Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-07-23
farm and asonsrluId.



short Hfnts for Farmers.
Dahlias raised from seed produce new
varieties. inI .ia =, srr, B. ...,,,,
Raspberries thrive best on northern
slopes They love cool and shady To-
cation.
Cut the black warts offtheplum trees.
They are the favorite breeding places of
curculio.
The best preventative of rust in wheat;
silicate mahures, like lime, ashes, g.,
and good drainage. Ulijl.8Nlf
If you want small potatoes hoe them
frequently, so as to cause new tubers to
set. If you don't, don't.
The dairymen in central New York
are experimenting with cheese boxes
made Of paper instead of wood.
Docking the tails of horses and cattle
is q needless cruelty. Nature knew what
she was about in equipping them for fly
time. Elfll fr.I .f .Iltll'f
Lima beans often rot In the ground
! If planted before rain. An almost sure
remedy for that is to grease them before
planting. l,sa0
Cream can be kept several days in hot
weather without spelling, by putting a
tea-cup of salt in q gallon of cream. So
says an exchange.
Evergreen should rot be watered ex-
cept in very dry weather, and then only
at night. A thick mulch around the
tree is better than water.
A dead horse is worth more for ferti-
lizing purposes than three loads of COM
| mon mamma aud q 1aad dOu mora than
live one, on the average.
Moles do q great deal of good in des-
troying worms. But it is doubtful weth-
er they pay their way-especially when
their way is dug through garden.
If you wish to teach boys to do good
work and love work give them good
tools, not the worn out ones that have
been laid aside in the invalid corps.
"They say" that hams, or bacon, will
keep nicely all summer If packed closely
in plenty of dry sawdust. Another
way Is to wrap in paper and pack in
ashes.
Mules as farm team are tougher than
horses, longer lived, will do three times
the work on the same food and are less
subjected to disease. But they will be
mules.
1t Is time to begin to think of saving
garden seeds for another year. Select
the best and you will get purer seeds and
surer to grow than If you depend on
buying them.
| A Tennessee sheepe. breeper who has
collected somples from wool producing
countries for thirty years past thinks
th't warm climates produce finer wool
than cold ones.
An acre of sweet corn, sowed broad
cast, for every ten cows, and fed out in
the dry season when pasture run short,
will keep up the flow ofmilk surprising
ly, and prove very remunerative.
eral cultivation than it has yet begun to
TO receive in country gardens. 1t is an
excellent vegetable, and is grown with
the the same culture as the cabbage.
A writer I'm the Southern Planter and
Farmer thinks that weeds are useful asa
fertilizer especially on exhausted lands.
The doctrine lift isn't true is at any rate
q comforting one to Southern farmers in
these days.
A Rockford gardner fights the bugs by
feeding them. He plants the tender
varieties of vines around his melon hills
that the bugs may feed on them--keep-
ing up the succulent fare by successive
paintings. That may be successful STRAIT
egy, but killing the pests out and out, In
some way, is more enjoyable.
An exchange says that tomato vines
tied up to stakes or walls come into bear.
ing earlier and bear later and great
deal more than when left to sprawl on
the ground. or course II Is a little more
trouble to train them, not much as the
same amount of fruit requires in the
slovenly method of culture.