The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-06-13
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOThS.
Be kind to the colts and you will
have gentle horses,
There is no fruit that can be grown
as readily rs the grape.
Big horns aud feshy udder are re-
garded as bad points in a milch COW.
A sick COW should be put by herself
at once and covered with a warm blan-
ket.
Standard-b bred trotters that can I trot
are poor property for any breeder to
stock up with.
Care and feed are Just as important
factors as pedigree in raising trotting
stock at profit.
1t is pretty we'll established fact
that profitable butter COW is a 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 the financial
prosperity of trotting sport.
Much of the failure of seeds to ger.
inmate in 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. Ten pounds
of seed would be a great sufficiency on
good land.
If the hen house is overcrowded
there will BE- trouble. Disease will
almost surely appear and the hons
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 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 a space Of
four feet, and gooseberries the same,
aud be kept trimmed and cultivated.
Cut ont old wood when it becomes un-
thrifty.
The sugar beet is valuable as food
for fowls. Served raw through the
summer it answers to the purpose of
green food when other vegetables are
scarce.
Crude petroleum is better than
kerosene, comes cheaper, and if often
applied to your hen roosts and hen
houses will soon destroy all rats,
mites, etc.
Efforts to introduce corn into Ger
many as cattle feed have failed so far,
as strong prejudice against it exists,
and all sorts of stories to its detriment
are in circulation.
Pounding a COW with stool or club
does not force n greater quantity of
milk from her. Neither will yelling,
screaming and cursing add to either
milk or good temper.
If fruit trees are sufficiently ma
tured and yet do not bear we'll, it will
be found a good plan to stir the soil
thoroughly aud apply a good dressing
of we'll rotted manure.
The appearance of the animals on a
farm tells a good deal about the owner
and his tastes. Thin COWS with prom
inent ribs in winter or spring are not
much of & recommendation.
Whole wheat is better for fowls than
corn. 1t does not make them 50 fat,
and, considering the number of eggs
which can be procured by using it, is
altogether more economical food. >
Turkeys will come home to roost if
fed regularly in the evening. Grain
may be fed entirely, but if mixed with
bread crumbs aud scraps from the
table the birds will like it much bet
ter.
Build mp the frame of the young
animal so as to secure size before at
tempting to fatten it. Fat is an in
' cumbrance to growing animals. When
they reach maturity is the time to fat
ten them.
An average yield of black raspber
' ries is about seventy-iive to eighty
S bushels, red raspberries seventy
: blackberries 100 bushels per acre, ac
cording to the estimates of Professor
Baily, Of the Cornell Experiment Sta
tioHl