Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-07-13
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Have you provided for soIllng
crop this summer?
Pumpkins are an excellent fall and
winter feed for cattle.
The hens will now do better and lay
better if the males are removed.
Overlooking is one of the fruitful
causes of leg weakness in young
chicks.
The Houdan crossed on Partridge
Cochins makes excellent fowls for
broilers.
With good management in most
cases two garden crops can be grown
in one season.
It is throwing away money to trust
your horse to the charge of an already
overworked trainer.
It is economy in little things that
makes the profit in the poultry bust
ness above all others.
Give the animals plenty of room in
the stable in which to lie down if you
would make them comfortable.
If new rooster is introduced every
year, more eggs will be obtained than
from flock that has been closely in
bred.
A ration of one part cracked wheat,
one part cornmeal aul two parts
whole oats constitute an excellent
grain food.
As rule, the cross is harder than
the Thoroughbred, because the latter
has been 50 inbred as to lose its origi-
nal hardness.
No plant on the farm will respond
more readily to good treatment than
the potato. Clean culture is an
absolute necessity.
The wise farmer gets out all the
early Matched chickens he can, sells
all the males, and keep the pullets for
eggs for the Christmas holiday trade.
If it pays to raise turnips in Eng
land as food for sheep, why cannot
it be done IN this country, where the
farmer is not burlened with an enor-
nous rent?
The feet of the mule are not so liable
to injury as those of the horse. The
animal itself is harder aud less dainty
in it's fool. Hence it is to be pre-
ferred for some purposes.
After all the juice has been ex-
tracted from the stalks of the sorg-
hum, the crushed refuse or bagasse,
as it is termed, forms nutritious
food for COWS, by which it is greedily
eaten.
Garden and Forest thinks the pro.
cess of grating desirable varieties OF
grapes on vigorous wild vines cannot
be proitably adopted, as the grating
of grapes is usually ATTENDED by many
failures.
A farm journal tells of a man who
took to the mill forty bushels OF
wheat, twenty bushels of oats and forty
bushels of corn, and had them ground
and mixed for hog feed. He reported
very favorahly on the result.
1t is useless to grow onions, no
matter how rich the soil may be, if
the rows are not kept perfectly clean.
Weeds and grass will destroy AL onion
bed in short order, as onions prefer
the land undisturbed by other plants,
hence the ground must be kept loose
and fine.
A Kansas fruit grower says that
corn is undoubtedly by far the best
crop for an orchard that can be
grown, as 1t breaks the wind, and the
trees grow up straight. Insects, as a
rule, will not trouble tree when
there is plenty Of green fodder and
corn for them to work on.
Even when eggs are fresh the prices
are lowered by dirty shells. 1t will
be an advantage to wash the eggs in
soap and water. If the stains do not
come off place the eggs in vinegar for
an hour and then wash them. Assert
them, placing the dark eggs in one
lot and the white eggs in another.
The Texas Live Stock Journal con.
tlnues to urge the cattle raisers OF the
Southwest to breed for top grades
1t is the supremest folly to breed for
and raise a scrub for two cents a
pound, when top grades that will
bring four and five cents can be as
easily bred and as cheaply raised and
fattened.
There are certain principles which
are equally essential whether one is
growing stock or cultivating crops.
One thing that must be done IN either
case is to weed closely. Some men
never think of wedding out the in
ferior calves or pigs, but GO on breed
ing them, and SO perpetuate their
bad qualities.