Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-01-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Keep all the pulIets from early winter
laying.
Young guinea fowls, if fat, make nice
table fowl.
Too much hnseed meal will make the
hens too fat.
Turkeys will degenerte avery rapidly
by imbreeding.
Do not allow the poultry to run with
the fattening hogs.
One leading cause of failure is in at
tempting to keep too many fowls for the
space.
Tobacco leaves or stems put in the hen
keep lice away.
Tarred paper is good material with
which to line the inside of the poultry
house in winter.
Keep the poultry house clean and ap.
ply plenty Of coal oil to perches, nest
boxes, in cracks, etc.
Geese and ducks should be kept in
yard or pasture away from the we'll,
especially the house we'll.
A reasonable man never beats balky
or unwilling beast. He isn't sure how,
he would feel himself if he were doing
the pulling.
Feed one pint of oats, one and s
quarter quarts of bran and four ounces of
linseed meal for a days rations to the
six nonths-old colt, and gradually in
crease it as the colt grows older.
Apples that are packed in buckwheat
chaff for winter use keep longer, do not
lose their flavor, are less inclined to rot,
and il few are affected the chaf alb.
sorbes the juices, which prevents them
from affecting the rest.
When a COW is two years old a wrinkle
begins to form at the base of her horns.
At three years this wrinkle is fully de-
veloped. When she is five years another
will form, and after that one will come
each year. Thus her age can be known.
At the Ohio Experiment Station they
find it profitable to SOW onions in the
hotbed in February Or March, and trans
plant in April or May. The early sorts,
such as the New Queen or Barletta,
Pearl, Burmuda, etc., gave results under
this treatment.
Sheep must go into winter quarters in
good condition if you expect them tc
winter we'll. Look over your flock now
and if they are not all up to the mark do
your best to make them so as speedily as
possible. It will pay better to give
extra feed and care now, rather than
to have an unthrifty flock on your hands
through the winter.
The schedule of hereditary diseases
adopted by the Royal Commission of
horse breeding of England as rendering
stations unfit for stud purposes includes
the following inirmities: Roaring,
whistling, ringbone, unsound feet, ma
vicular disease, SPAWN and cataract.
An entire horse suffering from any of
these disorders should not be allowed to
become parent, the probability being
that the disease would reappear in the
offspring.
A horse led to the stable from work
or driving should have a few swallows
of water until he gets cool. If to be
fed at once he should have not more
than two or three quarts of water. If
he has to stand an hour before feeding
he may have a pailful of water. If
this amount Of water were given imme-
diatelv before feeding it would weaken
the digestive power of the stomach,
dilute the gastric juice and be apt TO
cause indigestion.
Carrots make an excellent TODD for
horses, particularly during sickness.
They improve the appetite and slightly
increase the action of the bowels and
kidneys. They possess also certain altera-
tive properties. The coat becomes
smooth and glossy when carrots are fed.
Some veterinary writers claim that
chronic cough is cured by giving carrots
for some time. The roots may be con-
sidered adjunct to the irregular regime,
and if fed in small quantities are highly
beneficial.
A cowboy manages his swine in this
way: The sows have two filters OF pigs
yearly. The first are dropped in March,
grown on milk, clover and wheat bran,
fattened on new corn and sold at the
first demand for fresh pork in the fall.
The second filters 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.