FARM AND GARDEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4420, 16 May 1893, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN.

Agricultural Jottings, To fatton poultry crush and soak thoir corn in water, This will help digestion, and mako tlio food go further. Men with small capital should beware of having too much laud. The fixed charges will continue whothcr crops are good or poor. A few acres well tilled will givo tho best satisfaction, Tlio liquid from cattlexoniains nearly as much nitrogen..and almost twice as much potash as the solids. This is usually ■ lost, bat can bo Bavcdsimply by supplying sufficient bedding, of the right sortJf.J:':: ; ;>:■ S'; Bones make a valuable; fertilizer, f and may easily be mado available for use by burning and crushing them. Do not permit them to lie. around, a ntiisanco and an eye-smv, but utilize! them to mako crops grow, Barley is dcsfliviiig of more at ten-, tion tb»gfecciv«as a .»stocfc : Je.iiil /: Ground.iinucoiiked ivitbsliini niilltjiiiil : a littlo oil meal, is an : excellent grain ; for calves. The crop might be largely ■ increased with'.'.prolit : and tii-ed fir ■ feeding, ■ 'Xt;. ;. ' Sheep may be k-pt very cheaply through the wiiitcr'—.tat'i.t'Mnay «a ; be policy to keep them so. A sheep wintered on s'r.iw will prod:i:e a ' pretiy poor fleece'.: ■ You way feed it up well in flesh afterward?, but the fleeco will tell the f-tory. . When you grow sherp tor. both wool and mutton, fce carunl and nut cull out tho good muttons too closely for the butcher. This wiib spoil the wool crop. The very sheen that makes tho best mutton carcr.se is apt also to havo tidiest fleece, Thinningtn?iaiit upon ai.ree that is overloaded pays in.tivo ways; F.rsi by producing, a present butter crop, ■ worth more money, and second iiv relieving the tree from too great :i drain upon it vitality this year and so in- : Baring better future yields. Ensilage is none .the''less valuable,, if there is an occasional car of corn oil it,. In fact, it is just as -.veil to plant and cultivate the ensilage coin so tba' it will make eats. Thtii it becomes, an important factor the expense for, the graiii ration,

'Wherever the principle nf co-opera-tion can be'applied to the business of the farmer it will produce good results Jl you have more iarid than y.iu can well handle, get a gcod tenant for part and have him work it on shares. If you have good land and a good man, this will be better than money rent. ■ i

Never newest a crop ilmt is nearly made for another that has j list started... If you have more on hand than you can properly attend to, better give om: np wholly than permit both to suffer-. The reason why some farmers never make good crops is because they are too busy to give any one thorough cultivation from hegiuaing io end.

There is no possibld"source .of pro-;, ductionupon tho: is top amall to verytbest If you have but one fruit trea give it the best cultivation you know taw. It you have but a dozen henp, lake just as much pains to keep their, quarters clean and to feed them well as though there were a hundred. In this way you learn how to make these things pay, and fit yourself to band's them upon ai larger scale..

Borne err by sotting to under § single hen in coid v. ;Rtlier. In their desire to get as liiaiiy esga as they would in warm weather, the re« suit is that they often fail to get a single chicken. Eight, or ten-eggs ■will usually prcduco more chickens at this season than twelve to fifteen eggs would undor one hen, "During cold weather eggs get. injuriously chilled by a much less .. exposure than in warm weather, and where a full sitting is under a ben she is apt to'expose ono : or more eggs at a time until perhaps the whole clutch is spoiled. With the best of . precautions and the most. painstaking care one ought not to get his expectations too high,—Exchange, Best Foods for Poultry,

II isa to state what is the best food. Farm Journal says on the matter Fowls require beatin winter, Corn is perhaps the bust and cheapest carbonaceous.' or fatmaking food, Hut wheat and corn contain carbonaceous matter, although in smaller proportions. Fat meat, lard scraps, and cottonseed.meal and. clover hay also contain it. Nitrogenous matter (albumen) is required along with carbonaceoa, and is especially necessary for laying kens. Lean meat—raw or cooked—insects, bran, cottonseed meal, linseed meal, milk, clover hay, all contain this valuable food element,.' Corn baa camparativcly little of it, wheat a larger proportion, Succulent, and bulky matters such as grass and yegetables, is also quite essential to poultry not only for the nutriment it contain!, but to dilute and separate the. more concentrated grain and meat diet. If poultry keepers will study tlio general question of the classes of food elements, tojauan frequently Bubsutute one other, accordingias they have this or that article at hand, and according to the price of tlio various articles of their nearest .marked-