Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Give the chicks littlo corn these
cold nights.
Straw. leaves or chaff mako cool
scratching floor
The corn row will not DO straight if
you look behind YOU
Apy skim or Jacksonville You can
spare will DO appreciated byihn-towls.
II you plant your crop Mt tho village
store yon will not find much of it at
harvest time.
An overcoat OF wet snow is OF no
benefit to sheep. II improves neither
wool Ior carcass.
Plant memorial trees Oh the birth
days, and your children will always
have monument.
Ii nine-tenths of the dogs tails were
cut oil up to the ears tho country
would be better off thousand fold.
Fresh meat, oil meal, cut bone or
something of that sort adds variety to
the feed and gives tone TO tho system.
If you so without new suit of
clothes this winter and buy thorough
bred.bull calf no will buy new clothes
for all the family II few years from
now.
1t is mistake to turn half.grown
calves with COWS in common pasture.
Calves that have been taken from their
dams when young will often months
later learn TO suclile COWS to which
they have access.
10 protect apple trees from borers
and rabbits, the most successful of
many methods tried is TO take common
barn paint. thick enough to lie easily
applied, and add 1 ] pounds pulverized
copperas for each gallon. Mix thor
oughly and apply. 1t will last two
years.
y Farming is by no means an exact
science. Like medicine, it is tho
growth OF centuries of experience and
tho experience OF farmers under
similar conditions, climates, soils and
circumstances is worth far moro than
the experience of farmers not similarly
circumstanced.
AS II health measure, where largo
numbers OF fowls aro compelled Go
range on limited Enclosure, air-slaked
lime should DO literally used. Let il
BIO scattered lnte in tho evening after
the chickens have Como to roost. 1t
will greatly counteract tho decomposing
matter which is SO doloterious.
1t is better practice to prune the an
pie trees in the spring time when tho
leavea arc well started; tho wounds
then heal.more quickly and effectually.
The extremes OF winter weather arc
sufficiently exhaustive to the tree
without having any superhuous dc.
mands made upon its vital forces.
Dry corn cobs do not burn with n
very fierce flame, but saturate two or
three OF them with kerosene oil and
they will easily light a fire. They are
the very best material for this purpose,
as they Will hold moro oil than any
kind of wood. 1t is by saturating
something with kerosene oil that this
should always DO used for kindling
hreg.
A farmers methods OF farming can
be pretty fairly estimated by hunting
up his plows and harrows, hia drills
and rakes and binders, in the winter
time. Ii these are found in tho fielde,
or even IN tho barnyard, unprotected
from the snow and rain aud sunshine,
you may pretty certainly conclude that
the farmer is not'a good model, and is
not getting rich.
The best water troughs are of wood,
the usual shape. and made to hold q
bucketful OF water. Troughs become
Shiny after n while, but may easily be
washed with soap-suds and an old
broom. It costs but small sum to
make trough, hence new one should
be made every year. The trough should
be filled every morning, but should be
rinsed before filling.
The danger OF transmitting tuber-
culos;s from man to COWS is empha-
sized by ali fair minded experts. Tho
expectoration of consumptivo persons
if licked up by cattle may impart the
disease. Too much Gaze cannot be
taken by consumptives to avoid ouch a
result. This is another fact demon
strating tho impossibility o. stamping
out tuberculosis entirely.