Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-11
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

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Fowls need a god shade during tbs
summer.
The demand fox good poultry is on
the increase
Use gravel on all the walks and keep
out of the mud.
Poultry must have plenty of green
food if they thrive well.
Guineas like stale bread moistcned
with sweet skim milk and curi.
Geese should be picked regularly three
or four times during the summer.
Small hens may be active layers, but
deliver us from small eggs by the dozea.
The value of poultry man are, like all
other animal manure, depends on the
feed.
The sooner you begin war on weeds
and insects, the easier it is to overcome
them
Ducks are enormous eaters. They not
only eat all day, but often feed by moon
light.
Old pastures give the greatest variety,
end are best where they can be main-
tanned.
Don't get the hens too fat, aad, on
the other hand, do not starye them in
summer.
Inte,Iectualize farm labor and the boys
and girls will like it. Routnism is re-
pulsive,
Be sure to apply the bags to your
grapes as soon as they are as big as SPUR
rel shot.
Aim at good quality rather than
large crop. Then you are surer of
good price.
A hen with brood of turkeys should
be housed every night until they are
month old.
Whey and bran is an excellent mess
for hogs in summer as an adjunct to the
clover ration.
Cows in milk need plenty of sweet
water, as they put eighty seven per cent
into their milk
Sulphur in the poultry food is a COOL
remedy for lice because it tends to make
the skin moist and oily.
Fleas do not hatch out on the animals
but in filth. Keep the quarters cleaa
and the feas will become scarce.
Stir the soil about young trees. 1t
should not bake nor should weeds and
grass grow in it. Don't work it too
deeply.
If you have no other litter throw dry
earth on the floor Of the pig pen. The
pigs should always have dry, clean
place at night.
If you have not field of carrots you
will deprive your stock of one of the
best articles of food that can be given
them in winter.
Cultivate the vineyard very often dur
ing The early part Of the season, and cus
but any weeds that grow out after culti-
walton has ceased
II the beets are too thick in some
places and too thin in Others, the extra
plants may be transpiauted 20 the vacant
places in the rows.
Do not allow tue nutritious weeds to
be wasted, Rake them up and throw
them in the hog-pen All that are not
eaten eau beconyerte1 into manure.
Such plants as oilra, satisfy, endive,
koal-rabl and dandolion are seldom cul.
tivated in the garden, yet they are
among the best Of the list OF vegeta-
bes.
Strawberry plants which have over
fruited heavily should not be used for
propagation either for home beds or for
market, as their vitality is decreased and
speedy degeneracy will result
When the ground is full of sod and Is
very rough after being plowed the
pulverizer should be kept at work
until the soil is made fine, and
corn should then be the first crop grown
on it.
Where rats are numerous the cat is
best remedy, but cats intended to do
service must be kept at the barn, and
not allowed TO come into the house. Cats
that are housepets are seldom service.
able.
The plum curcalio can be kept in
check By spraying with Paris green Or
London purple in water solution, but
this cannot be safely applied to peaches,
because the foliage OF the latter is easily
injured by the poison.