Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-04-21
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Sprinkle borax to drive AWAY ants.


Sprinkle borax to drive away ants.
Never brand an inferior grade OF
butter.
Do not leave new milk standing in i'm
pure air.
Bathing in sweet oil is one of tho best
remedies for frosted combs.
Wet earth is the best OF all cures for
bee stings, and is always at hand.
Hens never ought to be so fat thai
they will not forage whenever weather
will permit.
Allowing young chickens to roost on
perches often causes crooked or.deformed
breastbones.
Feed we'll and steadily; not too much
bulky food like straw, nor of highly coz.
centrated food.
The raising of turkeys, ducks and
geese should not be undertaken unless
good pasturage can be provided.
Mice will attack beehives, and must be
guarded against by closing the entrances
of the hives with fine wire mesh.
Cows exposed to the early and unex.
pected cold snaps are the first to go dry.
This is an especially important fact to
dairymen.
The COW that gives milk which churns
quickly is one for breeder to keep. No
one can make other than salvy butter il
the milk has to be churned an hour OF
more.
In feeding roots be very careful to
have them as free as possible from clay
or other gritty substances. A careful
farmer digs these in dry weather. A
good way to prepare this forage is to put
1t in box and chop with q spade.
The Babcock Tester shows that the
mornings milk is richer than the even
ing's. This is because no energy was ex-
pended during the night in exercise, and
is strong argument in the hands OF
those who believe in keeping up mich
! COWS.
A prominent sheep breeder, wheD
asked if he had not fed wethers, which
were being fattened more than twice q
day, said that he never fed them grain
but twice day, and coarse food three
times day, in each instance different
fodder being fed.
Level culture allows of an equal wet
ting of the soil by rain; the water is not
concentrated in ditch between the
rows, often below the bottom of the po-
tato hill and drained off, but finds its
way to the potato roots and supplies the
necessary moisture.
| Any breed which has size and vigor
will answer the requirements of anyone
starting in for raising mutton. 1t is not
necessary to expend large amount of
money. While the breed of sheep may
count something, yet that is nothing as
compared with what the ability and in
dustry of the owner.
To successfully water cucunbers, mel
ons, etc., place an ordinary threo-inch
tile in the centre of each hill, with lower
end four to six inches in ground. Fill
tile with water, which will gradually be
absorbed by the subsoil, and the upper
| grow hard and crack.
Strawberry growers should look after
their plants carefully Immediately after
crop, as at this time they need special
attention. Plants are weakened by ex-
cesslve production and become suscepti-
bic to cold weather. To insure healthy
plant and prosperous for succeeding
season little attention is obvious.
Salt will make fertile aoil if properly
administered. Those farmers who have
used mineral fertilizers, phosphates, for
instance, for any length of time have in
their soils quantity of unusable. I'M
fertile matter. An application OF salt
early in the season will accomplish as
much for year or two as the more costly
fertilizer.