Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-01-25
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Have the fruit in cool place.
The English farmer buys his phos.
phoric acid at SO much a pound.
Land which has had corn and field
peas on it will answer very we'll for
Irish potatoes.
The man that does not apply all the
manure possible every year is like a
miser, injuring himself and benefting
no one.
The little things on the farm if sold
at the right time count up quite rapidly
sometimes, as we have found out by
experience.
The chicken coop will need cleaning
out quite often now. rs the poultry
will spend great deal of their time
in it to keep from the wind.
Salt is injurious to poultry to give
in too great quantity. If fed in
moderation in their soft feed it will
help to make it more palatable.
Every one who plants seeds ought
to send to some seedsmen for their
catalogues, SO that they may be able
to have the best the market affords.
Where sheep have an advantage
over cattle is in the fact that they can
live on ranges where it would be utter
ly useless to try to keep other stock.
When you receive the catalogues
from the different seedsmen, 1t might
be we'll to pick out one or two novel
ties and include them in your annual
order.
We would rather risk the loss of fel-
tility when spread in the field than un-
der the caves in the muddy barnyard,
no odds what the character of the soil
may be.
If you have common hens which do
not pay, grade them up with thorough.
bred males; then clean up and feed
less corn, and you will soon be on the
road to better results.
The 400-acre apple orchard of Judge
Welhouse, in Leavenworth County,
Kansas, yielded 47,374 bushels of ap-
| Piles this season, which were sold at a
net profit of about $12, 900.
1t is not difficult to keep hens and
sheep from getting sick, but it is not
so easy to cure them when they are
sick. 1t is usually cheaper and better
to kill them than to try to save them.
The Pittsburg Dispatch tells how
money may be made by growing po-
tatoes. One farmer made $500 out of
fifty acres of potatoes, and another
one got $4,000 for 5000 bushels of po-
tatoes raised on twenty acres of land.
Promptness in marketing is always
advisable. A man had better not raise
so much and dispose of it to the best
advantage than to strain every nerve
to raise everything possible to be dis
posed of in an injudicious way or to
go to loss unmarketed.
| Considering the amount necessary
to purchase q good horse at the pres.
ent time, there is no excuse for driv-
ing poor, broken down, old animal
that life is a burden to; besides, it
,osts less to feed and care for good
horse than poor one.
Begonias and callas are both flower
ing and foliage plants, and may be
kept all winter with little extra care
in watering. Both like warmth, but
they must have a moist atmosphere to
do we'll. For plentiful flowers, they
require also direct sunlight.
Land that is unproductive is not
necessarily exhausted. The elements
of fertility may lie in the soil, but in
an unavailable form. Leguminous
plants will bring it nitrogen from tho
air, and crop of manure may supply
some simple element to make proper
balance in its constituency.
The successful merchant makes quick
sales and small profits, changing his
stock in trade often. So does the sue
cessful farmer, and manure is just 80
much of farmers stock in trade. 1t
is not business to pile up the nitrogen,
potash, etc, OF thirty acres of wheat
aud let it remain there four to six
wars.