Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-10-21
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
When rye is fed to horses use laxa.
tive with it.
While oil cake is injurious to mares in
foal corn is not.
A poultice of fresh Stacked lime and
lard is said to be sure cure for lumpy
jaw.
Knee sprung horses should be shod
with shoe the heel of which is thicker
than the toes.
1t is poor policy to turn the horses out
in the pasture at nights and let them Sc
cure their own food.
The rule of express companies in feed.
ing horses is ten pounds of hay aud four
quarts of oats per meal.
Prepare suitable sheds and constant
supply of pure water, before you ar
range to go very extensively into the
sheep business for the winter.
Labor-saving machinery is drawback
instead of an aid to the farmer, unless
the labor thus released is turned again
into other productive channels.
A road tax may be burdensome, but
i'll fact it is not near so much so as the
tax daily imposed and paid by every
farmer who hauls produce to market over
poor roads.
When buying trees for your orchard
this fall, be sure to learn how they have
been ,propagated. If not grated on
whole roots of seedlings, have nothing
to do with them.
Exercise more care this season in Gull
ing out the ewes. Retain only the best
for breeding purposes, use the best sire
you can obtain, and make the flock pay
even better the coming year than you
did this.
The smaller industries of the farm
often pay better ratio of profit than
the large ones. Give attention to the
fowls, the bees and the garden, and the
aggregate profit from the three will be
snug little sum.
In order to distribute manure evenly,
so that all portions of the field will be
equally benefited, it must be made fine.
1t is not economy, although it may save
little labor to throw the manure out in
Jumps and masses.
The value ofscientiic work in the inter-
ests of agriculture should not be under
valued, nor the honest effort of the un-
learned farmer. But practice, in COM
bination with science, furnishes the best
means for the end desired.
Those who have poultry to sell this
year will be sure to get good price for
them, for there is none in store. And
those who know how to raise the best
poultry will get almost any price their
consciences will allow them to ask.
The best way to save the valuable
droppings of the hen house is to gather
them up daily and cover them with dry
earth or gypsum to prevent the escape OF
ammonia. Wood ashes or lime should
not be used, as they set the ammonia
free.
Before you turn the horses out for a
lest in pasture, as you should do after
harvest, take off his shoes. We know
some good farmers who even keep their
plow horses unshod, saving money and
keeping the feet in good condition at
the same time.
Brown rot or gray rot of the grape,
also sometimes known as downy miIdew,
is due to fungus which thrives in
warm, wet weather. Spraying with
Bordeaux mixture or ammonia carbonate
is sure cure. The vines should be
sprayed every fifteen days from the first
of July till the fruit begins to turn blue.
The author of "Common Sense in the
Poultry Yard" says that he Is satisfied
from his own experience that less than
an acre and half for each hundred
hens is not good economy. On less
than an acre it is difficult to carry out
the rotation of crops that is absolutely
necessary, and the fowls do not acquire
the vigorous health that is so desirable.
1t is useless for beginner to try and
experiment with hens. There is no
business which is more injured by con-
slant changing, trying to find something
better, and discarding the old before
anything better is obtained than the
poultry business. All breeds of fowls
have some good points, and the ideal
one, satisfactory in everything, has not
been discovered, and this is not the
worst of it. There is very little chance
of fowl being discovered which will
be an excellent layer and reach good
weight for table use.