The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-09-14
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES,

Perennial phloxes are growing in pop
ularity.
Lilacs may be propagated by means of
grating.
II you want fine specimens thin out
severely the tree fruits.
over-crowding animals is the surest
way of inviting disease.
Bran comes nearer being complete
stock food than anything else.
If flies infest the stable scatter some
chloride of lime and observe its effect.
For pear scab, spray the affected tree
repeatedly with the Bordeaux mixture.
High-priced clothes and low. priced
cattle will not pay the mortgage on the
farm.
Corn silage, with gluten meal and
bran, is an excellent ration for feeding
beeves.
The California privet may be propo-
gated by cuttings planted in the open
ground.
Stock owners should be moro inter-
ested in preventing disease than in seek
ing cures.
Those who took their bees out of
winter quarters latest this year did best.
May 20 proved to be the best time.
Recently mare foaled unattended in
a freight car and got along all right.
The train was running thirty miles an
hour.
A horses memory is as long as his
| life, and this makes the lessons he first
learns of the utmost importance, as he
never forgets them.
For young animals, wheat bran is
good food, as it combines all the ele-
ments of hay and corn, and the sugar
it contains renders it easily digestible.
To prevent bees from stealing the
wax from gratis wrap thin paper around
the wax when it is first put on. By
having the paper whito the wax will be
cooler.
1t is to the apiaiists' interest to build
up market at home, even If he only
gets the price at which honey is sold in
the large cities he saves the cost of
transportation.
Those who plant strawberries in July
or August can expect a small crop of
very fine berries next spring. But they
should be well cared for during the sum
mer and fall and we'll manured as winter
sets in.
1t is all right to plan work ahead for
a rainy day, but if 1t ought to be done
at once; do not put it off. A needed re-
pair on tool or machine may be but a
small job now, but use will soon make it
a big job.
Glover or grass land newly plowed
is not good for strawberries. The red
headed grub is abundant in such land,
and he is no aid to strawberry culture.
Wait till the sod is well rooted before
putting out strawberry plants.
The French have found that the
Jersey and Devon cattle are less liable to
disease than the Durhams, and this may
account In part for the fact that there is
an apparent increase in the number of |
these cattle used in Paris dairies.
Buckwheat is an excellent food, |
enabling the COWS to produce superior |
quality of milk. Being very rich in
nitrogen, many farmers prsfer the bran
of it to that of wheat. The kernel is
known to be more valuable than that of |
wheat or oats.
The intelligent dairyman must study
incessantlY. Every cow has her peculi.
artities, which must be considered, and |
adaptations made in food and treatment.
Success in almost everything is won by
attention to details, and this is particu-
larry true of dairying.
At recent flower festival given for
charity, in the grounds of the Villa
BQrghese, just outside of the walls of
Rome, the women students of the Roman
University were present wearing the col
ored caps of their colleges, like their
men tellow-students.