The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-01-14
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM y GARDEN NOTES.
Now hunt up the horse blankets.
Protect the water pipes from frost.
Push the fattening pigs and poultry.
1t is poor policy to winter poor stock.
Better see to covering the grape vines.
Harvest and safely store or market all
tender vegetables.
Don't miss any meetings Of Farmers
Clubs or Institutes.
Don't wait too long before getting the
raspberries and blackberries covered.
Fresh set trees will be as we'll mulched
as left exposed to all the rigors of a Sc
we're winter.
1t is not necessary to cover the straw
berry bed till the ground is frozen hard.
then you can drive on it with the wagon;
that will ave time and work.
If n potato would produce, when
planted, but ten potatoes, in ten years
the total product would be 10, 600, 000,-
900, which would stock the whole world
with seed.
Do not leave the cabbages and turnips
out too long. They will stand a moder-
ate frost, but continual freezing and
thawing will not improve their keeping
qualities.
Don't forget putting the beets, car
rots aud parsnips (f you dig some in the
fall into soil in the cellar. If o have
never tried it you cannot realize how
how much better they keep.
Some market gardeners say that it
does not pay to stake tomato plants, but
if fine, clean fruit pays, then stalking
should be adopted. Some of the finest
fruit is to be seen from plants so treated.
Cultivation and manuring of fruit
trees, this late in the season, would in
duce a late growth which would not
ripen well before freezing weather, and
next winter would hardly fail to produce
serious injury.
"One of the best ways to make money
Is to keep down the expenses" But
don't keep the expenses down so low
that there is no return; that is feeding
at a loss. Feed for growth or eggs, not
Tor mere existence.
In successful gardening one of the
most important operations is frequent
stirring of the surface. After every ram,
just as soon as the ground is dry enough,
the hoe or the steel garden rake should
be brought into use.
From 400 to 600 bushels of onions
may be grown to the acre, but when YOU
are figuring up the profits, a New York
onion grower suggests that you do not
forget to take out the cost of about fifty
loads OF manure to the acre.
Keep on culling; do not winter q
single bird that you have no use for.
The profits are all the greater when the
expenses are low. Therefore keep them
down, by not feeding stock that you do
not need or cannot make profitable.
Why not have a flower show in your
own or neighborhoodl Take the school
0%is,rict, as the bounds for instance, and
Id the exhibit in the school house.
Try it and see if it does not pay in
neighborly friendliness, if nothing more.
Pear blight is less abundant in orchards
where but fair growth is made than
among trees forced along by strong
manures. Moderate growth well rlpened
is the best for pears. For this reason in
districts where blight abounds the trees
are often grown in sod.
Buckwheat is a staple article of food
for poultry in France, Germany and l.
sular provinces in the peninsula. 1t is
heating aud stimulates the egg functions
to greater activity. In winter it pro-
notes early laying and fowls soon ac-
custom themselves to it.
Use every means to tame your birds;
some breeds are mora easily tanned than
others, but if you keep your poultry as
tame as a house dog they will lay more
eggs and will also lay on more flesh than
if you have to chase them about every
time you want to look them over.
A Pirate Rfrd