The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-08-15
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Milk rapidly.
The Pekin is generally esteemed
the most profitable variety of duck.
Lead a COW rather than drive her.
Gentleness should be the watchword
to the dairy stable.
The aim in breeding should be to-
wards q higher standard in order TO
compensate for the deterioration in
prices.
Make up your mind to have better
roads this summer between your farm
and the station from which you do
your shipping.
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.
The man who makes it a rule to
milk his COWS in the stable is the one
who has the least trouble with them.
1t takes but a minute to put them in
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,
obseryed 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 invigor-
ator is a gill of nitrate of soda once a
week in a pail of water, applied with
watering pot, over an area of 100
square feet. The grass will quickly
respond to such treatment.
When the sheep go to pasture, a
place should be provided for the lambs
in which they can enter and get a lit
tie grain food. This helps them very
much and will add fully fourth to
their growth during the summer.
Don't overload young horses. If
there is heavy load to be hauled use
the older animals, remembering that
the bone and muscle are not properly
developed and set until after the
horse has attained his sixth year.
The head of the gander is somewhat
coarser than that of the goose and his
cry is harsher. There is no difference
in the form or plumage of the two
sexes, and, as a rule, the gander is
distinguished only by his pugnscity.
By hurdling and letting the stock
eat down portion of the field at a
time, pasture can be made to go further
than by the common method. This
plan can be followed with sheep and
hogs without very much extra labor.
When a mare refuses to dry or
ceress her offspring a little -four or
meal sprinkled upon it will sometimes
attract her kindly to it, but should
this fail the foal must be dried by rub
bing with soft flannel and induced to
take milk.
In raising turkeys this year remem-
Der that the big ones are no longer in
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
good weight and popular size.
If you have not sufficient number
of sows, or COWS or mares TO pay for
keeping a thoroughbred male yourself,
get some of your neighbors to join you
II, he, ,f safv,F
ship of this sort is better than to be all
the time paying out large service fees
The meal of whole ears of corn is
quite as digestible as 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 and
digest it usefully,
! There is no farm SO small but that
live stock of some sort could add to
the profit derived from it, If you
can do nothing more, try single
| dairy COW as an experiment. Very
often one COW we'll kept pays much
better than half dozen indiherently
fed and cared for.
The stockman who feeds ton of
bran to his work horses will, if all his
manure, solid ana liquid, is saved,
have $l2.4 worth of fertility in the
manure. If the same is fed to grow
ing stock he will have about ninety
per cent. of the fertility, and to a
dairy COW more than seventy-hve per
cent
If you are growing clover for seed.
you can predispOse the plant toward
seed production by pasturing 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 quanti-
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 il
such form MS to be available. BY
thorough working of the soil to GOOD
depth the farmer eau do much to i'm
prove the condition of things.