The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-29
The grape loves sunshine.

NeNer allow tue nenS 10 uIlnk from
stagnant water.
If a lawn is to be made, prepare to
SOW the seed early.
A slow but healthy growth is desira.
BILE in a fruit tree.
Potash is an essential element in the
soil of an orchard.
Don't be in hurry to pull the mulch
off from your strawberries.
The goose eggs set under a hen should
be turned every other day.
Farming in the garden works badly,
but gardening on the farm is excellent.
Manage to plant trees In some way
along the fence, IL no other place is
open.
For raspberries, the richer the ground
the larger and better the quality of the
berries.
From this time on through the summer
the average farm butter does not pay for
the making.
Manure from the pig pen is one of the
best that can be used around the rhu-
barb plants.
"Two is company and three is a
crowd" applies to triplet lambs as well
as to lovers and the gooseberry.
Shrewd flockmasters put to use a eve
that has lost her lamb by making her act
as wet nurse for lost or discarded lambs.
If they are picked regularly during the
yoosor ,roaoo eho,,II ayoror,o N xa,aI -
feathers each, and this should make them
pay.
On rich, level bottom land stock farm
ing can be made profitable, if anywhere.
But do not waste such an opportunity on
scrub cattle.
Hay that is cut, cured and housed be-
tween daylight aud dark does not often
lose its sweetness by being sun burned or
water soaked.
Often when the lambs are doing we'll
one is apt to think little extra feeding
will make them do better, but this gen
orally proves a mistake.
Most of the disease which is reported
each year among sheep is the direct re-
suit of exposure, neglect, starvation and
unhealthy surroundings.
1t may not pay the majority of farmers
to make speciality of dairying, but in
connection with other products it can
readily be made profitable.
Why not train the calves to lead and
train the boys to lead them, and if well
followed would often save much trouble
in the handling of the cattle.
Both the animal and vegetable king
doms are subject to the same laws. Seeds
as we'll as stock may be improved by
careful selection and breeding.
The advantage of barn cisterns cannot
be over estimated. Providing water for
the stock, they prevent water from the
roofs fltering through the manure.
There is only one way to run a dairy
successfully, aud that is to make bust
ness of it. The farm must be adjunct to
the dairy, not the dairy to the farm.
Give the boy all the hard jobs and the
chores that you don't want to do your
self, if you want him to leave the farm.
1t is pretty sure way to accomplish
this.
On majority of farms milk could be
used with more profit in feeding it to the
pigs, poultry, and calves than in making
it into butter and selling it at ten cents
pound.
Are you thinking of feeding corn and
making "big" hogs for next winters
market1 If so, you have not observed
that slight bacon" hogs are the ones that
bring top prices.
II you plant field of sweet corn, in
order to experiment little with green
soiling this fall, don't have it half mile
away from the stable. A friend of ours
who did this found that soiling didn't
pay.
When the farmer finds his cattle with
husky cough he may attribute the same
to indigestion from over feeding. Cut
down the supply fifty per cent. for two
days and the result will be Immediately
beneficial.
We should lend every encouragement
to steps that tend to develop new agri-
cultural industries. Even if we do not
wish to engage in them ourselves it re-
leases land from the production of other
crops, and that benefits US all very
directly.
A Canadian apiarist is Of the opinion
that bees wear out and die more quickly
in windy weather or in windy localities
than where the air is still. Hence the
Importance of selecting a sheltered
locality.
How Edward Burnett thinks that
"cows are made; not bred" He says
take the best bred calf and put it into the
hands of one man, and a poor COW results,
while in another mans hands the same
calf would make the highest type Of dairy
COW. Hence his theory.
Do not spray fruit trees until tho
bloom has fallen. II you do you will
destroy the honey bees, who have been
working so industriously to make your
fruit set. And your enemies are not on
hand to be destroyed until the little fruit
appears to lay their eggs in.
The man who wants to buy a Jersey
| bull and who has not made a study of
pedigrees will have to trust good deal
to the honesty of a reputable breeder to
supply what he needs. A trademark for
honesty is valuable property whether one
sells bulls, fertilizers, or -four.
Careless and unkempt attendants who
force COWS into filthy stables are respon-
ell Ia TO- tba ;pfarior 70 not y,o;oono,s