The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

See that the yards are kept dry and
well Uttered with straw or roughage,
if you wish clean, healthful stock and
q good crop of manure.
Tests of separators at the Pennsyl-
vania Station resulted in favor of tur.
bine machines for small establishments
and belt machines for large plants.
When the pigs come in cold wealth.
er, put hot rock in a barrel of hay
and keep the pigs in it, except while
they are nursing; which should be as
often as once an hour.
The best of roses must not be ex.
pected in light, sandy soil They de.
light in heavy clay soil and rich feed.
If your soil is sandy, try and strength.
en- your rose beds with clay.
When the mud is knee deep, or half
that, the COWS are better in the stable
than roaming over the fields picking
up few mouths-full of frozen fodder
that may have escaped their search
last fall.
Feed the hens liberal quantity of
chopped lean beef, or liver, or other
fresh meat. This is needed to supply
the nutriment by eating insects in the
summer, but which is wanting in the
winter.
Though winter may be "half over
February first" do not cut down the
grain ration; it's a long pull before
spring. The successful feeder or
dalryman wants his herd to go on to
grass in good shape.
If you do not fear frost, there are
some of the river varieties of pelear.
goniums that are wonderfully beauti-
ful in the spring and early summer
months. But where they have TO be
watched and covered too Frequently
in the frosty season it is not worth
while to plant them.
There is but little choice in the time
of transplanting gooseberry, currant
and blackberry bushes and rhubarb
plants, if it is done after the leaves
have fallen in the fall and before they
come out in the spring. Would rather
transplant them in the spring after the
leaves have started than in the fall be-
fore the leaves are off.
1t is said that the value of the man.
uIe of each hen can be put at twenty
! FIVE cents and market gardeners and
florists will take all you have. The
manure should fall upon a covering OF
land plaster. The droppings, when
| scraped of, are a mixture of manure
and plaster. The latter is an absorbent
and takes up the ammonia, and retains
the fertllizing properties.
Chestnut trees can be raised from
the nuts. They may be planted in
the fall as soon as ripe, or kept till the
following spring and planted then.
If held till spring they should be kept
in cool, moist place, stored in SAND,
for instance, or they will become dry
and hard. We know of some that
bore few nuts the seventh year from
planting and increased in the amount
of their yield each year.
Poultry intended for the table should
be put IN a coop hy themselves for
about two weeks, fesding them princi-
pally on old wheat with plenty of
water. Then when they are fat select
the best, kill and dress them and hang
up by the legs for a day so that they
will drain thoroughly see that they
are kept in a cool place. If this il
done you will find the flesh Juicy and
better. The way to kill and dress
poultry is not properly understood by
many housekeepers, and if they ds
know they forget to put their kn0Wl,
|. edge lntoDraetice.