Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-06-13
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
1t pays to grind bones for hens.

1t pays to grind bones for hens.
Feed little dry hay to your cows all
summer.
Draining land is often better than ma
nuring it.
Let young poultry have free range as
soon as possible.
When the ground is dry it pays to roll
corn after planting
Grow as far as possible all your grain
feed on your OWE farm.
On the farm the poultry ought to pay
a good part of the running expenses.
Feed poultry only soft feed in trouehs
scatter grain of all kinds on the ground.
Always have the nests so that the hens
can walk into them rather than Jump
down.
Cooked food fattens fowls more readi-
ly, because it is more thoroughly di-
gested.
When duck eggs are set under hen
1t is best to make the nest on the
ground.
Ducks grow faster than chickens, are
free from vermin and less liable to
disease.
Feed for growth or for eggs and not
merely for subsistence if poultry is to
pay profit.
Pullets that are well fed will begin
laying earlier than if left to look out for
themselves.
Young poultry should not be allowed
to go on the roosts too early it causes
deformed breasts
By supplying a good variety of food
the necessityfor feeding fowls condiments
Is largely avoided.
If the poultry are confined now good
plan is to feed soft feed in the morning.
green food at noon and whole grain at
night.
Hens should never be fed so well that
when they are given a good range they
will not forage good portion of the
time
Corn is the least exhausting to the soil
OF any of our grain crops, and where a
proper and regular rotation cannot be
kept up this should be grown more often
than wheat, oats or barley
By feeding for early maturity we may
make sure of some profit in stock ra;s-
ing. 1t costs less to add flesh to a
young, growing animal than to a mature
one, Get early maturing breeds, and
then feed toward that end.
No matter how well fed the stock NAV
be, the greatest gain is secured when the
food is varied. A mess of green food
may contain but little nutrition, but 1t
may promote the appetite and induce an
animal to consume more food.
Never break colt only train it. Pro-
cure its confdcLce by uniform kindness
and gent!eless then work patiently to
make it understand what you require of
it. A simple harsh word or blow may
easily undo the work of months.
II beginning strawberry culture this
year, it will be best to coniine yourself
TO few varieties. Get such as have
been tested and found valuable in YOUR
own locality, and avoid costly novelties,
except to test in very small and expert
mental way
Buckwheat would be. good crop to
sow in the young orchard to turn under
for the purpose of building up the per-
mauent fertility of the soil. 1t nav be
sown after the regular crops are all in
the ground, thus not interfering with the
seasons WORK.
The value OF the vegetables purchased
by farmers every year is enormous.
Trains leave Philadelphia daily with
loads of vegetables in season for the far
mers along the lines of railroads, maay
of them giving the cultivation of gar
den no consideration.
While some farmers spread all their
manure on ten acres in order to grow a
crop of corn and bestow the labor on
large area, Others may perform their
work on a single acre of celery, cabbage
or small fruit, and realize d larger profit
than those who cultivate ten times as
much land.
Corn is benefited by all kin Is of man
ure. The roots extend quite distance
and feed over the whole of the surface.
1t is crop that assists in cleaning the
soil of weeds, owing TO the frequent Gull
tiyation required, an it thrives best
when the young plants are given good
start.
When some method is devised by
which the Juice of the beet can be ex.
tracted on the farm aad shipped to the
sugar factory there will be a saving in
transportation and large amount of
pulp retained on the farm Such thing
as shipping the juice instead of the
beets is not impossible in this age of
progress.