The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-01-28
FARM AND oARpEr NOTES.

rama AM dAhDhlN NOTES.
The best butter in the world is made
in private diaries.
The largest prices paid in the world
for butter are for butter made in private
diaries.
Make lattice work if you like, but
vines will hold perfectly on smooth verti-
cal wire.
Making the feed OF young chicks one.
third sand is said to be sure preventive
of gapes.
A large flock OF fowls running with
sheep keep them free from ticks; thew
gobb!e them up.
Cut the wire between each pair of
staples; you will have trouble if you try
to draw it through a number.
Cottonseed meal appears to be a very
desirable thing TO feed, along with other
meals, in making gilt-edge butter.
Better weigh grain occasionally before
taking it to mill and the grist on its re-
turn-you may be surprised at the dis
crepancy.
To water young chicks safely, punch a
hole near the open end of a f~ruitcan, fill
with water and lnvert the can in a shall
low pan.
Let 10 one in Northern ATTITUDES ex-
poet anything of the Usage orange. 1t
grows in Arkansas, Texas, etc., and de-
clines to survive the Northern winters.
Farmers have nothing, as to economy
and health, equal to pure, rich milk mot
to skimmilk), specially for children, in
valids and the agcd-prepared every
way.
An excellent milkingstool is made by
mailing a board eight inches square firm
ly on the end of another thick piece six
or eight inches long. This is firm enough,
and you can tilt it about to suit conven-
fence.
In planting raspberry tips, great adj.
vantage has been found in leaving them
until new growth has put forth four to
six inches. When removed only Il short
distance they are taken up with a ball of
earth.
Plenty of new varieties of fruit are sold
at enormous prices for a year or two, or
three, and then are never heard of again.
But if the truth is told about them at
first, why do they soon disappearl Let
the nurseryman tell.
Loss of horses throughout the country
here one, there another-is very seri-
u Overdriving, irregular and over
feeding, exposure to drafts in stable, to
wet and cold outside, are fruitful
causes. Oyerwork, too, depletes the sys-
tenn and invites disease. inflammation, etc.
The question, "What is the most
economical method of storing coarse feed
and feeding coarse grain to stock to get
best resultl" was introduced by Amos
Phelps, who said: ~ have been trying
for forty years to solve this problem, and
to-day I'm at a loss to know whether ]
have the right solution Of it,"
A recent speaker favored premiums
for fast-walking horses; if a farmer by
increasing his speed eau do ten hours
farm work in eight hours, lie has two
hours saved for recreation, rest or read.
ing, all or combined. An old gentlemen
claimed that tirst-class ploughing cannot
be done with a f~ast-walking team.
Old bulls are the fave rites on which
the Chicago canning factories feed, be.
cause the lean in their carcasses is in
much larger proportion to the fat than
in steers, and also because when a 1900
pound fat steer sells for six cents a
pound live weight, old bulls equally fat
are not worth more than two cents.
A good and durable trellis for vines
is made by bending stout wire nails into
staples, pounding the heads fiat on an
iron, and driving one set into the house
near the ground, another row into the
c%ornice, ETC., then stringing them with
''fence WIRE" as the stout gauge is
called which all farmers keep on hand
NOWADAYS.