Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-13
/ FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Aho pooIcst AurIitr nus Iuu iilUsL QOgS
Have you killed tho briers and busiest
1t saves cold fingers to dig potatoes
carly.
Pure we'll or spring water for tho
swine.
Paint over or wax over all considerable
wounds on your trees.
Grow the apple on bush-formcd trco
or on one woll trimmed up.
Let the poultry occupy tho orchard
during all the insoct-brocding season.
Apple trees and oil fruit bearing trees
and plants require good deal of potash.
1t Is better to grow fruit than to grow
briers and thorns. The latter usually cost
tho most.
Strnining will not clean dirty milk.
Virtue in this case consists in keeping
out the dirt.
Herbs for winter uso should DO caro-
fully dried in the shade and kept In
cool, dry place.
Pull yourself together and concentrate
your efforts, and do not try to spread
over oil creation.
Attend the fairs. Exhibit your stock,
compare it with other stock and SEQ
wherein yours is inferior.
Feed tho high-priccd corn to low
priced cattle, and that will mako both
corn and cattle worth moro.
Fnttcning steers, il fed ono good ration
of grain, can dispense with onc-third Of
the pasturage required without grim.
Ono of the very finest fertilizers for
melons is old bones, gathered up and ro-
duccd by placing them in alternate myers
with ashes the ycar previous to using
them.
! When apples fall on tho ground and
-fress the grass is sometimes injured, duo to
decomp position, and acidity of tho fallen
fruit. a dressing Of film or ashes 10 tho
proper remedy. 49,
With oil the now varieties OF Ssz
berries that have boon introduced Il Ia
doubtful il anything has been gained in
the flavor, though the sizo and appear
anco have been greatly impreved. ~
Although experiments linyc failed to
reveal difference in tho fl 5ing v.sluo OF
tho several varieties of fell SorT., II has
been we'll demonstrated f;hat os corn
silagc does not possess Gtf.aal ykac as
food. jNSi
| Achcstnut orchard wohld boz good
thing on many farm. Tho trco grows
rapidly, and usually assumes n handsome
shape when not crowded. Plant wide
apart, and cultivate and rrunc when
young.
The first cost of working land 10 q
proper depth is considerable, but when
once done and the impediments-that is,
rocks, stones or stumps-disposcd OF,
there is an annual saving OF timo and of
tools in the work.
An acre OF clover should provide suf-
ficicnt hay for q COW one ycarr. Where
the cows have pasture and the hay is only
used in winter there should be sufii
cheney fof two COWS. 1t is not every
farmer who can mako an aero support q
COW ono year, however.
Corn husks possess yaluo in market
much greater than their value for breed
ing. They arc used in the manufacture
of beds, but if saved for that purpose
they must be harvested before wet
weather and be clean, dry and in bright
condition. They arc shipped balcd.
The old method of training pet lamb
Mt the house and then turning it into the
flock is still practised by some fiockmas.
tiers. 1t is we'll known that sheep will
follow leader, and If the pcttcd lamb
has been taught to come at a call or nc
culiar sound the whole flock will be GOV
erned by following the particular one that
has been trained.
Small potatoes mike excellent chicken
feed If properly fed Boil, and while
hot, mash with cornmcal and bran and
feed warm. Give only what they will
eat up clean and not oftener than every
other dry. The trouble which follows
from feeding potatoes is due to over feed
ing when the birds arc hungry and with
out mixing the potatoes with meal and
bran.
You cannot keep tho chicken coops too
clean, and even after they leave the hens
and cluster nightly by themselves sec
that their shelter is dry and clean and
avoid crowding. Divide tho flock in lots
OF one dozen; they will be healthier and
grow faster for this attention. Everyday
VIC clean up the droppings and scatter
sand about the floor, consequently thc DIR
is pure at night.
In paper read before the Illinois
State HorticuifyrAl Society occurred this
statement: If you once let the earth dry
on the roots Of evergrcens nothing will
save them. The outside moisture on tho
roots must not be allowed to dry il you
want trees to live. There is a rcsinous
substance on the outside OF the roots, and
If the roots once becomes dry water can
never penetrate that resinous covering,
and tho plant cannot but die
Just after wheat harvest hens take
to laying, and the eggs produced at this
time are apt to make strong, vigorous
chicks. The scattering wheat is picked
up In the field after harvest, Or around
5baras where this grain is being slowed
aWay Tho sainn qualities rvh;cI ,nol-o