The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-28
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The effect of warm weather is found
in the egg basket.
Do not frighten the hens, as it dimin-
ishes the egg supply.
The largest kind of matured corn is
the best to convert into ensilage.
In arranging the poultry house have
both the nests and the roosts low.
One of the worst mistakes that poultry
beginners can make is too close in.breed
ing.
In nearly all cases the fowls can be
fattened on soft food faster than on hard
grain.
When the poultry are confined a por.
ton of the ruu should be spaded up
daily.
With all kinds Of poultry it is the
morning meal that is the most important; /;
give it early.
One of the best ways of fattening
geese rapidly is to feed them boiled oats
with plenty of milk.
A good way to break hen of wanting
to set is to put her in strange yard
with young cockerel.
A COW should be fed all the clover she
can cat, which will be in the neighbor-
hood of five pounds per day.
Select the turkey hens wanted for
breeding. The hens should not be kept
after they are three years old.
Now is the time when the fowls relish
green food. Give them plenty of it and
less grain Enthusiastically corn.
Care should be taken that the fowls do
not lay on too much fat. Be careful in
feeding, and there will be no danger.
When the feeding is done at regular
hours the fowls soon get accustomed to
it, and will know when the time comes.
Many consider that boiling the milk
before feeding it to the poultry increases
its value aud lessons the risk of disease.
The fowls losing their feathers is
often caused by want of green food or of
a dust bath. See that both arc supplied.
One reason why there is such large
amount of poor butter is that the cream
is allowed to stand too long before it is
churned.
In feeding a considerable saving
might be made if the keeper would re-
member that what makes fat does not
make eggs.
Old stock OF any kind is Improbable.
Every season enough young poultry
should be selected from what is raised
to take the place of the old.
The farm fowl should be of good
size, good table fowl, good layer, con
stitutionally strong aud well adapted to
stand the rough usage of the farm.
No COW was ever a good dairy COW
that was not born so, but thousands of
COWS that were born so have been
spoiled by poor and unwise handling.
A thrifty tree that fails to bear should
be root t-pruned. A trench dug about it,
and filled partly with rubbish, will effect
important and profitable changes for the
better. Root pruning checks growth
and develops fruit buds. 1t is an old
remedy, but not as often resorted to as
it should be.
AS the wheat aud other small grair
ripens, their sap dries, cutting off the
food supply of the chinch bugs, which
thsreupon often migrate to the juicy
stalks of the cornfeld. This migration
can be prevented by plowing a striE
some rods wide between the small graiI
and the corn, as the chinch bugs ar
10th to cross land devoid of vegetation
Farm stock is often kept too long 70
profit. Sheep decline very rapidly afte
six years old, and are best sold at five
Cows may retain their usefulness unit
twelve. Cattle and sheep are sold TO
meat, but with horses it is different.
horse that has been a good and faithful
servant for many years is often kept un
til he dies, which is better than selling
him for mere pittance, to be abused
the remainder OF his life. A good rul
to follow is to dispose of farm stock a
or previous to their prime of life.