Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-06-09
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

eight or ten feet apart.
Weeds are the enemies Of the farm,
as dirt is the enemy of the house. Keep
clean.
The prize-taker is the name of new
onion which is very favorahly re-
ported.
In broadcast seeding termination is
more rapid on rolled than on unrolled
ground.
Give sucking pigs little sweet milk
now and then. They viii grow more
rapidly.
A rich, sandy loan, underlaid with
gravel, with good drainage, is best for
potatoes.
Potatoes are said to shrink greatly
in storing if dug before they are fully
developed,
If your fowls have the range of the
farm and have access to fresh water
they will need but little care.
If weeds are too high for sheep to
reach to top, break them, SO the top is
within reach, and notice results.
Sheep, too, have cranky ways that
can't be cured Make up your mind
to humor them rs much as your wife.
Practical, successful sheepmen talk
altogether too little, and those who
know nothing practically say too much
Vegetables can be sown on the
southern side of fence some weeks
before they can be on the north side.
Go slow in turning cattle and horses
out, and await the drying of the sur
face and better growth of the herb
age.
Thin, old and feeble ewes should
not be required to raise lambs. 1t Is
rs much as they can do to live them
selves.
Cows should never be allowed to suf-
fer from thirst. A constant supply of
fresh water should be at all times ac-
cessible.
Potatoes are worth one-third az
much as corn in nutritive value. The
price determines the question of feed
ing them.
In hot weather sheep lay in the
| shade during the heat of the day and
! feed after the sun is down. HumOr
| this notion.
If you mean to sell spring chickens
sell them in the spring, not in the
fall for eight or ten cents pound and
lose money on them.
Wherever wheat can grow rye Will
thrive. It is n more hardy plant than
wheat, and not so liable to be affected
| by changes in the weather.
The high prices for hogs last winter
are likely to injure the farmers.
Everybody will go to raising them,
and the bottom viii drop out of
| prices.
Don't stop the winter ration off
short as soon as you see the first glim-
mer of green grass in the pastures.
| There is not great deal Of nutrition
in the very young grass.
Because bright timothy hay and oats
are the best feed for horses it does not
follow that they would not like
change from it sometimes, or that they
would not do better for such a change.
The farmers who are successful are
those who never lose sight Of the fact
that the farm is the home, that every
thing done toward identifying and i'm
proving the place is enhancing its
value.
A soil well prepared prior to plant
ing, sound seed, clear and level cul-
ture-thesc are the things that bring
good potato crops. When all these are
observed, ard the bugs kept of, there
is not ofteU :. serious failure.
It is poor policy to always sell the
best animals. Good stock to breed
from, good dairy COW, good farm
horse, will pay you to own, as well as
anybody else. Keep the choice and
Utilize their whole earning power at
home.
/ frst-class tomato must have the
qualities of earliness, good size, smooth
and cylindrical shape, solid texture,
productiveness, freedom from black rot
and cracking about the stem. The
Matchless is said to combine most of
these points.
When you turn horse out to pas
ture take off his shoes and give the
Zee: chance to spread and grow. 1t
would be a great benefit to the horse
often curing severe cases of lameness.
If the shoes are left on, the horse viii
probably become lame.