Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-06-16
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Ounce trees do well at distance of
eight or ten feet apart.
Remember, the soil cannot be too
deep and rich for asparagus.
The pasture will be spoiled if the
stock are turned out on it too early.
Black hogs are supposed to stand
the rays of the sun better than white
The Enhance strawberry is variety
that is productive, hardy and long
lived.
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 favorably 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 will 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, 80 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 as 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 MS
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 a pound and
lose money on them.
Wherever wheat can grow rye will
thrive. 1t is 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 will 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
ohon Al
would not do better for such 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 it's
value.
A soil well prepared prior to plant.
ing, sound seed, clean and level cul.
ture-these are the things that bring
good potato crops When all these are
observed, and the bugs kept off, there
is not often a serious failure.
1t is poor policy to always sell the
best animals. Good stock to breed
from, a good dairy coy, good farm.
horse, will pay you Z own, as well as
anybody else. Keep the choice and
utilize their whole earning power at
home.
A first-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
feet chance to spread and grow. It
would be a great benefit to the horse
often curing severe cases of lameness.
Ii the shoes are left on, the horse will
probably become lame.
Horse radish starts to grow very
early, and is always left in the ground
over winter. If the green shoots are
allowed to appear the quality of the
root is injured. The root should not
be allowed to grow second season, as
1t will be tough and fibrous The
previous seasons plants should be all