The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-04-13
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
How many acres do the fences on
your farm waste9
Improve the roads, lessen the fences,
save the manure.
How is the road along your farmi
Can it be improvedl How9
When the fowls get too fat an exclusive
feed of oats will reduce them.
There is no advantage in Matching out
goslings until grass gets good start.
Damp quarters aud stagnant water
often proves fatal to turkeys aud chick.
ems.
Thorough whitewashing the hen house
inside and out will aid in killing out the
lice.
Potatoes are best kept in cool place
just above freezing is good tempera-
ture.
Until the weather gets warmer whole
corn can be given to the fowls at night
with benefit.
Poor roads are the heaviest tax most
farmers bear. Reduce the tax by i'm
proving the roads.
Properly fed, a duck at niue or ten
weeks old should weigh four pounds, q
chicken two pounds.
Hens should be killed when three
years old, as they lay less eggs every
year after the third.
Good roads, clean culture and few
fences will help on the day when farm
ing will be more profitable.
Bantams may be a thing of beauty, but
for practical poultry keeping for profit
generally they are nuisance.
In Horticulture, nothing can take the
place of "keen eye" and "quick
mind" to see that call is WELL"
What did your fence corners produce
last yeara Are they going to be used
the same way the coming seasoni
Did you ever figure on the amount of
corn you could raise on the land used In
fences and the waste land they make1
Milk, sweet or sour, is the best poultry
food. 1t may be fed in several different
ways. 1t is excellent for laying hens.
Turkeys, ducks, geese and guineas can
be hatched in the incubator as we'll as
chickens, and can be raised in a brooder.
The best cross for sitting hens is Wig
orous pet game cock with good partridge
Cochin hens, this also makes a good
table-towl.
You should never give your fowls
bad fright, as it Injuries them, aud it will
cause falling off in the number of eggs
for few days.
The early chicken is the largest and
strongest, and will never be overtaken by
the ones that are Matched out late; push
the early Matching.
Cracked wheat or corn makes better
feed after the chickens get old enough to
eat it than either fed ground fine and
made into a mush.
When it is especially desirable to Sc.
cure the largest size with geese crossing
the Toulouse gander with Embden
geese will secure this the most readily.
Gather your eggs as soon after laying
as may be. They are liable to become
broken in the nests and eaten by the
hens, thus laying the foundation of a
very bad habit.
When you receive basket Of eggs for
Matching let them rest from twenty-four
to forty eight hours before being set,
and they will recover from the jarring
received while travelling.
The farmer who lets his calves and
colts stand out-of-doors all day, may, by
process Of evolution, succeed in raising
animals that will be hardy, but hardi-
ness will be their only virtue.
1t costs no more to raise the best
breeds of poultry than the common
barnyard fowl, while the returns are
double. Get a setting of eggs from some
reliable bree Ter and convince yourself
of the fact.
A horse that distuTbs its bedding by
paving and kicking it about may be
prevented from doing this by keeping it
in large stall and united. The tying
up of horse is most frequently the
cause of of its restlessness, and induces
the habit of paving and kicking in the
stable.
A wash of strong lye or potash water
on the trunk and large limbs of the fruit
trees carly in the spring will destroy in
sects under the bark, or their eggs, if
there are any. And if it runs down to
the ground aud soaks in where the roots
find it, it will not hurt the tree or the
fruit at all.
The farmer must breed white fowls.
They are just as good in. every resr
as dark ones, and better in this fee q,
viz: their appearance upon the at
stand in market is fine and clea Leir
pin feathers being white, are nc iced,
whereas every dark pin feathel .ure to