The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-03-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Keep all your pullets.
See that each fowl gets its share of
feed.
Pure bred males infuse new vigor in
focks.
Whenever you find a hen that don't
lay kill her.
1t rarely pays to keep a hen after she
is three years old.
If you have low, wet land, reserve this
for ducks and geese.
Put in varieties enough to have straw
berries for six weeks.
Fruit not only gives a relish to the
meal, but health to the body.
Well-fattened and addressed poultry
always sell at the best prices.
Place pure clean water daily where
the fowls can help themselves.
Composing manure reduces bulk and
saves in the amount of handling.
Where there is plenty of pasturage
turkeys can be raised with profit.
Barley fed alternately with wheat
makes good feed for laying hens.
Meat scraps of all kinds make a good
ration for the poultry during the winter.
The shoot that springs up in a black
berry patch n year bears fruit the
next.
When the yards will admit keep hens
of the same size and disposition to-
gether.
Animals are liable to colds the same
as men. See that they have suitable pro-
lection.
Prepare to breed as many chickens as
possible, as early as possible; they will
pay the best.
1t is economy to mix almost any kind
of heterogeneous food with corn, corr fod-
der or silage.
Cut hay, scalded and mixed with corn
meal and bran, Is a profitable ration to
feed in winter.
There is nothing better than ground
oats for'young colts, calves or pigs, if
judiciously fed.
1t costs no more to feed and care for a
flock of we'll bred fowls than it does for
common stock.
To be useful barnyard manure must
first decompose, either in the compost
heap or in the soil.
Select breeding stock first for health
and vigor; second, for early maturity
and easy fattening.
For growing colts, corn is too fatten-
ing; oats are best to secure a develop
ment of bone of muscle.
When you go home from the village
take with you a load of the manure that
some fellow doesn't want.
Honey heated in a can to 200 degrees
Fahrenheit and her closed air tight will
not granulate while thus sealed up.
Corn roasted on the cob until it is
charred and fed occasionally to poultry
will help to keep the combs bright.
1t is estimated that the world contains
about six hundred million sheep, with an
annual wool product of two billion
pounds.
All kinds of breeding animals should
have some kind of a laxative food before
the offspring is born. 1t will often pre-
vent fever.
it has been calculated that water leak
ing through a hole just large enough to
pass a needle through, during twenty
four hours, at a fourteen pound pressure,
would be sufficient to supply a house for
a day.
The best way to manage dwarf pears is
not to plant them. They resemble what
is said of good people-''they die young"
Better plant standards, which will bear
as soon as they ought, and with decent
care will last a life time or longer.
The Farm Journals mode of mulching
strawberries is to scatter on between the
rows early in the fall or at the beginning
of winter plenty of rotted stable manure,
and after the ground freezes to cover the
rows lightly with straw or strawy manure
or other light material.
Many of the half hardy roses would
pass through the winter better if an eff
fort was made to aid them in ripening
their wood. Often weeds or flowers arc
let overgrow them, resulting in a lot OF
unripened branches when cold weather
comes. Last summer was such a damp
one that the wood on many kinds was
very unripe and lots of them were conse-
guently winter killed.
Rural Ne,o Yorker advises those who
intend to plant evergreen trees or shrubs
next spring to study these in winter
Their color varies from December unit.
April even more than from May to No.
yember. We want the brightest Of
greens to help make the dreary season
less dreary, and a little attention to thesC
seemingly trifiing consideration as one Sc
lects his plants from time to time vii
insure a whole of rare and striking
beauty.
A woman's club in st. Louis, Mo-, ha
protpgted aQaingt the tayatiOu n