The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-03-25
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

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Use eggs of good size for setting.
Generally, all fowls that feather slowly
are hardy.
Ducks are more free from vermin than
other fowls.
Many poultrymen believe in portable
poultry houses.
The very best products of the farm
have the least competition.
The far West has We'd with the South
in sending watermelons to the Northern
markets this year.
A wild fighting hen should never be
kept for Matching, as she will rarely prove
satisfactory as a mother.
Farm work is hard work, but who can
take a leisure day and feel it less in his
business than the farmerl
Do not expect any farm animal to
"pick up its living. II you do it need
not surprise you if the crows should pick
its bones.
Beef or pork cracklings, mixed with
cornmeal or wheat bran and baked,
makes an excellent feed for poultry of
all kinds.
Pigs must be kept constantly thriving
to do well and maintain health. This
can be done by giving them plenty of
good food.
For a general farm fowl there is moth
ing that will excel the Plymouth Rock
chicken when both eggs and a table fowl
are desired.
Trees for planting that have been dug
and properly cared for will grow the
better for being planted after the soil has
become dry and warm.
Never use a long, gangling, overgrown
rooster for breeding. 1t is nearly i'm
possible to fill them up and they never
make a good table fowl.
The little chickens hat are kept in
the brooders should be watered regularly.
Give them what they will drink without
getting themselves wet.
Geese can be picked regularly every
six weeks after the first of May, and the
feathers secured will pay well for the
trouble of keeping them.
Rubbish under which rats can harbor
should not be allowed near the poultry
house {. yards. Rats often prove very
destructive to young poultry.
An expert says the Florida phos-
pilates, though immense in extent, are
disappointing as to richness, and the
proportion of high grades is exceedingly
small.
The future of dairying must be in the
line of perfection. Every man must feel
that upon him personally depends the
perfectness of the methods that are to
prevail.
The theory that good apples can not
be grown in the South seems to be
disproven. Apples ten and twelve
inches in circumference are raised as
far toward the equator as Southern
Florida.
Be on the lookout for feather-eating
hens. If a bird shows any signs of
being plucked, watch until you de-
tect the offender; then the best and
easiest way TO settle the trouble is to
fatten and eat her.
If the milk has "cowy" odor it is be-
cause you have got manure in it; hat al
ways makes a very ''cowy" odor. The
remedy is to keep the milk and the
manure in separate receptacles--not by
straining the manure out of the milk,
though; that kind of odor doesn't strain
out.
To insure the purity of the Jersey, the
Legislature of the Isle of Jersey for the
past one hundred years has forbidden the
introduction on TIE island of any animals
of the bovine race except steers. Tradi-
ton has it that the Jersey has been known
as a distinct breed over three hundred
years.
If your COW, after behaving like a lady
for months, surprises you with a kick.
don't kick back, but find out why shl
kicked; she had a good reason for it
else she wouldn't have done it. Perhap.
one of her teats may be cracked o
scratched and very sore, or her udde
may be infamed.