Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-06-08
EARN AND GARDEN NOTES.


Be kind to the colts and you will
have gentle horses.
There is no fruit that can be grown
as readily as the grape.
Big horns and a heshy udder are re-
earded as bad points in n milch COW.
A sick COW should be put by herself
Mt once and covered with warm blan-
ket.
Standard dbred trotters that can't trot
are poor property for any breeder to
stock up with.
Care and feed are Just rs important
factors as pedigree in raising trotting
stock at profit.
1t is pretty we'll established fact
that profitable butter COW is prof
liable cheese COW.
The poultry keeper who does not
furnish dust bath deprives his
chickens of necessity.
The financial success of breeding the
trotter depends upon tho financial
prosperity of trotting sport.
Much of the failure of seeds to ger.
inmate i'll the spring Is due to the fact
that they are planted too deep.
When hens or hogs get weak in the
| legs it is often sign tnat they have
| been fed two much corn and cornmeal.
A farmer wants to know how much
alsike to SOW to the acre. Teu pounds
of seed would be II great sutficiency on
good land.
If the hen house is overcrowded
there will b. trouble. Disease will
almost surely appear and the hens
will not lay.
Tie up the horses tails whenever it is
muddy, but don't leave them tied up
over night 1t Injuries their appear
ance to say the least.
There is not very much difference
in the cost of feeding Il COW that makes
$50 pounds of butter in one year and
one making double as much.
Study the horses foot and the
proper methods of shoeing. 1t will
then be possible for you to know if
your blacksmith knows his business.
Currants should have space Of
four feet, and gooseberries the same,
aud be kept trimmed and cultivated.
/ Cut out old wood when it becomes un-
/ thrifty.
The sugar beet is valuable as food
/ for fowls. Served raw through the
summer it answers 10 the purpose of
/ green food when other vegetables are
scarce
Crude petroleum is better than
/ kerosene, comes cheaper, and ii often
/ applied 10 your hen roosti aud hen
houses will soon destroy all rats,
mites, etc.
1 Efforts TO introduce corn into Ger
many as cattle feed have failed so far,
as strong prejudice against il exists,
anl all sorts of stories IT, its detrlment
are in circulation.
/ Pounding COW with a stool or club
does not force greater quantity OF
milk from her Neither will yelling.
screaming and cursiny add 10 either
milk on good temper.
II frait trees are snlliclently ma.
tured and yet 10 nnt bear we'll, il will
be found goal plan d stir the soil
thoroughly aud apply good dressing
OF well rottei manure.
Tho appearance pl ths animals on a
I farm tells a good deal about tho owner
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lneut ribs ln winter ur spr.us are not
uiueh uf recommendation.
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