Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-09

animals become convalesceut they should
DO placed in separate pen until all dan.
ger has passed.-Nep York Voice.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Sell the old hens.
Dry soil Is good deodorizer.
Cement makes tho best floor for tho
poultry house.
Incubators and brooders are best 70,
winter Matching.
The hens will moult better if separated
from the roosters.
Cut down tho tall weeds and grass
where the fowls run.
Linseed oil meal can DO given daily
while the hens are moulting.
Wheat is good ration to give for the
morning meal when eggs are wanted.
Introducing now blood annually is
necessary to secure healthy, vigorous
poultry.
Give variety of grain to the Fowls
oats in tho bundle, corn in tho ear and
small grain in litter.
If well managed, poultry can he made
to supply fair proportion of the meat
needed for family use.
The refuse of the crop from au acre of
tomatoes contains more fertilizing ma.
terial than similar remains of most other
crops.
Pruning the curlaut may begin at
planting by shortening the last years
growth nearly one-half. Tho annual
pruning ought to be done before the
buds start in the springs.
Road dust is on excellent absorbent TO,
manure cellars, and during dry season
can be gathered in quantity by tho aid OF
q scrapcr. 1t usually contains also a
considerable percentage of horse ma
nure.
An experienced florist says: "If 1
were restricted in my gardening opera
tions to the use of four species of plants,
then without hesitation should choose
hardy roses, lilies, rhododendrons and
clematis." $3.50
H. NJ. Engle, of Pennsylvania, is
credited with saying that premature
ripcning of peaches on small branch or
part of a branch is sure indication of
yellows, and that the tree should at once
be cut and burned.
Several farmers in New Jersey are pre-
pairing to graft large areas of natural
chestnut suckers in timber clcarinys with
Numbo, Paragon and other large varie-
ties, with view to creating chestnut
orchards out of them.
III. Crawford said at an institute lately
that he would not prune an orchard any
more than he could do with his pocket.
knife. While young he would prevent
any little limbs starting out wrong from
time to time; but do no wholesale prun.
ing.
One of the mysteries of nature as seen
in fruit is realized in the delicate differ.
ences of flavor. The combination and
proportion of ingredients that make q
certain tlavor-that make peach peach
and blackberry blackberry study
for scientists.
Any cultivation which disturbs the
fine roots of growing plants is an injury.
Deep cultivation, therefore, after the
roots have spread through the soil should
be avoided. This applies to everything
that you grow. Clean, shallow culture
and plenty of it should be the rule.
Good butter cannot be made from in
ferior or spoiled cream with any more
lajpare t, c.Npe good bread from bad
-,''llsts- hes Chat care it may be
u.ans -51epend altogether
upon conoltlons' AL, ii these arc
Dairymen should remember that lessen
ing the cost in producing milk is quite
as short cut to the profits, and equally
as certain, rs al advance in price per gal
Ion. Improvement in the COW, the feed
and the management will insure the first
condition, and will most likely be fol-
lowed by the second.
Those who are obliged to keep their
poultry confined all the time NAV, by
giving an hours liberty just at night,
provide daily grass ration and quite a
supply of animal food without expense.
The amount of scratching hen can do
IN one hour in the morning is surprising,
but at night this may be avoided.
The extra labor of soiling COWS has
been shown to call for more than one
stout boy, and onc-horsc mower and
wagon for two hours, for thirty COWS.
About three cents per day for each COW.
The increased milk on thirty COWS has
been shown to be over 100 quarts. The
saving of manure more than pays all the
cost.
Live stock constitute most impor.
tant branch of farming, if not the most
important. But the Conservatism
so called-of farmers adherine to old
and Anticipated methods for the care of
farm animals greatly aids in creating the
depression of which farmers complain.
Pasturing, for instance, is legacy of
barbarism.
sect rid of the scrubs" Yes; by all
means. But you need not kick them on
the head or chop them up for sausage.
Treat them as you would a 5000 Jersey
COW and they will no longer be scrubs.
As the goodness of tho farm is morn in