The Penn's Grove record., 1900-02-02

dh OF A YARD.
they will eat, but be sure none il
left.
Clean water, plenty Of sharp gravel
and some charcoal should be kept
where they can help themselves.
Fowls fatten much easier if confined
in yards than when allowed to range
at will. In the diagram, the sides are
of poultry netting and the yard is con
nected with the poultry house, where
they may find shelter from storms.
a a, food dishes; b b, water. The
divisions may be removed, but are
convenient in separating breeds.
Keeping Good Stock.
The practice of reducing the stock
every year. wedding out the poor
animals, as it is called, has two sidee
to it, which may be worth considering.
Poor stock sold in the fall OF the year
simpfyto save the expense of feeding
them through the winter, when c6sL
of food is high, invariably prove a loss
to the owners. Prices are usually low
for such stock at any time, and espec.
tally in the fall. Everybody else is
wedding out, too, and the only maj.
ket for them is the butchers. II
would be much more to the purpose
to recommend early in the fall or late
in the summer to weed out the poor
animals hat it viii not pay to winter,
and make extra exertions to feed
them up to a standard which will
make them sell for a decent price.
There is hardly an animal, no mat
ter how rasrand inferior, which can
not be bred up and fattened with ju
dicious care SO that it will sell for
fair price. The lean, cadaverous sides,
the scrawny hair and the half starved
appearance of the animal can all be
changed for the better. Shut the ami
mails up in some clean, healthy pens
where they cannot exercise much.
feed them systematically on fattenins
food, water them as they need it, an6
even curry down their rough coats oc
casionally.
This treatment followed up careful
" for a month or six weeks will add
good many dollars to the value of the
animal. If we have scrub stock il
the fall of the year that we conclude
will not ray to winter, it is much bet
ter to adopt this course of treatment
than to hurry them away at nce te
the butchers, being forced then te
accept almost any price that is of
fered.
Desirable Farms For Orchard Culture
In the vicinity of most of cur largs
towns and cities are many desirable
farms that may be purchased for little
more than the buildings cost, ans
which are admirably adapted to orch
ard culture. The man who possesses
the wisdom requisite to carry out the
details in successfully embarking in
fruit-growing, will at once determine
the character of soil desirable to sue
coed with the apple. He will not buy
q river bottom of alluvial deposit, well
knowing that such a soil is not the
natural home of the apple tree. MOI
can such farms be bought rs cheaply
as the rougher and broken fields oil
the hills and uplands; and here it Is
that the apple tree delights to spread
itself. Set here in a soil Astounding
in iron and ferruginous materials as
indicated by the appearance OF tbs
rocks, the apple tree thrives and bears
without much cultivation, as is wit
messed in scores of orchards in every
natural a~pple-growing region, that the
soil has never been turned by the pillow
on account of the rough and stony
character of the soil.
Such orchards, it is well known,
with scarcely any attention, produce
abundant crops OF the finest and best
keeping fruit. The one drawback OK
such soils is the length of time il
takes to get an orchard into bearing
condition in such locations. OF curse.
.he trees at first are of slower growth,
and if procured from the highly culti
waited nursery stock it will take q
couple of years for them to overcome
the shock incident to being trans.
ferred from a rich soil and the in
~iuences of stimulative culture to this
virgin soil, though less rich in i'm
mediately available plant food in large
rations. But such orchards, begun
with good stock, will be l~onglives
and constant bearers.-Farm, FieiS
aud Preside.
A Bachelors Queer Notion.
The average man likes to have hit
wife potter around giving queer teas
so he can act like be never did havt