Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-23
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


The largest prices paid in the world
for butter are for butter made in private
diaries.
Make lattice work if you like, but
vines will hold perfectly on smooth verti-
cal wire.
Making the feed of young chicks one
third sand is said to be sure preventive
of gapes.
A large flock of fowls running with
sheep keep them free from ticks; they
gobble them up.
Cut the wire between each pair of
staples; you will have trouble if you try
to draw it through a number.
Cottonseed meal appears to be a very
desirable thing to feed, along with other
meals, in making gilt-edge butter.
Better weigh grain occasionally before
taking it to mill and the grist on It's re-
turn-you may be surprised at the dis
crepancy.
To water young chicks safely, punch
hole near the open end of fruitcan, fill
with water and 1nvert the can In a shall
low pan.
Let no one in Northern ATTITUDES ex-
pect anything of the Usage orange 1t
grows in Arkansas, Texas, etc., and de-
clines to survive the Northern winters
Farmers have nothing, as to economy
and health, equal to pure, rich milk (not
to skimmilk), specially for children, in
valids and the aged-prepared every
way.
An excellent milkingstool is made by
mailing board eight inches square firm
ly on the end of another thick piece six
or eight inches long. This is firm enough,
and you can tilt it about to suit conven-
fence.
In planting raspberry tips, great adj
vantage has been found in leaving them
until new growth has put forth four to
six inches. When removed only short
distance they are taken up with ball of
earth.
Plenty of new varieties of fruit are sold
at enormous prices for a year or two, or
three, and then are never heard Of again.
But if the truth is told about them at
first, why do they soon disappear? Let
the nurseryman tell.
Loss of horses throughout the country
here one, there anOther-ls very serl-
Gus. Overdriving, irregular and over
feeding, exposure to drafts in stable, to
wet and cold outside, are fruitful
causes. Overwork, too, depletes the sys-
The question, "Wnat is the most
economical method of storing coarse feed
and feeding coarse grain to stock to get
best result?" was introduced by Amos
Phelps, who said: 81 have been trying
for forty years to solve this problem, and
to-day am at a loss to know whether ]
have the right solution of it."
A recent speaker favored premiums
for fast-walking horses; if a farmer by
increasing his speed can do ten hours
farm work in eight hours, he has two
hours saved for recreation, rest or read.
ing, all or combined. An old gentlemen
claimed that frst-class ploughing cannot
be done with fast-walking team.
Old bulls are the fave rites on which
the Chicago canning factories feed be-
cause the lean in their carcasses is in
much larger proportion to the fat than
in steers, and also because when a 1906
pound fat steer sells for six cents a
pound live weight, cid bulls equally fat
are not worth more than two cents.
A good and durable trellis for vines
5 made by bending stout wire nails into
staples, pounding the heads fat on an
iron, and driving one set into the house
near the ground, another row into the
cornice, etc., then stringing them with
''fence WIRE" as the stout gauge is
called which all farmers keep on hand
nowadays.