Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-06
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

For fattening fowls cooked food is
better than raw.
Overstimulation will result in en-
feebled offspring.
Milk in all its forms is most valua-
BILE as food for poultry.
See that your breeders are healthy,
vigorous and of good size.
With the aid of the dust bath the
hens will rid themselves of lice.
The Black Minorca lays the largest
egg of any of the Spanish family.
The choicest capons are the result of
a Dorking cock and an Asiatic hen.
For health feed oats, for fat corn,
and for eggs meat scraps and wheat.
Every farmer should make a point
of attending the nearest poultry show.
It is attention to the little details
that makes success of poultry keeping.
Chickens require warmth and sun
shine and will not bear overcrowdlng.
The average customer wants about
an ounce of salt to a pound of butter.
Big horns and fieshy udder are re-
garded as bad points IN mich COW.
No medicine or stimulants are recess
sary for healthy birds in good condi-
ton.
The hen that lays we'll is one that is
moving around and scratching all the
time.
The most important matter in rails
ing the chicks is to give them warmth
enough.
This is the season when eggs pay,
and every effort should be made to
secure them.
There is no better fertilizer for the
garden than the manure from the
poultry house.
Do not ring q hog if you can posi-
bly, help it. 1t interferes with the
thrift of the animal.
/. B. Terry says that ton of home
made manure is worth about as much
as So worth of commercial fertilizer.
A head of cabbage or turnip tied
where the fowls can pick at it gives
the fowls great deal of enjoyable ex-
ercise.
There is not very much difference
$50 pounds of butter in a year, and
one making double as much.
The first matter of Importance in
starting dairy is to have good COWS.
No matter how good the care beef
COW will not make a profitable butter
COW.
The incubator of the present day is
perhaps thing in its infancy, but, to
say the very least, it has many points
of superiority over the average old hen
as q reliable sitter.
Crushed oyster shells are excellent
for the laying hens. One pound of
crushed oyster shells will supply
enough lime for about seven dozen
eggs. One hundred grains of lime is
needed to produce the shell of one
egg.
A dairyman estimates that COW
may produce in the year six times her
weight of milk, with calf in addition.
If we take the COW as weighing 1000
pounds, we have, in the salable prod
ucts, about 800 pounds of dry matter,
containing IS. 8 pounds of nitrogen.
The Massachusetts, Agricultural So
ciety has taken effective measures for
the destruction of the gypsy moth. A
number of men is appointed and each
man is asked to take charge of dis
trict about mile square. Moth clus-
tiers and nests are collected and burned
when found.
Condition in horse does not sim
ply mean the presentation of good ap-
pearance, but signifies the ability to
endure work and maintain health. Tho
latter qualities cannot be, possessed
without liberal feeding and plenty of
exercise. Good condition requires
time to produce.
The disease of poultry known as
'Fgapes" is caused by small round
worm. Birds often become infected
by swallowing earth worms which con-
tain eggs OF embryos of the cape worm.
The bodies, or OF least the entrails of
fowls, dying from this disease should
be burned, thus preventing its further
spread.
A writer in the American Bee Jour
nal says that little stryehnine mixed
with q couple of eggs, placed in On
egg-shell, and put where skunks mean
der around, is tho ncatest, quickest
and most efectual way to get rid OF
these ''pets'' of tine farmer and horti-
culturist. No expense, and no often.
sive smells.