Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Make cuttings now of heliotropes for
summer planting.
Clean off and fix up all the flower beds
after the severe frosts.
Take good care of the potatoes that
are being saved for seed.
The Ponderosa tomato is remarkable
for its large, smooth fruit.
Pruning is now in order in many
sections for trees and vines.
Cut back the old fuschias aud trim in
to bush form for best effects.
A new sweet corn is introduced under
the name Country Gentleman"
There are few, if any, farms of the
North and East where hot bed will not
pay.
Test your corn before planting and
don't take all the kernels from one ear.
Take two or three from ears scattered
all through the pile, box or barrel
Good seed corn is the first essential OF
good corn crop. A half stand of corn
means lean yield, and lots of room for
weeds. The seed should be vigorous.
SKINNED milk and the whites of eggs
are very much alike, and though the
cream has been separated, full allow.
ance of Indian corn will supply the oily
constituents of the yolks.
The King apple sells well, but the ire,
has poor habit of growth, which
correspondent in American Gardening
says can be improved by top working on
Northern Spy or other ng-growine
variety.
If you have some money left over after
paying all your debts don't put it out
on interest till you look around aud see
whether you have good barn and good
warm quarters for your live stock, not
even excepting the colts and dry
cattle.
Experiments made in England showed
that the larger grains of wheat, obtained
by sitting, sprouted sooner, grew more
rapidly, made more straw and on an
average ten bushels more of grain per
acre, than did the small seeds sifted out
from the same lot.
Farmers should exercise great care in
removing skins; there is great variation
in the value of skins as far as the pres
ence of holes and other unfavorable con-
ditiens are concerned. The fine high
grade Jersey dairy skins are the very
best goods in the market.
Linseed is decidedly to be included in
the sick-diet roll of the horse. It is
nutritious, and from its oleaginous
nature, soothing to the frequently irri.
table mucous membrane of the alimertary
canal, and hence is particularly to be rec
commended in the treatment Of sore
throats.
A well-known Western man riding
across the country, and noticing thou
sands of acres cf corn stalks standing in
the fields from which the ears had been
jerked, said: 'The farmer is conducting
the only business in the world that al
lows a man to lose twenty five per cent.
of his capital stock and at the same time
live"
The whole secret of having eggs in
winter is to have pullets hatched early
say in March or April-that they may be
fully grown and feathered before winter;
then give them warm quarters and a
mixed diet, and eggs are sure to result.
Hens over one year old seldom lay in
winter, but a few should be retained for
setting, as they make better mothers.
There are a good many uncertain
kinds of measures in use that have only
local values. A bundle of hay or truss
contains tifty-six pounds of old hay and
sixty pounds of new, aud truss of straw
is thirty-slx pounds. These, however,
are only English measures aud are not
used here. A bag of potatoes is II
bushels or ninety pounds. A basket of
any kind of vegetables is three pecks or
forty-five pounds.
Linseed oil meal is safe and excellent
food for pigs if given in moderation,
but as this meal is highly concentrated
food, not more than than half a pound a
day, mixed with other food, should be
given to year old pig. A good and
safe mixture Is three pounds of wheat
bran, two pounds of cornmeal or pea
meal, one half pound linseed oil meal for
pig of $50 pounds. This food may be
made into slop, not too thin, with
skinned milk, or water, if the milk is
wanting,