Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-05
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

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Hens like seclusion.
1t is best to darken the place for
hens nest.
A hen-nest made of soft cut hay or
chaff is as good as any.
In a majority of cases the failure is
due to the eggs and not the incubator.
Professor Cook says that orchards
SHOULD never be sprayed till the blossoms
lall."
/ II the young chickens are confined in
soops at night they should be let out
early in the morning.
Plant row or two OF sunhowcrs along
The side of the corn. The seed make
( 5000 winter poultry feed
Linseed oil is said to be a remedy for
black knot on the plum if applied to the
knot upon its first appearance.
Guineas will begin laying almost any
time now, and close watch need be
kept if their eggs are secured.
Yellow manure of poultry is an indi-
cation of liver trouble, aud COOL
,athartic can be given with benefit.
Plenty of gravel, a good supply of
burnt bones pounded fine with lime and
ashes, all tend to keep the fowls in
health.
In fattening in confinement better
results will be secured by having the
places just light enough for the fowls to
ace how to eat well.
The drinking water in the poultry
yard should be changed two or three
times every day regularly. Pure water
is essential to good health.
Never try to save work. Onc half of
the failures occur from parties desiring
the incubator to work without attention.
Too much faith in the regulator is dan.
gerous. You must always be con deck"
If rightly managed, an incubator will
pay for itself the first hatch, but there is
more in The man than in the incubator.
Brains make au important factor. Learn
all you can by observation.
Disease germs are said to be rapidly
killed by sunlight, few minutes suffic-
ing for those fully exposed, and few
hours where in mass. Tubercle bacilli
died in six to seven days in the light of
a window and in compact masses. There
is a lesson in this.
Special experiments as to each-yellows
show that no fertilizer to the soil or
application to the tree will arrest it, aud
that prompt eradication of every infected
tree, as soon as the disease shows, is the
only resource. Its extension in Delaware
and Maryland is threatening in the ex-
treme
In Matching ducks eggs under hens
the incubation differs from hens eggs
only in the fact thai ducks eggs pip at
twenty-five to twenty-six days, Instead
of nineteen, as with chicks, and also
that they generally pip from thirty six to
forty-eight hours before emerging from
the she'll
In cold stable much more feed is
required than in a warm one. 1t is
cheaper to warm the cows with tight
stable than with extra feed; and a COM
Portable stable will be comfortable for
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get all the milk, and will not be cross
IN the cows.
For nearly twenty years, says H2ards
DaTymaR, we have counselled the dairy
farmers against letting their COWS run
ont when cold rain storms or snow
storms occur. 1t is one of the most
wastcful things in the world to do. The
farmer keeps these COWS for the milk they
give, yet he will expose them to beat
ing ram storm, when he knows that such
practice Will shrink their milk greatly.
Long drying does not kill the con
sumption germ 1t is not found in the
air breathel out from the lungs of the
patient, but in the matter coughed up.
1t is criminal to deposit this matter
carelessly around, where in time it may
be changed to dust. Efectual ways of
destroying this poisonous matter are
to burn or to bury it in the ground,