The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-02-25
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Stop up the cracks and knot holes.
Provide grit for poultry in some
form.
Feed the poultry a warm mash at
bed time.
Kill off the scrubs. They are taking
up room that better fowls need.
Corn makes the sheep feverish.
1t should never be fed near yeanline
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 ensilage to dairy cattle
add some bran, oilmeal, gluten or
cottonseed meal.
To pasturize milk, heat to 100 de.
grees Fahrenheit for twenty minutes,
then cool quickly.
When the weather is cold some corn
may be fed, though it is not very good
egg food, rs it tends more to making
fat than eggs.
Bitterness in milk is usually rs.
crlbed either to the food eaten by the
COW or to lack 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 n bacon with less fat
and more lean.
Ground oats will start the eggs
quicker than almost any other feed.
1t should be mixed with bran, and
moistened, not made sloppy, but
simply crumbly.
Have you arranged for a scratching
place for the fowls? Some dry place
where foot deep of chat, 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 the
temperature is even and as low as DOS.
sible.
Labels on fruit trees are very un.
satisfactory as records, rs 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 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 be
nm overdose.
The orchard that goes into the win.
ter with dry soil is an object of
solicitude. Young trees shonld he
soaked before the ground freezes.
even if the water has to be carried bv
band. To freeze dry is as fatal as to
burn dry.
Buckwheat honey is made last and
the darkest. Though strong in
lavor, it is preferred by some to that
more delicately favored. But as
buc.;wheat honey does not sell well IL
Is usually left for the bees TO cat dur.
ing the winter.
Those wac mike study of insect
lic tell us that bees are not without
enemies. Wasps, while useful in some
respects, steal honey and.harass the
bees constantly. Sparrows and the
blue titmouso eat bees. II is said that
parrows eat only the dronos.
If you have tho room, it is good
Ian now to coop up your cockerels.
such ms you want 60 keep separately.
nd feed them only grain. Tho warm
mash that tho hens need is not good
food for the cocks They eat too
much Of it md are dumpy, and soon
sicken and die.
Fruit that can be grown 80 cheaplv
aud will yield so much, should be CON
sidcred necessity in every family.
No one can so we'll afford 30 have her.
ries, every day in tho season. ms the
farmer. No one can have them 90
fresh from the vines, so rip, 80 delic.
ious ard at 50 little cost rs the farmer.
and yet, as class, none have so few.
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