Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-02-11
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


A. warm breakfast will help to make
eggs.
Do,not allow poultry'to freeze before
packing.
Pullets and two-year-old hens are the
most profitable.
When.hens are kept onlys for eggs no
rooster is.needed.
For cold climate breed with a
small comb will be found best.
Wheneyersthe hens begin to lay thin
shelled eggs, lit is an indication that they
need lime.
Feeding ontbarley mealsen days before
killing will,gRe delicacy to the flesh
of poultry.
Swelled heads and eyes in chickens
and turkeys are,oftenscaused by exposure
to draughts.
One of, the worst objections to close
crowding'is that the majority of poultry
houses are ill-ventilated.
It is rarely necessary on the farm to
buy poultry foods of any kind. The
farm will supplytenough.
On very cold nights feed of corn
that has been warmed in the oven will
be beneficial to the fowls.
Feeding ducksson chopped vegetables
or coarse, bulky materials will often in.
duce them to begin laying earlier.
A cross of Wyandotte or Plymouth
Rock male with .Brahma or Cochin hens
makes the best chicks for broilers.
White fowls are, easier to dress than
those of any other color. In breeding
the male nearly always imparts the color.
The man who wilfully deprives his
family of the privileges Of good vege-
table garden fails in one of his foremost
duties.
Too much cornmeal is injurious to
young chickens, especially when they
are raised in brooder. Use bran, mill
let seed or oatmeal.
Any number of pigeons can be kept
together in one building, provided they
are not crowded too close and the sexes
are kept equal, SO that they will not
quarrel.
A first class morning meal for fifty
fowls is very quickly and easily provided
by pouring two gallons of boiling water
over one gallon OF corn meal; put in some
salt and stir well.
If cutting tools are kept in good order
less power is required to operate the n.
The difference between sharp pillow and
a dull one may not appear very i'm
portant, but it may make the difference
in labor of three horses compared with
two.
The effect of example is one Of the
most terrible things in life. No one can
tell how far it extends. One mans life
or one mans Notwithstanding in
turn multitudes of others-may go down
through ages gathering its tremendous
harvest of good or evil.
In almost all orchards, especially if
old, there will be found some trees past
service and only cumberers of the
ground. The sooner they are dug out
the better. We say dug out, for if this
is done while the tree is standing, it is
comparatively little trouble.
| Nearly or quite all kinds of small
fruits, as well as young trees will be the
better if they are properly mulched dur
ing the winter. Mulching is to keep the
soil at as even a temperature as possible,
and prevent the injury often caused by
alternate thawing and freezing.
Among the essentials to the proper
construction Of wooden silo are these
which affect its durability. Only sound
and well-seasoned lumber should be
used; sapwood, too, is much subject to
rot, because it contains much more food
upon which the fungi subsist, hence the
, sappy ends of studding should be turned
up and the sappy edges outward; ths
soundest boards should be reserved TO
the lining and the very best placed q
> the bottom.