Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-05-19
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Hens over two years old are not profit.
able to keep for egg production.
Allow no male bird to run with the
females unless eggs are wanted for hatch
ing.
A good plan in feeding corn is to teed
it to fowls on the cob. Let them do the
Smelling.
1t is slowly but surely dawniug upon
the minds of American farmers that fowls
do pay profit.
Young chicks should not be fed for
twenty-four to thirty-six hours after
leaving the she'll.
Pure breeds will give better returns
than the mongrel deadbeats tolerated by
our grandparents.
Never drive colt with an old harness
or one that is li.ble to give way with o
little extra strain.
a handful of linseed meal added to
the usual feed of horse will make its
coat nice and sleek.
If some of the big calves butt the
smaller ones about in the pen separate
N.SAAA Ahso NV l'CuS.
Cut pumpkin or squash in halves
and then stand back and enjoy watching
the fowls pick at it.
Grains, in the order of their value a.
poultry food, are as follows: Wheat
barley, buckwheat, corn, oats, rye.
Plaster from old buildings broken I'D
ana given the fowls to pick Mt will fur
nish them lime to form the shell of the
egg.
A busting place shold be provided for
the fowls. Dry road dust is best, but
sifted coal ashes is good In lieu of the
former.
1t requires as high temperature to
ripen the fruit of the tomato in the NORTH
as in the South, and the seedbed anc
nursery are necessary to procure early
fruit.
Nest boxes should be 50 constructed
rs to exclude the light. Biddy prefers
quiet, secluded place. She will not be
SO likely to acquire tae egg eating habit
either.
The breeds that produce the larees.
number oil eggs are MinorcAs, Hamburg;
and Leghorns. Those that attain the
greatest weight are Brahmas, Cochin,
and Plymouth Rocks.
Onions chopped fine and mixed with
the soft feed are excellent for fowls.
Cnre should be taken, however, not to
feed too many, or the eggs will have
decidedly unpleasant favor.
Avoid house where the wind can play
hide and seek through the cracks, crew.
ices and knot holes. Sore eyes.
swclled heads, and, worst of all, roup
will be the lot of fowls confined in such
quarters.
Where large number of chickens are
Matched annually an incubator and >,
brooder are indispensable. The old hen I;
is out of date for Matching purposes, and
we want her only in the capacity of an
egg producer.
Otter conditions being favorable.
sweet potatoes are more successfully kept
in large than in small quantities. Sue
cess has been reported in keeping small
quantities in barrels between layers of
perfectly dry forest or fruit tree leaves.
Pork is Choking up so much since
the foreign embargo on it has been re.
moved that those who have breeding
stock for sale smile and are happy. The
man who wall sell his best pigs at ak to
eight weeks old for fattening at any
price will be foolish.
A first-class trough can be made in
few minutes of chestnut, pine, or hem.
lock plank spiked firmly together, with
coal tar soaked on all connecting edges
and candle wicking saturated in the
same stretched thereon before mailing.
Such joints never leak nor rot.
Parsley is very easy to grow. Set
some plants from the garden in a cool
corner OF the greenhouse or else in
rather warm window, then you may have
parsley leaves all the winter. You can
SOW seeds at any time or dig old roots