The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-01-07
FARM AID eARpFN NOTES.

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schools of France.
Provide some s~ucculent food for your
pigs during the winter.
Huskings are in order. So are pump
kin pies and doughnuts.
Lay in a good stock of papers aud
magazines for winter reading.
When you mulch small fruits mulch
enough to keep down the weeds.
Build bridges il you like, but don't
break up the roadbed in the fall.
Fertilizers improve a poor soil AMI
keep a rich one from running down.
One of the drawbacks of spraying is
that it kills our friends as well as our en-
emies.
The more landowners and homesteads
there are in a nation the better it is for
the people.
The young man who gets a good agri-
cultural education is going to be in fu-
ture demand.
Apply your manure where the roots of
your crop can reach it or it can reach the
roots of the crop.
Not manure but well fortified earth
should be placed NJ xt to the roots of
transplanted trees.
If you have but a small farm put your
energies and cash into that and make it
produce as much as most large farms.
Manure when compositing needs water
to make it moist; but care must be taken
that there is not water enough to leach
it.
II is for the farmers to see that the
agricultural colleges and experiment sta
tons are properly run, and to aid in run
ming them.
Potatoes should be stored where they
will have a cool, even temperature, and
be overhauled once a month to get rid of
dccaying ones.
If a COW has sharp horns put wooden
thimbles IN the ends of them. The knobs
can be fastened on by pegs run through
both horn and knob.
The w~ide-awake farmer visits other
farms than his own. When he finds con-
veuiences, methods and crops better than
at home it inspires him to greater effort.
Many abandoned farms have been
abandoned because they were too large
to be proftably cultivated. 1t is very
seldom that q small farm is abandoned.
A few good emasculated imale cats will
be found th~ able stock the
- 1 cat is worth
sand it never
cured as every
re it, is worth
of the coarse,
uff We find
is one cause of milk few
ire common than it used
that both feed and milk
to be put upon light diet
eks before they come in.
trees of any kind is growing
Now, if we will use the trees as
cher crops, giving them good,
and decent care, we shall act
and likely successfully grow one
IF trees.
ne first cost Of working land to a
per depth is considerable, but when
ce done and the impediments-that is,
lex, stones or stumDs-disposed of,
here is an annual saving of time and of
)ols in the work.
Keep weeds from the compost heap;
especially do not allow any of them to go
to seed. 1t would be the foundation OF
a deal of hard work, hoeing, and clean
'ng next year should any of them be
ermitted to scatter their seeds in the
~
If by any error of Judgment a newly
seeded field of wheat has been finished
Inv rolling, it should have a light harrow
mo Immediately with a small sloping-
tooth harrow. The harrow should
! oIways be used after the roller in finish
70 a fell.
Then FINAL is choked put a hand
gunpowder on the roots of its
ongue and hold the jaws together, if
ossible,N Nor half an hour. The gun
,owder reKaxes the muscles and permits
he obstrucking substance to go either
Town or up.\ 1t is dangerous to poke
he obstructioAdow the animals throat.