Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-08-10
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

OlOw milking IL III urlouo W VIC co"'
Milk rapidly.
The Pekin is generally esteemed
the most profitable variety of duck.
Lead a COW rather than drive her.
Gentleness should be the watchword
to the dairy stable.
The aim in breeding should be to-
wards higher standard in order to
compensate for the deterioration in
prices.
Make up your mind to have better
roads this summer between your farm
and the station from which you do
your shipping.
1t is very certain that the butter
must come from the food and that the
better the food the more butter COW
will give. Experience has shown that
corn meal is the best food for rich
milk.
The man who makes it rule to
milk his cows in the stable is the one
who has the least trouble with them
1t takes but minute to put them in
and turn them out, and this time is
we'll spent.
Turkeys, as rule. do best to have
their own way in nesting, setting and
caring for their young, but the older
ones are likely to become so gentle
and obedient as to conform cheerfully
to the feeders plan.
The cracking of the fruit of pears,
observed oftentimes in the Flemish
Beauty and the White Doyenne, is
caused by fungus. Spraying, asnow
generally practiced, will make an end
of this fungus, no doubt.
For a small lawn the best invigor-
ator is a gill of nitrate of soda once a
week in pail of water, applied with
watering pot, over an area of 100
square feet. The grass will quickly
respond to such treatment.
When the sheep go to pasture,
place should be provided for the lambs
in which they can enter and get lit
tie grain food. This helps them very
much and will add fully fourth to
their growth during the summer.
Don't overload young horses. If
there is a heavy load to be hauled use
the older animals, remembering that
the bone and muscle are not properly
developed and set until after the
horse has attained his sixth year.
The head of the gander is somewhat
coarser than that of the goose and his
cry is harsher. There is no difference
in the form or plumage of the two
sexes, and, as a rule, the gander is
distinguished only by his pugnacity.
By hurdling and letting the stock
eat down portion of the field at
time, pasture can be made to go further
than by the common method. This
plan can be followed with sheep and
hogs without very much extra labor.
When mare refuses to dry or
caress her offspring a little -four or
meal sprinkled upon it will sometimes
attract her kindly to it, but should
this fail the foal must be dried by rub
bing with soft flannel and induced to
take milk.
In raising turkeys this year remem-
/ Der that the big ones are no longer in
demand, and can only be sold at a re-
duction Birds ranging from ten to
fifteen pounds, at five months, are the
kind wanted. Twelve pounds is a
good weight and popular size.
If you have not a sufficient number
of sows, or cows or mares to pay for
| keeping thoroughbred male yourself,
get some of your neighbors to join you
| ,,,t he, ,hao ,fA A
ship of this sort is better than to be all
the time paying out large service fees.
| The meal of whole ears of corn is
quite as digestible as that of the
ground grain if it is finely ground and
fed with cut hay. About six quarts
day of this meal is sufficient for an or
dinary COW, but that may be increased
as the COW may be found to eat and
digest it usefully.
| There is no farm so small but that
| live stock of some sort could add to
| the profit derived from it, IL you
can do nothing more, try single
dairy COW as an experiment. Very
often one COW we'll kept pays much
better than half dozen indiiferently
/ fed aud cared for.
The stockmau who feeds ton Of
| bran to his work horses will. il all his
manure, solid and liquid. is saved,
have Sl2. IS worth of fertility in the
manure. III the same is fed to grow.
ing stock he will have about ninety
per cent. of the fertility. aud to
dairy eow more than seyenty-hve per
cent.
II you are growing clover for seed,
you eau predispose the plant toward
seed production by pasturlng sheep
upon the field they will Keep II
cropped close to the ground, aud II
. this Is done through the earlier part
Of the season, the seed crop will be
/ heavier from the later growth than by
any ether mcthot Of handling IL
I All soils contain eaormous quaint.
/ ties Of plaut food, even tho most un-
! productive, and crops require hat lit.
I tie. The rsas,h Ahf some sails are ~
I barren IL that the essaniial elsWeats,
I often ahaudant Ia them, arg npt 90
such fara, ss g. lass available hy
. thorough working 81 the so.l ta a good