Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-10
FARM AND GARDEN NOT,

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Do not dog the COWS. =
Feed little salt to the hogs as wen
as to the cattle. :
Do not wait TIL the grass is woody
before cutting for hay.
Comfort of stock adds to the income
of the pocket book. Fact.
If the stock is herded provide the
herder shade offsome kind.
Corn, clover and milk make the
best and most wholesome pork.
Remember thatigood care and keep
are as essential as selectiontand breed
ing.
Have the calves and colts in the
back pasture plenty of water theseshot
days?
Bred for the best or not at iall,
should be the horseman's motto in
times like these.
Feeding soaked corn to steers in
summer is practiced by some with
profit, they claim.
Give the growing swine a varietVof
foods, and when possible let clovesbe
a prominent element. III -
any extra milk you may have will
give good returns fed to the} colts
these hot trying days.
Fly nets for the horses are alprofit-
able investment for the farmerso for
any one else who owns horses.
Horses arc cheap, but that is no
good reason for keeping yourselfpoor
in supporting more of them than you
need.
Every stock keeper who has two or
more pastures should allow one or more
to rest or grow up while the other is
being fed off.
See that the food given to your
COWS is Of the best quality and in the
best condition for digestion. This is
very important.
Test every COW, and do not be con-
tent with your herd until it averages
800 pounds of butter or $50 pounds Of
cheese yearly per COW.
When your dairy is up to your ideal
standard, be careful not to use male
inferior to the herd, lest your breed
go down instead of up.
To get early lamb requires good
deal of work. One great essential is
to change the bucks every day at the
time you wish to breed.
Your Yorkshire hog makes splendid
bacon with desirable alternate .streaks
of fat and lean. 1t is good hog to
keep for the family supply of pork
products.
The merciful dairyman, when he
draws calves to market, puts them in
a comfortable crate, instead of tying
their legs AMI doubling them under
the wagon sect.
Have supply of bolts, washers and
oil on hand before commencing the
having. A few cents for bolts may
save dollars in time and hay the first
week in haying.
One of the best feeds for sows that
are sucking little pigs and for the
pigs themselves, especially during
growth, is milk made into STOP, or
rather thickened with middlings.
Water the horses frequently, give
small amount at time and the prin-
cipal feed should be given at night,
that it may be eaten at leisnre and
digested and assimilated before morn,
ing.
With swine and poultry both on the
farm, not much need go to waste that
has any food value. Hogs will con-
sumo more different kinds of pro-
vender in unattractive condition than
any other stock.
The COW that must Craze indus
triously half of the summer to re-
cover physically what she has lost by
Indifferent keeping through the win
ter is not apt to earn dollar in real
profit for her owner.
Let the hen sit if she wants to. It
is a prompting of nature. If chicks
are not wanted, let her amuse herself
with artificial eggs for awhile. It
will do her good. She will be good
for nothing for time if you break
her up.
The vegetarians are no doubt right
in denounclng tiesh-eating as the
cause of many diseases in the human
family. Tape-worm, consumption
and other diseases may come from
meat that is not we'll cooked. But
perfect cooking destroys all this origin
of disease.
In Gaping honey the bees begin at
the outside and finish at the centre.
The Gaping of the broad cells is
dark, porous and convex, while that
of the honey cells is white and con-
cave. The Gaping of honey cells is
made thicker by black bees than by
other races.