Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-03-25
Farm AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Never fatten breeding fowls.
A cement floor is good for the poultry
ouse.
Keep fresh water before your fowls
constantly.
Stock growing involves less labor and
lGs machinery.
The Light Brahmas make good cross
| to increase size.
Separate all your breeders, and sell all
tile surplus stock.
For eggs alone, Leghorns are best
with Hamburgs second.
By working hot ashes in :hn soil 1t
will dry out and work fine.
Keeping the droppings cleaned up W..
prevent scaly legs in fowls.
1t is nearly always best to feed whole
grliu to the poultry at night.
1t is well known that the feeding
value of hay varies good deal.
The cabbage plants will grow more
stscky if the seed are sown thin.
1
SCOT or ashes sifted over the tomato
bed will drive out insect marauders.
Properly managed, the winter season
is most profitable for poultry ralsers.
No stock on the farm will more gen.
erolsly repay good care than the fowls.
Peas may be planted as soon as the
ground is open enough to receive the
see1.
The Bush Lima bean has stool the test
now of several seasons in many different
localities.
When very early crop of potatoes is
desired sprout the potatoes used for seed
before planting.
Conover's Colossal, leading aspara-
gus. has now a rival in earliness in the
ne wer Palmetto.
Farmers who put largely in grass upon
whica good stock is kept are constantly
growing richer.
For rowing tomatoes under glass the
temperature should not be less tnan sixty
degrees at night.
Seald the drinking vessels not less
than four times year, and you will find
tia preventive of poultry disease.
Plant more nut trees. The black wal
nut paws well for the space it occupies
IN valuable lumber, as well as in its
nuts.
Ii you have disagreeab,e cock bird,
which Is fonder of fl citing and quarrel
ing shan breeding, remove him oncei
his Dom is better than his com lany.
1t is not often that hen will want to
set at this time, and if she does it will
require more tnan the average. comfort
abe quarters if she hatcles oat her eggs
we'll.
It should be remem bcred that lice at
tack ill-led fowls tr:t, aud thatit IS next
to impossib', to feed up into thrifty
condition fowls that are badly infected
with lice.
The secret Of success In raising early
broilers for market is not SO mucn III the
Matching as in the feeding and care
alters ward necessary to secure vigorous,
thrifty gaiu.
In making a start with turkeys it will
always pay to get one of the better
breeds. The bronze is one OF the best
breeds. They are hardy and grow
rapidly to a good size.
Every doyer garlen ought to have
several varietie; of sweet peas, nastur-
iums aud thunbergia all OF which climo-
ers blDon the first season aud are read
lily propagated from seed.
If you fud bird indisposed, remove
and care for him. Ii he has no disease,
apparently, remove his tail, one feather
at time; the loss of his rudIer will
generally build biri up.
, Ground oats makes splendid food
;; for ycuug poultry, but in nearly all cases
it will be best to sift them aud give tbs
liner portions to the young chickens and
the coar>er tc the larger foSis,
Use all reasonable pains TO keep the
poultry tame. 1t will be quite advau
ia geous when it begins to be necessary
to handle them, as it will be when the
hens begin to set and hatch out.
The masters eye alone will stop the
leaks in farm profits, H. must see every
broken rack and windy exposure, ike a
missing paue of glass, aud tad the holes
in manger or drop, aud detect the weak
spot in the floor. The hired man will
sleep souudiy, bat the owner of the horse
will hear HIM if he gets cast in the stall.