Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-09-27
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Don't forget to give the horse soma
salt.
A little grease will sometimes save
lot of horse.
Now is the season to reap the re.
ward of your labor.
After bringing the horse in brush
off his feet and legs.
Don't keep any animal on the farm
that does not pay q profit.
Endeavor to have the home sur
roundings pleasing to the eye.
Every farmer should keep set of
books the same as any other business
man.
If the stable is kept sweet and clean
it will largely reduce the number of
flies.
Market all quarrelsome roosters,
over-fat hens and non-laying pullets
before cold weather.
When the orchard begins bearing it
should receive an annual dressing of
phosphoric acid and potash.
A little nitrate of soda sprinkled in
the rows and hills of the lima beans
will hasten the growth of the vines.
Fowls which feather and mature
early are usually good producers of
eggs, good sitters and good mothers.
There will have to be considerable
"head-work" used during harvesting
in order to make everything dovetail.
Uniformity is great advantage
that creamery butter has over dairy
butter. Dairy butter is made in small!
lots.
Oil the harness the first chance you
get. If it does not come soon, take
time. Hot weather saps the life out
of harness.
Shearing off little wool around
the teat will often prevent the loss Of
the lamb from Indigestion consequent
on swallowing lock of wool.
Occasionally crop of grass may be
grown in the orchard if the land is
rich, but permanent grass sod is
sure to injure the trees sooner or
later.
Don't let the weeds grow up and 60
to seed where early crops have been
removed and in the paths. IT you dc
it will be adding to your work next
year.
1t pays to have careful mixers who
will be gentle with the COWS aud who
always milk clean. A man may easily
lose more than his wages by careless
milking.
Shepherds who would be fully post
ed in the art OF growing wool must
study the science of breeding, and the
whole story of the natural history OF
the sheep.
Be sure to feed green corn to the
COWS. In no other way can it be used
to pay SO we'll. Sweet corn is prefer
able until cold weather, then field
corn is better.
Some people seem to forget that
the amount of profit on pound oi
butter often depends as much on re-
ducing the cost of production as in
obtaining an enhanced price.
The dairyman's responsibility for
the care of his COWS is not all gone
when he is able to turn them out te
grass in the early summer. The more
he feels his responsibility in this di
rection, and acts upon it, the more
valuable will his dairy become to him.
Compared with well-rotted barr
manure, there are 4S.60 pounds ol
phosphoric acid in hen manure to six
in barn-yard manure; and sixty y-seven
pounds of nitrogen to eleven in barn
yard manure. The analysis is based
on ton each of hen and barn-yart
manures.
A duckling at week old shoult
weigh four ounces; two weeks, nine
ounces; three weeks, one pound; foul
weeks, one pound and nine ounces
five weeks, two pounds and tw'
ounces; six weeks, two pounds an,
eleven ounces; seven weeks, thre
pounds and five ounces; eight weeks
four pounds; nine weeks. four pound
and eight ounces.