Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-07-22
rAnM AND Garden NOTES.

Feeding the hens sulphur helps tho
Matching.
Lice and rats arc the two worst enc
mics of the setting hens.
Exclusive corn feeding often causes
leg weakness with young poultry.
The London Garden claims that wind
and showers US we'll as sunshine promote
color in apples.
1t is difficult to got cattle ready for
market early now unless they have been
winterod in good condition.
With young pullets it is often good
plan to let them set day or two before
putting the eggs under them.
Until the steer is two years did he
should be fed with the view of promot.
ing growth rather than fairness.
To thoroughly know what ration you
can make up and feed to the best advan-
tage careful test is necessary.
Too much grain is often fed at loss;
this is often the case especially in feed
ing whole grain to fattening cattle.
Sending stale eggs to market is
good way to get a reputation that will
stick to you after yoY.are tired of it.
The estimate for the cost of tho food
of the confined fowl is the equivalent of
bushel and half of corn per annum.
Whole straw is better than hay rs q
hen material, but either one is preferable
TO that which. is run through cutting
box.
When your birds have bowel disease,
change the food day or two, and change
grit; one-half the troubles are from lack
of sharp, hard grit.
You can raise moro chickens with tho
same labor later in tho season, but they
will not bring us much money if intended
for the market.
j. ii. Hale, whose SUCCESS in fruit
culture is well known, recommends check
row culture for Strawberries and rasp-
berries to all who have the land.
Don't permit hogs and fowls in tho
same yard. II the fowls don't cat tho
hogs, the hogs will eat the fowls. In
either case the food costs more than it
comes to.
Wheat is ono OF the best feeds you can
give your fowls to produce eggs; it is
also good to feed young chicks after
they are week or two old, for their
evening feed.
Many beginners get discouraged in at
tempting to improve the quality of their
hogs because prices get low, but this
should only be an inducement for further
development.
The nests of sitting hens arc often tho
prolific breeding places of lice. Keep
them clean, dust with insect powder,
and burn the nest filling rs soon as the
brood is out
DO not try to keep too many breeds
of fowls. You will succeed better with
one or two varieties, with good ntten-
ton, than by trying to keep dozen
sorts and neglecting them.
Milk is the best article of food we can
give our fowls; and for farmers to feed
1t to their hogs is mistake, as the re-
turns will not equal one half what would
be received if the milk were fed to tho
hens.
Air-slaked lime, busted freely about
the poultry yard. is an excellent pre-
ventive of disease in warm weather.
Another is to have good supply of
clean drinking water always where the
fowls can help themselves.
The recommendation is often made
that the boiling of small potatoes in
kettle OF water and applying the liquor
therefrom on all stock troubled wish lice
will destroy the parasites. A writer says
that he washed his cattle with il fire.
quently and in ten years. experience
never found IL to fail.