Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-07
Care of the Farm and Garden.

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number of the Ohio Farmer:
HINTS FOR THE SEAsoN.-I. Keep the hoe
and cultivator going. Do not let the ground
become caked or covered with weeds. If
your soil is kept light and mellow, well ex-
posed to the influence of air and the trans
mission of moisture, the plants will grow bet
ter and stronger. Crops have a good start;
assist them in keeping it.
III. Prepare for haying. See that all your
tools are in order and sharp. Moving ma
chimes should be examined and if any repairs
are needed, let them be done immediately. He
is poor farmer who leaves undone such
work until the day the tools are needed, and
if he loses by it, gets what he deserves.
III. Root out thistles, cookies, &C., from
grain fields and every where else. A crop of
thistles in the fence corner, or by the road
side will seed your fields as well and quickly
as if raised in the middle of the field. Nip
them in the bud; don't let them get start.
Look upon them rs enemies, and act accord
ingly. The best time to eradicate weeds is
when the ground is soft, or Just after rain;
| they are then easily pulled up by the roots.
~. Sow Hungarian grass seed, if there is
| any danger of light crop of hay, or if you
need a larger amount Of forage than your
meadows will at present yield. Profit by
your own past experience, and that of your
| neighbors, as to the best localities in your
section in which to grow this grass. a -.
V. Keep your fences good. Stock often get
among growing crops when the fences are
poor, to the loss of crop and temper. More
breechy cattle are made by poor fences than
by all other means combined. This fencing
out your neghbors cattle is an expensive af-
fair, but in the present state of things can not
| be avoided. r 10 ...s n.f
How TO KEEP FLIES FROM HORSES AND
Cows.-A little fish oil, rubbed over the ami
NAL with bit of sponge or soft woolen rag,
will effectually keep off the flies, do no injury
to the coat of the horse or COW, and prevent
very much suffering by the beasts, and con-
siderable growing from those who handle
| them. .....,,-....t
Sort SOAP AND TOBACCO WATER.-A mix
| ture of soft soap and strong tobacco water,
made of the consistency Of thin paint, and
/ washed over the bodies of trees with brush
will, in great measure, prevent insects from
ldepositing their eggs beneath the bark.
/ Look TO Your GRAFTs.-Grafts should be
carefully looked over at this season; all the
natural buds rubbed of; the banding of the
graft loosened and retied; and if two OF
more buds are growing, and one appears
| weakly, rub it of, and let the strong bud OF
shoot have all the food ..l-f
| ExoREMENFITIoUs ExUDATIoNs OF RooTs OF
PLANTs.-Many persons, in filing up old or.
chards, by replanting the same variety o.
tree in place of those that are dead, are
troubled TO make the new planting succeed
The question as to the cause of such diff.
Guilty has been generally answered by. thu
assertion that the soil was exhausted Of tn,
elements necessary to the growth ofthe tree
but this is not shown TO exist in the adjoin
ing tree Of the old planting, which continues
TO grow as vigorously as ever. Others asser
that every plant throws off excrementitioui
matter, that remains inert in the soil tina
the plant SO exuding, goes on pushing itsneW
roots into fresh soil, and thus the excremen
has little or no injurious effect upon it; bu
that taking out the larger tree, and planting
new one of the same Kind, but smaller, th'
poisonous matter is at once in direct contac
with the feeders Of the roots, and AS conse
quence, a lingering life, OF speedy death, re
suits. Weconfess we lean TO the CORRECTNESS
Of this excrementitious, poisonous exudatiol
theory; for in our experience we have, W
think, tested its truth in practice.