The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-03-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Feed regularly.
Weed out the culls.
Season all soft food with a pinch OF
salt.
Feed ground bone and crushed oys-
ter shells.
Give your sheep sunny southern
exposure protected from the north and
northwest winds.
II you put down q good supply of
cabbage and other greon stuff, as we
advised you in the fall, your fowls are
getting the benefit, and returning it to
you in eggs.
If your roosting place is inclined to
be leaky, this cold weather has COW
cred the interior of the place with
white frost, which is not the most
comfortable wall paper for hen
house.
The man who got a nice lot of pullets
last spring is gathering eggs now.
They lay more readily in cold weather
than the old hens. They take a rest
from laying oftener than old hens, but
do not rest 50 long.
Who can find winter sitteri Her
price is above roubles. She considereth
a nest and layeth in it; she ariseth
early and gathereth the grub, and when
she has finished her laying she sitteth
on the eggs, and hatcheth a brood.
And the breeders of exhibition fowls
rise up and bless her.
Three meals day in winter are too
many for your fowls. Two is a
plenty, if they are of the right sort.
Agood warm mash at night, for them
to go to roost on these cold nights, is
a very good thing, and that gives them
the grain in the morning, when they
have all day before them in which to
scratch about for it among the litter.
The run of the market shows that
the big beeves are not in as active de-
mand as heretofore. Twelve hundred
FOUNDERS brought as good prices per
100 pounds as the over-fat sixteen and
eighteen hundred Founders. This in
dicates that consumers are no longer
willing to pay five cents per pound ex-
ira for fancy over choice cuts.
Charcoal is one of the most essen
tial articles of food to successful poul-
try farming. The best way to secure
this is TO place an ear of corn in the
fire until it is entirely charred and
then shell off to your fowls, You see
an eagerness developed and a healthy
condition brought about. All pale
combs will become bright red, and the
busy song which precedes laying will
be heard and the average yield of eggs
greatly increased.
1t is possible to get three litters OF
pigs from SOW in one year, but this
is little too hoggish. Some say it is
best to keep a SOW breeding all the
time, as it will check the tendency to
take on fat. 1t is our opinion that fat
"a reasonable amount of it's not
poison, even to a SOW, and does not
call for heroic doses of anti-fat. The
SOW will be better pleased in the END
with two families a year, and what
pleases the SOW ought to please the
owner. The man should not be a hog
! The question of selling eggs 10y
weight is still being agitated, and ther,
/ are many reasons for fayoring it
though the advantages would not b,
t so great as many suppose. A small
o egg like the Leghorn's, for instance
l has a thin shell, fine aud smooth
t while the large eggs liks the Rocks
, Cochins and Bramahs have a thicl
I coarse shell. If sold by weight tn,
, purchaser would pay extra price 70
T egg shells, but would he get any NOR
a / weight of actual egg, that he coul
use? Very little if any.