Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-24

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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Never skim milk for cheese.
Keep the dead wood cut out.
Scatter yours Stops over the soil.
The real dairy farmer grows his own
feed.
Sell as direct to the customer as POS
sible.
Pigs properly kept bring quick re-
turns.
If you want lettuce for winter, SOW in
cold frames.
Do not gather the grapes until they
are fully matured.
Mr.. Hale told before the Nursery
mems Association that there is no peach
that can compare with the liberia in
hardness.
Push the growth of the pullets now
by liberal feeding so as to have them as
well mature as possible before cold
weather sets in.
One reason why corn should be fe l to
the fowls at night during the winter is
that it is one OF the very best materials
for making animal heat
Some hens are natural fighters, and one
such among lotof hens will monopolizs
food and roosting quarters to the detr-
mpnt of all of tha othprs
Any kind of grease is certain death to
poultry lice, while the odor of certain
oils, like cedar, kerosene or spirits of
turpentine will drive them away.
The size of the incubator should be
determined by the number of hens kept.
1t is surely good plan to depend upon
purchasing eggs for Matching during the
winter.
To secure the best prices for holiday
poultry it must be OF the best quality,
well fattened, carefully dressed, So that
When placed on market the fowls will
present a neat appearance.
/ While chickens may be Matched aud
raised at all seasons of the year, the sys-
ten of management should be changed
according to the season. No oae plan
will answer the entire season.
( Winter layers depend upon early pull
lets, early pullets depend upon early set
tiers and early settlers depend upon win
ter layers. A failure of one means, more
or less, a failure of the others.
The cultivated petunias of to-day en-
brace three well-deined forms, viz, the
ordinary maIl-howered, the granifora
or large Powered and the double. The
latter are usually grown from cuttings
taken later during September.
With the earlier Matched turkeys,
whenever good price eau be realized,
/ it will be good plan to sell now. The
cost of keeping will increase as the
weather gets cooler, aud in many cases it
will be better to sell than to keep.
While the guinea is good table fowl
/ it is not good market fowl, anl it is
oaly in exceptional cases that they can
be marketed to a good advantage.
Their meat is the nearest approach to
wild fowls in flavor Of any known.
Some of the much pulfel ''washes"
/ for peach trees by which the borer is to
be circumventcl would no doubt be
effective on the Larvae if applied at just
/ the right time, and to be sure of the
rigdt time apply every day from June to
/ September, But an ex animation of the
tree aud a search for the boarer with a
hoe and knife in April aud October of
each year costs less and is much more
/ effective.
Water the horses early and often this
hot weather, aud especially before feed
ing, as the Freuca breeders do. In
France some worthless horses we're killed
for dissection on purpose to determine
the effect of giving water Immediately
after eating, aud some of the grain was
found un1igestei in the iutestiues
twenty feet bsyoni the stomach, aud it
had caused Inflammation Of the mucous
membrane.
Manure mag be spoiled by either of
two extremes-by being keep too wet or
too dry. By the former it will burn, or
tire-fang, thus losing large portion of
its nitrogen, and by keeping too wet it
will leach out, losing all elements OF
plant food. 1t is best (waen not applied
directly to the land) to keep it Just
moist enough to keep down the heat.
/ 0ae or two buckets of water thrown up
on the pile each morning will accomplish
4 this.
Take the seeds of annIes ,,nars and