Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-11-16
FARM AND GARDEN NoTEs.

| FARM AND GARDEN NoTEs.
A little vaseline and carbolic acid
applied to parts of the horse that ht
cannot touch with tail or head will
give him much relief by keeping flies
away.
Producers who have formerly de-
pended on ensilage may be obliged to
at least partially substitute grain to
make their winter dairying for 1894
and 1895 profitable.
Professor Roberts, of Cornell, says
the great difficulty with farming is toe
much or too little moisture, and toe
little cultivation, thus indicating the
necessity of drainage.
Before storing articles in the cellar
take day for the purpose, use peck
or more of sulphur, if necessary, and
fumigate it two or three times, in order
to purify the walls, floors, ceilings
and bins.
A. w. Pope, Wellesley, Mass, says
of alfalfa: 1t goes down further and
comes up faster than common clover.
The quality of the hay is good, but it
is hard to cure. get three crops
the year following the planting.
Foals should be taught to eat grain
while yet with the mares, and then the
weaning process is not SO likely to
check their growth. Feed any spare
milk to the weanings until they get
we'll started on regular rations of grain
and hay.
Dairymen should wake up to the fact
that it is quite as easy, at well-man-
aged creamery, to make good buttor
in winter as in summer. When they
realize this we shall not see so many
idle establishments just at the time
when they should be running at their
fullest capacity.
1t is not only Improbable but cruel
to let milch COWS wander about in
grassless fields under merciless sun.
Under such conditions keep them in a
small, shady enclosure if you have
one, and there feed them their forage
and see that they have plenty of cool,
pure water at regular intervals.
Select bull from good dairy
family, and then breed the very best
of your COWS, feed the resulting young
sters well, and train them so that they
can be easily handled when you are
ready to put them in the dairy. This
feeding and training is q necessary
supplement to the breeding, in order
to make a perfect dairy animal.
Gold weather shuts off the egg sup
ply among poultry keepers who do
not understand their business, and
then they cry that there is no profit in
fowls. But tho wise man makes his
houses warm and snug, feeds literally
and good variety of food, compels
the fowls to take exercise and reapeth
his reward in bountiful harvest of
eggs which sell at good prices.
Perhaps you have your dairy up to
q certain standard of excellence, but
how are you to keep 1t there? Some
of the COWS will soon begin to get old.
Then they must go to the butcher.
Better be raising and training some
good heifers, whose breeding you
know, to take their places. Do not
wait until you have to use them, and
then buy where it comes handy.
Do not be scared out of the poultry
business because people speak of it
contemptuously, calling it "little
business. 1t can be made just as
large as your ability and adaptability
will justify. It is more question OF
these elements than of capital. The
latter is good in it's place, but it is not
the only requisite, and too much of it
has wrecked this business more than
once.