Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-22

manure deserves as careful attention
as the production of any other farm
crop.
For eggs alone, no breeds surpass
the Leghorns and Minorcas. For eggs
and meat, the Plymouth Rocks are
better.
Currants and gooseberries require
lots of well-rotted manure worked
down in the soil around them with
good cultivation.
If the poultry is given a little OF
the care SO freely allowed to the other
stock it will pay better percentage
on the investment.
Poultry can never be raised success
fully if the poultry house be damp.
Poultry must have dry houses and
runs to be thrifty.
The farmers garden is the most
profitable piece of ground on the
farm, if it only produces oil kinds of
garden crops for the family.
Keep close watch that the mice and
rabits do not injure the trees. Keep
the snow tramped around the tree and
protected with lath or wire screen up
as high as RABBIT can reach.
There has been too much plowing-
too much washing and waste of fertil-
ity of hilly lands. Plans should be
formed which ultimately result in such
lands being seeded down oftener and
pastured more.
The ideal berry ground would be,
first, rich, sandy loan with clay sub
soil. Second, dark loan or gravelly
loan mixed slightly with clay, and a
clay subsoIl, all having southerly or
eastern slope.
A Massachusetts farmer speaks kind
words for the mole. He says they
live upon worms which infest most
seed land. They operate in rich, loose
ground because worms are more
abundant there.
You can never get uniform flock if
you use mongrel or grade males, or if
you change the breed every year or so.
Change blood often, but use male OF
the same breed, and you will see i'm
provement each year.
Give every tree that bore heavily
last season a good top dressing of we'll
rotted manure, out as far around at
least as the branches extend. If the
ground is in cultivation, fork this well
down into the soil in next springs
cultivation.
In every neighborhoo cd where special
attention is given to gardening or fruit
growing there should be horticul-
tural society. There are always some
good seed grown at these meetings,
and they help to make one enthusiastic
in the business.
Exercise is necessity, both fol
health and for eggs. Confne lot ol
hens and feed them to produce eggs,
and unless some means have been pro.
vided to make them scratch for the
grain given them, the result will be q
lot OF over-fat, lazy fowls that sit
around and do nothing.
Where the peach tree is not pruned
long, slender branches form, and these
produce fruit mainly at their outer
ends. The tree will carry much more
fruit if properly distributed, and will
produce more perfect fruit. The cut
ting will not be attended with injury
if done while the tree is dormant.
That the peach trees should be left to
grow at will is an outgrown idea.
Give the children chance to make
some money. A couple of hens,
ducks, geese or turkeys will start them
to figuring and to working. The little
money earned will be great pleasure
to them. You can afford to give them
the grain to feed their fowls, if they
will put in the work. They will thus
be taught to study the needs of the
poultry, and become Wise in all that
regards feathered stock. Their little
trials and triumphs will be remem.
bered by them in the years to CON G,
and cause them to think with pleasure
OF the old home.