Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Keep your hog pen clean aud sweet
BY using absorbents and disinfectants.
A stolen nest nearly always gives a
full hatch, because the conditions are
favorable.
Pallets that are Matched in May and
June, if well fed and sheltered, will lay
during the winter.
Even young poultry should have all
the fattening food they will eat for sew
eral days before marketing.
When the fowls appear droopy and
lose their appetite small quantity of
linseed oil eau be given with beneia.
II goose eggs are set under common
hens they should be turned every day
and be sprinkle1 with water twice
week.
Small size is an item with bantans
and this Is one one reason why they
should not be Matched Until late in the
summer.
In many cases if cholera appears it will
be better to kill all of the affected fowls
rather than run the risk of the disease
spreading.
One of the best ways of feeding bones
is to break them up into small pieces and
put them where tac fowls can help
themselves.
The nesting material should always be
of something with I'd sharp points in it;
for this reason wheat or oats straw is
preferable TO hay.
Incumbator chickens are far less liable
to be infested with lice than those
hatched under hen if proper care Is
taken to keep them clean at the start.
An exchange says: "We can never
hope for the blessing of uniformly good
roads throughout the country until the
care of them is delegated to skillful and
/ competent hands"
Try all kinds of fertilizers il plots all
over your farm and with all kinds of
/ crops to find ou5 by its more or less ia
vorab,e results what kind of plant fools
the different fields and crops require
good garden, good orchard and
1 quantity of poultry are of first economy
on farm. Health and strength depend
largely upon those articles of diet, and
farmer may and should supply them him.
self
Why do not our dairymen grow more
peas ond beans, substituting the meal
made of these for cotton seed meall Ii it
is not as good it is nearly so, and enables
the farm to come so much nearer to run
mig itself.
President j. D. W. French said at
meeting of the Ayrshire Association:
"Milk records are good but more mis-
sionary work among the farmers who
worship at the shrine of the scrub bull
will be better"
BY careful selection and hybridizatiou
the huckleberry may be developed into
most excellent fruit. The time will come
when every garden will have its blue
berries or hucxleberries as well as straw
berries and raspberries.
The Jersey Bulletin terseIy puts 1t in
this way "The shorter the time between
the COW and the counter the better the
price of butter, if it is good. Ripening
and rotting begin and end with the same
letters, but there is a world of difference
between the two"
A plan for destroying the asparagus
beetle is to go over the plantation as soon
as the stems are few inches alb I'VE the
ground aud rub of the eggs. A single
movement of the hand inclosing the
shoots suffices. Do this again in week.
There will be no Larvae to destroy the
plants.
Fine. rich, compost, or rich earth is
the best fertilizer for flowers. Roses
should be cultivated by raking the sur
face of the ground around them. 1t in.
jlres some varieties to stir the ground
deep. Supcr-phosphate is an excellent
fertilizer for shrubs and other hearty
bloomers.
Spraying the trees is something of re-
cent introduction. When the work of
spraying gins there should be no cessa-
ton until the fruit is safe. Much de-
ponds not only on how the work of
spraying the trees is accomplished, but
also upon performing the work at the
proper times
1t is claimed that pea meal or bean
meal fed to COWS at the rate OF about two
pounds of the meal to four of wheat bran
daily, makes most excellent grain ra-
ton. We ought to draw our nitrogen
from the atmosphere instead of buying
it; and this we eau do by growing peas,
beans and clover.
In their desire to have the hay well
cured many farmers make the mistake of
overdrying or sunburning it in hot
weather. 1t will be found that hay
which has become too dry will not heat
nor sweat in the stacks, as good hay
should; it will not have the odor of good
hay and will rot serve so well for feed
ing.
Good ventilation for q milk house,
milk-cellar or dairy-room is most essen
tial, and may be provided for by leading
an air drain under ground for say 200
feet. Through it a supply of pure, fresh,
cool ar may be admitted. The foul or
warm air may be allowed to escape
through ventilators or window in or near
the ceiling.
If rock salt can be ha in your town
buy it and keep lump in the horses
manger at all times. Salt aids digestion
and if freely furnished will prevent
collie. 1t is vicious practice to mix
large quantities of fine salt in the horses
feed aud many horsemel have this vice.
With rock salt the horse will take what
he wants ard no more.
Electric Locomotives.