Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-23
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Set the first clutches of duck eggs
under hen.
Proper shelter from storms means
regular, even heeces.
It will pay every grower to learn
thoroughly to grade wool.
Burs in the pasture are very expen-
sive. Get rid of them.
| The less water there is in butter the
fewer odors it will absorb.
The best way to keep root crops is
to pack them in sand and put in the
cellar.
Put the perches far enough away
from the doors or windows to avoid
draught.
Brutality humbles the pride and
takes the style out of colts as we'll as
out of boys.
Eggs often have bad flavor from
the food the hens eat. It is we'll to
| bear this in mind.
Have the nests so low that the hens
can step in. If they Jump in they are
apt to break the eggs.
If the young stock is to be used for
breeding it should always be selected
| from the earliest matches.
Cowsare not kept for their company,
therefore why let them go dry four to
six months out of the year.
Early manuring is simply impossible
if the animals are stinted while they
are forming bone and muscle.
The production of eggs is a great
drain on a hens vitality. Therefore,
the laying hens should be we'll fed.
Whether Matched in al incubator or
under hen, do not feed the chickens
until they are twenty-four hours old.
It never pays to offer horse for
sale in poor condition. 1t does not
pay to keep horse in poor condition.
Fourteen million of the inhabitants
Of France have farms of twenty acres
or less from which they manage to
obtain living.
Young turkeys are naturally tender.
| There is no advantage in Matching
them out until the weather is reason
ably well settled.
The spraying pump has lost none of
its virtues. If it is less talked about
it is because the sprayer is recognized
as necessity on the farm.
Provide all the setting hens with
comfortable quarters and see that
their feathers are we'll busted with in
sect powder before starting them.
If colt is broken to harness when
| he is full of life and spirit, he will be
more reliable than if handled in the
same way when weak and half fed.
| If they are made comfortable and
kept in good condition some of the
hens will want to set this month. It
will be worth while to make them com
Portable.
Experiments will show that it is a
mistake to feed more than ten pounds
of beet pulp per day to pigs. Under
all circumstances the pulp must be
combined with other fodder.
Place box of sail near the water
ing trough SO the horses can lick it
whenever they go to drink. This is
preferable to the usual method of salt
ing the farm horses once a week.
In making butter there is no neces-
slty for manipulating it with your
hands, as some ignorantly do. A
wooden ladle is the proper utensil to
use for working and handling this
product.
Ducklings are much more easily fed
than young chickens. Nothing seems
to disagree with them as long as it is
sweet. They take kindly to skim milk,
butter-milk, meal, wheat bran, pota-
toes or almost anything else.
A good, warm stable is not only an
indication of kind-hearted, merciful
owner, but it also signifies that he is
frugal and economical man, making
practical use of his knowledge that
warm shelters are great feed savers.
Draw the manure and spread the
same on the fields as rapidly as can be.
No farmer wishes to be behind hand
and forced to haul fertilizers when
every effort should be confined to the
preparation of the soil and sowing the
seed.
1t will pay you either to sell your
cattle as soon as they are fit for what
you can get or feed them SO that they
will come out in the spring in good
condition. 1t will not pay to keep
them over @ second winter in the hope
of increasing their weight.
Until young horse reaches matur-
ity his circulation is not SO strong as
it afterwards becomes; consequently
he is more subject to the iIl-effects OF
Earring from fast work and tension
from heavy drawing, which shows it
self in connection with the fetlock
joints by swellings of various sorts.
Texas fruit grower who has been
successful applies stable and cowpen
rakings composted by using two parts
stable or cowpen manure to one part
leaf mold and one part unleached ashes
burnt from hard wood. He applies to
his orchard broadcast aud harrows in.
He says the results are very marked.
There Is no mistake in stating that
8 oil persons who know little or moth
ing of poultry it is the farm hand. It
requires an expert to conduct poul-
try business which demands large
number of fowls. No one who il capa-
BILE of managing apoultry business can
be hired at ordinary monthly wages