Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-11
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

If the bees are restless give more
air and water, and sweep up the dead
ones.
Eggs stored in a damp place will
often taste musty even though the test
be clear.
A safe rule with peaches is always
| to set them on an elevation, the high
er the better.
Good prices and increasing demands
are reported for high-class heavy
draught horses.
Lameness always indicates soreness,
stiffness or weakness, and demands
immediate attention.
Unless you are giving up breeding,
do not be tempted by good price to
sell off the good mares.
Divide the skim milk between the
hogs and hens and notice how much
better the latter will lay:
There is no reason to fear that cleo
tricity will ever be able to take the
place of good horses of any breed.
A hen will eat about bushel of
grain year. At that rate she pays
| big profit on what she eats if she does
her best.
When the dairyman has learned how
to produce June butter at any time of
the year he is getting up to the art of
butter making.
By keeping the trash in the garden
or orchard cleaned up large number
of pests that injure the fruits and trees
may be destroyed.
In nearly all cases the earlier the
fruit is thinned the better. It is not
good plan to allow the trees to ma
ture too much fruit.
After an orchard has come into full
bearing one of the best plans of man
agement is to seed it down to clover
and use it as hog pasture.
Root pruning is done by taking
sharp spade and digging a circle
around the stem of the trees deep
enough to cut off portion of the
roots.
If the farmer does not like poultry,
let the wife have charge of it, and let
her have ali she can make out of it.
She will soon develop the business into
paying proportions.
Lettuce, peas, spinach, radishes,
beets, parsnips, and satisfy are the
first things planted in the open ground
in the spring. Cucumbers, beans and
the like should not be planted until
all danger of late frost is over.
Farmers who are now using hay will
find that some will be more highly rel
ished by stock than other portions.
This difference in quality is due to the
stage of growth at which it was cut,
and also in the manner in which it was
cured.
There is nothing saved by overfeed,
ing-that is, keeping food where the
animals Can always have access to it
as such feeding leads to indigestion.
Have regular hours for feeding and
give each animal all that it requires,
but no more than it will eat up clean.
A Kansas fruit grower says that corn
is undoubtedly by far the best croI
for an orchard that can be grown, a,
it breaks the wind, and the trees grow
up straight. Insects, as rule, viii
not trouble q tree when there is plenty
of green fodder and corn for them, t.
work on.
The mule is much better anima
than the horse for some purposes
The feet of the mule do not become as
easily injured as those of the horse,
and mules are also less liable to dis
ease, will eat q greater variety OF
coarse food, and eau be worked il
closer rows than horses.
A cool crop to help out poor
pasture is the cow-pea, that can be
either cut or pastured. Are you plan
ming to sow some? 1t makes splendid
crop for emergeG oies because it can be
either pastured, cut for hay, or
allowed to mature aud the peas
thr eshed out. There is no better COW
feed.
While wheat and other grains have
fallen in price, there is no complaint
that eggs are not fully up to expecta-
tions in prices. Eggs are always ''cash
on sight," and those who make
speciality of supplying customers with
strictly fresh eggs are affected but lit
tie by business Impressions or sudden
changes in value,