The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-06-18
HOUSE AND FARM.

CuJtiUationo of Pole Bedsas.-Everyy year
some parties are greatly exercised about
the supply of bean poles: Thecu!tiva-
tion of Lima or Carolina. or Butter
beans, or any other of the climbingva-
rieties has been regarded as inseparable
from a supply of suitable poles, and by
good, or bad management, many of
these disappear between the close of the
Autumn and the opening of theSpring,
when they are again called into requi-
sition, and then there is sometimes
trouble to get fresh supply. A wri-
ter in the HorticuL,7iSt, gives his expe-
rience on the subject, tells how at the
time of his bean planting, he had no
poles and for some cause or other failed
to procure supply, and then bethought
him that probably the laying of
small quantity of apple brush in the
neighborhood of the hills might afford
the vines a support, and he spread his
apple brush over the ground according
ly, and found the plan worked so well,
thathe follows it from preference. Itap-
pears, that the plants have an advan-
tage from the shade given by the vine
in trailing over the brush, because the
ground is kept moist and at an even
temperature, and moreover there is the
obvious advantage of protection from
high winds, which often play havoc
with the tall poles in the bean patch.
The experiment is worth trying. We
believe it will be found to be all that is
represented. We know, that years ago
a practical gardener told us, that he
had long since abandoned the use of
bean poles in raising Limas, that he
planted them in hills and pinched the
| ends Of the vines. His representation
| was that the yield was greatly increas-
ed, and the cultivation more convent
| ent.-Jolr. Of the Farm.
Ca,tghs are Ct~atjUe.-It is natures
cure, and to smother cough without re-
moving what causes it, is to hinder ma
ture, and take away all chance of
cure. When man clearly has the
consumption, coughs great deal, has
been bringing up yellow matter for q
long time, if his cough should subside,
he will inevitably die in three or four
days; because the cough helps TO bring
that matter out of the lungs, and keep
them clear but when the cough be-
comes so weak or so unfrequent as not
to remove the matter as fast as it is
formed, the lungs begin to fill up with
it, air cannot get in, and life ends.-
The only hope of curing consumption
is to promote cough on the one hand,
so as 10 get the lungs clear of the matter
in them to prevent the formation of
more. But the popular sentiment is,
that in proportion as there is less
cough, the chances of life are increas-
ing, and willingly and hopefully the
patient takes what "cures his cough" T"
and is thus led a willing victim to the
grave of his own digging. So much
are men, with all their boasted intel
ligence, like the silly creature which
| lSGlS IIS6iI SAFE WHSI III Gail lluC AtH
head in hole, to be crushed the next
instant in the jaws of its relentless pur-
suer.-Halrs Journal Of Health.
The Effect Of Charcoal on Floarers.-
A horticulturist in England, purchas.
ed a rose bush full of promising buds
the flowers however were ola faded
hue. He covered the earth in the pot
about an inch thick with pulverized
charcoal, and was surprised, some days
afterward, to find the blooms of ;
fine lively rose color. He repeat
ed the experiment another season will
the same result. He then tried tn!
powdered charcoal upon petunias, ant
found that both the white and coloret
flowers, and the white petunias became
veined with violet tints; the violet
became covered with irregular spots 0
: a blush or almost black tint. Man.
= persons who admired them though
they were choice new varieties from
the seed. Yellow flowers appear to b
insensible to the influence of charcoal.
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