The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-10-02
FARM AVID friends.


other good things, II comes to the SUI.
face occasionally and will bear repeating:
lfyou have moment TO spare, spruce up ;
put the gate on its hinges; put a little
paint ON the picket fence you built last
year; trim up the door yard; make IL
cosy and inviting. DO not say you can't
find time TO attend TO these things The
fact is, you have no right to he slovenly.
II can do you no good, but on the CON
trary, II will mar your peace, wound
your sclfrespcct and impair your credit
Then, by all means, spruce up little, at
odd times, and at even times too for that
matter. II will make you feel vastly bet.
ter, and maybe, trihe proud Of your
pretty homestead. Your wife and chill
dren will be made happier for IL; your
neighbsrs will lie enriched, bcauti-
fed and blessed by II. And your farm
will he worth more money in the market
and Of greater value to you at home, Il
you spruce up little now and then.
TnE Use or WEEDS. VIII not weeds
take possession Of the old meadows after
a while? Yes, If the meadows are not
properly fed. There is some truth in
the maxim of the ancients that nature
abhors a vacuum. Weeds abound on old,
worn-out lands simply because the proper
nutriment for more dclicatcly organized
heritage has been exhausted. White
daisies and golden rod, and even hard
hacks, are better than utter barrenncss
In their decay they furnish food for a
better class of plants Nature is deter
mined to produce something, and IL len
to herself always produces that to which
the soil is most congenial. II water
abounds coarse. aquatic plants will as
surely grow without any sowing of the
seed, as will corn when planted in good
loan. We have seen alluvial meadows
that had for a long series Of years pro-
duced large crops of good hay, being kept
in good heart by deposit of fine fertiliz
ing material in the annual overflow Of a
neighborirg river, suddenly have their
heritage changed to reeds and rushes by
the damiug of this river and the consc-
quent setting back of the water over their
surface. In those parts Of the meadows
where the water did not come within
foot of the surface, the character Of the
grasses was changcd.-LdidRa Farmer.
FrRTILIzISG FOR WHEAT No doubt
many farmers are just now cndcavoring
to make up their minds what to Use as
manure for wheat. Some have used their
yard manure for corn and need some
thing for the wheat, and Others have used
their yard manure for the wheat, but
have not enough to cover the whole field
and arc compelled TO finish cut with some
thing else. To the latter class my advice
would have been to spread the yard ma
nure all over the field and then follow it
up by a light dressing Of some kind OF
fertilizer all over the manure. To both
classes the question arises, (Which will
be the best for the amount Of money ex-
pended?" For several years | have been
experimenting with compounds Of my
own mixing, and have in my own opinion,
attained to a moderate degree of success
The past season have demonstrated the
action of the following mixture: bone
dust 5000 lbs, sulphate of potash 1000,
sulphate of soda 1000, gypsum 1000.
With a common watering pot dampen
mot to wet) the bone, and thoroughly
mix the soda and potash with il let this
be done for five or six weeks before the
mixture is needed, and have the pile
shoveled over at least once each week !;
just before applying add the plaster; the
caustic soda and potash will divide the
particles of bone, and although have no
right to claim any chemical change, yet
| have found the mixture not only cheap
but also effective.
SEEDING Fruits. - The editor of the
Germantown Telegraph writes as follows
" Meeting with a friend we inquired what
varieties of fruit were in most favor with
him, knowing him to be n very successful
and enthusiastic fruit-raiser Toour as
constituent he replied that so far as rasp-
berries and blackberries were concerned,
he depended, and had done so for year,,
ON seedlings. lie does not care TO dis.
tinguish any separate varieties ; but sows
the seeds, raises the plants, and then sets
them out permanently to bear rs he would
ordinary named plants
"This way of working is not unknown
among peach-growers, with whom natural
seedlings have found in some quarters
considerable favor. 1t is said that they
are healthier and more reliable than the
regular grated fruit. Theyare not suited
to the wants of market men. They want
to know to day when their trees will
give ripe fruit, so As to have regular
succession of market kinds, and this
knowledge can only be secured by having
regular named kinds, regularly pro
pagatcd by budding or grating on seed
ling stocks. As to the superior health
fulness of these seeding trees, we believe
this to be conceded. One thing is Ger.
tain, few persons have such healthy
Strawberries and raspberries as our friend
to whom we referred, and he attributes
much of his success to what he calls this
continual infusion Of new blood into his
fruit-garden by this Seeding practice of
his"
CoLvER HAY FOR lloRsEs. - The New
York Hcrad says: Many farmers are
strenuorsly opposed to red clover as feed
for horses of any kind, as they contend
the poisonous dust which rises from the
dead stalks and dry leaves frequently
causes the heaycs For many years we
have kept horses almost exclusively ON
clover hay through our long winters, and
if the clover was cut when about one half
the blossoms had turned brown, and the
hay mostly cured in the cock in good
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