Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-09
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

fined on rainy days.
Hogs at nine months should weigh
from $50 to 800 pounds.
Both breed and feed are required to
make good dairy COW.
Hog-raising and dairying form a
good com biration for profit.
Feeding Brahmas all they will eat
will usually stop them from laying.
If sulphur is given at all it should be
given sparingly and never in damp
weather.
Give little oatmeal or stale bread
soaked in milk as q first feed to young
chickens.
Filth and lack of ventilation cause
more disease among poultry than any
thing else.
Road dust and finely sifted wood
ashes in equal parts make a good ma
terial for the dust boxes.
Sell from the young stock and do
not sacrifice fowls that have proved
satisfactory unless very old.
Breeding and handling are of equal
importance in attaining success with
horses. They should go hand in hand.
The man who now shows his faith in
sheep by staying in or going in that
industry will surely come out on top.
Keep the COWS from temptation by
having the fences in such condition
that they cannot get through or over
them.
In a brooder each duckling chooses
it's own quarters, squats quietly down
and remains there until morning with
out crowding.
Lung fever often results from speed.
ing horses when the mercury is low
that are kept in warm, close stables
most of the time.
In removing dead branches care
should be taken to make the cut close
and smooth. If stub is left it will
not heal over readily.
In the application of lime to land
thirty to fifty bushels to the acre are
generally used. Forty bushels is gen
orally the best quantity.
Chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese
should not be killed until their crops
are empty, that is, about twenty-four
hours after their last meal.
A hog raiser who considers sorghum
seed first-class for fattening animals
says the seed for this purpose will al.
most pay for producing the crop.
A cold surrounding temperature is
apt to reduce the temperature of the
cream, which must be raised to
higher temperature before the butter
will come.
Heavy-0oned swine are best adapted
to midwinter fattening and marketing,
the extra bone being necessary to the
support of heavy bodies on hard and
frozen ground.
French apple seeds are from hardy
crabs and are especially prepared and
preserved for nurserymen. They ars
preferred to American, because they
terminate much more readily,
If piece of land is to be double
cropped next season, fertilize it freely
and plant crops which mature quickly,
such as wheat followed by millet, or
sweet corn followed by buckwheat or
turnips.
Practicing rotation in the produc-
ton of crops is not only a most excel
lent course for preventing soil exhaus-
tion, but the best means for prevent
ing the multiplication of weeds and
insects.
The crossing of Aberdeen-Angus
bulls on Ayrshire COWS has proved sat
isfactory in Scotland This is remark
able, as it seems rather inharmoni.
Gus mixture of beef and milk charac-
teristics.
The ammonia which is escaping
from the manure pile, and which can
easily be detected by the smell, is val
liable. Prevent the waste by occa.
sionally applying dry earth or gypsum
to the surface.
The two earliest breeds of turkeys
are the bronze and the Narragansett.
The former is a dark bronze color,
with luster approaching gold, while
the latter is metallic black. with sal
mon-colored legs.
The blanketing of horse may seem
like a small matter, but attention to it
at the proper time would have saved
the life of many valuable animal and
would have prevented great deal of
suffering and loss.
If the land of our farms could be
brought up to the highest point of
productiveness, the yield of the vari
Gus products would be immensely in
creased and profits would proportion
ately increase. The great need of our
farms is more manure, and the need is
so pressingthat it should serve to en-
force the Importance of saving ali the
nanures that are made on the farm.