The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-07-15
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

To feed the crop, the soil must be tine
and soluble.
Make your farming as diversified as
your wants.
Give your team plenty of time in
which to eat.
Breed for eggs; there is less risk th an
in chickens.
Feed every animal by itself. Allow no
interference.
Kindness to the COW returns through
the milk pail.
Overripe straw is useful as mulch or
an absorbent.
Use gravel on all your walks, and keep
out of the mud.
In well composted manure the weed
seeds are killed.
A COW should be good for one OF two
things-butter or beef.
If the cap on the syrup can is difficult
to unscrew, pour hot water on 1t.
A company has been formed to test
growing Niagara grapes in Florida.
Cultivation should never be deep
enough to disturb the roots of plants.
Good breeding and good feeding are
both essential elements of Improvement.
When stock is turned to grass, il
should continue to have a little dry feed.
Always feed the turkeys enough to in.
ducc them to came home regularly at
night.
Young leaves, for some reason, arc
less liable to injury from spraying than
the older ones.
II the turkeys are given to rambling
much it will be best to mark thcm, so
that you can identify them.
Lime added to the arsenites for the
purpose of spraying fruit trees tends to
prevent injury to the foliage.
Guinoas should be laying regularly
now. Keep close watch on them OF
many of the eggs will be lost.
Wick says that frequent Swinging Of
the foliage, etc, moist atmosphere, are
the best preventives of the red spider.
If proper attention were paid to grow.
ing timber one-half the timber land
might be kept to grow something else.
If you have not already sown your an.
nuals, such as phlox, petuula, asters,
candytuft, sweet peas, etc., do so now.
A diversity of crops distributes work,
receipts and expenses more evenly
through the year and through the years.
In cleaning out the hay NOW give the
trash to the poultry to pick over; there
is always more or less seed they will eat.
Some ventilation is necessary in the
hen house, but in giving it good care
must be taken to avoid direct draughts.
A good way to give oil of any kind to
poultry is TO pour it on the drinking
water; floating on top it will be first
taken.
If well fed from the start ducks ought
to be ready for market at ten weeks old,
and at that age should average five
pounds.
Peafowls though not generally used,
they make a very acceptable table fowl.
Their noise is Objectionable, but they ore
very ornamental.
Bundle foot in poultry is nearly al.
ways caused by having the roosts too
high. The best remedy is to lower the
roosts and use vaseline.
A yard is best for turkeys. While
they should not be allowed free range,
at the same time they will not bear close
confinement as well as other fowls.
An advantage with the incubutor is
that a large lot of fowls are hatched at
once. 1t is very little more trouble to
look after 100 than to look after twenty.
five.
Cows are like other animals, and even
men aud women. They need fresh air,
sunlight and exercise-not horse.Faciug
exercise, but COW exercise, in walking
around.
Put large shovelful Of manure
around each young raspberry plant and
you will derive the benefits therefrom
next season. Any attention given young
raspberries is always rewarded the follow
ing year.
Old strawberry beds should be plowed
As soon rs the berries are picked of il
the bed does no longer yield well, aud
q crop Of late potatoes may be grown on
II, which will serve TO kill out the weeds
aud grass.
A good garden, a good orchard, and a
quality OF poultry are Of first economy
on farm. Health and strength de
pgnds largely upon these articles Of diet,
aud a farmer may and should supply
them himself
John Thropc, a good authority, calls
the rose Clothide Soupert one OF the
most valuable introductions Of many
years. 1T is perfect as a plant pot for
market and surpasses the Hermosa as q
bedding rose"
President j. ID. w French said at a
meeting Of the Ayrshire Association
"Milk records are good, but more mis-
siOnary work among the farmers who
worship at the shrine Of the scrub bull
will be better.
n YOU wish 10 haul out your coarse
manure, put IL on a field intended for Q
green manunal crop, so as 10 plow the
crop under aud thereby more intimately
mix the manure with the soil as we'll a.
10 destroy weeds.
A gardener who has tested Il for three
years tells in the liom6 yoHfHai that broken
pieces of bone domuch better than broken
crockory for draining flower-pots The
plants suck the feFilizing quality out Of
the homes and make such vigoraus