The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Have your fowls any shaded
Spade up the runs occasionally.
No farm should be without one or two
good brood sows.
Fowls having the run of the farm will
get along with little corn these days.
Sheep are often source of economy,
as they thrive on what would otherwise
be wasted.
All plants started in hot-beds should
be exposed to the air few days before
transplanting.
The little chicks will sooner be big
ones is kept shut up each morning until
the dew is off.
As far as possible, contrive to have
your crops come on successively-not all
at the same time.
Make pot pies of stock you do not
wish to winter, il you have too few to
make a shipment.
What a blessed thing it is that the
weather and the growth of crops do not
depend on politics.
LOOK TO your sources OF water supply,
and see that they are not receptacles of
foulness and disease.
No country is ever so prosperous as
when ITS labor forces are all employed
and properly directed.
Did you mean to clean out the hen
house yesterday2 Did you do it2 II
not, stick your head into it tonight at
nine o'clock.
Notwithstanding the good fruit pros
poets tomatoes will find ready purchasers
and can always be made salable aud
paying crop.
Fowls running at large should be pro-
vided with convenient secluded nesting
places known to you or they will find
some unknown ones.
We believe the sooner q sick hen is
killed the better. 1t saves time, saves
feed, saves health to the rest. Kill and
bury every moping hen.
Don't pull too many stalks from the
rhubarb bed; let some of the leaves re-
main, for they are the lungs that supply
life and vigor to the roots.
Some men pay great deal of atten-
tion to the branches of the fruit tree,
and let the roots take care of themselves.
Both require equal attention.
Don't pick the peaches too green.
Remember that this fruit cannot ripen
after leaving the tree without losing its
flavor, hence the value of nearby mar
kets and local growers.
Present prices of land and its products
will not justify man in clearing rocky
land for pastures or fields either, unless
it is near some large town where market
gardening can be followed.
To keep borers away from my peach
trees and to keep the trunks nice and
smooth l wrap them with tar paper from
an inch below ground up eighteen inch
es when first set out and keep it on.
If you do not use lawn mower save
some nicely cured fine grass where you
can get at it next winter. Run some of
it through the feed cutter and soak out
for the fowls; they will appreciate it.
1t cost much more to regain a lost
pound of flesh on a steer than to add a
like weight to thrifty one. In pur-
chasing steers to feed, thrifty ones will
generally be found the more profitable.
We know of nothing that purlties the
hen-house better than fresh earth scat
tered ON the floor. Kerosene may kill
lice, ashes or dust be good for a dust
bath, but neither OF these give the fresh
ness that fresh soll does. Try it.
The improvement in native wild fruits
has made the Northwest more productive
in the line of plums, cherries and cur
rants, while the introduction of pears
and apples from Russia has greatly in
creased the production in that line.
The little culls of strawberries, per-
haps imperfect on one side, will add but
a triae to the quantity of fruit and surely
pull down the price for the basket OF
crate more than seems possible. Sue
cessful fruit men agree in the advice to
assort closely.