Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1869-07-08

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luted sour milk. fed regularly and IN uu-
form ouaotiti ;, with added corn or bar
lev meal, to make up any deficiency
Glover cut and thrown into the neat and
clean pen. in addition to the milk and
meal, is excellent, but hogs that run over
large clover field will not fatten or grow
so fast.
With the thought of farm garden we
ALWAYS coDiure up visions of luscious ber-
ries, fragrant celery, delicious lettuce,
Juicy asparagus, appetizinc rhuharb, and
many other luxuries 10 the way of veg
etables aud small fruits, which any farm
er can have in their appropriate season If
he will AXE little pains to cultivate
them. We hope our readers VIII improve
upon our hint and take immediate meas
ures fer making their gard ems what they
| should be-
The sunhower is very useful. Its leaves
soon become large enough to be .nsed as
covering for young cabbage and tomato
plants. Its stem affords an excellent hop
! or bean pole, and when dead in the fall 3,
if cut up and dry, it answers we'll for
kindiag wood The leaves can be pluck
ed of through the summer without inlu-
~ to the plant, and dried for fodder, or
! led green to milk COWS or horses. Its
SET s make fine oil, or chicken feed
It is said to be an absorbent OF, malaria,
and is often cultivated as preventive of
feyers near dwellings that occupy low
places.
There is quite an excitement on new
/ Clematises as summer blooming plants.
They bring yet very high prices, and
hrye to be tested more IN one climate,
though they viii probably be 4 success.
IL Chrysanthemums great advance has
been made IN the production of an early
class of boomers. 1t has always been
against the Chrysanthemums, that they
have been a little too late for decorative
gardening. Lilies Of all kinds are also
growing in popularity and cheapness, and
there are some double rose-colored Fever
few that add much to the beauty of flow
er garden.
Little fires in gardens or orchards. at
early twilight, burning five, ten or fifteen
minutes, will attract and consume perfect
syarms of all sorts of insects, and more
directly save fruit than anything else =
/ Lightwood, obtained ana split fine, be-
forehand, enough for the whole season ,
or fat-bottomed tin lamps, like those of
the campaign torches, will be money at
one hundred per cent. in every mans
rocket who owns either garden or orchard
And picking up and burning or bailing
ali fallen fruit, will make two or three
hundred to one less insects the following
year.
Every one who has even but small
patch of ground, ought to have few to-
mato vines to supply his table through
the season. To economist space, it may
be advisable to train them on trellis or
stakes: but the better way is to let them
run on the ground, as they strike root at
the Joints Of tue stalk, and thus draw
more nutriment from the soil, To keep
ths ripe fruit from being eaten by worms,
refuse hay, or even brush, may be laid
around the vines, which will answer the
double purpose, in dry weather, Of an ex-
celIsnt mulch. After the blossoms begin
to form. the ends Of the vines may be
nipped off occasionally, in order to send
the sap into the fruit rather than the
stalk.
A farmer at Fort Ann, n Y, writes
| have used salt to kill patches of weeds
not knowing how much would kill weeds
put on at the rate of so or 80 bushel:
per acre of pork salt-soil clay. 1t Kill
led she wild pcavines, and last summer,
three years from application, there was
growing as heavy timothy and clover Oh
the old weei patch as I ever saw.
would not advise any one to SOW his farm
with salt, but believe it good thing
when rightly managed 1t has been a
great help to me aud | would ike to hear
what Others have accomplished. Some
times failures are as valuable as successes
SO let as hear all about II.
All authors are agreed as to the rrac-
teal Importance of picking up and de-
stroying the wormy apples as fast as they
fall, either BY hog power, or, when that
is incouveniept aud lmPTacticaoie, by man
power. The practical utility Of allowing
a gang of hogs the range Of the app4e or
chard shropghoat the summer is uTsloubt-
ed. When We consider that every fe-
male moth that matches cut in July or
August, from the first brood of apple
worms, Will probably deposit an egg IN
SOM. two or three hundred nearly masur-
ed apples, thereby rendering them more
or less unsuitable, the importance of de-
stroyiug the wormy wlnd-taiss-ln the
fore part Of she season at all e7ents-be-
comes at once apparent
row where ! wish them to grow. Fill
it even fall wi,h rotten manure aud eoT-
er that with finger dirt-mixiag il some
what with manure. Sow the seed on top
in shallow drill. dropping It il liberal
" not more than an inch apart, aud Gov
er half an inch deep with fine mould. |!
the seed is g ID. the plants viii come uQ
8 'A''s '4i 70" 50 vigorously as to '-l