Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-28
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Unless the hen leaves her nest over
night the eggs will usually hatch.
For foliage effect, the tulip and the
plane trees are among the finest.
Wheat and oats with milk and bran
mash are good g-producing foods.
When YOU begin to fatten poultry, do
it as rapidly and Systematically as pos
sible.
The Hubbard squash is one of the
very best lor fall and winter market or
home use.
The Bordeaux mixture is still preferred
by many for prevention of parasitic dis
eases of plants.
Potatoes, milk, chopped clover or any
thing that the hens will eat can be used
to make up variety.
In Meehan's Monthly it is advised not
to cut an Usage orange hedge until three
years after it is planted.
Have good place for the goslings
and keep them away from the water TN
til they are we'll feathered.
j. S. Woodward, the Western New
York sheep-grower, is an earnest advo-
cate Of sheep in the orchard.
Scientific experiments made by the
New Jersey Station emphasize the i'm.
portance of muriate of potash for peach.
trees.
Capons grow nearly one-third larger
than cockerels, hence are profitable, as
they always bring good price in
market.
Coal ashes sprinkled in the poultry
house makes good disinfectant, keep
ing away the odors and making it easy
to clean.
There are three prime causes Of chicken
cholera-overcrowding, especially in
warm weather; filthy quarters and un-
wholesome food.
Those who have tried it say that Lo.
rett's blackberry is an excellent, all-round
berry, being hardy, early, prolific and
of good quality.
What can indicate poor man, poor
farmer, more certainly than poor fences,
poor pastures, and poor, starved, neg
lected flock of sheep2
Capons arc nearly always in demand,
whether large or small, an can nearly
always be sold at profitable prices; but
the larger ones sell best.
MIR. Mcmillan, authority in such mat.
ters, does not think much of ash and
beech trees for street planting, except
the white and European species.
In selecting breeding stock aim to
strike the "happy medium" neither too
large nor too light bonei. The one is
coarse and the other is played out.
Some people do not know that eggs
that have been chilled are spoiled for
Matching. If intending to set some
hens very early, keep this in mind.
Some farmers declare fowls a nuisance.
aud say they don't pay. This is where
they are left to shift for themselves.
Would the dairy pay the same way2
1t doesn't matter which way you put
1t clover and sheep; or, sheep and
clover. They always go together, and
both mean prosperity for the farmer.
Hen manure should always be kept Ia
a dry shed or box, and we'll mixed with
road dust. Handled in this way it is
the best fertilizer the farmer produces.
One of the advantages of sheep manure
over all other barnYard manures is in it's
freedom from weed seeds. No seed
will grow after going through sheep.
A correspondent in the Farm Journal
suggests that Bordeaux mixture will
prove an excellent disinfectant If ap-
Piled to the cellar walls and kitchen
sink.
The size OF an egg is not of so much
Importance TO the average buyer as its
appearance. Pure white eggs, with
clean shells, always sell well, even il
small.
There are a good many ways of ell-
ing who is good farmer, but none can
be seen and read of by all men, more
surely by stranger, than the clean fence
corners.