Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-28
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
1t pays to grind bones for hens.
Feed little dry hay to your COWS Gil
summer.
Draining land is often better than ma,
nuring it.
Let young poultry have free range as
soon rs possible.
When the ground is dry it pays to roll
corn after planting.
Grow as far as possible all your grain
feed on your ov'n farm.
On the farm tue poultry ought to pay
good part of the running expenses.
Feed poultry only soft feed in troughs ::
scatter arain of all kinds on the ground.
Always have the nests so that the hens
can walk into them rather than iumr
down
Cooked food fattcns fowls more readi.
~, because it is more thoroughly di
gested.
When duck eggs are set under hen
it is best TO make the nest on the
ground.
Ducks grow faster than chickens, are
free from vermin and less liable te
disease.
Feed for growth or for eggs and moi
merely for subsistence if poultry is &c
pay profit.
Pullets that are we'll fed will bcgir
laying earlier than if left to look out foI
themselves.
Young poultry should not be allowed
to go on Inc loosts too carly it cause:
dcformcd breasts.
By supplying good variety of 1000
the necessityfor feeding fowls condiment.
Is largely avoided.
If the poultry are confined now q pooi
plan is To feed soft feed in the morning.
green iood 1T noon and whole grain a.
night.
Hens should never be fed so we'll that
When they are given a good range they
VIII not forage good portion of the
time.
Corn is the least exhausting to the sol
OF any of our grain crops. and where
proper and regular rotation cannot bt
kept up this should be grown more Otter
than wheat, oats or barley.
BY feeding fo7 early maturity we NAV
make sure of some profit in sock rails
ing. 1t costs less to add flesh to
young, growing animal than to 4 mature
one. Get early maturing breeds, ant
then feed toward that end.
No matter how we'll fed the stock MAY
be, the greatest gain is secured when tn,
food is varied. A mess of green fooc
may contain bat little nutrition, but 1t
may promote the appetite aul induce an
animal 10 consume more food.
Never break n colt-only train it. Pro.
cure Its contidtLcc by uniform kindnes.
and genteness then work patiently to
make it understand what you require OF
1t. A simple harsh word or blow may
easily undo the work of months.
III beginning strawberry culture this
year, it will be best to conlne voursell
to few varieties Get such rs have
been .estcd and found valuable in YOU,
own locality, and avoid costly novelties.
except to test in very small and cxpcri
mental way.
Bnckwheat would be n good crop tc
SOW in the Young orchard, to turn under
for the purpose of building up the per.
manent fertility of the soil. 1t NAV be
sown after the regular crops are all il
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, many
Of them giving the cultivation OF q gar
den no consideration.
While some farmers spread all theii
manure on ten acres in order to grow
crop OF corn and bestow the labor on
large area, others may perform their
work on single acre of celery, cabbage
or small fruit, and realize n larger proii
than those VINO cultivate ten times ~
much land.
Corn is benefited by all kinis OF man
ure. The roots extend quite distance
and feed over the whole of the surface
1t is crop thai assists in cleaning the
soil of weeds, owing to the frequent cul
tivation required, and it thrives best
when the young plants are given q good
start.
When some method is devised p1
which the juice of the beet can be OK.
tracted on the farm and shipped to the
sugar factory there will he saving in
transportation and large amount O!
pulp retained on the farm. Such thing
rs shipping the juice instead of the
beets is not impossible in this age OF
progress.