Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-11-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Open hended trees bear best fruit.

much.
Cleanliness is one of the prime rcqui-
sites of the dairy.
Two beeves can never be made fat on
a pasture that has only grass enough for
one. =.
. Scientific breeding is the basis of profit
in 1.-Two stock, and especially in tho
dairy.
No farmer can afford to buy manure
until he has first made use of every pound
produced at home.
There is no profit in owning single
acre of land more than you can thor
oughly cultivate.
Surplus earnings cannot be invested
in anything that will pay much better
than good barn.
Hogs cannot be fed off too soon after
cold weather comes, if you mean to get
the maximum profit.
Wheat bran is safer to give to COW
that Is soon to calve than corn meal OF
other fattening food.
Now the weeds in your pasture land
four or five times year, and you will be
free from them in few years.
Choice fruit is never had from the
trees that are permitted to bear moro
than they can properly nourish.
Butter can be made at ten cents per
pound by feeding the COWS corn during
tho summer and ensilage in cold
weather.
There Is always bound to be one black
sheep IN flock, and SO in dairying there
is always bound to be inferior COWS in
with the stock.
The dairyman who does not fully real
ize the necessity of providing pure water
for his COWS has an imperfect under
standing of his business.
Will it pay to cut dry corn fodder for
the cows? is question, often asked. We
think it will. The COWS cat more of it.
and it is in better form for the manure
pile.
While whole ears of corn may be well
enough for the horses, yet it is not good
for the cattle. Give the cattle corn and
cob meal, and they will get along splen-
didly.
1t certainly docs not pay to mix the
poultry and the garden together. Either
the poultry must be kept away from the
garden, or the garden away from the
poultry.
Turkeys are marketable at any tim,
after cooler weather sets in, aud often
for mcdium-sized fowls in good condi.
ton better prices can be realized early
than late.
Do not place the drinking water where
the sun will strike it. The water be.
comes warm quick enough while in the
shade, without letting the sun warm it
more quickly.
Next to good feeding in importance is
classed good grooming. A thorough
and regular use of curry comb aud
brush is equivalent to at least quart or
two of oats a day.
Appear aud plum orchard should al
ways be kept in cultivation. a good one
cannot be had when the ground is kept
in grass. Cherries, however, will DO
very we'll if kept in grass.
1t is best no. to feed flint corn on the
cob to horses. 1t is so hard that it will
burt the ANIMALS hampers and make
them sore. The safest way would be to
grind all corn of this kind.
Let the poultry have the run of the
stubble. They will gather large num-
Der of insects, besides picking up the
grain which was lost during tie harvest
and which would be otherwise wasted.
In the tall of the year the mare is not
compelled to work ns hard as in the
spring, and she is better enabled to
suckle the colt. The colt in return is
benefited by an abundant supply Of
milk.
Many unsystematic farmers, on &C.
count of ravages by dogs and wolves, are
timid about keeping sheep, so that he
who understands their care may not ex.
pcct serious competition from large num-
bcrs of beginners.
Don't iced the ducks too much, as
they will be apt to become stated and
diseased, and their legs may become
paralyzed from the effects of it. Peas,
oats, and ground corn in moderate
quantities will make them thrive.
Apropos of hedges VS.. fences farm
Journal suggests that yellow locust trees
set in line will hold wire at four years
old, and may be kept trimmed down to
the trunk with IMMUNITY, thus combining
the advantages of hedge and fence.
A fruit grower in Champaign County,
Illinois, says: ITO apply the phosphate
fertilizers on soils lacking that element,
and to give copious irrigation to all soils
in seasons OF drouth my experience and
observation teach me is the secret OF
successful fruit growing"
Sailing at this season is not to be over.
looked. 1t is well, also, to provide
boxes even when salt is given to the
srock in the field. Throwing salt on the
ground often kills the vegetation and
causes the stock to lick up the grit and
dirt. Some one wisely suggests that
when the salt boxes are not in use thew
should be inverted, 80 as to keep the
rain out.