The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-12-19
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

! Atkub uOTSe COllhrS are apt TO pro.
duce permanent swelling of the throat.
II any little pigs are expected on
your farm be sure the SOW has warm
quarters.
Use the sprinkler of kerosene at
least once week and keep the roosts
always saturated.
When fattening an animal push from
the start-gradually at first of course
and save time and feed.
Potash is the chief fertilizer to be
applied to fruit trees, particularly
after they come into bearing.
With proper management medium
weight hogs are the most profitable to
grow for the general market.
Overlooking is waste-sor indiges.
ton is the result and food that is un-
digested, uuassimilated, is wasted.
If the young stock are not thrifty
when they go in to winter, it is doubt
full if they will come out thrifty in
the spring.
The boys aud girls of the farm
ought to be allowed plot of ground
wherein they can grow something for
themselves.
Give your children good, sound, en-
tertaining and morally heathful read
ing. Subscribe for the best magazine
for your wife.
How are the COW stables? Full of
cracks or well battened? Winter is
here and you ought to have the stables
in shape now.
Lay ing hens will always give better
results when supplied with plenty of
sharp, gritty material with which to
grind their food.
Never allow hog to eat or sleep in
the dirt. 1t is naturally clean ami
NAL, but it does not always have the
opportunity to be so.
All animals enjoy a clean, dry bed
at night. Do you know of anything
better than good straw and plenty of
it to furnish such bed?
1t is a serious mistake to keep the
teams in almost complete idleness un-
til spring opens, and then force them
suddenly into hard work.
To grow plants in living rooms is
not difficult. Success depends upon
choice of plants, and upon the care
and attention given them.
The New Jersey Experiment Station
says that grades, crosses and especially
natives, appear somewhat less subject
to tuberculosis than pure-bred cattle.
There is no money now in big, fat
pork. The market calls for lean
bacon. The weight of the carcass
should not exceed two hundred pounds.
This is the time of the year when
the milk yield is apt to decrease. Un.
less great care is taken to milk out
every drop this tendency will become
more pronounced.
Look well to the young calves, that
they do not go into the winter stunted.
Two months good care through the
winter will put them on grass next
spring in good shape.
The capacity for work of the horse
depends, in no small degree, upon the
condition of his shoulders hence by
preventing gals and sores he is able
to do the field work faster.
Apples may be kept in cold storage
for many months if perfect, unbruised
fruit is selected, carefully wrapped in
paper and kept at a temperature of
not over thirty eight degrees.
The wise farmer looks into the
future. He does not do this because
he is unduly anxious, or because his
faith in farming is weak, but because
it is precaution which his business
demands.
With present prices for wool and
mutton, as compared with the cost of
fodder, the keeping of old sheep can
not be made profitable. II is a good
time to dispose of all that are getting
along in years.
The fall months are~importaut as
providing a time during which the
food of the stock may be gradually
changed from the succulent grasses of
summer to the dry, concentrated
foods of winter.
With large flock of chicks, abun-
dance of milk, good-sized patch of
strawberries and vegetable garden,
the health of the family may virtually
be assured and the provision dealers
bill greatly reduced.
The class who had common breeds
of COWS ten years ago, and still have
them, must eventually succumb to the
spiril of the times. They will be
forced to capitulate from necessity if
not from conviction.
The wide-awake dairyman who has
stocked his farm with the best of cows
and feeds them iLtelligently can pro
duce milk much more cheaply than
his neighbor, who is still beating
along on the old track.
In pig-keeping the breed is not OF
SO much impoI tance as the type. The
kind wanted is one that will finish of
synmetrieally at from six to eight
months old if pushed, as market feed.
ing in general should be, meking good
weights without excessive fat.