The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-22
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Garden w ork.

should be put In good repair, so that th
work can be pushed forward rapidly whe
the spring opens. Farm implement
should be carefully examined, and neces
sary changes made at once so as to avoi
delay when the work begins.
The vegetable garden is frequently LEI
implanted, because when the opportun
time arrives the seeds have not been OF
dered. Other kind of farm-work is aecu
mulating, so the planting of the garden i
put of for few days, and finally forgotte
until too late to remedy. This careles
way OF carrying out the details OF the farn
or garden will. in the long run, prove a Sc
rious drawback to the success of even wha
might otherwise be called good farmers
There is nothing on the farm that will pa
better than quarter or half acre exclusive
ly devoted to vegetables for home con
| sumption.
Now is the time to make out the list O
gards n seeds wanted, and send at once t
some reliable scotsman, so as to have then
on hand in full season for planting. Fo
those persons who are not familiar witt
the best kinds and quantity necessary t.
supply family of eight or ten persons. W,
append thefollowing list, which may help t,
| guide beginners. or those who may want {,
stock their gardens with a good supply o
the leading kinds of vegetables for hom,
consumption:
With peas and bush-beans there SHOULD
be a succession of paintings, say every tive
or three weeks until the middle of Jul '
This will give an abundance of young pea
and beans until late in the fall
Dwarf Beans-Early Valentine, Refugee
or 1000 to l, and White Kidney; one quar-
of each sort.
Pole Beans Horticultural Cranberry anG
large White Lima; one pint of each vii
plant $50 ills.
Beets-Early Bassano, Early Blood Tur.
nip and Long Smooth Blood; one-quartel
of pound of each.
Cabbage Plants-Early Wakefield, OIL
Wlnlngstadt, for early, and large fiat Dutch
and Drumhead Savoy for late; 100 plants oi
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 early
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-HslfE Early Paris and Nom
L. n
about heading; one half ounce will of each
give enough of plants.
Celery Solid, Turnip-rooted and
Boston Market; one ounce OF fresh seed
will give 5000 plants.
Eggplant Improved New York and
ThOrnless are the best varieties, and where
the plants grow well they will yield from
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.
tain Sprout, and Citron, for preserves.
The first named is considered the best
One ounce will plant 80 hills.
Onions-W Wethersfeld Large Red, Yellow
Danvers, and White Portugal; four ounces
will produce plenty of onions to keep the
table well supplied all the year.
Parsnip Long White; one ounce
will be enough if theseed 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; OF.
sown in April will give nice greens III 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 Quantity of seed will
plant only 20 hills of the Boston Marrow or
Hubbard.
Salsify-This variety of vegetable should
be included in every we1-stocked garden.
1t is easily cultivated, and keeps during
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, 45 tons of
hay at S7.OO. Sl5.OO
20 bushels Of grain at 80 cts.......... $500
Shearing .....-.-...-..--..-.,. 1870
Total cost. .S363-OO
Wool of sheep brought $780, 90; Is lambs
at 81 25 per head, s18.75; whole amount,
S278.75, leaving in debt, SS4.25.
Cost of wintering COWS, II tons Of
hay, at 81. $64-20
60 bushels of grain, at so cts ....... 5000
COrn-stacks and straw. 3O.OO
For making cheese. -.--.. 4.OO
Whole amount.... ..........S .S17S. 90
Cheese sold /, 200 lbs. at 154 cts, $3.50. .25;
z calves at So, S35; 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 S55. Is per
COW. In place of $50 sheep, Is cows would
have yielded clear, S527 go.
Plant a 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 eondi-
ton, if it should become seasonable, the
silk revives and renews its growth, but the
tassei 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 abortive
ears, so common in all corn crops, is caus-
ed by want of pollen, and that he has
known ears to double their size in this
second filling.
To TAKE GREASE FROM PAPER.-Gently
warm the parts containing the grease, and
apply blotting paper SO as to extract as
much as possible. Boil some clear essen
tial oil of turpentine and apply it to the
warm paper with q soft clean brush A
little rectifed spirits of wine should be
put over afterward.
INGRowING TOE NAn--This painful alb
normal condition of the toe-nail may be
cured nv allowing the nail tn cOntiDua tn