The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-15
THE ADVOCATE.
AGRILULTURAL NOTES.

u for fruit never seek distant market.
Drive the horse slowly till he gets
warmed up, and then have him go at
a steady gait.
~ When turned to good grazing the
sleeps grain ration should be with
y drawn gradually.
Lambs for market should be pushed
with grain feed from the time they
will eat till ready for the butcher.
Old process linseed meal mixed
Yskwith wheat bran or wheat middings
8 highly recommended as an excel
lent food for pigs that are being
weaned.
1t is better for beginner to begin
with only one breed of chickens and
raise them for eggs only, and enlarge
later if circumstances and conditions
favorit.
A poultry grower says: Do not be
tempted into thinking there is much
profit from fall chickens. This is a
4 delusion and snare for the ordinary
s.poultry grower.
= 1t has been suggested that in neigh
borhoods where orchards are small,
young men with pluck and energy
could get spraying outfit and build
up lucrative business spraying
orchards.
8 If the two best years of hens life
are her first ones what's the use of
keeping her any longer? Two years
~ream Of egg production and then the
sale of prime roasting fowl mean the
most money for the farmer.
The Indiana Farmer says good
daily ration for work horse is IA
pounds of corn meal, two pounds of
oil meal and IL pounds of clover hay or
timothy. This has been tested with
work horses and found to do we'll.
Many of the large cities are adopt
ing the plan of cremating their gar
bage. This is very quick and
healthfdf way of disposing oft, but it
is not the right way. The waste of
the cities ought to be put back on the
farms.
Sheep need salt as well as food an6
!. water, and sheep raiser says better
> to keep the 'lick-log supplied" all ne
me, for when sheep want the salt
Ky want it bad, and disappoint-
Th9nt when they come in to lick it sets
them back day or two.
The Texas Stockman says: Many
sheepmen have been forced to market
their sheep to satisfy the claims of
bankers and other creditors and to
pay running expenses. This in part
accounts for the large run to market
a and prevailing low prices.
A distinguished fruit grower, in an
address before the Agricultural
students of the Ohio State University,
gave it as his opinion that you can
sell 5000 bushels of pears of kind
more easily than you can dispose of
A.pne load of mixed varieties.
The Maine Agricultural station con-
Mes from tests made that tomato |
5I2sants handled in pots previous to
"a setting in the field are more vigorous
Ia and productive that those not so han
dled--a fact which may be of great
importance to the commercial grower.
Powdered alum, black anthony
and asafoetida, equal parts, mixed
with bread crumbs and softened with
sweet milk, is said to be good remedy
for turkey cholera. They should be
put to themselves and given the above
remedy four times day till they are
better.
III When the sun is nearly down in the
= vening the hens may be allowed their
liberty for short time, as they will
not then forage far from the poultry
n house, though they will secure quite
share of green food, grit and other
dainties during the time they are out
eide. Simply open the gate and leave
open until shutdown, when all the
ems will be found on the roost, and
he gate may be shut for the night.
The ladybird, to which lmany gen.
rations of children have addressed
he familiar rhyming admonition, is a
most valuable insect destroyer, and