Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-07-22

always joy.
Never allow the hens to drink from
stagnant water.
If lawn is to be made, prepare to
SOW the seed early.
A slow but healthy growth is desira-
BILE in fruit tree.
Potash is an essential element in the
soil of an orchard.
Don't be ia hurry to pull the mulch
off from your strawberries.
The goose eggs set under 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 fierce, if 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 fockmasters 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
season geese should average pound of
feathers each, and this should make them
pay.
Hay that is cut, cured and housed be-
tween daylight and 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.
It 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 we'll
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 filtering through the manure.
There is only one way to run a dairy
successfully, and 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
market? If so, you have not observed
that ''light bacon" hogs are the ones that
bring top prices.
If you plant field of sweet corn, in
order to experiment little with green
soiling this fall, don't have it a 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 ne 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.
The man who wants to buy Jersey
bull and who has not made a study of
pedigrees will have to trust good deal
to the honesty of 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-
sible for the inferior if not poisonous
milk served to customers. Clean sur
roundings conduce to good health,
whether of man or beast. Time con-
! sumed in making COW comfortable will
be as money in the dalCyman's pocket.
1t is not new fact, but yet remark
able one. that if a fruit tree, apple, pesr