The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1868-05-17
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INV oRIEANs, SUNDAY. NAY II. 1853. :
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A WARNIN0.---It il dangerous to give
corn fodder to cattle with hogs running IN pa
the yard. Hogs will frequently chew the
stalks, to extract the sweet, and then drop
them, when the cattle pick them up and
eat them, and this is supposed TO produce
tina disease called " mad itch" which Is
extremely fatal.
PsopuCrs SUITED TO THE SoIL.-This re-
quires Judgment. II your faIn IS - pes. eas
: stock and grasses, make that your business
;. II for fruit and wine, make that your ch0lce,
and 80 on to the end of the chapter. But 1t
is always best mot to run ga thing into the
ground" While it is we'll enough 70 have
9 speciality 1t is also well to have seme ne
served forces. 1t is perfectly = consistent
with good farming, to raise some stock,
come Srain. some fruit, etc., go that If one
fails tie farmer may have other resources
to foll back upon. Suppose your wheat
crop fails if you have lot OF steers or
your farm operations. This is called mixed
husbandry, the kind that generally succeeds
best in the West. si sra ~
KEEp1xa BurrER.-At the recent meet
ing of the Dairymen's Association in
Illinois, President King remarked that he
had been q dealer in butter for thirty years,
and considered that May, june, and July,
produced the best, if properly made and
fine, or milk, will not keep. 1t should be
made dry, come hard and be properly cured.
Most people salt too high. It should be
salted to the palate and it will keep. All in
excess of this is injurious. Ihe mlik, cream,
and the surroundings of the butter room,
should all be pure, as foul odors are certain
to impart a disagreeable flavor. Mr.. King
stated that he knew man to plant honey
suckles and roses, around the place where
his butter was made, for the purpose OF
pleasant conceit, whatever the influence on
the dairy room may have been.
How TO RAISE FRUIT EVERY YEAK.-If
rightly understood, few trees, unless abso-
lutely dead or rotten, need occupy ground
without yielding plenteous crop. After a
long and varied series of experiments,
gradually adopted the following modes:
As soon as the winter has sufficiently dis
appeared, and before the sap ascends, 1 ex-
anime my trees every-dead -bough is lOp-
ped off when sap has risen sufficiently to
show where the blossoms will be, cut
away all the other branches having none
on, and also the extremity of every limb,
the lower part of which bears a considerable
number of buds, thus concentrating the sap
of the tree upon the maturbation of its
fruits, and saving that which would be a
useless expenditure of strength. In the
ounce, apricot, and peach trees, this is
very important, as these are very apt to be
too luxuriant in leaves, and destitute Of
fruit., You may think this Injuries the trees,
laden with fruit, which formerly yielded
nothing. Of course all other Unknown
precautions must be attended to such as
cutting out worms from the roots, placing
old iron on the limbs, which acts as a tonic
to the sap, etc. Try it, We who have failed
in raising fruit. 4
CITY GARDENs.-Ofs shrubs, the rhododen-
dron and azalea are particularly suited to
town gardens, as they can be safely trans
planted, when small, even after the flower
buds are formed. Rhododendrons are val
liable from being evergreens as wen ,t as How W.
care, but the foliage is greatly benefited by
an occasional washing with sponge and
lukewarm soap-suds. Phloxes are desira-
BILE plants, also, the perennials especially,
being of easy cultivation, hardy, and orna-
mental. Some OF the new hybrid varieties
continue in bloom long time, and others
have two blooming seasons during the sum-
mer and fall, if cut back, like roses, as soon
as the first bloom is over. Among the most
elegant varieties are the white and the pur-
pie pyramidal, forming, as the names imply,
fine pyramids of pure white and rich pur-
pie flowers. The undutata is another IA
vorite variety, some of the species com
mencing to bloom i'll September and con-
tinuing to the time of frost. Like the azalea,
the phlox will succeed in any common gar
den soil, but if moist and rich the bloom is
larger and of longer duration. For planting
in masses, to produce splendid effect with
but little trouble, the scarlet salUia or sage
may be chosen, as bearing profnsion of
flowers through the summer and fall. Fresh,
rich soil adds much to its beauty. "A large
led should be marked out, the plants ar
pcsed as recommended for the California
plane the Oldest in the centre, with young
Pegginewn from cuttings for the outside.
edge of theae of these down close to the
from the grod.wiu secure a mass of bloom
~ A MopEI. FARM the central plants.
eye small farm of De have in our minds
One of these is devoteabout eleven acres
containing in front of the the premises
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