Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-03-20
rAEM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Stop up tho cracks and knot holes.
Provide grit for poultry in some
form.
Feed the poultry warm mash ut
bed time.
Kill of the scrubs. They are taking
up room that better fowls need.
Corn makes tho sheep feverish.
1t should never be fed near yeanlipc
time.
Sour apples, when we'll ripened, have
considerable value as food for fatten.
ing swine.
While breed is much, breeding,
selection and survival of the fittest
are much more.
When feeding onsilage to dairy cattle
add some bran, clinical, gluten or
cotionseed meal.
10 pasturize milk, heat to 16O de-
grees Fahrenheit for twenty minutes,
then cool quickly.
Whom tho weather is cold some corn
may be fed, though it is not very good
egg food, MS it tends moro to making
fat than eggs.
Bitterness in milk is usually as
cribed either to tho food eaten by tho
COW or to luck OF cleanliness in the
surroundings.
Those countries which grow their
pigs without corn and feed the wastes
OF the dairy, with oats, peas, barley
and roots, make bacon with less fnt
and more lean.
Ground oats will start tho orps
quicker than almost any other feed.
1t should be mixed with bran, and
moistened, not made sloppy, but
simply crumbly.
Have you arranged Cor n scratching
place for the fowls? Some dry place
where foot deep of chaff, straw, dust
and other litter can be placed, in which
to scatter the grain.
Apples after being picked should
never be allowed to lie in the orchard
They should be taken from tho trees
direct to the store-room, where tho
temperature is even and as low as nos.
sible.
Labels on fruit trees are very un-
satisfactory rs records, as they are SO
liable to be lost. The best plan is to
make map of the orchard, with
all the trees located and namod. and
keep i'll convenient place for refer
ence.
When an animal dies on the farm
the carcass should not be buried in
the orchard, as fruit trees will stand
but small amount of such strong
fertilizer and are liable to be killed by
an overdose.
The orchard that goes into the win.
ter with dry soil is an object Of
solieitude. Young trees should be
soaked before tho gror nd freezes.
even if the water has to be carried bv
hand. To freeze dry is as fatal as to
burn dry.
Buckwheat honey is mode last and
is the darkest. Though strong in
flavor, it is preferred by some to tbnt
more delicately favored. But as
buckwheat honey does not sell we'll IL
is usually left for the bees to eat dur.
ing the winter.
Those who mako study of insect
lilo tell us that bees are not without
enemies. Wasps, whilo useful in some
respects, steal honey and harass the
bees constantly. Sparrows and the
blue titmouse eat bees. 1t is said that
sparrows eat only the drones.
If you have the room, it is GOOD
plan now to coop up your cockerels,
such as you want TO keep separately.
and feed them only grain. The warm
mash that the hens need is not good
food for the cocks. They eat too
much of it and are dumpy, and soon
sioken and die.
Fruit that can be grown SO cheaply
and will yield so much. should be con.
sidered a necessity in every family.
No one can SO we'll afford to have Der.
ries, every day in tho season, es the
farmer. No one cen have them so
fresh from tho vines, so rip, so delic-
ious ard at SO little cost es the farmer,
and yet, as class, none have so few.