The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1870-03-24
HOUSE AND FARM.

with three shovels of swamp muck,
and spread 1t on the ground in a circle,
if for small heap Of a few barrels of
! fish pomaee, or in long heap for
large quantity, then beat the fish fine
| and scatter one shovelful over the
muck, and 50 continue alternately till
all is mixed leaving the heap cone
shaped. In ABOUT a week the heap
will begin to heat, and should be turn
ed and mixed, and commencing
at one side and making all the fine
with the back of the shovel. In q
| week or ten days more, it should be
turned again. In three weeks ii will
be fine and lit for use. 1t may be kept
until wanted to be used, hut will re-
quire further turning if it continues TO
heat. The muck should be damp when
mixed, or it will not heat sufficiently.
Peruvian guano and muck, or earth,
should be mixed in the proportion of
six TO one Of guano. It does not heat,
but requires the same turning and
mixing as Ash and muck. A handful
ofeither in the hill is about the guam
tity generally used, but of the fish
compost, more is required than of the
guano--as much as can be held in the
hand with the palm uppermost and
the fingers spread. If thrown into q
hole in heap, it should be spread be-
FIRE being covered to avoid the danger
Of destroying the seed, which never
should be planted directly upon it,
american Agricuturfst.
The Culture oftte Tomato. The seed
f)r an early crop of tomatoes may be
s)wn about the middle of February
or the first of March. Great care
should be taken in saving seed from
the fruit which ripens earliest any sea-
son. For family use the plants may
be started in little box in a warm
room, and for field culture in hot
b I'd or greenhouse. Do not be in too
great haste, in either case, to germin-
ate the seed; but once started see that
the plants get no check from want of
air. When the plants are two or three
inches high they should be trans.
planted into small pots, and after
wards into larger ones They
lould be transplanted at least twice
| before being put into open ground,
and then not until all appearance vi
frost is gone. Each time before trans
planting the plants should be well wa
| tered, so that ball of earth may adj
| here to and be removed with each
plant. In the open ground they
! should not be less than four feet apart.
| The soil should he kept friable, and by
hoeing early and often prevent the
| weeds from obtaining possession ofthe
soil. After the fruit las grown to any
size it is advisable 10 prune, and in
that case do not be afraid to cut cut all
| suckers and non bearing branches, and
| to shorten those that wander, The
/ fruit may be kept clean and prevented
from premature decay by spreading
brush, salt, hay, or other such materi-
al under the vines, or by training
None of these are, however, requisite
| where the soil is light and dry, but it
is true that when trained, the favor of
the fruit thus grown is superior to that
ripened on the ground. For late crop
the seed may be sownin theopen ground
in spring. When planted in this place
| they will bear till the frost comes, and
longer if protected. Here are some
points which should be needed in the
| cultivation OF this fruit:
l Plants should be grown in warm,
light, rich soil, from the seeds of the
earliest ripened fruit Of known good
quality.
3 They should be grown early.
3. During no time of their growth
should they suffer for want ofwarmth,
sunshine, fresh air, and "a soil in prop
er mechanical and chemical condition
fer their healthy growth,
Tdste ia DresS.-A fashion writer in
the Cincinnati Gazette, in her endeav-
or to create better taste in dressing,
says:
know a little creature, fair as the
spring morning, sweet and bonnie, and
blithe, with golden tresses and great
blue eyes, with laughter in them that
can in q trice fill with enchanting tears
"a small woman of moods and fanta-
sizes, of all sweet lmaginatiODs and
many plquancies.
This little thing always dresses in
character. Sometimes sac wears an
Undine costume, miracle of green
satin and white tulle, with strings of
pearls, aud tiny pink shells twisted in
her lovely hair, and winding round
her pretty throat.
Sometimes she plays snow drop In
her opera suit OF thick white silk,
whose overskirt and quilted jaC Cket
are trimmed with airy bands of swans
down.
Sometimes she nestles among her
flowers like dear little forget-me-not,
in her blue silk robe, whose dainty
scolloped ruffles cluster about her in
tend ar calyxy fashion.
And withal she is a bright, antellI-
gent reader of books and people, and
does not, by any means, spend her life
in ''thinking up" her costumes,
They are simply expressions Of her.
seif, blossomings Of her own CHARMING
Individuality, and she can no more
help devising and wearing her dainty
clothes than she can help breathing.
Taste is inherent, but it can also be
acquired. A little thought, little
study of ones characteristics and