Evening journal., 1901-11-23
AGRICULTURAL HINTS AND HELPS
What the Farmers Are Doing and How They
Are Doing II

j. A. Brown. of New Castle hundred,
says. taken as a whole. the corn yield
i'm that hundred was very good. Farm
ers are finishing husking, and want 20
have their corn in their granaries by
Thanksgiving.
Iieutenaut-G Governor Philip l.. Can
non is an enthusiastic farmer, and has
made considerable money at #. He has
had phenomenal luck i'm fruit growing,
and has many acres Of strawberries
and raspberiies. He has one OF the
finest Keiffer pear orchards to be found
in THE State.
Farmers OF New Castle hundred say
the late white potato crop was very
good throughout the county. They
also report a good yield OF sweet po-
tatoes.
Farmers who have stands in the To-
cal markets will begin the work of
killing and dressing poultry on Monday
for uhe Thanksgiving market Turkeys
are reported to be Plentiful throughout
the State, and II Is expected that the
price will be fairly reasonable.
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Sussex farmers have begun shipping
holly and other evergreens for the holi-
day trade. and There will be no aban-
donment until q few days preceding
Christmas Holly is In a good condi-
ion this seeson, the trees being laden
with berries. and good prices are ex-
pected Layton & Owens. of Bridge
willie. are the largest buyers in the
State.
Where eggs are produced for food
purposes, that Is, not for setting. only
females should be kept. Fertile eggs
become added quickly. Exposed TO S5
degrees Of heat for few hours and the
germ will begin to develop. II then
kept at ordinary temperature the gtrm
VIII die. and the egg win be spoiled
for food purposes, although for a time
they will not show It IN candllng.
Where eggs are left IN nest and hen
after hon frequents the nest for laying.
the heat evolved by the hens Is SUM-
cient to destroy the flavor of the eggs
A setting hen occupying tho nest for a
single night will surely do so II THE
eggs are infertle no change will be
produced. Fertile eggs. even when
fresh, are mot equal in flavor TO the
infertle. An infertile egg will keer
indefinitely Even when the moisture
has al evaporated what remains will
not be tainted
The temperature OF poultry house
is all right so long as the birds combs
don't freeze Injury, in freezing wealth.
nHs 4IsHf
dropping a curtain from tls ceiling ir
front of the rOosting place
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Onions are bad for egg havors br
will help a cold I'm the case uf hem
just as they do with people Wher
fowls are suffering from colds a coupl
Of raw onions a week will be a groa
Ihelp. Coal ashes In the dust bath hav
a good effect, by going up the nosti1l
OF the fowls. In many cases they vii
cure a mild cold A little coal oil ol
top Of the drinking water also vii
prove helpful
I When milk is filtered through cotton
no cream is los1 but experiments shoy
that The cotton largely prevents tn
access Of germs 20 the milk. and tha
iillratiQn IS almost eoua. TO steriliNa
ton
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3 II rUup appears. spray the walls O
{ the house with q five per cent solution
/ of carbOlic acid and wlhile the wall
, are still damp fumigate with sulphur
{ Sulphur fumes are OF little use on Dir
o walls. but If the walls are damp the
4 are almost certainly fatal 30 germ If,
r Another precaution against tine sprea
. of the disease is 10 sprinkle a bushs
e Of lime with pint of carboldc acid an
o spread 10 on the floor under the 'roOst
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Gardens are absorbing the attenuo
Of the English, it is said, to a create
extent than in a number Of years, an
American women are following sLi
One woman expresses it thus: Ca
s I dens are the fashion againl' One OF tn
loveliest in England is that Of Mr.
Leopold Rothschild, at Ascot M