Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-25
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Don't give good horse second
class trainer.
Be kind to the colts and you will
have gentle horses.
There is no fruit that can be grown
as readily as the grape.
Big horns and feshy udder are re-
earded as bad points in mich COW.
A sick COW should be put by herself
at once and covered with a warm blan-
ket.
Standardized trotters that can't trot
are poor property for any breeder to
stock up with.
Care and feed are just as important
factors as pedigree in raising trotting
stock at a profit.
1t is a pretty we'll established fact
that profitable butter COW is prof
liable cheese COW.
The poultry keeper who does not
furnish a dust bath depriveS his
chickens of n necessity.
The financial success of breeding the
trotter depends upon the financial
prosperity of trotting sport.
Much of the failure of seeds to ger
inmate in the spring Is due to the fact
that they are planted too deep.
When hens or hogs get weak in the
legs it is often a sign that they have
been fed two much corn and cornmeal.
A farmer wants to know how much
alsike to SOW to the acre. Ten pounds
O. seed would be great sut1iciency on
good land.
If the hen house is overcrowded
there will be trouble. Disea7e will
almost surely appear and the hens
will not lay.
Tie up the horses tails whenever it is
muddy, but don't leave them tied up
over night. 1t Injuries their appear
ance to say the least.
The wise dairyman always looks to
what is best for the COW, for in the
end he knows that such management
will prove best for him.
There is not very much difference
in the cost of feeding q COW that makes
$50 pounds of butter in one year and
one making double as much.
When feeding mich COWS, feed for
all the product that can possibly be
obtained. This means liberal grain
ration, in addition to the best hay.
Study the horses foot and the
proper methods of shooting. It will
then be possible for you to know if
your blacksmith knows his business.
Currants should have a space of
four feet, and gooseberries the same,
and be kept trimmed and cultivated.
Cut out old wood when it becomes IN
thrifty.
The sugar beet is valuable as food
for fowls. Served raw through the
summer it answers to the purpose of
green food when other vegetables are
scarce.
Crude petroleum is better than
kerosene, comes cheaper, and if often
applied to your hen roosts and hen
houses will soon destroy all rats,
mites, etc.
Exclusive corn feeding tends to
dwarf the growing pig. He needs
shorts, bran, skim milk, etc, to build
up a strong muscular body. Corn is
a fattening food.
Efforts to introduce corn into Ger
many as cattle feed have failed so far,
as a strong prejudice against it exists,
and all sorts of stories to it's detriment
are in circulation.
Pounding COW with stool or club
does not force a greater quantity of
milk from her. Neither will yelling,
and cursing add to either
milk or good temper.
If fruit trees are sufficiently ma
tured and yet do not bear well, it will
be found a good plan to stir the soil
thoroughly and apply q good dressing
of well rotted manure.
The appearance of the animals on a
farm tells good deal about the owner
and his tastes. Thin cows with prom
inent ribs in winter or spring are not
much of a recommendation.
Whole wheat is better for fowls than
corn. It does not make them so fat,
and. considering the number of eggs
which can be procured by using it, is
more economical food.
Turkeys will come home to roost if
fed regularly in the evening. Grain
may be fed entirely, but if mixed with
bread crumbs and scraps from the
table the birds will like it much bet
ter.
Build up the frame of the young
animal SO as to secure size before at
to fat1en it. Fat is an in
cumbrance to growing animals. When
they reach maturity is the time to fat
ten them.
1t is economy to cut up the dry corn
fodder that is fed to the stock. They
eat it better and cleaner, and the labor
that is saved in handling the manure
compensates for all the labor of cut
ing up and preparing it.
An average yield of black raspber-
ries is about seventy-tive to eighty
bushels, red raspberries seventy,
100 bushels per acre, &C
cording to the estimates of Professor
Baily, of the Cornell Experiment Sta.
ton.
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