Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-24
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Pigs and dairying naturally go to-
gether.
The United States produce annually
forty-six million tons of hay.
A practical beekecper does not ex-
pect any great results from flower
fields three miles away.
Freshly cut grass makes all excellent
mulch for gooseberries. Dark manures
are to be avoided as they draw the heat.
The more docile the calf the better
mixer is the COW or the better feeder
is the steer There is little danger of
handling the calf too early or too
much.
In Australia the tree aphis is con-
trolIed by tea made from tomato
leaves. The tea is sprayed in the usual
way and week later an aphis cannot
be found.
The best test Of the health of the
COW is the condition Of her milk.
Whenever this shows an unusual
amount of fat the temperature of the
COW should be at once taken.
The hog business can be made to
ply if carried on properly. Like all
other animals the hog requires change
of feed and in summer plenty of room,
grass and other succulent foods.
English farmers feed all their straw,
and use it largely cut into chaff and
mixed with pulped roots for fattening
beeves and sheep. This mixed feed is
sprinkIed with cottonseed meal, or
corn meal, and makes good meat
cheaply.
Professor Wrightson, of England, a
noted authority on Hampshire Downs,
shows a record of a daily increase in
live weight of his lambs of three
quarters Of pound from the day of
birth that is, his lambs weighed IA
pounds when 1872 days old.
A well-bred animal of any sort is
machine for utilizing raw products to
the best possible advantage. It does
this with less waste, and consequently
more profit than scrub can. It is
like using good machinery instead of
poor to harvest your crops.
Those that have bred to the best
sires have no trouble TO sell their
horses at fair price, while the small
horses do not bring enough to pay for
their feed. The scrub and grade
stations must go; it is only the best
kind of stock that pays now.
Whether fattening an animal for
market or feeding a horse for work
A good young steers meat can be very
rapidly toughened by neglecting to
feed him at the right hour few times
or letting him go without water.
The Russian thistle is fortunately an
annual and the seeds are short lived.
If then the plants are not permitted
to go to seed for two years the weed
will be exterminated. There is no
danger of its spreading when the land
is we'll cultivated, as in corn and po-
tatoes.
The farm that does not support a
flock of poultry is not managed to the
best purpose. On the contrary, the
farm on which too much poultry is
kept will be the loser to the extent
that it is overburdeued, for where
poultry is crowded into a house it
ceases to be profitable.
Does not freezing butter damage it,
and if SO why is freezing advocated?
asks Mississippi subscriber of the
Farmers Voice, and the Voice answers
as follows: Yes, it hurts it some, but
it can be kept for months without do
ing it any more harm than would re-
suit from freezing it u week.
The more you can induce the lambs
to eat the faster they will grow and
the sooner they will reach the market.
Ground oats make the best grain food.
Place it where they can eat all they
desire. Feed the ewes literally also
in order to provide the very young
lambs with plenty of milk.
There are many things that should
be carefully observed in the education
of horses that are now entirely omitted.
Too much dependence is placed in the
bits, the lines, the strength of the
harness, the use of the whip, and the
ability of the driver to control the
horse by sheer brute force. Hence
there are 80 many fatal accidents.
A correspondent of the Field and
Farm says that when team is dis
posed to pull uneVenly the trouble
may be remedied by unhitching the
inside traces and crossing them, so as
to have the same horse attached to the
same end of each singletree. He says
he has pulled many heavy load out
Of a bad place by adopting this expedi-
ent.
The merchant makes an inventory of
his goods at least once or twice year.
Why should not the farmer do the
same thing and sell off his culls. The
gets rid of unstable articles
by offering them at low figure, re-
placing them with goods that are in
demand. The farmer can do tho same,
ind he will find that it will pay, for
he will then be improving every year.
An Australian farmer after several
Intellectual efforts to get rid of boar
hound, which is pernicious and rapid
weed there, Enclosed por-
lion of the land and put on about 200
fowl, feeding them on corn night and
for u few days, then remo,-
ing them to q new location. By this
means the weeds which had defed
other treatment were speedily de-
5trOyed.
There are forty-eight different ma