The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-03
Farm ers, Items.

boss to the owner. Nothing is better in
summer Tor young pigs than rich, undi-
iuted sour milk, fed regularly in uniform
quantities., with added corn or barley
meal, to make mp any deficiency. Clio.
YER cut and thrown into the neat and
clean pen, in addition to the milk and
meal, is excellent. but hogs that run over
largo clover field will not fatten or
grow 80 fast.
and thorough cultivation of the soil, es.
pecially for the first years of orchards
Good treatment of this kind has afforded
large, high favored fruit; while neglect
ed orchards. or those in grass, give
small, scabby, and poor crops. We do
not recommend excessive manuring, but
clean mellow culture, particularly during
the earlier part of the season, with q soil
of fair fertility and with a good natural
or artificial drainage.
There are many varieties of the white
bean, mostly we'll adapted to field cul-
ture. If the seed beans now used were
raised last year, they will be fresh, good,
and will germinate well; if more than
two years old, it would be better to use
them for some other purpose. The
ground should be we'll prepared, we'll
narrowed, clear of weeds and mellow.
The seed is to be planted like corn, an
inch or two in depth, but two or three
times as thlck-say twice as thick as
Northern corn, and three times as thick
as Southern. If planted with drill or
corn planter, they may be in rows three
feet apart, and about three inches apart
in the row; if in hills, the hills may be
fifteen or twenty inches apart in the row.
If planted by hand, they are dropped
and covered rs common corn, and buried
to the same depth. After the crop is up,
it should be kept clean and we'll cult
waited, taking care not to do the work
when the leaves are wet with dew or rain,
avoiding throwing earth or dust on the
leaves, aud bruising or twisting the
plants. Beans are usually planted about
the same time as corn, but as they ripen
in much less time, they have succeeded
when put in as late as mid-summ mer,
when the soil is moist enough to sprout
them. The yield is Notwithstanding
as high as forty bushels per acre, but
more commonly fifteen or twenty, while
badly managed crops have not given FIVE
bushels.
OF the hundreds of different natural
! orders of the vegetable kingdom not one
seems more friendly and beautiful, as
we'll as necessary to man, than the Rosa
cee, or rose family-o which the every
where abounding strawberry i, the earli-
member. This large family includes
those common and Indispensable fruits,
| the apple, pear, ounce, cherry, peach.
plum, apricot, etc.-the wholesome ear
lier and smaller fruits, the strawberries,
raspberries, and blackberries, in all their
varieties-all the species and endless va
rieties of the rose, and such ornamental
plants as the SpirDas, wild and cultivat-
ed, the sweetbriar, the handsome flower
ing thorns and almonds, the mountain
ash, and such humble plants as agrimo-
ny. cinque-foil, (Potentilla,) avens, and
other modest inhabitants of the fields
and woods. All these cluster Immediate
ly around their royal mistress, the Rose,
and claim the respect due to their kim
ship with her, and we must admit that
it is most respectable and worthy floral
aristocracy. OF total of not less than
thousand species, not one contains any
poisonous or unwholesome element, with
the single well-known exception of the
existence of prussic ocid in the kernels
of the almond, peach, etc.
The modes of packing eggs are various,
but all include the all-essential requisite
OF placing and keeping the eggs on end
| -tne Sulhller emu down commonly pre-
ferred. Keeping them cool and Mt q uni
form temperature is the next important
requisite. Packing them in salt main
tains them in position, and in dry cellar
preserves GOODNESS. Charcoal powder is
also good for packing, but more difficult
to obtain in large quantities. SiIted
ashes would probably do we'll. Saw.dust
is liable to heat, unless previously baked
or we'll dried. Fine chaff would be con-
venient. Some prefer first to immerse
the eggs in boiling water for minute,
to cook and thicken the exterior; others
grease them all over with melted mutton
suet before packing.
S. A. Ladd, in the Journal Of Horticm
tire, destroy the apple borer when he is
in tho tree too far to be reached with the
point Of a knife or wire, in this way:
Take piece of half-inch lead pipe, say
three feet long; bend one end to nearly
right angles and fit to the borer's hole,
the main length of the pipe standing per-
pendicular: place funnel in the top end
and fill the pipe with boiling water; the
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