The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-21
Farm, Garden and Household:
Essential to Productive Farming.

productive farming are from the pen of
the editor of the american Farmer
/. Good implements of husbandry,
and plenty of them, which should al
ways be kept,,in perfect order.
2. Deep plowing and thorough pull
verization of the soil by the free use of
harrow, drag and roller.
8. An application of lime, mari, or
ashes, where calcareous matter or pot
ash may not be present in the soil.
4. A systematic husbandry Of every
substance on the farm, capable of be-
ing converted into manure, system
attic protection of such substances from
loss or by evaporation or wastes of any
kind, and q careful application of the
same to the land in culture.
5. The draining of all wet lands, so
as to relieve the roots of the plants
from the i'll effects of superabundance
of water, condition equally perni-
cious as drought to their healthy growth
and profitable fructifcation.
6. The free Use of the plow, culti-
vator and hoe. with all plow-culture
crops, so as to keep down at all times
the growth of grass and weeds, those
pests which prove SO destructive to
crops.
Z. Seeding at the proper time with
seed, and an equal attention as to the
period of working crops.
s. Attention to the construction and
repair Of fences, so that what is made
through the tolls and anxious cares of
the husbandman, may not be lost
through his neglect to protect his crop
from the depredations of stock.
9. Daily personal superintendent
on the part of the master over the op-
erations of the farm, no matter how
ever faithful his hands may be, as the
presence OF the head of the farm and
the use of the eyes, are worth several
pairs of hands.
TO- Labor saving machinery, so that
one may render himself as Independent
as needful of neighborhood labor; as q
sense of the comparative independence
of the employer upon such labor, be-
gets O disposition of obedience and
faithfulness on the part of the employe.
IL. Comfortable stabling and sheds
for horses and stock, all the necessary
outbuildings for the accommodation of
the hands and protection of the tools
and implements, as well as for the care
of the poultry.
10. Glover and other grasses to form
part of the rotation crops, and these
to be at proper periods plowed in to
form pabulum for succeeding crops.
The clover field to be either plastered
or ashed each succeeding spring-one
bushel of the former, and six of the
latter per acre.
13. To keep no more stock than can
be well kept, but be sure to keep as
many as can be kept in good condition,
as it is a wise policy to feed as much as
possible of the crops grown on the
farm and thus return to it that which
has been abstracted from it.
IA. To provide a good orchard and
garden; one to be filled with choice
fruits of all kinds-the other with veg
etables of all sorts, early and late, sc
that the table may at all times be wei
and seasonably supplied, and the sur
plus contribute to increase the wealth
of the proprietor.
Is. The taking of one or more goo(
agricultural papers.
16. It is better to cut grain just be
fore it is fully or dead ripe. When th'
straw, Immediately before the gran
juice is extracted, it should be cut, fo
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the ear.
Farm Notes.
Referring to last years production,
correspondent says "Tried no ney
varieties of potatoes. Think the whit
peachblow and early rose good enougl
for anybody"
A. B. Miller, of Henry County, Ind.
horI 4,.o,, borcat
shoulders can easily be removed b.
amounting them with little oil of spike
to be had at the druggists, applying
twice day for week.
Nothing answers better for ordinar
purgative purposes among horses tina
aloes given in doses of four to 81
drachms, and as a laxative, aloes i
doses Of two or three drachms.
A Maine farmer says of whiteweed fo
fodder: have fed white weed in som
instances where there was not fit
pounds to the ton of any other ha,
mixed with it, with satisfactory results
Even mich COWS with me will do as we
on early cut, well cured white weed, {
on the best English hay. There is OIL
thing about this weed to be considered
it must be cut early to make good feet
if left till ripe it is not worth the gail
ering.
Corn Fodder.
A Mr.. Simmons wrote to the German
town Telegraph that, as late as June
he drilled twelve quarts of corn in row
two feet apart, on third of an acre
land, and applied one and half core
of manure and cultivated twice, ms
following with hand-hoe. The col
grew ten feet high. Cut up just as ia
sells began to blossom, it made 800 bul
dies, averaging twenty pounds gree
and eight pounds dry, being at the ra
of 1900 dry fodder per acre-which |
judged to be worth more per ton tha
hay for feeding COWS.
Another farmer, in Peekskill, n. 7
drilled two bushels of corn on two an
half acres of meadow land after l
cut the hay, covered the drills wit
fresh COW manure, cultivated four time
up to Aug. 10, and cut with sick
Sept. 10, laying corn crosswise of row
to dry for five days, then tied it up al
shocked on adjoining grass land. E
then replowed the corn ground, an
seeded again to timothy. The stall
were tall and tender, and eaten clef
without cutting. There were eight tol
of corn fodder.
A Simple Disinfectant.
Roasted coffee, says The HON
opathic World, is one most powerf
means, not only of rendering amin
and yepetable effiuyia innocuous, bI