Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-04-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Look out for bee moths.

Look out for bee moths.
Look out for queenless colonies.
Young guinea fowls, if fat, mako nico
table fowl
Too much liusccd meal will make tho
hens too fat.
Turkeys will degenerate very rapidly
by imbrceding.
Do not allow the poultry to run with
the fattening hogs.
You will find farm-yard manure a
good mulch for old apple trees.
II il pays to work with and run m in
cubator at all it will pay to manage SO as
to get all there is in It,
In order to have good, healthy,
vigorous chickens it is necessary to have
strong, vigorous breeding fowls.
One of the best crosses for common
hens when it is desired to increase tho
size is to use Brahma or Cochin rooster.
Sorghum seed can DO used to good ad-
vantage in feeding the incubator chickens
as soon as they are large enough to cat
it.
A faster growth can he secured with
chickens raised in tho broodor il they
are fed on cooked food rather than
raw.
When you have decided upon the
garden crop for next season select your
seeds and order carly those you have to
buy.
When that fine squash is used it may
pay you to save the seed. If so don't
think of it after they are thrown away.
Eggs generally bring good prices from
this time on and care must be taken in
managing so rs TO secure as large sup
ply as possible.
Coarse light hay thrown over spinach
will usually carry it through the winter
in open ground, provided water docs not
stand on the land.
1t is the freezing and thawing in the
months after January LIST that hurts the
strawberry bcds-if you have not yet
given them protection do il now.
Trim out the rough and tangled
hedge. Burn the trimmings on land
that is to be plowcd, or ut least where it
will not kill grass in pasture Or meadow.
Snyder, Agawam, Stones Hurdy and
Western Triumph are reported us va
ricties of blackbcrrics that prove hard
lest at the Ottawa (Carada) station
farm.
If the ounce tire: did not bear the last
season, whose fault was it, Did it have
plenty of manurc2 If not, why not2
Have you given it any for the next
crop2
If you have good keeping apples there
is no need OF rushing them to market.
There is no doubt but that it will paw
you to hold them till later, if not till
spring.
If an accurate account was kept, VIC
think it would show that more house
plants are killed in winter from an over
supply of water than q shortage. See
that yours have just tho right amount.
The Rural We,o Yorker calls attention
TO the Palouse apple, Seeding OF great
hardness, good keeper and fine as re-
CARDS quality. The original tree was
raised from seed brought from Illinois
in 1879 by George Rucdy, of Colfax,
Washington.
PUMPKINS arc easily injured by freezing,
and much valuable feed is thus lost every
fall for lack of care. If put in barn
basement they may be kept until January,
and SO long as they make cheap,
rich food for mich cows, especially if
the seeds are removed before they arc
fed. The seeds are diuretic and decrease
milk flow.
Some years ago, when grating tho
grape was first advocated rs o means of
protecting certain varieties against the
phylioxera, the editor of tho Rural Moo
Yorker tried many experiments. He
now says "but one method proved prac-
ticablc, viz, cleft-grafting in early
spring below the surface and hcaping
the earth about the stock, after they had
been firmly bound together without the
use Of wax"
Peas when grown as a field crop should
be sown about four inches deep, which
can be done with seed drill, or by
sowing upon tho surface and then plow-
ing four inches deep with narrow burrows.
They yield about l j tons of seed to the
acre, which, when ground, make one OF
the best grains for stock feeding, aud
particularly for mich COWS. Two
pounds of pea meal is supposed to have
feeding value equal to six pounds of
wheat bran.