The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1894-12-04
FARM AND GARpEN NOTES.


In picking pears always aim to leave
the stem on the pear.
An improved farm invites industry
and the love OF agriculture, while
money invites expenditures and bad
habits.
Ii fowls have plenty OF good, sharp
grit their food will not sour and they
will get on very well without charcoal
Grit IS prevention, charcoal is cure.
Fill your hotbeds with litter in the
fnll SO that the ground will not freeze.
Replace this with manure in tho spring
and the planting can proceed without
delay.
DO not forget the dust bath. This
Is TO poultry what tho bath is to per
sons. With dust the fowls clean Their
bodies, drive away vermin md excr-
else themselves.
Cattle will eat almost any amount
of grain ii given chance, but there
is II limit to the amount they can di-
gcst, and this marks the limit of profit
in Grain feeding.
The manuscript record OF the great
dairy test consists of about twenty
| four thousand columns, containing two
and onehalf millions OF figures, nc
cordinS to Alvord.
Ii not already done, it is now time
to cut ont all the old stalks among tho
raspberries and blackberries. Leave
but three or four of the strongest of
the new canes and treat the rest as
weeds.
The producer should carefully
study just what the market demands
and try to excel in conforming to that
demand and put tho produc5 on tho
market with the most attractive APP
pearance.
1t is authoritatiyely stated that the
white pine OF the Northwest is so
nearly exhausted that there is practi-
caliy no further supply for timber.
We have certainly reached the point
where timber culture holds ont n fair
promise OF profit
The benefit resulting from the prun-
ming of trees and vines, and the pinch
ing back of melons and tomatoes, has
led to experiments with potatoes. II
IS said that pruning them to two stalks
In each hill has produced larger tub
crs aud n greater yield.
Some dairymen practice packing di-
rect from the churn, doing away with
the working. More moisture is re-
tanned in the butter when this is done.
also more cascin; consequently the
butter develops flavor quicker; it al
so become rancid sooner.
The wild chestnut is rich i'm flavor
and sweet A number of varieties are
propagated by budding and grating
and show much Improvement. WHY
not devote large tracts to them. and
have valuable product in the nuts.
and still further Value iu the timber?
\ Piuchcl-back raspberry becomes
scli-supportiug and needs no sta ;ipg.
II the work be done as soon ms the
young cane reaches the proper height.
ii Is probable that If piuchel off lat,
M the season, few branches only
would cone out near the top, which
would make it top-hcavy.
TO prevent head lettuccs from oo-
ing to seed premoturely a German
stnik, just at the surfaco of the
ground, with sharp knife. The re-
manning half OF the stalk allows tine
passage Of sufficient sap to keep tho
plant alive, but not enough for much
future growth
Judicious rotation of crops il
Thought 60 bc the best precaution
against club-root Cabbage or apv
allied crops should not be put on tho
same soil olteucr than once i'm three
years. II lime is frequently applied.
or % tho soil nbomds in IT,. this oucs.
ton of rotation Will not need 60 be so
strictly regarded
The tin cans filled with sweetoned
water, and placed at various points in
tho orchard OF the OSlahoma Exoeri
ment Station, proved very efficient
bug traps. Several hundred Nav
beetles, crickets aud grasshoppers
we're caught. This plan OF utilizing
these hitherto useless articles is fully