The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-03
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


which flower the second year.
1t does not pay to raise tomato plants
when only a limited supply is required.
A good many farmers have prepared
their oat land with disk harrow in-
stead of plow this season.
Raising horses is a profitable industry
for the farmer, as rule, where the colts
are produced from mares kept for work.
In England there is standard size
for eggs. All which require more than
fifteen to make pound sell at re-
duced price.
With practical poultrymen the Minor
cas- are steadily growing In favor as egg
producers. Among other good qualities
they lay large eggs.
The surest way to lessen your own
particular agricultural depression is to
reduce the cost Of production. Make
this your constant study.
A good clover field, cut once for a
hay crop and again for seed, will give a
net return that is not excelled in many
staple branches of agriculture.
Eastern truckers talk with easy conf
dence about raising 500 bushels of toma-
toes to the acre, and getting twenty cents
bushel for them at the canneries.
The time to begin the regular picking
of the feathers of ducks and geese has
arrived. This can be made profitable
without interfering with the egg produc-
tion.
The only reason why white oats are
better than black for feeding is that the
latter have little thicker hull. This
makes difference of about ive per cent.
in nutritive value.
When you harness a team see il the
collar is free from dirt and hair, and be
sure it fits properly. Always speak to a
horse when you approach him, espe-
cially from behind.
Bookkeeping is the beginning and
end of profit in diversified farming. The
beginning, for it enriches the soil. The
end, for it affords a profitable means for
disposing OF many crops.
If dairyman depends upon buying of
much feed he must have most excellent
head to enable him to turn it into a
profit. The farm should supply most of
what the cattle consume.
For the cure of chicken cholera the
fowls should have mixed with their food
once day solution OF carbolic acid
and water. One dram of acid should be
used to two gallons of water.
Beginners in the poultry business will
often do better with ducks than with
hens, as they are better adapted to be-
ing kept in large numbers, AMI do not
sucumb so quickly to disease.
1t is well to have plenty of drinking
water near at hand for ducks. In eating
they are frequently choked, and the man
ner in which they swallow the water dis.
lodges the matter in their throat.
If, when a6eld with machine, YOU
take tools out of the tool box, always
leave what you do not want in the box.
Don't place them on the ground where
you are liabla to forget and lose them.
In potato growing, don't imagine that
new varieties and high-priced seed can
take the place of rich land and careful
cultivation. A potato crop will resent
such neglect about as quick as anything
we grow.
A day spent in planting or blowing is
expected to eventually pay some return
for the labor. But day spent in fence
building pays nothing, and we know
that by and by the same work must be
done over again.
The first thing to ascertain, in order
to make far ming profitable, is the cheap
est source of fertility. This will be
found, with few exceptions, in growing
clover and feeding it with grain, bran or
oil mea! to good live stock.
The cattle and other live stock feel the
benefits during the winter weather of a
shelter belt OF evergreen trees around the
farmyard. Norway spruce will form a
! good screen in few years. Take young
trees and plant them about eight feet
apart.
Oats should be substituted as much as
possible for corn during the summer.
The corn should, however, be given as
the evening ration. Corn, as Is well
known, is heat. producing food, anG
for this reason its use in the warm sum
mer weather should be limited.
Do not neglect to build a silo for the
poultry. The green food given them
during the winter will not only be q
delicacy to them, but will greatly aid
their egg productions, A silo four feet
each way will contain enough ensilage to
supply over 100 fowls during the win.
ter.
Red raspberrie7, to the taste of thou.
sands, lack character. They may be-
called flabby as contrasted with straw
berries, blackberries, cherries, or ever
blackcaps. Some people complain o
the seeds of the latter, but their flavor
makes them superior to the red varieties
after all.
Do not attempt to use the standing
frame, for where it stands may be
"catchall' for dust and a nursery place
for moths. Use the frame that hang!
free from rabbets, and has shoulders t
'self-space." There is economy in thr
use of the self-spacing frame, and sew
eral other points of excellence.
A good way to treat broken horn i
to wrap the horn.core in a strip of cottoI
cloth smeared with common tar, but no
gas tar. This protects the tender cor
from the air, and the new covering !
made in a short time without any NOR
attention. The bandage may be left ol
until it falls off, or it may be remove,