The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-05-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Protecting tomatoes with bags has
been tried with good results.
If you would keep up with your sea.
sons work haul out your manure now.
Help at home doesn't cost half as
much as 1t does on the road or on the
train.
We must learn to set our crops so
that in marketing they will cost the
least money.
Poverty is illustrated by the con.
dition of the roads aud the farms that
bound them.
The clay floor of silo may be rem
dered rat-proof by painting it with
thick coat of gas-tar.
Cleanliness and comfortable quarters
are important items in keeping the calves
in good thrifty condition now.
Supply your hens with pure fresh
water. In cold weather it will do no
harm to have the chill taken off.
1t is very foolish error to suppose
that fine fowls are more susceptible to
disease than the common dunghill.
The great size and extra egg-produc-
tiveness of the thoroughbred fowls is the
result of years of judicious breeding
from the very strongest and most healthy
specimens.
Sunlight and air are among the best
preventives of mildew, therefore trees
and plants which are subject to its at
tacks should be so set and so trimmed
that they will not lack for either.
The most prosperous and best informed
dairymen in the South wouldn't use ice
if given them for nothing, as the butter
would quickly spoil after being taken off
ice, and families would buy it no more.
The cream gatherer for an Iowa fac
tory says that during the nine years he
has performed this service the quantity
collected has trebled, and the quality
has so improved that what was best at
first would now rate as poorest.
The statement is made that Ampelop-
sis veitchi, the japan creeper, raised
from seed started early in a box in the
house, and transferred at the proper time
to its permanent place outdoors, will get
twice as far up a wall the first season as
will young plant grown from a cut.
ting.
A we'll bred flock of thoroughbred
chickens are less liable to contact dis
ease, from the fact that good breeding
has established in nthem strong constitu-
tions and powers of endurance, while
promiscuous crossing and recrossing OF
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teristics.
To rake up and burn the fallen leaves
in the orchard, or to put them in the
manure heap, will lessen the liability of
the spreading of fungus diseases, and
the same is true of all other plants.
Where fungus is very troublesome in any
season, such measures may be necessary
to prevent its returning the next year
with increased power.
Success waits upon the man who works
his land for that which feeds his stock,
when every steer carries to market ton
of hay in the shape of beef, and fifty or
more bushels Of corn; when every colt
or flly, every hog or sheep does measur.
ably the same, and when butter by the
ton will represent train loads OF hay,
and grass, and oats, and corn, and other
stuff.
Do not let that hard milking COW
stay in the herd any longer than you can
help it, for she is an aggravation to the
mixers who soon spoil her by neglectinR
to strip her clean. 1t is most excellent
plan too for the owner of the herd to
take all the "hard cases" in the herd
under his own special care, for he being
interested, is sure to be more charitable
toward them.
1t is in the more arid parts of the
country that men Learn how best to pre-
vent the surface-the mould occupied by
the roots-from becoming fatally dry.
In California the value of hoeing is so as
suredly known that even the orchards
are kept under clean shallow culture, and
not a weed is left to rob the trees. The
same. care secures vegetable crops, where,
without it, they would inevitably fail. 1t
is lesson for other regions.
Has it occurred to you that if you
have a surplus of any one forage sheep
are just the fellows you want to help
equalize matters There are no other
animals that will eat and thrive upon so
many kinds of food; so, instead of pro-
vidlng forage crop on purpose for them,
wait until you see what you will have a
surplus of aud then provision the sheep
with that. So that it will be clean and
wholesome they will not care much what
it is, and will take it and give you good
return in wool and mutton.
A cowboy manages his swine in this
way: The sows have two litter of pigs
yearly. The first are dropped in March,
grown on milk, clover and wheat bran,
fattened on corn, and sold at the first
demand for fresh pork in the fall. The
second ltters come in August. They
are given summer conditions in winter
warm pens, cut and stepped clover hay,
roots, bran and corn, and are slaughtered
at the last demand for fresh pork of the
season. These two marketing seasons
are when fresh pork always brings the
highest prices,