The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-10-17
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large amount of potash.
Overlooking Is the most fruitful
cause of failure to lay.
Take extra good care Of the horses
during the working season.
Do not make tho horses carry extra
weight In unnecessary harness during
the hot season
The stallion has moro influence than
the marc on the action and conforma.
tion of the colts.
1t is said that fowls that lay white
eggs are more prolific than those
which lay dark eggs.
Care in handling young horses will
be well repaid in the increased faith
fulness and docility of the pupil.
A great deal cf wet land along the
banks of streams and ponds can be
used for growing the basket willow.
An eight-frame hive for bees is now
preferred to the ten-frame Lanstroth
hive, which has been SO long in use.
A solution of silicate of soda is said
to be perfect preservative of eggs,
and does not injure them in any way.
If necessary to cultivate the po tatoes
after the plants have blossomed in
order to keep the weeds down, run the
cultivator very shallow.
Breed for quality as well as size.
There is many sound sixteen-haud
horse that nobody wants at any fair
price, simply because he is coarse
brute.
1t is &he rushing and worrying OF
horses that hurts worst in hot weather.
A steady gait and gentle treatment
will accomplish the most at least ex-
haustion.
Soft food does not tax the digestive
organs sufficiently to insure their
vigor. 1t is the cause of moro deaths
of young chicks than anything else,
excepting lice.
The idea that corn cobs are of no
value is mistaken one. They should
be carefully saved, and either con-
Nerted into cob charcoal or burned
and the ashes given to the pigs.
The most expensive fertilizer to
the farmer is nitrogen, aud this cost
he can reduce on his farm by growing
clover, COW peas and green crops for
turning under, for the purpose of
renovating his soil.
After the flies begin to bother tho
horses in the pasture it will be found
to be good idea, whenever circum-
stances will admit, to put the horses
in darkened stables during the day
and turn them out at night.
Don't givo your horses too much
cold water when hot or after hearty
meal, especially when they are tired.
If you will remember this advice it
will save much uneasiness in your
horse and much loss to yourself.
When animals are stabbed at night
q minimum of 1900 cubic feet should
be allowed for each of them. In Eng
land, tho newer cavalry barracks give
a minimum of 1900 feet with ground
area of fully ninety square feet per
horse.
1t costs no moro to grow pound
of mutton than it does to grow O
pound OF beef, while the former pos.
sesses the additional advantage that
the wool produced will pay for the
animals keep. This leaves good
profit for the meat.
A French agricultural writer recon-
mends the use of powdered camphor
to dry up COWS which continue to sup
ply milk too close to time of calving.
Cows giving about six quarts day,
three weeks before due, were given
three doses of thirty grammes each
dose, and the COWS became dry in two
weeks.
Apples do not sweat. Cool apples
if placed in q warm room will con
dense the moisture of the atmosphere
which comes in contact with them,
just as it is condensed on the outside
of pitcher of cold water on warm
day. Aud this moisture contains germs
of decay. The remedy is to keep them
surrounded with uniformly cool at
mospherc.
Never allow q draft of cold air TO
pass through the hen house for Yenti-
lation or for any other purpose. Cold
drafts on chickens are not needed, aud
work injury to them by increasing tho
demand for food and decreasing tho
egg supply. If hen house is too
close leave the south side door open,
which will give ventilation sufficient
for all purposes.
The COW pea is species Of bean of
a dwarf growth, and bearing roundish
pods, having seeds of various colors.
1t is n nutritious plant, both as re-
CARDS the grain and the stem and leaf,
and is readily eaten by all kinds OF
farm animals, especially pigs, which
may be wholly fattoned on this crop,
grown for the purpose. Ifsown thick
ly on the ground it may be plowel
under in the fall with much benefit to
the land.
The first thing to remember about
scarlet clover is that it is an annual.
That is, when it once produces seed
there is an end of that plant. 1t is
like corn or wheat in this respect, not
like timothy, which will yield crop
after crop of seed and still grow.
Scarlet clover may, however, be soweI
in the spring, and clipped or pastured
in the fall before the heads form. IL
then kept through the winter it will
yield a crop of seed the next year.
That really means two crops from IL