Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-03-15
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

In laying off land for the different
crops be sure to rotate.
When you have hen house, and
have only limited space, make it two
story.
Never, if possible, cultivate land in
corn, cotton or wheat moro than one
or two years in succession.
Reducing the amount of TO Cd is not
economy in feeding, as the product
may be reduced corresponding ly.
Give your children something they
can call their own and attend to, if
nothing but pair Of bantam chickens.
By recent decision of the Post
office Department eggs can be sent by
mail, which will greatly reduce the
expense.
Don't wait until you build the big
barn before sheltering the COWS. Build
the shelter for them and they will help
you build the barn.
Breed well, and when you have
heifer calf as the result of such breed
ing, feed we'll and train properly, and
you will have good COW.
If your pullets so on the nest AMI,
after remaining time, go away with
ont depositing al egg, it is sure in
dication that they are too fat. Let
up on the feed.
Have you got your eyes on @ cock
erel that you propose to breed from,
yet? If not, you should Get hustle
on, for a few weeks more will bring
you where You will need one
Find all the fault you can with your
hen house now, aud chalk down the
objections, SO that next fall you can
remedy the detects aud be in better
shape for winter when it strikes you.
The true way to cconomize in feed
ing is to have animals that will yield
the greatest quantity on certain al
lovance Of food, and to give them all
the food they will consume as long as
they are giving profit.
Professor Bailey, of Cornell Expert
ment Station. recommends from 500
to 700 pounds Of mu,iate of potash
and 800 to 500 pounds of plain
superphosphate per acre as annual
top dressing for mature orchards.
Nitrogen is seldom needed, he saws,
and is too apt to force q growth Of too
much wood.
Where the best crops are produced
weeds never gain foothold, and never
have chance to grow. This law is
universal. Weeds do little injury to
good farms, and on the contrary good
farming eXtermInates weeds. This
fundamental truth should be taken
into consideration whenever the coun-
try becomes agitated over some new
weed
If you desire thrifty roses get the
ground ready by placing large SHOW
elful of manure where each rosebush
is to grow. Early in the spring get
one-year-old plants of assorted kinds,
and after making the ground loose
and fine, mulch around them until the
first leaves appear, then, work around
them with hoe, near the surface, so
as to keep weeds down.
Cows should be fed up to near their
full capacity. 1t is poor economy to
allow dairy COW, capable of making
two pounds or more of butter per day,
to yield only a pound or pound and
half, as it is to feed fattening pig
only half or two-thirds of the food it
can assimilate. Feed dairy cows up
to nearly their full capacity except for
two months before calvIng.
A good dairy COW is one that has
had excellent training. The DISPOSE
ton is very important, as the most
profitable COW may be source of an
noyance if she is cross or unmanage-
able. The heifer is the future COW.
and her training cannot begin too
early. A kicking COW is always men,
ace, and there is liability of injury
from her at any time, and when least
expected