Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-20
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

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If any little pigs are expected on
your farm be sure the SOW has warm
quarters.
Use the sprinkler of kerosene at
least once week and keep the roosts
always saturated.
When fattening an animal push from
the start-gradually at first of course
and save time and feed.
With proper management medium
weight hogs are the most profitable to
grow for the general market.
ver-feeding is a waste-for indiges.
tion is the result and food that is un.
digested, unassimilated, is wasted.
If the young stock are not thrifty
when they 60 in to winter, it is doubt
full if they will come out thrifty in
the spring.
The boys and girls of the farm
ought to be allowed plot of ground
wherein they can grow something for
themselves.
Give your children good, sound, en-
tertaining and morally heathful read.
ing. Subscribe for the best magazine
for your wife.
How are the COW stables? Full OF
cracks or well battened? Winter is
here and you ought to have the stables
in shape now.
Lay ing hens will always give better
results when supplied with plenty of
sharp, gritty material with which to
grind their food.
Never allow hog to eat or sleep in
the dirt. 1t is naturally clean ami
NAL, but it does not always have the
opportunity to be so.
| All animals enjoy a clean, dry bed
at night. Do you know of anything
better than good straw and plenty OF
it to furnish such bed?
1t is serious mistake to keep the
teams in almost complete idleness un.
til spring opens, and then force them
suddenly into hard work.
There is no money now in big, fat
pork. The market calls for lean
| bacon. The weight of the carcass
should not exceed two hundred pounds.
Look well to the young calves, that
they do not go into the winter stunted.
Two months good care through the
winter will put them on grass next
spring in good shape.
The capacity for work of the horse
depends, in no small degree, upon the
condition of his shoulders; hence by
preventing gals and sores he is able
to do the field work faster.
Apples may be kept in cold storage
for many months If perfect, unbruised
fruit is selected, carefully wrapped in
paper and kept Mt temperature of
not over thirty eight degrees.
| The wise farmer looks into the
future. He does not do this because
he is unduly anxious, or because his
faith in farming is weak, but because
it is precaution which his business
demands.
With present prices for wool and
mutton, as compared with the cost of
fodder, the keeping of old sheep can
not be made profitable. 1t is good
time to dispose of all that are getting
along in years.
The fall months are important as
providing time during which the
food of the stock may be gradually
changed from the succulent grasses Of
summer to the dry, concentrated
foods of winter.
With large flock of chicks, abun-
dance of milk, good-sized patch of
strawberries and vegetable garden,
the health of the family may virtually
be assured and the provision dealers
bill greatly reduced.
In pig-keeping the breed is not of
30 much Importance as the type. The
kind wanted is one that will finish off
symmetrically at from six to eight
months old if pushed, as market feed.
ing in general should be, making good
weights without excessive fat.