The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-24
EARN AND eARnEN NOTES.


no water.
Eggs cannot be produced without lime
for the shells.
The earlier the pullets are hatched the
sooner they will begin laying.
The beginning of the year is a good
time to begin keeping accounts.
In small yards two cocks are worse
than none on account of fighting.
In-breeding is the father of a good
deal of swine trouble. Change boars.
Extra care is needed with the chickens
that are hatched early, but it will pay.
Success with young chicks demands
warmth, ,dryness, liberal feeding and pure
air.
A few days in the sprirg will make a
considerable difference in the price; try
to De early.
Never leave a horse after driving in
the mud until his feet and legs are
rubbed dry.
When the fowls are confined, as they
must be largely at this time, scabby legs
Will De luOre pIeNdleul'
The best market usually for large tur-
keys is during the holidays; after that
medium fowls sell the best.
The colt needs salt and the best way
to give it Is to let him have free access
to a manger or box which contains salt.
Teach the boys in practical way that
the farm is the foundation of their sue
cess in life aud they will not flee to the
city.
With comfortable stables the horses
will not suffer. But the more comfort.
able the stable the more the horse needs
blanket when left standing outdoors.
Why not work the stallion1 You want
the colts to work, and If the sire spends
his life in the stall doing nothing won't
he be likely to breed laziness into his
cults2
What is the use in paying twelve to
twenty dollars service fee for a colt from
good horse and then making scrub
of it by roughing it through the first
winterl
Oats must be very high in your locality
if you cannot afford to feed the colt and
calves some. In fact, If you have young
animals that are worth raising at all, yor
cannot afford to go without feeding
oats.
Experimenters on the other side oil
the Atlantic have found that by cheap
method of supplying atmospheric cleo
tricity to the growing crop, the yield of
potatoes has been increased from 300 to
450 bushels per acre.
j. J. Mechi, the we'll known English
scientific farmer, says that while he hates
cruelty, he thinks 1t real humanity to re-
move the horns of cattle, and at the
cost of temporary suffering to secure
them peaceful enjoyment for the rest of
their lives.
An intelligent falmer, milking twenty
one COWS, stated that five of these did
not pay their way, though the average
production OF the whole herd was 225
pounds yearly. At the same time he
could not sec that it would be for his
interest to dispose of the five and milk
| sixteen.
Don't be afraid of starting sheep. You
cannot lose even il you do not gain
largely at first. Study and application
will make you an expert, when you may
safely increase your flock. No stock
8eeds less daily care, costs less to main
tain, and pays better aud surer divi-
dends. Begin small.
A correspondent OF the Santa Barbara
! (Cal.) Independent writes that bean wee
wills can be destroyed by sprinklng the
beans with benzine or spirits of turpen-
tine. lie says that subjechon to a dry
heat of $50 degrees Fair. for an hour
will also destroy the grubs and not ir-
jure the germs of the beans.
II you keep poultry in pens aud yards
throw in all the vegetable aud garden
truck you can spare, reduced to eatable
size. Raw potatoes, onions, turnips,
carrots, cabbage, beets, celery tops,
ETC., chopped tine. All will aid in pro-
ducing winter eggs, and remember meat
Of some kind is almost a necessity.
As a rule dairy farm eau be known
as soon as the eye falls upon it, 1t tell;
of increasing fertility, of larger har,
vests. So, too, may one read at a glance
the story when the hay is sold, but it is
not so promising, there are not the SAM
evidences of prosperity. A glance at tn,
farms should settle the problem with tn
individual farmer.