The Penn's Grove record., 1894-09-21
+ Farm AND GARDEN sorA

Pullets are rarely too fat to lay.
Generally the best turkeys for breed.
Ing are those two years old.
II turkeys can be given a free range
they can be raised very cheaply.
When you can keep fifty hens profit
ably you a readily keep more.
Chopped onions fed twice a week now
will help to keep the fowls healthy.
Early matured, stock cost less than
those that grow and mature more slowly.
II earth is used as an absorbent in the
poultry house remove It before ii be.
comes foul.
The black knot in the plum tree has
become so general as to call for legisla-
tive action.
Young chickens will readily eat wheat
when two weeks old; aud IL Is better for
them thar corn.
3 Some Of our we'll known h~orticulturists
claim that there is too much sumuer
pruning Of grapes.
A good rule is to use the large roosters
of the small breeds and the small roosters
Of the large breeds.
A poor hen will not lay at all; a fat
ohe will lay few eggs, and these will not
be good for Matching.
Millet and sorghum seeds make q
rplendid feed for young poultry, whether
n the brooder or with the hens.
Wheat is one OF the best feeds you can
give your fowls to produce eggs; 1t Is
aiso good to feed young chicks.
Strictly choice fowls that are known
co be such command good prices all the
year round in the city markets.
1t was state l in a bulletin from Cor.
nell Station that chilling tomato plants
Is Of no advantage, neither is trimming"
With those who carry the stock over
winter the manure if carefully handled
sud treated will prove q source Of profit.
When the poultry can run out 1t Is best
not TO feed them too much. If they have
a good appetite they will hustle around
more.
The chicks of all breeds are nearly oil
tao same size until they weigh a pound,
80 that for broilers breed counts but
little.
Inquiry is developing for turkeys OF
.arge size. twenty-five to forty pounds
Icing about the size of the modern tur-
key idea.
W. E. Farmer tells that cold storage
grapes pay one for holding them until
the great surplus has worked Oft from
the market.
Do not try to keep too many chickens
in a flock. More dollars will be got fir iii
\ flock of fifty we'll kept than 100 that
Ire crowded.
While there is leisure is a good time
p make a good supply of peas that will
the old hens and let the chicks
iun at large.
Already the smoldering fires of the
acubator are beginning TO burn, and 9
three weeks trial trip will o o be on.
Row is the time to set things in order.
III a discussion before the American
:'omological Society, Van Lsndley
that Edwards winter is a foe
apple for North Carolina, and
one of the best keepers in the middle OF
forth Carolins.
Successful cu~ltivators of small fruits,
,aany of them, do not cover their stra v.
,erry plants until the ground is f~roz.n,
hen they spread coarse hay over taem
hick enough to conceal the plants, but
enough to smother them.
Energy and a good shovel of ample
for handling snow are two of the
about the chicken yard now.
live them dry ground at once after q
all Of snow, that they may be reg
lar in their exercises each day.
Each year the poultry industry grows
lore prosperous. More eggs and poultry
re produced each year, and each year
he prices are higher than the year be-
,re. This indicates that we are be.
oming a natiol OF poultry eaters aud
let poultry is going to become good :
for some years to ONT.
Many experienced and successful shee,
wners declare that the wool alone will
~ for the keep of the sheep, aud that
le money derived from the sale OF
mbs and mutton should be clear gain.
pom such a basis there would seem to
little doubt that the profit from them ,
ust be greater than from any other !
ass Of stock. l.