Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-20
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
See that each fowl gets its share Of
feed.
The manure pile is not the best bed
for hogs.
Whenever you find hen that doesn't
lay, kill her.
1t rarely pays to keep hen after she
is three years old.
Place clean pure water daily where
the fowls can help themselves.
We'll fattcncd and well dressed poul-
try always sell ut the best prices.
Barley fed alternately with wheat
makes good feed for laying hens.
When the yards will admit keep hens
of the same size and disposition together.
Meat scraps of all kinds make good
ration for the poultry during the winter.
If fine-cut bones are baked and then
fed to the fowls, the nutritivc value of
the food is greatly increased.
1t is stated by some one that when the
thermometer stands at fifty degrees ut
shutdown frost will not occur that night.
1t is worth observation
The common nettle- is tirst-ratc
food for laying hens. They like it,
either chopped fine, green, or cut up
with the cooked soft food
The lazy man never will succeed as
breeder of fine fowls. Ii any one bust
ness requires attention, it is the breeding,
care and mating of thoroughbreds.
Air-slaked lime scattered around and
in the hen houses is an AL roup proven
tive. 1t is the most wholesome of all
disinfectants for the poultry quarters.
Scrub stock will thrive rs the razor
back hog thrives, by allowing the fowls
to shift for themselves. And, like the
razorback, they will be pro6tlcss, lanl1
specimens.
The tiny seeds. such as millct, rape,
mustard and the finer PARTICLES of cracked
corn, will, if scattered among leaves and
chaff, give yardcd fowls just the exer-
else needed.
1t is good time now tn mate your
fowls and arrange your breeding pens
Tor the coming season. Old breeders
know all about this, and the suggestion
is intended for new beginners.
Cover the top of the dropping boards
| in your poultry houses with road dust or
dry earth. 1t Is good deoderizer, be-
sides it renders the work of cleaning off
the dropping board much easier.
Sawdust is good thing to put in
nests where hens are addicted to scratch
ing out the straw. A little cut straw on
top and sulphur among the sawdust to
keep out the vermin is beneficial.
1t is an old maxim that n :ssick sheep
never gets we'll" but this may be due to
old-time modes of management. All
sick sheep should be removed from the
flock and placed in warm quarters on
straw bedding. Dryncss and clean
quarters are more beneficial to sheep than
medicine.
Slush and manure in the barnyard in
dictates lack of care. No animal should
be compelled to stand in BARNARD that
is damp and filthy. The easiest and
cheapest mode to avoid such barnyard
is to gill it well with absorbent material.
The stables should never be filthy, but
should be cleaned thoroughly every
day.
Turkeys are profitable. But when
bred for profit they must have quarters
separate and apart from other fowls.
And the larger run you Can give them
the better it Is for the birds. Turkeys
like wooded pastures and wide range,
but will thrive in closer quarters il
proper attention is given them.
Do not allow young ducks range, nor
water to swim in until a month old.
Get pan or crock, sink it in the
ground, put board over the top and a
stone on the board, leaving lust room
enough for the ducks to get their heads
in. Sprinkle oats, cracked corn, etc. i'm
the water and let the ducks fish for IL.
Keep their houses clean and do not let
them get caught in heavy rain, for a
| heavy rain will kill voup0 d,,oi,, -