The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1894-12-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The richer the feed the richer the
manure.
Never let suckers grow around the
orchard trees.
Regular feeding is IN important
item in successful feeding.
Now is the time to note the unfru.5-
full portions of the vineyard.
Wheat bran and oil meal will make
that straw pile valuable feed this win
ter.
In the East the Kieffer pear is
generally considered the best for can
ming.
Let the stock have the first picking
of the straw, then use the orts for
bedding.
Brighten the chickens rs little as
possible by chasing or trying to
catch them.
Keep your poultry houses clean, and
dust them two or three times week
with coal ashes.
Ten or twelve hens we'll cared for
will furnish more eggs than double the
number OF the same breed uncared for.
Grapevines may be trimmed late in
the fall. but in Northern ATTITUDES it
is best to lay them down and cover
slightly.
London milllmen color their milk
with annatto, to make it look rich.
The methods of aiulteration increase
all the time.
A hen that has become familiar
with n particular poultry-house or
roosting-place cannot easily be in
duced to change her quarters.
Young blood leads the way to profit
with poultry, as with other stock. 1t
will be money in your pocket to kill
of every hen over three years old.
Chopped raw onions thrown to the
fowls two or three times n week act as
a stimulant to the blood and an APP
petizer. They will do no harm at any
time.
If you are far from market all the
more reason you should sell finished
products from your farm-hogs, cat
tie, horses, butter, wool, mutton or
eggs.
When the animal is ready for mar
ket is the best time, nine times in ten,
to sell. All food fed after maturity is
fed ut n decrease in returns. Often at
loss.
Train trees to low heads and spread
ing tops, shortening the branches
each year. The trees will then stand
better against storms, and the sprayer
will be more effectual
Fruit that is badly ripened, poor
and watery, will not keep under any
circumstances. The fruit should be
well ripened, be sound, and be care
fully handled if it is to be stored for
long keeping.
There is danger that moro head Of
cattle Wi he kept than can be we'll
fed. Only the farmer who has out
side range or lands in excess of his
needs for tillage should endeavor to
raise his calves.
Fifty pounds from the refuse of the
cabbage field twice day will show
great results in the increase of milk
when fed to cows. Fed after milking,
there will be no unpleasant odor or
taste i'll the milk
1t is easier and better to hoe the
little weeds twice than to 90 over them
once after they have become larger;
neither have they robbed the soil of
so much. 1t is hardly possible to
overdo the matter of cultivation.
Too few dairymen can pick out the
best COW in their herds with perfect
assurance that they are making the
right choice. Every man who makes
a business of keeping cows ought to
know from tests just what his cows are
doing for him.
When buttermilk is fed to swine i'm
large quantities one pound of oil meal.
well cooked, added to every hundred
pounds of the buttermilk, will HIGHLY
increase its value. Buttermilk is
slightly constipating, but the oil meal
will remedy this
Had you better not figure the cost
of wintering some of the unthriftv
scrubs on your place? Compare IL
with their probable value the first of
next May, and see if it will not pay
You to send their hide TO the merchant
and their carcass to the chicken yard?
Prune the grapes in November or
December and then lay them on the
ground, with some covering from the
sun. BE careful that this covering is
not anything which will invite the
mice. These rodents sometimes make
sad havoc with vines when near 70
grass lands