Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-03-04
rAnM ANp oAnprN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
No man Is too old to plant treo.
Make fruit orchard of your poultry
yard.
A warm barn saves lot of feed each
winter.
Kill the bug and you destroy its
progeny.
Wheat screenings mako good winter
food for hens.
If you want to keep your help furnish
Il house for it.
Weeds are mortgage that may foro,
close on the best land.
Cooked wheat bran furnishes bono ma
tcrial for young chicks.
Portable fences aro becoming moro
and moro desideratum.
Castor beans and all oily plants are
easily spoiled by wetting.
A sagging gate and door TINT sticks
cost moro to use than they do to fix.
There is rs much In tho proper curing
and handling of hay as there is in the
kind.
Economy is no relative of stinginess,
though some people seem to think them
brothers.
A good pasture is n valuable ally to the
hay stack. All that arc fenced arc not
pastures, however.
When pigeons are kept in small yards
care must be taken to keep an even num-
Der. An odd male will cause continual
trouble.
Young geese that have not yet com.
pletcd their growth should be fed liber-
ally from now on until they nrc ready to
market.
Cabbage makes good green poultry
feed for winter. All the small unmar-
ketablc heads should be gathered up and
stored away.
Giving the turkeys and ducks good
feed of corn regularly when they como
home at night will be n strong induce.
ment to keep them coming.
Eggbound hens or persistent cases of
Group rarely pay for the trouble required
to cure. The hatchct in majority of
cases is tho cheapest remedy.
II Western farm can afford to build
an irrigating ditch five or six miles long,
can an Eastern farmer afford not to
ditch his rich, DOGGY meadow
1t is not good plan to keep pullets
and old hens, fat and lean hens all to-
gether. They do not require the same
food and will do better separate.
Speculation is rs dangerous to the far
mer rs it is to the city man. Getting
into debt to buy more land or moro i'm
PIGMENTS is generally speculation.
1t is variety of food rather than large
quantity that fowls require, More care
is necessary in this respect when they are
confined than when given good range.
If any farmers have gathered short
hay crop, there is yet time to supplement
the pasture by little 'soiling" corn or
millet. Be vigilant, however, or it may
be too late.
Tho best shade for COW in fly time is
the shade of nice clean stable. Give
COW the chance to go into stable when
she plcases and she will soon show her
ideas rs to comfort and flies.
Before the winter sets in it would be
we'll for the farmers to consider the an
nual loss from leaving the corn fodder
in the fields. 1t is an odd custom, but
it entails heavy waste and loss.
A horse that is subject to lamcness in
one neighborhood may escape that diff.
Guilty in another section. Tender feet
may impair the usefulness of an animal
on hard stony ground, but on sandy loca-
tons the feet may not be so easily in.
jured. Street car horses when taken to
the farms often proven valuable and en-
tirely recover from lamencss.
The best fruit tree to grow on tho
lawn is probably che cherry. When
we'll established it does we'll in grass,
though it is best to NOW the grass as
often as once week. A closely shaven
lawn does not drain the soil of moisture
las when grass is allowed to mature. An
abundance of well decomposed manure
Bis important for the highest success.
One objection to the matted row sys-
item of growing strawberries is the drain
on the soil for moisture in a dry season.
The matted row system will never pro-
ducc strawberries equal to those grown
i'm hills. On the hill system several
crops can be grown, in the other only
about enc, while the work of plowing
up and replanting counts heavily against
the plan.