Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-31
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Good sweet pork can only be MAIDS
from good, sweet food.
The jars containing frait must be
made absolutely air tight.
Sow turnips now. They will be use
full for the stock next winter.
As is we'll understood, all fruits are
usually propagated by budding or
grating.
Don'G cut the new cones back too
far. A few inches off the top is
enough, according to the number Of
fruit blossoms.
London milk is dyed cream color to
suit popular fancy by mixing one tea
spoonful of liquid annatto with eight
quares Of milk.
It is the stock that a stallion gets
rather than the horse himself which
breeders who patroniZe stations should
examine most carefully.
For collie in sheep give half an
ounce of Epson salts, dram OF ia
maica ginger and sixty drops Of the
essence of peppermint.
The flesh Of the donkey is said to
be excellent eating, being as delicate
in texture as the finest mutton, with
the flavor of roast pork.
Much of the failure in getting rid
of weeds is due to not pulling them
up. Except at certain times cutting
off weeds will not destroy them.
Plenty of exercise means abundant
ability to eat and assimiate food. We
do not commonly give the occupants
OF the pig pen exercise enough.
Breeders must pay more attention
to producing snapely good-sized horses
and then thoroughly fit them for the
purposes to which they are best suited.
Put up the farm and garden pro-
duets in An attr& ctive form. 1t is not
dishonest to put the best looking on
top if all underneath is sound and
good.
France is reported to be taking al
increased interest in swine raising,
and it is thought that this will en-
nance the attention gwen to the pro-
ductIOn Of corn.
4 farmer advises thinning early APP
pies. Thinning is often profitable,
even if surplus is wasted, but in
this case they can be fed to swine,
some of them made into pies, etc.
If the grain shocks are allowed to
stand very long in the fields which
were sowed to clover last spring they
are liable to kill the plants they cover
and thus create bare spots Ill the fields.
When the horse is of nervous tenn
permanent great Judgment must be used
in its handling. It g nervous horse
hears the sound of tirecracker the
animal thinks that everything it sees
hes powder in it. Handle gently.
As much as half p ton of fertilizer
to the acre has been applied to pota
toes right iii tho drill without injury.
1t should be we'll mixed with the soil.
1t is found by many growers profitable
to use larger amount, but tie excess
should either be sown broadcast or
spread along the drill after the plants
have come H..
Ties. your COWS and find the exact
value of each one. This may be done
with little trouble, and without any
scientific work, merely by churning
the cream taken from the milk of one
COW at time. by itself, il small
churn, or in fruit jar, even, which
will answer each purpose. and thus
test the character Of each one.
In report presented to the French
Academy Of Science, N. Genin states
that ne has discovered sure and easy
means Of ascertaining whether eggs
will produce cock or hen chickens.
He saws that. after three years expert
ence, he has found that eggs contain
ing male germs are wrinkled at the
small end. while those containing
female germs ar perfectly smooth at
both enJs