Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-07-27
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Lead q COW rather than drive her.
Gentleness should be the watchwoS
to the dairy stable.
The aim in breeding should be to
wards q higher standard in order tt
compensate for the deterioration il
prices.
Make up your mind to have better
roads this summer between your farm
and the station from which you dc
your shipping.
Pudding the roots of plants when
trausplanting them is of the greatest
benefit to them. Soil and water is
mixed until it is like paste. Into this
the roots are dipped.
1t is very certain that the butter
must come from the food and that the
better the food the more butter COW
will give. Experience has shown that
corn meal is the best food for rich
milk.
If the SOW is in fairly good condi-
ton at narrowing her pigs will be
plump and fat--that plumpness and
fairness should be kept up without q
moments falling away till they go tc
SHAMELESS.
The man who makes it q rule tC
milk his cows III the stable is the one
who has the least trouble with them.
1t takes but a minute to put them i'll
and turn them out, and this time is
we'll spent.
TURKEYS, as a rule, do best to have
their own way in nesting, setting and
caring for their young, but the Older
ones are likely to become SO gentle
and obedient as to conform cheerfully
to the feeders plan.
The cracking of the fruit of pears,
observed Oftentimes in the Flemish
Beauty and the White Doyenne. is
caused by fungus. Spraying, as now
generally practiced, will make an end
of this fungus, no doubt.
For a small lawn the best inyigor-
! ator is gill of nitrate Of soda once II
week i'll pail Of water, applied with
II watering pot, over IN area of 100
| square feet. The grass will quickly
respond to such treatment.
When the sheep go to pasture, q
! place should be provided for the lambs
in which they can enter and get lit
tie grain food This helps them very
much AMI will add fully a fourth to
! their growth during the summer.
Don't overload young horses. If
there is a heavy load to be hauled use
the older amin lls, remembering that
the bone AMI muscle are not properly
developed and set until after tho
horse has attained his sixth year.
The head OF the ganler is somewhat
coarser tn III that Of the goose aud his
cry Is har5hoc. There is no difference
III the form or plunage Of the two
sexes, and US rule, the gauder is
distin guish9d only by his pugnacity.
BY hurlling and letting the stock
eat down portion of the field at Il
time, pasture can be ma lie to go further
than by the common method. This
plan can be followed with sheep and
hogs without very much extra labor.
When mare refuses to dry or
caress her offspring Il little flour or
M enl sprinkled upon it will sometimes
attract her kin lily to it, but should
this fail the foal must be dried by rub
| bling with soft flannel aud induce to
| take milk.
In raising turkeys this year remem-
Der that the big ones are no longer i'll
! demand, and can only be sold at re-
duction. Birds ranging from ten to
fifteen pounds, at five months, are the
| kind wanted. Twelve pounds is q
good weight and a popular size.
| If you have not sufficient number
of sows, or COW; or mares to pay for
| keeping thorough bred male yourself,
get some of your neighbors to join you
i'll the purchase of one. A Joint owner
ship of this sort is better than to be ell
the time paying out large service fees.
The meal of whole ears OF corn is
quite rs digestible rs that of the
ground grain if it is finely ground and
fed with cut hay. About six quarts a
day Of this meal is sufficient for an or
binary COW, but that may be increased
as the COW may be found to eat anal
digest it usefully.
! live stock of some sort could add to
the profit derived from it. If you
can do nothing more, try a single
dairy COW as an experiment. Very
often one COW we'll kept pays much
better than half dozen indifferently
fed and cared for.
Feed farm stock separately if posi-
i, Ill
and stanchious for cattle. If this is
not practicable, separate into small
groups, putting animals of like physi-
cal strength and dispositions to-
gether. Do this with hogs and sheep
as we'll as cattle and horses.
The stockman who feeds ton OF
bran to his work horses will. if all his
manure, solid and liquid, is saved,
have SIP worth of fertility in the
manure. 1t the same is fed to grow
ing stock ne will have about ninety
per cent of the fertility, and to u
Iairy COW more than seventy-fve per
cent
If you are growing clover for seed.
you can prelispose the plant toward
seed production by pasturiny sheep
upon the field. They will keep it
cropped close to the ground, and if
this is done through the earlier part
of the season, the seed crop will be
heavier from the later growth than by
any other method OF handling it.
All soils contain enormous quaint
ties of plant food, even the most un-
productive, and crops require but lit
tie. The reason why some soils are so
barren is that the essential elements,
often abundant in them, are not in
such form rs to be available. By
thorough working of the SOL to a good
depth the farmer can do much to i'm.
prove the condition of things.
We have about overcome the fool
ISh Of ho liza o, Il