Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-04-21
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Garden w ork.

rAhM, tAkDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Garden w ork.
: Planting-time is at hand. Everything
should be put in good repair, so that the
|; work can be pushed forward rapidly when
the spring opens. Farm implements
should be carefully examined, and neces-
sary changes made at once so as to avoid
delay when the work begins.
The vegetable garden is frequently left
implanted, because when the opportune
time arrives the seeds have not been or
dered. Other kind of farm-work is accu-
mulating, so the planting of the garden is
put of for few days, and finally forgotten
until too late to remedy. This careless
way of carrying out the details OF the farm
or garden WILL in the long run, prove a Sc
rious drawback to the success of even what
might otherwise be called good farmers
There is nothing on the farm that will pay
better than quarter or half acre exclusive
ly devoted to vegetables for home con-
sumption.
Now is the time to make out the list of
gardt n seeds wanted, and send at once to
some reliable scotsman, SO as to have them
on hand in full season for planting. For
those persons who are not familiar with
the best kinds and quantity necessary to
supply family of eight or ten persons. we
append thefollowing list, which may help to
guide beginners or those who may want to
stock their gardens with good supply of
the leading kinds of vegetables for home
consumption:
With peas and bush-beans there should
be a succession of paintings say every two
or three weeks until the middle of JUL;
This will give an abundance of young peas
| and haans uptil late IN tho foil
I Dwarf Beans-Early Valentine, Refugee,
or 1000 to l, and White Kidney; one quart
of each sort.
Pole eBeans-Horticultur Cranberry and
large White Lima; one pint of each will
plant 150 ills.
Beets-Early Bassano, Early Blood Tur-
nip and Long Smooth Blood; one-quarter
of pound of each.
Cabbage Plants-Early Wakefield, or
Winingstadt, for early, and large fiat Dutch
and Drumhead Savoy for late; 100 plants of
each will, if they do well, give an abun-
dance of cabbage for home use.
Sweet Corn-There are so many varie-
ties, and they are so near alike, as to make
| difficult to name with any certainty two
or three distinct kinds. Two quarts,
planted at two or three different times,
will keep the table well supplied during
the fall, and will leave enough to dry for
winter use.
Cucumbers White Spine and Long
Green are the best varieties for the garden;
one ounce of each will be enough for eally
and late.
Carrot-Long Orange is the most popu-
lar variety, either for table use or for sale.
Bliss's Improved Long Orange is highly
spoken OF by those who have grown it.
Two ounces of either will be enough.
Caulifower-Half, Early Paris and Non
pareil, have found best and most reliable
about heading; one half ounce will of each
give enough of plants.
Celery-White Solid, Turnip-rooted and
Boston Market; one ounce of fresh seed
will give 5000 plants.
Egg Plant-The Improved New York and
Thornless are the best varieties, and where
the plants grow well they will yield fruin
six to ten eggs to each plant. Twenty-Five
plants.
Lettuse-Curled Silesia and Smooth
leaved Butter; small paper of each.
Musk Melon-Skillman's Fine Melted
and Nutmeg; one ounce of each will plant
so hills
Water Melon-M Mountain Sweet. Noun
tain Sprout. and Citron, for preserves.
The first named is considerei the best.
One ounce VIII plaut oU nlliS.
Onions Wethersfield Large Red, Yellow
Danvers, and White Portugal; four ounces
will produce plenty of onions to keep the
table well supplied all the year.
Parsnip Smooth Long White; one ounce
will be enough if the seed is fresh; it should
be of last years growth.
Philadelphia Extra, Early Tom
Thumb, White Marrowfat and Champion
of England; one quart of each. sowed in the
order named.
Peppers-Large Squash and Bull Nose or
Bell.
Radlsh Early Turnip Scarlet, Short
Top, Long Scarlet, White Summer and
Black Spanish; these should be sowed at
different dates, in the order named. OF.
of each.
Spinach Round, Smooth-leaved; 2 o.
sown in April will give nice green's in the
summer.
Squash White Bush. White Summer,
Crook Neck, Boston Marrow and Hubbard;
one ounce of the early varieties will plant
40 hills, and the same qeantity of seed will
plant only 20 hills of the Boston Marrow or
Hubbard.
SaIsify-This variety of vegetable should
be included in every well-stocked garden.
1t is easily cultivated, and keeps during |
the winter as well as parsnips. Two ounces
will SOW enough for family.
Tomato Smooth Round Red, General |
Grant, Liester's Perfected, Cooks favorite, |
for preserving, cherry and pear-shaped.
Cows and sheep.
At recent meeting of the Rosendale |
Farmers Club. Mr.. Bartran presented a
tabular statement in confirmation of Lis as
sertion at the last meeting, that his seven |
cows had cleared him much more than $50
sheep:
Cost OF wintering $50 sheep, As tons OF
70 nay hgsheis :, SsoS oS grain at 20 ct. $500
Total cost. 1868 90 |
Wool of sheep brought $4,000; 15 lambs
at 81. 25 per head, S18.75; whole amount,
$27S. 75, leaving in debt, SS4.25.
Cost of wintering cows, IL tons OF
hay, at 81. SS4.2o
60 bushels of grain, at so cts .....-... 5000
Corn stacks and straw ............. 5000
For making cheese. se............. ...." 34.O0
Whole amount. ......... .s17s. 90 |
Cheese sold /, 700 lbs. at ISL cts., $3.50 25;
Z calves at So, $35; butter sold, $50; value |
of pork made from product of cows, $50; |
whole amount credit to cows, S424 25, leav- |
ing net profit S246.25. Average $50. Is per |
COW. In place of $50 sheep, Is cows would |
have yielded clear, $527 go.
Plant Few Hills OF Corn Late.
A writer in an exchange paper advocates |
planting an occasional hill in every corn |
field late or taking pains to replant the
missing hills, and gives the following rea-
son for it: If the weather becomes dry |
during the filling time, the silk and tassel
both become dry and dead. In this condi-
tim IL IL should become seasonable the |
silk revives and renews its growth, but the
tassel does not recover. Then, for want
of pollen, the new silk Is unable to fill the |
office for which it was designed. The pol
len from the replanted corn is then ready
to supply the silk, and the filling is COM
pleted. He says nearly all the abortfve
oaxc N common in oil corn cronc 10 cauc |