Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-07-22
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Feed the poultry early in the morn.
ing.
One feed of corn daily is enough for
the fowls now.
Old geese usually lay and hatch earlier
than young ones.
Bread wet with skim milk is good feed
for young poultry.
A dry run is absolutely necessary for
the health of turkeys.
Butter floats better when cold water is
mixed with the buttermilk.
Air-slaked lime busted over the yards
is a good preventive of gapes.
Sweet peas should be given support as
soon as they get good start in growth.
Generous feeding will always pay.
ANY other sort is loss both of food
and labor.
In warm weather, if the young poultry
are fed soft feed, no more should be
mixed than is eaten up clean.
Milk should not be allowed to cabber
before the cream is skinned, as in this
way great deal of cream is lost.
Persistent losing of health and flesh
indicates that cow is suffering from
some ailment, and her milk should not be
used.
Bran, middlings, milk and clover must
largely take the place of corn when feed
ing for lean pork instead of carcass of
pure fat.
In growing cucumbers for pickles keep
the soil moist, and pick each day all that
are large enough. We have doubled our
crop by irrigating.
AS an animal increases in age and
weight it requires larger maintenance
ration. That is why we get the best
profit by early maturity.
| 1t has been shown by recent expert
ments that fresh cream butter is more apt
to taste of the food given cows than
when the cream is ripened.
A cows simple cough may sometimes
be cured by mixing handful of whole
fiaxseed with wheat bran slops, and
feeding it morning and night.
When the colt is first hitched to a
wagon don't give load that requires
any effort to move. The foundation for
many ballSy horse has been laid IN this
| way.
TO know if your stock is making satis-
factory gain, and paying for what they
cat, they must be weighed at stated in
tervals. A good platform scale is needed
on every farm.
Thirty bushels of wheat per acre is an
effective answer to the question of whether
farming pays. This average can be had
with good land, good seed and proper
cultivation aud planting.
Among small fruit growers, blackber-
ries hardly have the attention they de-
serve. We never see surplus of good
varieties of this fruit. On the contrary,
the supply rarely equals the demand.
Late roasting ears are just as much ap-
preca.ed as early ones. One gets the
best by planting the early varieties of
sweet corn again in August. The Early
Minnesota answers well for this purpose.
The American Agricuturist says: "To
grow mignonette in perfection the plants
must not DC closer than six inches each
way aud the top bud should be pin ched
OFF when the plant is two inches high.
Oats cut early (when in the dough-
and made into hay, will help out the
winter feeding of the horses il you ex-
peet to be short of timothy. IL makes
one of the best substitutes fer this pur-
pose.
Ii is not the least troublesome to make
oor butter. As a beginning you need
only to let the milk stand awhile In q
/ foul stable. Then proceed In any fashion
you choose the result wilt be already
assured
! Everyone has noticed that when bees
start out ia the morning they tly around
ia the air, continually charging the cir
eles. II Is mort than probable that In
doiug this they are trying TO catch the
aroma ut flowers borne upon the wind.
I they determine which Is best aud near
I est, and then .stFlke q bee line" for It.