Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Overlooking, an ill-ftting collar or
al ill-tempered driver is generally re-
sponsible for horses baking.
Prune the grapes now at the first op-
portunity. If pruned after the sap is
in circulation bleeding will result.
Mignonette should be planted by
everybody. Nothing equals it in fra
GRANGE. Plant it early and put in
plenty of it.
Spraying should not be done in the
middle of the day, especially if the
sun is hot, or damage to the foliage is
apt to ensue.
The nearer we can restore our soils
to she condition IN which the breaking
pillow first found them, the better crops
we may expect.
Refuse vegetables, Feelings, etc.,
can be made into mash with wheat
bran and fed to the hens with as great
profit as if fed to the hogs.
Fruit growers should not let the
past years experience discourage
them. Scarcely any line of productive
labor was profitable last year.
During the first two weeks chicks
will do we'll in room with no outside
run, but after that they should be
given range or they will droop.
A prominent breeder of hogs who
has kept careful records says that for
ten years he has been able to sell stock
at an average price of $5.O5 per 100
pounds.
Do not crowd the half-grown
chickens together in small coop.
This causes disease as we'll as de-
formities, such as crooked breastbones
and wry tails.
Eggs for Matching purposes should
not be exposed to lower temperature
than forty degrees above zero. Eggs
freeze at about ten degrees above zero,
which kills the germ.
You will not regret leaving the bees
in the cellar too late half as much as
taking them out too early. Some say
when the bloom comes on the maple
is the right time, but this is too early
sometimes.
Cows about to calve should be placed
in box stall. Do not put them o.
in some cold corner Of the barn or
down in a damp cellar, but keep them
in as warm place as where they have
been standing.
Some who are new at the business
think they must open the hives often
and examine the bees. This is a mis-
take, and after they have had the
proper care they should not be
tempered with.
Caring for the fruit trees is the most
neglected part of the farm business.
The orchard is planted il most any
kind of way, and is cultivated when
ever there is time, whether it is in
season or out of season.
Ducks can be successfully raised
with no more than the necessary drink
ing water. It will be found that The
young ducks raised in this way arc
much less liable to disease than if Der-
mitted free access to water.
To prevent swelling from bee strings
J. E. Armstrong strongly heats tie
parts stung. Put the hands in hoi
water as hot as can be borne for ten
minutes or battle the face with hot
water. No swelling occurs.
Sheep and lambs that are being fat
tened should be fed with discrimina-
ton. 1t is one of the highest attain
ments of the feeders nrt to tell frs!
how much food to give. and when t.
increase or reduce the ration.
If team pulls unevenly the trouble
may be remedied by unhitching the
inside traces and crossing them so as
to have the same horse attached to the
same end of each siugle-tree. One
case is known where many heavy
| load has been pulled by adopting this
expedient.