The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-05-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The perfect apple is OF medium size.
Turkeys, ducks, geese aud guineas may
be Matched in the incubator.
Get the flower borders ready for SOW
ing ANIMALS of the hardy class.
Geese are great foragers and will eat
almost as much grass as a growing calf.
Worden's Seckel pear is considered a
very promising fruit by excellent author
tiles.
Growers are regarding with much
favor the Frederick Clap pear, which
ripens in October.
The best fertilizer for an orchar is
stall manure mixed with wood ashes or
some phosphate mixture.
Every care should be taken that the
roots of transplanted trees are not ex-
posed to either sun or wind.
The "Boardman" is new apple,
named in honor of the Secretary of the
Maine Pathological Society.
If not already done, cover over your
strawberry bed with straw to remain and
protect the fruit from the ground.
One of the best plans of management
with the chickens and turkeys is to
change the males at least once year.
Early maturity is securing large
growth at an early age; but to receive
the best results quality must go with it.
One of the most important items in
the management of young turkeys is to
keep them dry, at least until the feathers
are well started.
Some hens never make good sitters,
and hence should never be allowed to
Fsit; a good mother is necessary to raise
the young fowls.
March and April are the best for hatch
ing, and all reasonable care should be
taken to secure as large numbeg Us pos
sible during this time.
See that the sitting hens have ready
access to plenty of food and water, so
that they will not be obliged to leave
their nests too long at any one time.
If the incubator chickens are little
late, better sell them when they will
average one and half pound in weight
rather than risk lower prices little
later.
There is no advantage in putting too
large a number of eggs under the setting
hens; fifteen is as many as a good large
hen can cover, and smaller hen should
be given less number.
In setting out trees, shrubs, berry
plants, berry bushes or flowers, be sure
you leave no open interstices under the
roots; make sure that the soil touches
the roots at every point.
Low-lying lands should, as rule, be
avoided Tor fruit trees. In general the
best results are obtained on high ground,
when the soil may be too rough for other
tillage, yet reasonably fertile.
When spring planting is in order set
the strawberry plants as early as the sea-
son will allow. If profit only is the OBJ
iect, select we'll tested varieties that are
favorites in your nearest market.
When you set broody hen, give her
a green sod for the bottom Cf her nest
it tends to keep moisture for the eggs.
Mark the date of setting on each egg, land
see to it that no hens lay to her or break
her eggs.
Fifty fowls may be kept in one house,
provided the place is kept clean aud
sweet and furnished with good run
The fowls should have wholesome food
varied with green stuff, ground bon'
meal, and coarsely ground oyster-shell
Fowls should become used to theiI
quarters.
Bookkeeping is just as necessary in
poultry keeping as in ordinary mercan-
tile business. Debit the hens with all
food, buildings aud general labor in their
behalf, aud credit them with all eggs,
poultry and stock sold. Then, at the
end of the year, or in fact any time, your
financial standing will be readily discov-
cred.
Absorbents are of great value to the
poultry house. Dry loan, smuck, coal
ashes, etc., are splendid for 'taking in
not only moisture and dampness, but also
the various noxious gases, such as am
monia and carbonic acid gas, which are
I always present in greater or lesser guam
, titles. A pure dry atmosphere is essen
! ! tial to health.
Among the anomalies of nomenclature
, noticed in our market reports are thr
, words "Irish potatoes" applied to ou
/ common potato. The potato is purel,
an American. Ireland never saw on
i until it was sent there from this cont
, nent. The sams is true of the tomato
Owing to tho very large use of this veg
r etable in Southern Europe many person
! are of the opinion that the tomato was
native Of that section.
S From the feeding of the hen in winter
= for eggs, all the way through the line o
+ domesticated animals until we reach th
t highest bred aud most valuable trotter
e the matter OF selected feeds, properl!
: balanced feeds, and feeds adapted to tn
/, end desired and essential to the accom-
Q plishments of the highest results is wha
s the American farmer and feeder has I