The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-02-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Mature plants for winter work.
Harvest ice and fuel crops early.
Feed and water stock regularly.
Arrange to farm better lex year.
Lay your plans for next years work.
See that each fowl gets its share OF
feed.
Carefully save all the meat scraps for
your fowls.
Now crowd the feed if you are fatten-
ing beef, pigs or poultry.
Never allow your horses to stand in
the wind or cold unblanketed.
Remember that sand, gravel and like
substances are essential to fowls.
Watch prices and prospects, and
market your produce OPPORTUNITY.
Wise stock raisers now try to grow
meat rather than to accumulate fat.
Land plaster, carbolic acid and kero-
sene are all good for the chicken house,
Do not forget that hens learn to eat
eggs by having the broken ones left in
the nest.
Do not neglect to place clear, pure
water every day in accessible places for
for your fowls.
Starving or freezing an animal is one
way to render farming both improbable
and unpopular.
Make the most profitable use possible
OF all by products, for in these often lie
the profits of farming.
Organization and cooperation are
potent factors for farmers; give them
your encouragement and support.
Alternately starving and gorging a pig
does not make ga streak of fat and a
streak Of lean" Feed regularly.
Twenty-Five or thirty pounds of granu.
lated sugar syrup is sufficient winter and
spring food for one colony of bees.
In no place will it pay better to feed
out refuse, cabbage herds and other
green stuff than in the poultry yard.
While generally it is not advisable TO
make a speciality of hogs, yet, neverthe-
ess, they can be kept on every farm with
profit.
Even in winter it will be found best
o change the materials in the nests oc-
'aslonally, in order to keep them from
'ecoming foul.
II pigs are to be sold before they are
1atured care should be taken to have
mem IN a good growing condition IN
rider to realize fine prices.
On hardly one farm in ten is anv pro-
made for saving liquid manure.
nat valuable fertilizer which is nearly
quail in value to the solid portion.
The principal reason why fall pigs are
more profitable is because sufficient
is not taken to receive a healthy.
lrltty growth during the winter.
Hogs never should be allowed to sleep
n the manure piles, it induces mango as
ell as an unhealthy condition in the sys-
that it will be found best to avoid.
Let fowls now have full sway among
lie grass, shrubs and orchards. They
Ill enjoy the exercise and make havoc
nong the grubs, slugs, worms and other
sects that are injurious to vegetable life.
-oreoVer the diet is cheap and healthy.
Covering strawberries, spinach, kale.
insles, etc., should now be attended To
once II 1t has not been done already.
ear In mind that the covering should be
ght, evergreen boughs are the best;
1t sedge or thatch next, and coarse,
horse manure next.
How delighted most farmers would be
W a cow that would give a pound
butter every day for a yearl But
COWS are not difficult to find if I
operly fed and cared for. And still !
2 can't induce one farmer in twenty. {
rhaps not one in a hundred, to find /
what either his best or his poorest J
W is worth to him. I
Black currants are not so much used ]
this country as in England where their j
'rits are better appreciated; they are I
ry hardy and prolific and make ielies. I
-ts and preserves that are esteemed a =
delicacy by the English. The lik- j
3 for the raw fruit must be acquired l
practice; few people relish them the :
st time they eat them, but become very '
of them after a while. a
The native hemlock Is, to our eye, =
,st beautiful Of evergreens. For hedge :
no equal-making a beautiful and c
impact outstanding shearing per-
tly into any desired shape. It is
lly tra%nsplanted, and when its new
1 bright green foliage appears it is
luisltely beautiful. 1t makes hand =
ne trees in isolated positions and is