Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-07-18
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hrtieultural I Notes for July.

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AGRICULTURAL Notes for July.
From the New York Observers
Agricultural Notes for July. we clip
tbe foliowing hints, which may be
found useful to many farmers in this
locality:
Daring this month prepara-
tim may be made for one Thousand
bushels or more of excellant turnips
on numerous fields where the soil
will produce little or nothing but
weeds. Many farmers have an acre
or two of new laId which can De
prepared, with the expenditure OF a
small amount of labor, to produce a
supply of turnips for all their stock
during the foddering season.
Summons all hands for two or
three days, and remove or burn the
brush, burn the ground over, II prac-
ticable harrow it thoroughly, and
.Tbe four and twentieth of July,
Sow your turnips wet or dry.
Fruit trees and grape vines, especi-
ally young ones, require pruning and
training during this month quite as
much as, or even more than, at any
other period. Now is the time to
give form and symmetry to the tops.
a branch requires pinching in here
and asucker needs removing there.
The long and tender canes of vines
should be tied up to stakes or trel-
Uses; and if the vines, or branches
of trees, have large supply OF fruit
most of it should be removed while
small, as it is not well for young
trees and vines to produce much
fruit. The growth of young trees
and vines is of vastly more import
ance than few specimens of fruit
which must be matured at the ex-
pense of serious drawback.
Should the soil be dry where trees
of any kind have been put out the
last spring, let the surface be mulch
ed with straw, leaves from the forest,
wood shavings, tanbark, chip dirt, or
sawdust. The treatment will be far
better for the young trees than to
water them. Indeed, it is ques-
ton whether trees can be watered,
with any benefit, in very hot weather
unless the ground is mulched around
the roots.
Do the milch cows receive liberal
supply of clean water during the
long and sultry days of summer oil
are they required to drink at some
stagnent pool which is made foul by
their own droppings? Many COWS
oflarge size, which yield twenty Oh
more quarts of milk daily, will often
drink from twenty to thirty gallons
OF water every day, and they cannot
produce large supply of milk with
out consuming a large quantity OF
grass and water.
Sheep and lambs will subsist on
grass and thrive tolerably well with
out water, but they will improve fal
more rapidly when they can have ac'
cess to pure stream at all seasons
of the year.
Poultry of all kinds are liable te
suffer serious inconvenience for wan'
of water. A half barrel or tub
should be placed in some shady
nook, on a low bench, similar to q
leach tub, and kept supplied witt
fresh water for all kinds of fowls
Then make q small nail.hole near the
bottom, where the water will droI
rapidly, during the day, into SOM
small vessel, where every little chicl
can drink and not be drowned. 4
piece of plank with. two inch hol'
bored in one side will contain a sup
ply for a large number of fowls
when placed beneath the dropping
of such fountain as alluded to, anC
large fowls cannot turn over th'
dish and spill the water
Let grains of all kind be soaked
in clean water twelve hours before
is fed to animals of any kind. If tn
grain can be ground it is better still
even for tender poultry. If oats b
soaked twenty hours before the grail
is fed to horses the value Of sucl
feed will be increased more than on
quarter. Bus care must be exercis
ed lest such grain be soaked SO lon!
that fermentation commences, a
grain in a state of fermentation ha
been known to injure ANIMALS SER
ously.
Untold numbers of young turkey
will die during this month, of cape;
if the small, red worms are not re
moved from their threats with
feather or leoped horsehair. Ope
their mouths and look down tn
throat, and the red worms can b
perceived with the naked eye. go