Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-02
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Prepare potting soil for autumn use.
Thin your fruit if you want fine large
specimens.
Keep the soil around the shrubs FIRE.
from weeds.
Herbs ought to be cut before they are
in full bloom.
Sow patch of rye early in conven.
lent place for poultry pasture.
On the farm poultry costs but little fol-
feed if 1t can have good range.
Even in summer it is best to have reg
ular hours for feeding the poultry.
There is good reason for everything,
and success or failure in sheep are not
exceptions.
Fowls that are fed and cared for need
no special forcing or feeding for health
and growth.
Unless care is taken there is always
more or less risk of the turkeys getting
beyond control.
This is world of progress, and the
sheep industry is in closest touch with
human industries.
The amount of wool a sheep will grow
depends upon the breed and healthy
uniform food supply.
II pastures are very rank, 1t would be
well to NOW them for hay, and let the
sheep have dry, healthy pastures.
A neglected and poorly fed flock of
lfrx,
surely than almost anything else.
Steel wire fences solve the dog ques-
tion, and corrugated iron roofing solves
the shelter problem. This is the iron
age.
No profitable, economic, progressive
farming is found in the world that has
not sheep applied to the situation in
some form or other.
Chicken gapes can be prevented by
keeping the young chicks out of the
wet grass until about three weeks old.
A cure is somewhat uncertain.
If you see your young chicks gaping
or shaking their heads. examine the top
of the heads aud neck for lice. You
will doubtless find what you look for.
Choose sandy soil as location for
the poultry house and yards. 1t will
keep dryer, and accumulate less surface
filth. Damp clay soil is an inducement
to roup.
Professor Fletcher, Dominion Ento.
mologist, says that June or Kentucky
blue grass does not make good head
until the third or fourth year from sow.
ing.
If you have chicks of new breed,
watch them as they develop; they may
be better or they may be inferior to the
old breeds with which you are &C.
quainted.
Do the birds wallow under the yard
fence and escapea Try mailing on the
net with six inches of it left on the
ground at right angles to the fence, and
inside the enclosure.
A good feeding floor for the hogs will
more than repay its cost in a single sea-
son by the saving OF grain. To feed
good corn on muddy grodnd is a practice
that is about out of fashion.
The farmer who wages warfare upon
birds often destroys his best friends.
They do more to keep down our insect
enemies than all the insecticides aud
spraying devices yet Invented.
Meat scraps should be fed to the lay.
ing hens in some form at least twice a
week; 1t helps considerably toward fill
ing the egg basket, and is preventive
to feather pulling aud other vices.
The successful manufacturer ALWAYS
knows the cost of producing any article
that he puts upon the market When
he cannot produce for less than selling
price he changes his methods or stops.
There is not much difference between
the cost of the food needed to pro-
duce pound of butter and that required
for pound of beef. Theu il the beef
cattle must be housed aud cared for the
same as the dairy cattle, there is, of
course, the best profit in butter produc-
tion.
Professor Roberts, OF Cornell Univers.
ity, said in speaking of growing fodder
corn; "Tweuty tons of manure is too
much for an acre of land. Five tons Is
enough. | would just as soon think OF
putting five bushels of oats into horses
manger at one time, as twenty tons ON
an acre"
Arc you sure that you are running the
farm "for all it is worthl" Could not a
few more calves be raised or pigs be
kept, or u few sheep be added, or the
poultry yard be better flied with more
and better stocki Are there not waste
places now growing weeds that could be
made to grow profitable cropsi Think II
over aud see how much idle land aud
spare time You have.
Hhna HlI..ar a. G..al.n.