The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-02-06
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GAhDEN NOTESs
Sheep are delicate feeders and will
reject anything that is not perfectly
sweet.
1t is hopeless TO expect sheep to eat
the butts of corn stalks rs COW will
when they come from the silo.
It makes little difference how rocky
land is for grapes. They have been
known to flourish where it was neces-
sary to carry soil to cover the roots
when planting.
A farmer said before the Iowa Insti-
tute: ''It has been proved that clover
sod is as good to produce corn as the
virgin soil. Farmers are just awaken
ing to the Importance of sowing all
small grain fields to clover. It is the
only wholesale fertilizer we have dis
covered"
Keep the back barnyard as neat as.
the front have the manure pile, the
old board pile, the rubbish pile, al,
ways under cover. Make the neatness
of your place noticeable, and teach.
not only your own boys, but the
whole neighborhood, lessons of beauty
and thrift.
Sheppard hogs are good in orchards
hogs preferable to sheep, because
they root the ground over and pre-
pare it for an application of fertilizer.
Neither class of stock is sufficient for
the full amelioration of the soil to
bring the orchard to its best produc-
tive capacity.
Excepting the golden rod, milk
weed and ragweed, all the rest OF our
weeds have been imported. These.
foreign weeds are the most trouble
some and persistent. If it was some
ones duty to keep them from the
highways, these pests would not
travel 30 fast.
Italian bees are now conceded to be
the best bees for this country. New
varieties come up every season, are
given a short-lived boom and drop
below the horizon, to again appear
briefly in few years. The Italian
has been tried and has not been found
wanting. They are the best.
When your cream foams and swells
in the churn don't pour hot water
into it, but warm it up to seventy de-
grees, if need be, by warm water to
the outside, and mature it more be-
fore you attempt again to churn. Ma
turity and warmth within certain safe
limits will generally knock the obsti-i
macy out of winter cream that does.
not want to yield up its butter.
Vines have been frequently known
to do we'll where their roots were be. =.
meath buildings and the vines brought
out at the foundation. They never
fail in such places for want of
moisture, the natural dampness of the
soil being sufficient. Very often such
vines will come through the winter
uninjured, when those in the garden
or vineyard are seriously damaged.
The clover hay harvest should be-
gin as soon as the field is we'll in bloom,
and every care possible exercised in
curing and harvesting the crop, and
while all undertakings areuncertain in
which the weather takes such an i'm
portant part, much may be done to
Offset the uncertainties by extreme
watchfulness and care, and no dairy
man can afford to withhold these in
such case.
The peach may be budded on the
plum, but there is less advantage in
this than is commonly supposed. The
peach tree is usually hardy enough to
live, and if the crop suffers it is from
freezing the buds when too far ad-
vanced. This, of course, the plum
stock cannot remedy. 1t is a mistake
also to suppose that peach trees will
not do well on heavy soils. They only
require soil that is well drained and
from stagnant water at any season.
Many mistakes are made in setting
out shade trees. Eyergreens ought
never TO be set near the house. They
are useful as windbreaks in the North
and West, at some distance from the
house, where they may be set in
clumps or hedges, but never on a
lawn. Grass does not do so we'll under
them as under deciduous trees, and so
many of them drop cones almost the
entire year that they are unsightly and
interfere with the mower.