Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-11-17
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Comb honey is more salable than
extracted.
Aluminium horseshoes are worth u
thorough trial.
The objection to fed honey is its
tendency to candy.
Bees are fond of salt and are said to
make more honey when it is provided.
Big horses with style and quality
are still commanding remunerative
prices.
A horse with sore mouth will pull
harder on the bit than one with II
sound mouth.
If the fall is favorable to honey
gathering the colony will store enough
to winter on.
A fast walker possesses the essen
tials of courage, energy and nimble-
ness OF action.
1t is harder to find first t-clsss road
or carriage horse to-day than it has
been for many years.
There are said to be four distinct
varieties of honeybees in India. They
are all different from the honey bee of
this country
When sheep is to be sold put it in
the best possible mutton condition.
Never think of selling n thin, poor
sheep on any account.
A hen that lays large number of
eggs is never sleepy or droopy. She
is too busy supplying the different
foods that nature and the eggs de-
mand.
Feeding too much soft slushy feed
is often factor i'll bringing on the
gapes in young chickens, as the fer
mentation taking place tends to create
the germs of the disease.
On the farm, at least, the fowls
should have a good range, rs they will
pick up much that would otherwise go
to waste, and in this way the cost of
feeding be greatly lessened.
Chicks that give promise of proving
standard fowls will thrive much better
if the culls are removed and more room
in the quarters and freer range given
to those that are to be kept
Don't allow the boys to tease the
stock ram. A butting ram is great
nuisance rs well as dangerous ami
NAL, and the boy that taught him to
butt does a mischievous act.
An English farmer timed his horses
when plowing, and found they walked
at the rate of nearly Ia miles in eight
hours. II requires eleven miles walk
to plow an acre in nine-inch burrows.
If half the trouble were taken to
bring ont the walking gait of work
horses that is bestowed on the trotter
or runner to bring out their move
ments, the farmer would he astonished
ut the result
Good draught horses are bringing
good prices on their merits, and the
scrubs find no market at cost of pro-
duction. Is il not time we gave up
raising scrubs and breed for size, style
and beauty.
If increased yield is the object choose
the most persistent layers and mate
them with cockerel of the best egg
laying strain to be had. Then giveth
hens sufficient exercise and plenty of
egg producing food,
DiarrhCea may often be mistaken for
cholera, rs tho symptoms at the start
are nearly the same, As soon as the
birds are affected they have down
east look, become sleepy, lose strength
aud have more or less fever,
The advantage with the Italian bees
over the black is that they are much
easier To handle, being much coulter.
They also produce much larger in-
crease OF bees, aud under the same
conditions make more honey,
In most localities the use of honey
is nothing like ~ great as u would be
II those who keep bees would put up
the honey IA II more attractive form
aud take mere pains to hiring il 90 tho
notice uf the hotter class of eonsum-
cts
Foundation Is an Indispensable
article ina the apiary, and every Keeper
of boes should have good supply ui
Il on hand With il We can have nice,
straight combs, and save the becsco
siderable work, AS well a. consumption
of honey
l.0ok for q market for your small
fruit near home long shlpmeuls eel
tlunl pay the smaller growers, as the
eolnmisslon on small shipments afd
high, and Il is only lho larger groWers
Who can make any prulll hy shipping
hang distances.
Properly managed, an incubator will
hatch tullN a. many eggs "a proportion
a. ihe average hen, especially during
lhe alHtet tHt It % aeeessagy mliY
a. understand lha maehine aud g. give
proper ente ia ntslaI D. uhialn tho hest
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