Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-10-26
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

A little vaseline and carbolic acid
applied to parts of the horse that he
cannot touch with tail or head will
give him much relief by keeping flies
away.
Producers who have formerly de,
pended on ensilage may be obliged to
at least partially substitute grain tc
make their winter dairying for 1894
and 1895 profitable.
Professor Roberts, of Cornell, says
the great difficulty with farming is too
much or too little moisture, and too
little cultivation, thus indicating the
necessity of drainage.
Before storing articles in the cellar
take day for the purpose, use peck
or more of sulphur, if necessary, and
fumigate it two or three times, in order
to purify the walls, floors, ceilings
and bins.
A. W. Pope, Wellesley, Mass, says
of alfalfa: 1t goes down further and
comes up faster than common clover.
Tie quality of the hay is good, but it
is hard to cure. | get three crops
the year following the planting.
Foa1s should be taught to eat grain
while yet with the mares, and then the
weaving process is not SO likely to
check their growth. Feed any spare
milk to the weanings until they get
well started on regular rations of grain
and hay.
Dairymen should wake up to the fact
that it is quite as easy, at well-man-
aged creamery, to make good butter
in winter as in summer. When they
realize this we shall not see SO many
idle establishments just at the time
when they should be running ut their
fullest capacity.
It is not only improbable but cruel
to let mich COWS wander about in
orassless fields under merciless sun.
Under such conditions keep them in q
small, shady enclosure if you have
one, and there feed them their forage
and see that they have plenty of cool,
pure water at regular intervals.
Select a bull from good dairy
family, and then breed the very best
of your COWS, feed the resulting young
sters well, and train them SO that they
can be easily handled when you are
ready to put them in the dairy. This
feeding and training is a necessary
supplement to the breeding, in order
to make perfect dairy animal.
Cold weather shuts off the egg sup,
ply among poultry keepers who dc
not understand their business, and
then they cry that there is no profit III
| fowls. But the wise man makes his
houses warm and snug, feeds literally
and q good variety of food, compels
the fowls to take exercise and rcapeth
his reward in bountiful harvest OF
eggs which sell at good prices.
Perhaps you have your dairy up tc
certain standard of excellence, but
how are you to keep it there? Some
of the COWS will soon begin to get old.
Then they must go to the butcher.
Better be raising and training some
good heifers, whose breeding you
know, to take their places. Do not
wait until you have to use them, and
then buy where it comes handy.
Do not be scared ont Of the poultry
business because people speak of it
contemptuously, calling it n ''littlo
business. 1t can be made just as
large as your ability and adaptability
will Justify. 1t is more n question of
these clements than Of capital. The
latter is good in its place, but it is not
the only requisite, and too much of it
has wrecked this business more than
once,