Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Do not feed grain as an exclusive
diet.
The most successful trainers are tho
tireless workers.
If your fowls are not looked after,
do not expect too much from them.
Pullets and yearIing hens are the
ones to put your dependence upon for
a sure profit.
Breeders will find more money in
raising fewer animals and giving them
little training.
With Bookkeeping and fruit growing
combined two crops may be made
from the same land.
It is said that collie produced by eat
ing honey may be cured by eating a
small piece of cheese.
Little chicks need feeding every two
or three hours, but as they grow older
the time may be heightened.
Berries relieve the soil of very lit
tie fertility, and leave it in an excel
lent condition for other crops.
There is no real rivalry between tho
III his place, which is one that the
other cannot fill.
The Importance of the maternal all
cestry is now SO generally recognized
that this is called the broodmare age
of trotting breeding.
For growing berries of all kinds Sc
lect well-drained soil on which some
hoed crop was produced last season,
potato ground being best.
Lincoln and Cotswold rams, used
with Merino ewes, produce large car
casses and long wool, If food supplies
are liberal and good care given.
A weak solution of carbolic acid
with a small quantity of salt added is
specific for bee stings. Apply it lib
orally as soon as possible after being
stung.
A COW needs from six to ten weeks
rest from giving milk each year. Why
not arrange to let them have their va
is lowest?
One of the best ways to start in bee
culture is to buy two or more colonies
of italian bees in some good movable
frame hive. Always buy from reli-
able dealer.
One person with a little help can
easily attend to 100 colonies of bees if
comb honey is to be the product.
More assistance will be needed if the
honey is to be extracted.
Every time bee matches it leaves
very thin lining in the cell. There
will be several of these in the season,
as it requires only twenty-one days for
n young bee to emerge from it's cell
Extracted honey requires less skill,
but there is more profit in pro lucing
the best white comb, for which there
is always a demand. and which never
suffers from competition with n cheap
counterfeit.
Some poultrymen claim that hens
will never eat their eggs if they are
given plenty of broken bone, oyster
and clam shells. The best plan is to
keep supply where they can help
themselves.
If good sows are kept and used for
breeding as long as they are profit
able the better plan is when the
young SOW farrows her first litter in
the spring not to breed her again I'M
til in the fall.
Some farmers who have spent great
deal Of money and many years in breed
ing up a nice class of mares, will fool
ishly sell them off in fit of despon-
dency, retaining only such as they
could not sell.
Bees never make an attack while in
quest OF honey or on their return I'M
til they have entered the hive, says q
writer. 1t is only in the hive and in
its vicinity that we may expect them
to manifest this irascible disposition.
One dollar year has for years been
the average profit of the well-kept
hen, but the Improvement made in
feeding the last few years and the bet
ter knowledge now possessed by pouI-
terers ars placing the average higher.