The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-02-17
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Don't unnecessarily expose the horse
to storms and wind.
1t is believed that there is danger in
breeding from blind mares.
Save the best hay for the season when
your horses will have to work hardest.
The best poultry breed is the one you
have tested aud tried and is best adapted
to your purpose.
Two by four-inch scantliugs placed
two feet from the ground or floor make
perches for fowls.
Pekin ducks are easily raised, grow
rapidly, and make flesh twice as fast as
a fast-growing chicken.
A breed generally has only one dom
inant talent and seldom excels in more
than one characteristic.
BY keeping fowls through the winter
in good condition their usefulness in the
spring is greatly increased.
1t is estimated by good authority that
good average comb will yield from sixty
to eighty per cent. pure beeswax.
Put away your surplus bee supplies
where moth will not destroy empty
combs-and they should be kept in dry
place.
The ignorant "hoss doctor" should
be given q wide berth. The educated
veterinarian knows little enough about
his dumb patients.
In all cases of fistulu or poll-evil, it is
well to give constitutional as we'll as
local treatment. A sore like these must
affect the blood more or less.
1t does team no good to let it stand
tied TO hitching- post, with the thermom-
eter ten de .yrees below zero, an opinion
which everybody will endorse.
1t is reported that there are in the
United States 10, 900 bee- e-keepers having
500 colonies. A very prominent bee.
keeper seems TO doubt the statement.
Poultry raising as an exclusive business
has only in exceptional cases proved
success; the principal dependence for
both eggs aud poultry is upon the
farmer.
There are rlngbones that cannot be
cured, unless skilled veterinarian exam
ines the case; however, there is no way
to tell that, except by trying the usual
remedies of blistering aud firing.
A reliance on old and tried varieties OF
fruits is the proper thing for novice in
fruit culture. Many of these old fruits
are as prolific aud profitable as they were
a generation ago. Let the scientists and
the nurserymen do the experimenting.
Treat the dog we'll if you are deter
mined to keep him. Feed him such
foods as will satisfy the whole system.
We have little doubt that some dogs are
led to kill sheep because the System
Graves for nourishment that it does not
get.
There's not farm where grain has
been fed, especially cotton or linseed
meal, but the evidence may be read in
the fertility of the soil. These grains
are so rich in plant food that the ami
mails take but small per cent. in its
passage through the body.
If you know that dam and sire are
without weaknesses, we would say to a
correspondent, there is no danger in
close inbreeding. The trouble is that it
is difficult to know that. 1t is not to be
forgotten that our improved breeds are
largely the result of inbreeding.
Some men will plow and work around
a bowlder for half lifetime. The
cheapest way to dispose of it, if it is too
large to be hauled of, is to dig pit and
topple it over into it. We have seen
many an unsightly, bothersome stone
effectually disposed of in this way.
Pigs cannot be grown pro6tably on
whey alone, but when fed with cornmeal
and shorts there is marked saving.
Seven pounds of whey about equal one OF
cornmeal when they are fed together, aud
therefore when the formeris worth twelve
dollars per ton whey is worth eight cents
per hundred.
A growing hog will, if of good breed,
increase fully one pound in weight every
cay of its life. If it does this it is
pretty sure to leave a profit over cost of
seeding aside from its addition to the
manure pile. If it does not, dispose of
it in some way, and get pigs that will do
this. There are several breeds that can
be fed with profit and the grades of
these for feeding are as good as the pure
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