The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-01-29
FARM AND a.RpES NOTES


1t pays to consider mutton first and
wool asterward.
Potash may be had IN wood ashes
and muriate of potash.
Tillage should be begun Just as soon
rs the ground is dry enough In spring.
A stable should be so built that a
horse would not neel to stand bla1.
keted
Good drainage, natural or artificial.
is essential to success. Trees are i'm.
patient of wet feet
1t Is not wise to make a horse so
tender that he will be liable to colds
and discomfort when taken out.
Well-drained lands are dryer in wet
spells and mo ster in dry spells than
other lards. Tney can lie worked
earlier in spring.
If man is good grass and gram
grower, he would better MANUFACTURED
these products into meat upon ms
fnrm, that he may have the ultimate
profit from both branches OF his busi.
ness.
Stock raisers have the matter of
prices in their own han Is TO a greater
degree than any other class of farmers.
for by good selection and feeding thew
can p oduce just what tie market
wants.
There is danger that more head of
cattle will he kept than can be we'll
fed. Only the farmer who has outside
range Of lands in excess of his needs
Tor til!aSe should endeayor TO raise all
his calves.
When all orchprdists recognize the
necessity OF spraying the fruit trees.
the urge crops of fruit will be had
again which we were accustomed TO
before fun%;, collin moths, etc. were
as destructive as they are at the pres.
ent day.
Gerauiums not required IN pots
through the winter may be turned ont
OF th"m, packed closely in box of
earth and kept in cool cellar nil win
ter. Give them scarcely any water, or
1T will start them growing, which is
not desirable.
DO not trim the shrubs after mid.
summer or there Will be no howers
next year. 1t is the wood of this sea.
son which flowers next year, and this
must not be lost Pruning should he
done Immediately after it has COM
menceI lowering.
II one plant among many more of
the same kind shows a disposition To
bloom earlier than the others. seeGs
should be saved from it, us it is often
possible to fix character such plants
seem inclined TO assume. Many val
liable race has been started in this
manner.
In the attempt TO renovate an old
farm which one has recently bought.
on which there may be many washe
aud impoverished spots, do not put
the available manure on these. but 90
to work systematically and improve
one field nt time, so tllt it will Weld
n paying crop Fertiiizo one field
we'll ana then extend to other field.
Much gar EN- WORK done in the fall
Is SO much saved from sprinl. One OF
the important operations is the aopli-
''h'Nil 20 ihNuNIb 10 lIWiL ana Orna-
mental trees, small fruit, asparagus.
rhubarb, etc. Manure is cheaper and
in less demand than It will be in the
spring. Furthermore, the fall is really
the most citing season TO put it on.
A colt four months old should be
taught TO eat oats and bran with the
dam, then weaned His ration after
weaving may be three pounds cut
clover hay, one pound COOL oaty.
three pounds wheat bran, one fourth
pound liusecd meal Moisten the chi
clover, then mix all together, and fee
half morning, the other half at niqht.
Many garde IS with heavy soil viii
he improved by fall plowlng. It is Or,
now and the work can be we'll done
The ground will be lett loose, so that
1T can be worked earlier i'm the sprins
than otherwise. or course % thorough
cleaning should be given the garden
All the weeds, trimmings of trees, letc.
should be collected in a heap an,
burned, for 1t is we'll known that th,
eggs and larya Of insects Aar0or ~
such truck.