Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-10
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
oullets are rarely too fat to lay.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Pullets are rarely too fat to lay.
Light Brahmas are good winter layers
Generally the best turkeys for breed
ing arc those two years old.
If turkeys can be given free range
they can be raised very chcaply.
When you can keep fifty hens profit.
ably you can readily keep more.
Chopped onions fed twice week now
will help to keep the fowls healthy.
Early matured, stock cost less than
those that grow and mature moro slowly.
If earth is used as an absorbent in the
poultry house remove it before it be-
comes foul.
The black knot in the plum tree has
become so general as to call for legisla-
tive action.
Young chickens will readily cat wheat
them than corn.
Some of our wcll-known horticulturists
claim that there is too much summer
pruning of grapes.
A good rule is to use the large roosters
of the small breeds and the small ROSTERS
of the large breeds.
| a poor hen will not lay at all; fat
one will lay few eggs, and these will not
be good for Matching.
NIlllet and sorghum seeds make q
splendid feed for young poultry, whether
in the broodcr OF with the hens.
Wheat is one of the best feeds you can
give your fowls to produce eggs; it is
also good to feed young chicks.
Strictly choice fowls that are known
to be such command good prices oil the
year round in the city markets.
1t was stated in bulletin from Coz
nell Station that chilling tomato plants
is of no advantage, neither is trimming"
With those who carry the stock over
winter the manure if carefully handled
and treated will prove source of profit
When the poultry can run out it is best
not to feed them too much. If tnoy have
good appetite they will hustle around
more.
The chicks of all breeds are nearly O,
the same size until they weigh a pound,
so that for broilers breed counts bul
little.
Inquiry is developing for turkeys OF
large size. twenty-five to forty pounds
Icing about the size of the modern tur.
key idea.
w. E. Farmer tells that cold storage
grapes pay one for holding them until
the great surplus has worked off from
the market.
Do not try to keep too many chicken.
in flock. More dollars will be got from
flock of fifty we'll kept than 100 that
are crowded.
While there is leisure is good time
to make good supply of pens that will
restrain the old hens and let the chicks
run at large.
Already the smoldering fires of the
incubator are beginning to burn, and a
three weeks' trial trip will soon be on.
Now is the time to set things in order.
IN discussion before the American
Pathological Society, Van Lendley
claimed that Edwards winter is fine
winter apple for North Carolina, and
OAS va VIC OCo1 oOOpCio Al Tic uluQlC OIL
North Carolina.
Successful cultivators of small fruits,
many of them, do not cover their straw.
berry plants until the ground is frozeE,
then they spread coarse hay over them
thick enough to conceal the plants, but
not enough to smother them.
Energy and good shovel of ample
capacity for handling snow are two OF the
requisites about the chicken yard now.
Give them dry ground at once after a
fall of snow, that they may be reg.
ular in their exercises each day.
Each year the poultry industry grows
more prosperous. More eggs and poultry
are produced each year, and each yea,
the prices are higher than the year be.
fore. This indicates that we are be.
coming q natioa of poultry eaters and
that poultry is going to become good
property for some years to come.
Many experienced and successful sheen
owners declare that the wool alone will
pay for the keep of the sheep, and that
the money derived from the sale of
lambs and mutton should be clear gain.
Upon such basis there would seem to
be little doubt that the profit from them
must be greater than from any other
class of stock.