Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-23
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
An idle hen IS never a good layer.

An oVergroWn, excessively tat fowl IS
nuisance.
A little stimulating food for the fowls
will not come amiss in moulting season.
In seeding let every one remember it is
far better to drill in your seed than to
depend on broadcast sowing.
The best table fowls are the games,
Cochins, Houdans, Brahmas, Langshans,
Wyandottes and Dominiques.
Crude petroleum and crude carbolic
acid will emulsify with soap in the same
manner as is used with kerosene.
There is no difference in any respect
between chickens Matched in an incuba-
tor and those Matched under hen.
Numbered with good window plants
English ivy, wax plant, Gala and be-
gonias.
Poultry Of any kind intended to be
dressed before sending to market, should
be kept from food twenty four hours
before killing.
The rakings and scrapings of the farm
may possess but little value, but if
thrown on the manure heap they serve
as absorbents.
The right stage for harvesting pears
may be told by the readiness of the stem
to separate from the twig when the pear
is gently raised upward.
Wick advises in pruning the grape to
cup the vine and bud higher than it is
intended to have it grow, and rough off
the bud just below the cut.
Gleason says that horses nostrils ere
his fingers, and with them he feels arti-
Giles to find whether they will hurt him.
He smells every new object thoroughly
to decide whether it is good or bad.
Walnuts boiled in water and the juice
put on horses and COWS with whitewash
brush Or anything suitable, will cause
the flies to Immediately fly off upon
alighting on them. Smart weed may be
added.
Every farmer who is troubled by moles
ought to try a few castor bean plants.
An old gardener who was noted for rails
ing vegetables, always had few dozen
of these plants scattered about his garden
for the purpose of keeping away moles.
Go over the strawberry rows and pull
out the weeds, in order to prevent them
from seeding and continue cultivation
between the rows until late in the sea-
son. Any advantage gained now in the
growth Of vines will be of value next
spring,
You can raise ducks and geese without
an abundance of water. There is more
fun, of course, in seeing them swim in
brooks, rivers or ponds, yet if you give
them enough pure water to drink, and
allow them an occasional plunge bsth,
they will thrive first-rate with no water
range.
One of the best tonics for chickens,
and probably one Of simplest, is to keep
a handful of old rusty nails-the more
rust on them, the better-in each dish
from which they drink. The rust is the
oxide of iron sold by the druggists, and
the homemade is as good as the sale
article.
If chickens have sore eyes Though
they ought not to, and won't if your
management is correct from the begin
ming, before the eggs are laid and on),
you can apply glycerine to good advan-
tage, one small drop to each eye. This
will soften the edges of the lids so that
the bird can open them.
Clear rye bran alone should never be
fed to fowls, on account Of its swelling
and caking in masses in the crop, and
proving fatal to chicken-life not unfre-
ouently. 1t will thus sodden and in
crease in bulk very rapidly before digest
ing, causing rupture of the crop, if any
great quantity has been eaten.