Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-21
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Honey is the proper TODD for bees
after reaching maturity.
Chat makes good absorbant in the
stable. 1t is good for bedding, too.
Too much care cannot DO taken in
pruning. One mistaken cut may prove
ruinous.
Bees reared in the spring and sum-
NOR are shorter lived than those reared
later in the season.
z Firewood is more easily cut when
green, and makes quicker and better
fires when seasoned.
Cows are not kept for their COM
papy; therefore, why let them go dry
four to six months out of the year? =
1t never pays to offer horse for
sale i'll poor condition. 1t does not
pay to keep horse in poor condition.
Save the poultry droppings by pluc-
ing thom in barrels or boxes and keep
ing them from contact with the rain
OF snow.
Don't be satisfied with your churn-
ing if you leave over one-tenth of one
per cent. fat in the buttermilk. 1t
doesn't pay.
No comb made from foundation
quite equals i'll fneness the natural,
though in some cases it approaches it
very closely.
Bees when not gathering settle down
to n very quiet condition, during
which there is very little wear and
tear of the system.
Dark COW stables are an abomina-
ton, because disease is an abomina-
ton, and darkness is conducive to
disease. Let in the sunlight.
A force pump with brass cylinder
and plunger giving twenty-five or
thirty pounds pressure is the best for
spraying insecticides and fungicides.
The spray should be fine and we'll dis
tributed.
Go through your apple orchard now
and destroy oil cocoons before the
warm weather brings the moths out to
destroy your fruit, and thereby you
will find yourself we'll repaid for tho
short time expended.
Put the small fruits in order now
for the growing season. Given in
telligent attention now and from this
time forward they are much more
likely to prove profitable the present
year and in the future.
Every one who has had much ex-
|'perience in raising sorghum for feed
ing live stock is ready to admit its
nutritive value, MS we'll as the great
yield per acre, which helps to make it
a profitable crop for this purpose.
Barley sown MS soon as the ground
is in good working condition is one of
the best makeshift hog pastures
known Put it in the press drill, with
bushel and one peck to the acre; if
sown broadcast, about bushei and n
half.
An eminent agriculturist says that
there is nothing more certain than that
the productiveness ofvery many of our
fruits and vegetables-and those the
most yaluable-is often tremendously
increased by bees in the important
work of pollenizing the flowers
Changes of food with fattening stock
should always be made cautiously.
Variety in the ration is desirable, but
it is best to attain this by feeding
mixed rations all the time rather than
by using ono material for time and
then changing wholly to another.
One of the easiest ways of propagat-
ing the blackberry is to dig about the
old plants in the spring, cutting of
the outer ends of the roots few
inches from the plants. Take these
roots and cut into small pieces, four
or five inches long, and plant them.
Some people do not seem able to
distinguish between growth and fat,
yet there is a big difference between
them. Growth must be kept up from
the birth of animals, while fat should
only be added during the last month
or six weeks before they are sent to
the slaughter house.