Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-03
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Clean straw is good Tor the hens TO
scratch in.
One advantage with ducks is their
rapid growth.
Put turpentine in the drinking water
to prevent gapes.
Some recommend soaking corn in kerr
osene for cholera.
Decide your line of dairying butter
or cheese, or both.
Scald the chicken feed at highland let
stand until morning.
When convenient change the material
in the nests weekly.
Select your cows according to true
line OF dairying chosen.
Pumpkins boiled and mixed with bran
make good poultry food.
1t is not good plan to allow the heas
to lay in their roosting place.
The dimfnutive bantam lays more eggs
by weight than any other fowl.
By all means avoid exposure of the
milk to hot sun and to foul air.
Store up supply Of dry, clean straw
for making nests during the winter.
Old barrels or hoysheads are convent
cnt for storing the poultry droppings.
Geese eat the grass close down to the
roots and often kill it out in this way.
Keep the new growth of raspberries
and blackb srries cut back to three feet.
A paste made of lime and turpeDtine
is excellent to apply to wounds on trees
Poultry will readily digest bones if
they are broken fine enough for them to
eat.
/ Well-mat,red fowls with small combs
and wattles make the best kind to winter
4 over.
/ When hawks bother the chickens
/ few brush piles vii! Afford good pro-
/ lection.
Having the nests darkened and using
china nest-eggs will, in measure, pre-
vent egg eating.
If properly managed the hens that are
moulting now can be made to lay nearly
or quite all winter.
If pullets are depended upon to lay the
eggs for spring Matching keep two-year-
old cock to mate with them.
Unless fattening for early market two
feeds day is all that is necessary now
/ if the fowls are allowed to run opt.
Test each COW separately aud re- ect all
not suited to your Inns of dairying or
that fail in quantity OF quality of milk.
After the surplus fowls are marketed
in the fall is good time to begin i,eep-
ing accounts with the poultry for the next
year.
This is good month for getting rid
Of the surplus marketable fowls; later on
the markets are liable to be more
crowded.
Feed literally, have pure water al,
ways accessible, and keep a mixture Of
equal parts of salts, ashes ard sulphur
within reach of the COWS.
The growth of late Matched p1ultsy
should be pushed along as rapidly ~
possible; after cold weather sets in it IN
more difficult to secure good growth.
Condiments are not health pro iucers,
and should be used very sparingly.
Sound grain, pure water and comfortable
quarters are much better even for eggs.
Pure water should be given freely to
fattening hogs. Milk, which is ONE
times given in place of water, is toe
solid aud does not relieve the thirst as
water does, and dishwater and swill
from the house are often salty. Give
fresh, pure water.
Paris green is the standard remedy for
potato bugs, and when thoroughly tried
is always effective. A dessert spoonful
of the poison to a bucket of water is
enough, A dilution of plaster of Paris
is sometimes used for fear of injury to
animals ard human beings.
Get boy to like farm life aud its sur
roundings, and you have him, in general,
anchored to the farm. But if, through
iuattention, neglect, unkindness, OF
downright meanness, you make him hate
it, good-by to your hopes of keeping him
at home. This is one great reason why
50 many farm-boys seek city life.
Have lock of nice hay or lick OF
meal in the manger each night and morn
ing for the COWS, and there will be NJ
need of sending a dog or tired and eros,
hired hand after them. They will be on
hand at milking time, read to hurry tc
their places, and they will express then
satisfaction by increasing the contents Of
the pail.
The milk tester is opening the eyes of
dalrymen to the vast differences existing
in the milking qualities of COWS of near
kin IN the best milk giving breeds. In
the majority of herds may be found in
dividua's that do not pay for their keep,
and yet their performance is sufficient to
pass muster until subjected to an investi.
ton by the tester or by analysis.
Dead limbs on trees are not unsightly,
but useless to the trees. Cut them off.
On the peach tree it is not difficult to Sc
cure new growth in year or two in
place of the dead limbs, as the peach
tree will renew itself in short time AMI
will endure severe cutting. Dead limbs
may be the signs of disease, and in de
stroyiug them the disease may sometimes
be checked.