Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-02-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

| FAKM AND GARDEN NOTES.
After the leaves drop is a good timo
to prune the grape.
Take your choice, eggs or lice. You
can't have both in the same poultry
yard.
Stirring the soil in warm weather
makes it warmer by admitting more
outside air. It also stimulates de-
composition of any vegetable matter
that the soil contains, and thus di-
rectly adds to the available supply of
fertility.
A teaspoonful Of glycerine and a
few drops of nitric acid to pint OF
drinking water will generally cure a
fowl that shows symptoms OF ,bronchi-
tis, when accompanied with gurg-
ling sound in the thloat, as if OF
choking.
The more manure that the farmer
applies the more thorough should be
the cultivation of the crop. Only thus
can its full value be secured. Besides,
unless the cultivator is kept busy. the
manure makes the weeds grow as we'll
as the crop.
Much can yet be done to mako the
poultry quarters comfortable for win
ter weather. The roof may be mend
ed, the walls battened, or lined with
paper, the broken glass replaced with
new, or q sash put into front that
now has none.
A colt was to all appearances nearly
dead, the breath of lifo being barely
perceptible. 1t soon revived by Civ
ing it a couple of fresh eggs. The
same results have attended tho admin
istering of eggs to weak cattle and to
feeble, chilled lambs.
All sick or ailing fowls should be ut
once separated from the rest Of the
flock. The ounce of prevention in
removing them is often worth moro
than the pound of cure needed for the
others, among whom they, by remain
ing, spread contagion.
Experimenting with mongrel fowls
in these days is very poor business at
the best, when there is such m abun-
dance of prime stock to commence
with. 1t is just as cheap to breed the
better kinds of poultry ut the outset,
as to keep poor trash.
If little salt were put in food
every day and ashes put where the
poultry can have access to them. they
would never eat their eggs unless the
eggs freeze and the shell cracks open.
Hens seldom eat their eggs except dur
| inc the winter months
It has been recommended, in order
to prevent hens from ,eating eggs, to
put two tablespoonfuls of fine salt and
one-half pint of wood ashes in one
quart of corn meal, or in that ratio,
and mix with boiling water feed once
a day until they leave off eating their
eggs.
No artificial heat is wanted for lay
ing hens Make the pens close and
comfortable; that is all that is re-
quired; the hens will do the rest.
Artificial heat always weakens, and
activity is always at the bottom of
good health, whether with man or
beast.
It is necessary to watch the corners
or there will be no profit with your
focks. How many old and worthless
ROSTERS are you feeding? They are
not only useless and expensive, but
annoy the hens and interfere with the
egg product. Do not keep the old
hens either.
| Few eggs need be expected unless
the hens are in bright, healthy con-
dition. While ground feed is most
conveniently kept in trough, whole
seeds should be scattered among clean
straw or litter, to compel them to *.
ercise. This will usually do away with
egg eating. feather pulling, etc.
Did you eve. know wheat to be SO
cheap? Boil 1t soft and stir up with
little potatoes and other fall wastes
like turnips, cabbages, sweet apples,
etc. Perhaps this ration will not make
fat pork, but it keeps the digestion
and appetite good, and, o, how it
makes the winter pigs grow! Care
and brains make pork profits.
!. Kerosene emulsion can most easily
be applied W stock to destroy lice and
prevent tho attack of the horn-fy by
the sprayer, which is designed origin
. ally for applying spraying mixtures
to fruit trees. A hand sprayer is the
, most convenient, and with fine noz.
zle very small quantity will be suffi.
cient, whereas by hand and sponge
application the work will require
! much more liquid and take much more
time.