The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
Farm, Garden and Household.
Hints About Work.


no weeds go to seed anywhere.
A farmer should study himself. He
should know his own strength. He can
not do but certain amount of work.
He should be very careful not to waste
his power
Modern farming demands energetic
work. We can not plod along in the
old beaten track. We must have cur
wits about us; all our faculties must be
bright and active.
All stubble land not seeded down
should be narrowed Immediately after
harvest for the purpose of starting the
weeds. Afterwards kill them with q
pillow or cultivator.
We must work hard: but our work
need not be for any great length of time
of the breaking, misunderstanding
order. This kind of work should be
left to those who can not do ANYTHING
better.
Look ahead; let the work of to-day
be well and promptly done; but, at the
same time, lay plans for to morrow.
Harvest the crops now on the ground,
but make such preparations as will in
sure better crops next year.
Thrashing is best done as the wheat
is drawn from the field. But il Won put
the wheat in the barn and do not want
the space, it is better not to thrash for
two or three weeks, or until the wheat
has sweated." This is particularly
true OF barley and oats. All grain
keeps best in the straw.
On many farms weeds spring up in
wheat, barley, and oat stubbles by the
million, and soon go to seed. 1t is q
good plan to go over the field with a
moving machine. If the weeds are SO
far advanced that the seeds will mature
after the plants are cut, rake them up
with wire rake and burn them,
Animals require constant attention.
See that none of their wants are neg.
lected for single day. A successful
breeder must be prompt, systematic,
liberal, and provident man. 1t will not
do to feed well one month and half
starve the next. A few DAYS neglect
will take off all the profit from months
feeding.
Cultivating corn in August is one of
our own practices which we do not in
discriminatory recommend. We do it
to Kill the weeds. We do not know that
1t benefits the corn; we are sure it is a
benefit to the land. 1t is disgrace to
have dirty corn-stubble. No farmer
can hope to have clean land unless he
has clean corn.
Hay will be scarce next winter. In
many cases the second growth of grass
and clover will be larger than the first
crop, and will pay we'll for moving.
Cure the hay thoroughly, and save it
Tor sucking ewes or new milch- COWS.
If, owing to bad weather, the hay can
not be well cured, it is a good plan
when moving it away to mix some dry
straw or old hay with it.
Wheat after spring crop, in nine
cases ont of ten, requires manure. The
best artificial manure for wheat is prob
ably Peruvian guano, say 200 lbs. PEI
acre, sown broadcast, and narrowed in
Nitrate of soda, where it can be bough
for 4c. OF 4!c. per pound, is well wortl
trying, especially in connection will
phosphate guano or superphosphate
Sow 100 lbs. of nitrate per acre whel
the wheat is sown, and 100 lbs. in tn,
spring.
Do not waste straw. Some of on
best farmers thrash out-of-doors. ant
put the straw in the barn. AS ordinari
ly stacked, one-third of the straw i
often damaged. It pays well to tax
extra care to top off the stack so tina
the rain can not enter. We can not o.
into details. Keep the middle yer,
full, and when flashed rake the toi
down smooth. Be careful to fill ND tn,
hole where the man stood to remove tb
straw away from the carrier.
Winter wheat needs better cultur
than we have been giving it. We mus
make the land richer, cleaner. and mel
lower. The better the variety the bet
ter land and better culture will it re
quire. White wheat, as rule, require
better land than red wheat. Red Med
lterranean is probably one of the hard
est varieties of winter wheat we have
and on poor and medium soils. wit
nothing more than ordinary cultivation
usually proves more profitable tina,
white wheat.
Strawberry Plants.
There have been several fruit-tre
peddlers through this section, writes
correspondent, one this week who offel
ed to sell me some Alpine Bush Straw
berry plants at So per 100, delivere
this Fall. But as one man sells and al
other delivers, and rs am not acquaint
ed with the strawberry culture, L di
not care to engage until I made furthe
inquiry.
AnSCer, by the New York Tri6une.-
You may safely put down that "Alpin
Bush Strawberry Deddler" as n sWind
Ter. The Alpine strawberries are S
small that they are grown more for tn
sake Of curiosity and ornament tina
their yield. But the plants this ma
will deliver are no Bush Alpine at al
they are probably lot of old refus
plants, of all sorts, which some nursery
man let's him have for the digging. TIL
surest way to get good plants and tru
to name, is to order them direct frol
ONE reliable nurseryman. The pric
oftrst- class plants, of the leading VI
rieties, is about ST. so per hundred.
How Easily Butter is Spoiled.
A farmer writes to an exchange: "
all the products of the farm, butter
most liable to lie tainted by noxior
odors floating in the atmosphere. Or
people laid some veal in the celia
from which a little blood flowed oil
and was neglected until it had con
menced to smell. The result was thi
jar of butter, which 1 was then pacl
ing, smelled and tasted like spoile