The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-29
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the wind is very apparent. The wind in
one day, causes the evaporation @ :, ore
moisture than several days of successive
sunshine. This is demonstrated every
Spring, when tho roads are often two weeks
in becoming settled if the air is still, while
a few days only of wind make them firm
and sound. ~ 2fS ~
Buyers like timothy hay, because it is
generally cleaner from weeds. The best
hay. however, is cut upon old natural mea-
dows, generously manured-even If some
wild plants are present. There is q variety
of leafy grasses in such meadows, relished
by all cattle The farmer willingly retains
this hay Cor his own use and sends his clean
timothy to market.
In examining II complete flower we find
four circles of organs, the outer green and
much resembling leaves called sepals the
next more brilliantly colored and of a more
delicate nature, called petals, within which
are the stamens; and finally the pistils; al
though these organs seem to differ very
much from the leaves hitherto considered,
they are Ill truth changed forms, which may
be shown by many examples
There is ono fruit which has no insect
enemies that we know of. This is the black
mulberry. 1t is entirely wholesome, and
enormously productive. 1t can be engraft-
ed upon the white mulberry.
One of the best gardens we ever knew
had black soil. 1t was made with coal,
manure and other matter. 1t was mellow
and porous, and thus dc6ed sun and
drought i'll their extremes.
The London Couaye Gardener says earth
ing up potatoes diminshes the product and
retards the ripening of the tubers. Long
experiments i'll England has proved this
fact-that hilling up the potato will reduce
the crop one-fourth.
The Chinese clover, which is also called
Japan Glover" Little Wild Glover" and
Secession Clover" attracted attention in
1862, on the Saluda River, near old "96,'
in South Carolina. It now ovnrruus all the
old fields in the Northern portion Of the
State, and grows to some extent in the oak
and hickory forests. How it was introduced
nobody can tell.
There is one water flower which cannot
bring its blossoms to the surface, but must
pass its pollen under water, and to effect
this it has between the edges of its leaves
quantity, where, as in diving bell, the
progress may go on in the atmosphere.
Many plants, especially the orchids, are so
formed that although the pollen grows al
most in contact with the stamen, they can
never meet except by the agency OF insects
Wood ashes usually consist of about five
to twenty per cent of lime, with variable
quantities of magnesia, silica, pLosphoric
acid. chlorine, sulphuric acid, etc In
teaching, much that is valuable is carried
oil, while considerable part is left. The
value of ashes depends not little OH the
peculiar condition of the soil; but generally
both leached and uneached, are more or
less useful to nearly all farm crops.
In countries where regular systems are
followed, it is usual to have courses where
by every farm is brought around to be
dressed IN four, five or six years, the por-
ton of the farm coming in rotation to be
dressed, being at that time tho poorest, and
thus made the richest, to start again and
bear one after the other the crops which
constitute the course or system.
The power OF endowing soils with fertility
is one of the most important in the routine
of farming operations, and is effected in n
variety of ways; but the most economical
and efiicacious method, perhaps, is the
turning in of green crops.
TO make q good cough syrup, take ono
quart of the best Holland gin, two ounces of
pine pitch as it rms from the tree; when
the gum is we'll dissolved. make n syrup of
crushed sugar; mix all together, shake well,
take one table spoonful ono hour before
eating
Plant sweet corn in hills, instead of drills
tine rows to be three and half feet apart
and hills one foot apart. Feed it to cattle,
Gears and all, )" and more butter than can
be made from grass feed will be the result.
In setting such plants rs the raspberry,
after the drills are made, the best tools are
the most primitive-the human hands
For field culture, mark out your ground
both ways, as you would for planting corn
or potatoes. Three feet by six we consider
the best distances for the black, and three
by five for the red varieties
4 correspondent of the Iowa Homestead
says he set, in 1910, two oak fence posts,
from the same tree. The one set butt end
down rotted oil i'll thirteen years, the other
is as good ever.
Mr.. Seth Royden, of Newark, \. j., says