Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-11
Farm and Garden.

Make Gqrden.-A correspondent of
the Western Pomologist makes the follow
ing sensible suggestions with regard to
the necessity OF a good garden:
1t would seem that due regard for
the health and comfort of the family
would overcome the dislike to cultivate
garden, but the aversion to systematic
care. and labor overrides all these consid-
eratlons, and the garden remains only
IN anticipation, or in some out of the
way place, consisting of few rows of
potatoes, bed of scrubby beets and
onions, and lot of starved cabbages, all
struggling for life through a swamp of
grass and weeds. Withouta garden the
winter diet of a family is mainly con-
hned to bread, meat, potatoes and sour
kraut. AS the genial warmth of spring
returns the system requires less stimula-
tlng food, and demands cooling and
juicy vegetables, fresh from the soil, vet
many farmers have no garden, not
even an apology for one. Their tables
are never graced with early vegetables,
such as asparagus, radishes, lettuce,
early beets, potatoes and beans, when
they might be crowned with all these
luxurles peculiar to the season, by a lit
tie labor and systematic care. And in
addition to these he may luxuriate on
green corn, squashes, melons, cucum-
bers, tomatoes, Strawberries, currants.
raspberries, grapes, and the larger fruits
to his hearts content, and if to these be
added the egg plant, celery, satisfy, and
various picked and preserved fruits,
what more can be desired? All these
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small piece of ground, and coming into
use at different seasons thus can
be had in their best condition. Gath
cred fresh from the garden they have a
deicacy of flavor that is wanting in
those wilted specimens obtained from
the market, and they supply those
juices and acids that the health of the
human system demands during the
warm season."
Care Of HorSes.-As a rule the curry
comb is used too much, and the brush
too little. When horse is brought into
the stable, covered with sweat and mud.
he should be rubbed dry with straw.
Then, The next morning with curry
comb in one hand, and good brush in
the other, he can be thoroughly cleaned
the curry-comb only beng used to
stralghten the hairs ahead of the brush.
The difficulty about getting a good
curry arises from the neglect to
rub the horse clean with straw before
leaving him for the night. Much care
should be used in cleaning a horses
legs with curry-comb, so as not to in
jure the Joints.
Potatoes Least affected By Bugs.-A writer
IN the Michigan Farmer thinks some
varieties are much more liable to DIES.
truction than others, owing to their
tender foliage still no kind IS exempt.
Among one hundred and fifty varieties
raised the past s. ason, the following,
though not bug proof, are to some ex.
tent able to withstand their rayages
White Rose, Peerless, White Peachblow
and Buckeye; at least the bugs appeared
to prefer other varieties. | found the
past season that early planted potatoes
did better than the same variety planted
two or three weeks later, and believe
that the Early .iose, planted early, will
IN most sections make a fair crop bv
spending about one day per acre bug
killing.
Better Feed, Better Manure-Under this
heading the Maine Farmer saws: Few
truths in agricultural economy are bet
ter established than this that the bet
ter and richer the feed given to animals.
the better will be the manure made.
Animals kept on straw and coarse,
rough fodder, with little or no proven
der, even if they have this sort of food
in abundance, will produce manure of
very inferior quality to that made from
corn meal, cotton seed, rape cake or
other articles rich in nitrogen. 1t is a
custom with the best English farmers
custom as well asa business-to feed
for the purpose of obtaining the ma
nure. And while there is almost always
loss in feeding animals upon purchased
food, leaving out of calculation the ma
nure they make; when this is consid-
cred, especially if one wishes to restore
or maintain the fertility of farm, all
experiments show that feeding animals
is the cheapest mode of obtaining ma
nure.
Hdrro'oing Corm.--A correspondent of
the Western Farmer gives the following
description of how ne harrows bis corn
" commence just before the corn
comes up and continue as needed, to
keep soil loose and weeds out of sight,
until it is so tall the harrow will break
it off if used. There is nothing SO
needtul to secure crop of corn, with
our short seasons, as frequent stirring of
the soil when it is in its first stages of
growth, and no tool will do this SO
cheaply or SO thoroughly in the hill as
a rightly con- tructed harrow. L harrow
back and forth till have my land as |
desire. If the corn is rowed both WAYS
of the field, the second narrowing should
cross the first, the third the second,
and so on. have not had failure in
four years with Dent corn on my white,
heavy, cold soil.