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

Stop up the cracks and knot holes
Provide grit for poultry in some
form.
Feed the poultry warm mash at
bed time.
Kill off the scrubs. They are taking
up room that better fowls need. Q
Corn makes the sheep feverish.
1t should never be fed near yeanline
time.
Sour apples, when well ripened. have
considerable value as food for fatten-
ing swine.
While breed Is much, breeding
selection and survival of the fittest
arc much more.
When feeding ensilage TO dairy cattle
add some bran, clinical, gluten or
cottonseed meal.
To pasturize milk, heat to 16o de-
grees Fahrenheit for twenty minutes.
then cool quickly.
When tho weather is cold some corn
may be fed, though it is not very good
egg food, rs it tends moro to making
fat than eggs.
Bitterness in milk is usually as-
cribed either to the food eaten by tho
COW or 10 lack OF cleanliness in the
surroundings.
Those countries which grow their
pigs without corn and feed the wastes
OF the dairy, with oats, peas, barIev
and roots, make bacon with less fat
and more lean.
Ground oats will start the opgs
quicker than almost any other feed
1t should be mixed with bran. and
molstened, not made sloppy. INIT
simply crumbly.
Have you arranged 6or a SCRATCHING
place for the fowls? Some drv nlaco
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 the trees
direct to the store-room, where tina
temperature is even and as low as nos.
sible. F'7
Labels on fruit trees are very IN
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 named. and
keep IN a 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 a small amount of such STRONG
fertilizer and are liable to be killed bV
an overdose.
The orchard that goes into the win
ter with a dry soil is an object of
solicitude. Young trees should be
soaked before the ground freezes
even if the water has to be carried bv
hand. To freeze dry is as fatal as to
burn dry.
Buckwheat honey is made last and
Is the earliest. Though strong in
flavor, 1t IS preferred by some to that
more delicately favored. Rut 90
buckwheat honey does not sell we'll IL
is usually left for the bees to eat dur.
ing the winter.
Those who make a study of insect
iAAO tSit US GnaC DeeS are not without
enemies. Wasps, while 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 a 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 1t and are dumpy, and soon
sicken and die.
Fruit that can be grown so cheaplv
and will yield so much, should be con-
sIdered a necessity in every family.
No one can SO well afford to have Der
ries, every day in the season, as the
farmer. No one can have them SO
fresh from the vines, SO rip, so delic-
lous ard at SO little cost as the farmer.
and yet, as class, none have so few.
A concession TO build carrinve road