The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-02
Farm, Garden and Household
Gardening Hints.

At the end of June some celery may
be set out for early crops, though for
the main crop a month later will be
quite time enough. It was once GUS
tomary to plant in trenches dug six or
more inches below the surface but the
poverty of the soil usually at this depth
more than decreases the balance of good
points in its favor. Some of our best
growers now plant entirely on the sur
face. and depend on drawing up the
soil, or the employment Of boards or
other artificial methods of blancbing.
Cucumbers for picking may be sown
this month, and endive for fall salad
set out. Parsley for winter use may be
sown now, in boxes of rich soil, and set
in cool, shady place till it terminates.
Tomatoes, after trying all kinds of
trellises recommended, will be be found
to do best on stakes tied up singly. 1t
is best to plant strong pole, as for
Lima beans, with the plants when first
set out, and tied up as they grow. Mar
hetmen generally let them grow as they
will on the ground, which, perhaps, al
though not yielding as much, cost less
labor, and may thus be most profitable
The Swede turnip or Ruta Baga
should be sown about the end of the
month. A well enriched piece of
ground is essential, as by growing first
they get ahead of the ravages of the fly.
Manures abounding in the phosphates
-bone-dust, for instance-are superior
for the turnip. ....
Sweet potatoes must be watched, that
the vines do not rot in the ground as
they run, which will weaken the main
crop of roots. They should be gone
over about once a month, and, with a
rake or pole, the vines disturbed some
what from their position.
Proper Time to Manure Tress.
People often argue whether it is bet
ter to manure trees in the fall or in the
spring, but we think that any one who
tries it will find that the summer is as
good time as any.
1t was only few years ago that it
was discovered that plants are like ami
mails in this-that they, while appear
ing to be expending their daily nour-
ishment on continuous growth are real
ly laying up food for tomorrow. Those
who have examined vegetable cellular
structure with a microscope, tell us
that the formation is exactly like that
of a honey comb, the cells lying together
of a hexagonal shape, us if made by
bees. But it proves that this structure
is more like the illustration than those
that used it suspected, in this-that as
in the honey comb honeyis stored up for
use at tafuture time, so matter is stored up
in these little plant cells for the future
use of the plant. There are in almost
all plants two growths during the sea-
son. The first growth is formed almost
wholly from the matter stored up in the
cell of the previous year. After mid
summer, especially i'll the apple tree,
the whole of the force derived from the
past year is expended, and it stores up
n little for new growth, which is soon
after made. AS the season progresses
the latter or secondary growth
also in turn lays up matter in it's cells,
for the next season, as the past season
has done.
Trees always like fresh food as well
as animals and thus it is with this ex.
planation, that one can readily under.
stand how it is that top dressing of
good manure put under the trees soon
after midsummer, when the second
growth is about to take place, produces
the marked good results we have be.
fore recorded.
seasonabIe Food.
The wholesomeness of food depends
nearly as much on the time it is taken
as on the quantity. We have grown SC
luxurious in our physical as we'll as
mental tastes, that we. are constantly
tempted to eat things ont of season
Yielding to the temptation, as we of
ten do, we pay the penalty, soon ol
late, in temporary or chronic derange
ment of our health. The meat which i:
excellent in cold, may not be desirable
in warm weather ; fish is best during
spring and early summer vegetables
and fruit are nutritious when they are
fully ripened by sun and season, an6
not artitically stimulated. Nature knows
what she is doing; she furnishes fol
every latitude the productions fttes
for such latitude. We need variety
not so much at one time as from tim,
time,
The delicacies of the season will no
hurt us but the delicacies out of sea
son certainly will, if long continued
The appetite SO jaded as to crave oys
ters in July, or strawberries in Decem
Der, needs careful correction by tn,
adoption of the simplest habits. TIL
palate naturally relishes what natur
has near at hand. AS rule, not onl,
is the simplest food the best food, bu
the most seasonable is, in the long run
the most appetizing. There is no diff
Guilty in determining what we shoult
eat, since the products of our climat,
show us plainly month by month. Fish
flesh and fruit, by their plumpness
tenderness and ripeness, themselves
denote when they are ready to be eat
en-. A sound stomach will profit b.
whatever an unspoiled palate enjoys.
How to Cure Split Hoof.
I had a horse that had both hoof
split from top to bottom. He could no
walk without his feet spreading apart
1 kept him for three months on stray
one foot deep in the stable, but it di'
no good. At last went to a black
smiths shop and had heavy shoes mad
which spread wide at the heels. T.
these heavy shoes there was welded, a
the outside of each heel, piece mad
of shoe-nail iron. These pieces mad
to fit we'll around the hoof, about a
inch below the hair. let the piece
come together within half an inch an
turned up about three-fourths of a
inch. In the turned-up part hole wa
made to receive a bolt an inch long
with a square head, and screw and nu
on the other end. On mailing the shoe
on and putting the bolt in and screw