Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-20
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Damp poultry quarters will often cause
leg weakness.
Gulphur, copperas and carbolic acid
cost more than grass.
Never allow surplus chicken food to
lie around and get sour.
If you are obliged to confne your
fowls be sure that they have some green
every day.
All hard -shelled tree seeds should be
planted in the fall from one to three OF
four inches deep.
Illinois station reports ATS varieties of
apples growing on its grounds at present
for variety tests.
In some northern sections of the
country varieties of Russian fF:sits are
being extensively tested.
If fowls have large range the grain
feed may be cut once day. Let them
hustle for the rest they have.
American Gardening advises thinning
fruit. Begin with pear trees and thin
the fruit one half, If it is thlckly set.
As general rule, trees should be
transplanted to the same depth that they
stood in the nursery Or where they were
grown.
Keep your chickens growing from the
shell, and they will be ready for the table
or market any time after ten or twelve
weeks of age.
The good layers are active and gener-
ally on the move and scratching about
are the first birds Quit the morning and
the last to roost at night.
Market as much fruit as possible right
at home, by using it upon the table every
day in the place of less digestible pastry
This is a sure way TO make the fruit
garden pay.
1t is better to use preventives than
r,:uedies for chicken cholera. Tins best
are perfect cleanliness, freedom from
vermio, pure drinking water aai protec-
ton from the hot sun.
When the early crops are used up they
should be replaced Immediately by some
thing else. Let a crop of snap beans
follow the early peas, and let these in
turn be followed by other crops.
Sheep left to shit for themselves will
not nay largely. With the same care
aud good food that are given the horses,
cows and hogs they will return a larger
interest on the outlay than any of
these.
Success with small fruits depends
largely upon the richness of the soil. Be
fore planting this fall make the ground
rich enough to produce 100 bushels of
corn pei acre. Then you will get crops
that will pay.
Cucumbers give larger return per
cultivated acre than any other item re-
ported in the census returns of truck
farming. There is yet time to plant
these for pickles, and try if your expert
ence will bear out the above.
Tc have full supply at midsummer,
1t is better to raise plants as early as they
can be grown without glass, and set them
in fertile moist land. Those raised
from cuttings are later and less produc-
tive than those grown from seed.
The collard is a tall growing cabbage,
which is usually passed over by the
catalogues of Northern seedsmen, but
much grown in the South. When bent
down and covered with earth in the win
ter it bleaches very tender, and is not to
be despised as table vegetable.
Horseradish roots are cut up into
pieces four inches long for planting.
These are planted in the soil, with two
inches of soil over them of course, right
end up. It is scarcely possible to get
rid of this plant, as tie small pieces of
root left in the ground will make new
plants.