The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-06-13
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Various Items.
Lima beans often rot in the ground if planted
ceiore ram. An almost sure remedy for that
Is 70 grease them before planting.
Docking the tails of horses and cattle is a
needless cruelty. Nature knew what she was
ABOUT IN eqalpping them for Ay-time.
Cream can be kept several days in hot weather
without spelling, by putting q tea-cup of salt in
gallon OF cream. So says an exchange.
If you want small potatoes hoe them frequent
~ 30 as to cause new tubers to set. If you
don't, don't.
Moles do great deal of good in destroying
worms. But it is doubtful whether they pay
tnsir way-especially when their way is dug
through garden.
A dead horse is worth more for fertilizinc
purposes than three loads of common manure :
and a dead dog more than live one, on the
average.
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.
Mules as farm team are tougher than horses,
longer lived, will do three times the work on the
same food, and are less subject to disease. But
then they will be mules.
A writer in The Southern Planter and Farmer
thinks that weeds are useful a fertilizer espe-
cially exhausted lands. The doctrine if it
isn't true, is at any rate a comforting one TO
oouthern farmers in these days.
"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.
If you wish to teach the boys to do good work
AMI love work, give them good tools not the
worn out ones that have been laid aside in the
invalid corps.
The best preventive of rust in wheat Siicate
manures, like lime, ashes, &c, and good drain
age.
Dahias raised from seed produce new varie
ties.
Cut the black warts off the plum trees. They
are the favorite breeding places of curculio
Raspberries thrive best on northern stones.
They love cool and shady location.
The caulifower deserves more general Guilt
walton than it has yet begun to receive in couu-
try gardens. 1t Is an excellent vegetable, and is
grown with the same culture as the cabbage.
The dairynen in central New York are exper.
imenting with cheese boxes made of paper. in
stead of wood
Grass seed is said to ''take" better whom sown
with small quantity Of oats or other grain.
Wetting it slightly causes it to stick to the kerr
nels OF the grain, securing more even sowing.
An acre of sweet corn, sowed broadcast. for
every ten COWS, and fed out in the dry season
when pastures run short, will keep up the flow
OF milk surprisingly, and prove very remunera-
tive.
Eyergreens should not ba watered except in
very dry weather, and then only at night. 4
thick mulch around the tree is better than water.
AN exchange says that tomato vines tied III, 10
stakes or walls come into bearing earlier and
bear later and great deal more than when left
TO sprawl upon the ground OF course it is a
little trouble to train them, but not so much as
the same amount of fruit requires in the sloveuly
method Of culture.
The vegetable oyster Satisfy is gross feeder
and must be thinned out unsparngly to get good
roots. Put them eight inches apart.
Some farmers who have had trouble in getting
single men as hired help, are finding out that il
pays TO build small but comfortable cottages for
tenants and hire married men.