is time to
plan for his disposal.
1t is very desirable TO keep the breed
ing stock in a gond, thrifty condition.
A failure to do this will show iu the off
spring.
Too close breeding should be avoided
with sheep fully as much as with any
other class of stock. Change the came
every two weeks at least.
Troughs should always be provided
for feeding all kinds of soft feed 10
poultry. Make them tight aud arrange
them so that they can be cleaned readily.
If kept in good condition, nearly or
quite all kinds of poultry can be fat
tened IN two weeks of good feeding. But
they must have all that they can eat four
or five times every day.
AT this season the best time to sci
poultry is when price can be realized
that will return fair profit. Holding
for high prices for the next three months
is, to say the least, very uncertain.
If the sheep are turned into the corn
field care should be taken to sec that they
have access to plenty of water. 1t i:
hardly good economy to turn sheep int
any place where there are cookie burrs.
AS a general rule, when prices fol
poultry begin to drop in the fall they
keep down until after the holidays, and
it rarely pays to sell young poultry a
that time. Provide good quarters ant
keep until prices are better.
Too much live stock is quite as bad
for the farmer as too much land. Dc
not crowd the stock, aud do not keeE
more than can be we'll fed, pastured well
and housed we'll. II you have more thar
this sell off the surplus speedily.
Do not let the drinking vessels of th
poultry stay in the same place more thai
one or two days alta time. More or les
water is spilled by the fowls when drink
ing, aud in few days this will smell
foul. By moving about this can easil
be avoided.
In determining what turkeys to us
for breeding, remember that the gobble
should be two years old before using
and can be kept until he is five year
old, but as a general rule it is not goo'
plan to keep turkey hens after they ar
three years old.
The guinea is a very useful fowl, not
withstanding its peculiarities. Il
their wanderings over the farm the
destroy numerous insect enemies anC
weed seed aud do little damage to crop
by scratching and eating. They lay
large number of eggs, which, thoug
small, are of good quality aud nutr
tious.