The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-03-11
EARN AND GARDEN NOTES.


A wet bath to ducklings is generally
fatal.
Oil meal and bran makes a good feed
for growing pigs.
If you have the means of cooking food
for the hogs, try it.
The parent colony is the colony from
which a swarm has issued.
Keep the stables clean and let the
horses and lows have a good bed.
Every spiarist should aim to keep his
place, his extrcator and receptacles
clean.
Musty, dirty hay is the cause of heaves.
1t docs not pay to feed such hay and de.
stroy the usefulness of q good horse.
Manure in the barnyard is as much
dead capital as is money lying in a safe.
Set it to earning something as soon as
possible.
Horses will stand a great deal of cold,
nevertheless au open field with a barbed
wire fence for a shelter is not the best
place for a horse in cold weather.
Contrary to common belief a Jersey
will make excellent light beeves. The
meat is tender, juicy and well favored,
and the Jersey steers make good light
working oxen.
A little oil meal given occasionally
with other food will prove beneficial tc
fattening hogs in preventing constipa.
ton and maintaining the appetite. 1t
must not, however, be fed to excess.
Keep up an intimate acquaintance with
the calves. Keep them clean and treat
them kindly. Teach them to lead readily
with a rope. The lesson now given will
never be forgotten, and will prove very
useful when the animals are matured.
There is no excuse for having a
slovenly yard of fowls. If a man mas
no time to attend to his fowls better tell
him to sell them at once. The best
thoroughbreds soon become scrubs in
the hands of a slovenly poultryman.
Hasty thinks three pounds or less of
honey will make a pound of wax; Sim.
Minis less than 6! pounds; tradition,
twenty pounds. "Dop't we stick to that
twenty from mere habit7" asks DR..
Miller in Gleanings. 81 do. Has there
been a single experiment of late years to
confirm itl"
An OK at ten years of age may begin
to use his teeth naturally, especially the
front ones; or the covering membrane of
the fangs may be diseased. A cure may
possibly be procured by sponging the
gum with tincture of myrrh, giving the
OK a quart of raw linseed oil, and feed
ing soft food, as bran mash.
Bloating in cattle indicates indiges-
ton. The treatment should be as fol-
lows: Give a pint of raw linseed oil and
repeat in two days. Give bran mash or
cut hay, wetted with warm water, add
ing bran or cornmeal. The emaciation
and rough coat will disappear as soon as
the digestion is restored. Some linseed
stepped in hot water would be a useful
addition to the feed.
We notice reports of a number OF milk
dealers, or rather cIeamerymen, who are
in hot water by paying more to farmers
for their milk than it is worth. If the
farmers will sell their milk or any pro-
duct to a man on time who offers to pay
than more than their product is worth,
they must sooner or latter be losers by
the operation, for nc man that intends
to pay for what he buys can afford to
pay more for an article than he can sell
it for with profit to himself and pay the
producer for his product.
Now examine your young trees care
fully and see what insects have tucked
themselves away for the winter. You
will find various w~eb-covered things
glued to the branches, also nests of eggs
here and there, and plant lice hid in
cracks and broken places in the bark,
on trunk and branches. Destroy now
everything of the sort and thus a
yourself a big job next summer. We
have found more apple-tree borers on
that part of our orchard near a wood
land than elsewhere-fve times as many.
Hence we infer that timber of the woods
harbors these insects.