Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-08-26
FARM AND GARDEN NOES.

FARM AND GARDEN NO-ES.
Prepare potting soil for autumn use.
There is a 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 sheep will grow
depends upon the breed and healthy
uniform food supply.
If pastures are very rank, it would be
we'll to NOV them for hay, and let the
sheep have dry, healthy pastures.
A neglected and poorly fed flock of
poultry will breed lice faster and more
surely than almost anything else.
Steel wire fences solve the dog ques-
ton, 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 cu!e is somewhat uncertain.
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 a 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 walow under the yard
fence and escaped 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 ground Is practice
that is about out of fashion.
The farmer who wages warfare upon
birds oftel, destroys his best friends.
They do more to keep down our insect
enemies than all the insecticides and
spraying devices yet invented.
Meat scraps should be fed to the lay
ing hens il some form at least twice a
week; it helps considerably toward fill
ing the egg basket. and is a preventive
to feather pulling and 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 a pound of beef Then if the beef
cattle must be housed and cared for the
same as the dairy cattle, there is, Of
course, the best profit in butter produc-
ton.
Professor Roberts, of Cornell Univers-
itv, said in speaking of growing fodder
corn: Twenty tons Of manure is too
much for an acre of land. Five tons is
enough. l would just as soon think of
putting five bushels Of oats into horses
manger at one time, as twenty tons on
an acre"
Are you sure that you are running the
farm "for all it is WORTH" Could not a
few more calves be raised or pigs be
kept, or a few sheep be added, or the
poultry yard be better filled with moro
and better stockl Are there not waste
places now growing weeds that could DO
made to grow profitable cropsi Think it
over and see how much idle land and
spare time you have.