Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1896-02-28
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Feed regularly.


Feed regularly.
Weed out the culls.
Season all soft food with pinch OF
salt.
Feed ground bone and crushed oys-
ter shells.
Give your sheep a sunny southern
exposure protected from the north and
northwest winds.
If you put down q good supply of
cabbage and other green 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 "A hen
house.
The man who gotta nice lot of pullets
last spring is gathering eggs now.
They lay more readily in cold weather
than the old hens. They take rest
from laying oftener than old hens, but
do not rest SO long.
Who can find winter sitterl Her
price isabove roubles. She considereth
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 brood.
And the breeders of exhibition fowls
rise nm and bless her.
Three meals dny in winter are too
many for your fowls. Two is q
plenty, if they are of the right sort.
Agood warm mash at night. for them
to go to roost on these cold nights, is
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 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 u SOW breeding oil 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 SOW. and does not
call for heroic doses of anti.fat. The
SOW will be better pleased in the end
with two families q year, and what
pleases the SOW ought to please the
owner. The man should not be hog.
The question of selling eggs by
weight is still being ssi'ated, and there
are many reasons Tor favoring il,
though the advantages would not be
SO great as many suppose. A small
egg like tho Leghorn's, for instance,
has Il thin shell. fine aud smooth,
while the large eggs liks the Rocks,
Coehias aud Bramshs have a thick
coarse shell. II sold by weight the
purchaser would pay extra price for
egg shells. but would he get any more
weight OF actual egg, that he could
ussi Very little II any.