Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

market as soon as they are ready.-St.
Louis Republic.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Clean straw is good for 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 night and 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 a good plan to allow the hens
to lay in their roosting place.
The diminutive 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 hogsheads are convent
ent 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 turpentine
is excellent to apply to wounds on trees.
Poultry will readily digest bones if
they are broken fine enough for them to
eat.
Well-matured fowls with small combs
and wattles make the best kind to winter
over.
When hawks bother the chickens
few brush piles will 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 out.
Test each COW separately and reject all
not suited to your line of dairying or
that fail in quantity or quality of milk.
After the surplus fowls are marketed
in the fall is a good time to begin keep
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 liberally, have pure water al
ways accessible, and keep mixture OF
equal parts of salts, ashes and sulphur
within reach of the cows.
The growth of late Matched poultry
should be pushed along as rapidly as
possible; after cold weather sets in it is
more difficult to secure a good growth.
Condiments are not health-producers,
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 some
times given in place of water, is too
solid and does not relieve the thirst as
water does, aud dishwater aud swill
from the house are often salty. Give
fresh, pure water.
Paris green is the standard remedy for
potato bugs; apd when thoroughly tried
is always effective. A dessert spoonful
of the poison to bucket of water Is
enough. A dilution of plaster of Paris
is sometimes used for fear of injury to
animals and human beings.
Dead limbs on trees are not unsightly,
but useless to the trees. Cut them off.
On the peach tree it is not difficult to se-
cure new growth in year or two in
place of the dead limbs, as the peach
tree will renew itself in short time and
will endure severe cutting. Dead limbs
may be the signs of disease, and in de-.
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