Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-03
AeRICULfURAL.

Whatsoever q man soweth that shall
he also reap" II one sows or plants |
inferior seed, he cannot expect boun- |
tiful crop of either roots or grain. |
Small and half-manured kernels OF
wheat, oats, rye and corn cannot be
expected to yield panicles and ears
filled with plump and heavy kernels.
If one plants the seeds of carrots, pars-
nips, turnips and cabbage which grew
in the small pods and the half-manured
not produce large roots, even if the soil
has been brought to an excellent state
of fertility.
This suggests the great importance
of raising seed of the choicest quality.
1t will cost no more to raise one thou
sand bushels of beets or turnips, per
acre, than three hundred, if plump and
heavy seed has been properly saved.
In order to produce large, heavy seed
of garden vegetables, select few large
carrots, a few turnips, parsnips and
beets, and plant them in rich soil early
IN the growing season. They should
be planted about thirty inches apart,
that the tops may have ample room to
spread. When the blossoms begin to
appear, clip off all the small side
branches, leaving only four or five cen
tral stocks, which will yield seed of q
much better quality than one can usu-
ally purchase. Every kernel of such
seed, when planted, will produce large
root. Turnips and carrots may grow
in close proximity but turnips and
carrots designed for seed should be
transplanted several rods apart. One
cabbage will yield as much seed as one
family will care to plant, unless a crop
is grown for market. A superb head
should be transplanted as it grew. The
top of the head should be cut open, so
that sprouts or seed-stalk may readily
spring up through the center.
As soon as the panicles of carrots and
parsnips begin to turn brown, and when
the pods of cabbage and turnips begin
to lose their green color, let the stalks
be cut off close to the ground and hung
ND in some out-building. When the
leaves and stems are quite dry. let them
be spread on clean floor, or on large
blanket, and the seed threshed off
either with fail or by crushing the
pods with ones feet.
In order to have large and early to-
matoes, the first ripe fruit should be
allowed to hang to the vines until the
seeds are fully matured. By selecting
seeo IN this manner for few years to-
matoes will come to maturity much
earlier than in the ordinary way, and
every stalk will be loaded with fruit.
The melon, squash, cucumber and
pumpkin that ripen first should be al
lowed to hang to the vines until the
stems are quite dry; then, when they
begin to decay, remove the seeds,
spread them on board or q canvas to
dry. The vitality of such seeds is fire.
quently destroyed by too much solar
heat, or by being scorched beneath the
kitchen stove.
Flowers will be maturing their seed
at different periods through the entire
growing season. The seeds of some
flowers will ripen in June, while others
will not ripen till September or October.
1t will require but few minutes to at
tend to the cultivation and gathering of
all the seeds one may need, if he will
attend to the little matter at the proper
time.
GAS LrME.-Gas lime, that is lime
that has been used in purifying gas, is
thought by many farmers to be worth
as much or more as a fertilizer, as it
was before its use as a gas purifier. 1t
is substance often neglected about
here, but we have known OF its some
what extensive use in the neignborhood
of New Haven, Conn.,, and there it was
quite satisfactory as applied in the way
of top dressing on rough pasture.
AS it comes out of the gas works it is
in a powdered condition, and is usually
very highly charged with ammonia. In
this condition it is quite different from
the caustic or fresh Stacked lime, such
as we find it in casks, but is perhaps
equal in efficiency to that. 1t is use
full to mix in a coarse compost heap
made of weeds, leaves, straw, road
scrapings, &c. 1t is also valuable on
stiff clay soils, where it may be simply
spread over the surface and left there
or plowed or narrowed in. We would
spread it freely on cold mossy pastures.
J Gas lime retains portion of its orig
inal character as a hydrate of lime, but
it has acquired. in addition to that, q
large amount of sulphur, a portion of
which is in free state, and if exposed
it will unite with the oxygen of the at
mosphere, but if there comes in con-
tact with it any ammoniacal substance,
or fresh manure, it will unite and form
sulphate of ammonia, and this is valu-
able for the crop. 1t may be applied
alone with barnyard manure if imme-
diately covered mp with soil.-MaSsa-
clusetts Ploughmdn.
FINE AND COARSE HAY.-Producers
are sometimes puzzled to know why
city buyers generally ask for coarse
well-matured hay in preference to the
more tender and in reality more nutri
tiou. kinds. The Live Stock Journal
thus enlightens them City men feed
hay for a different purpose than the
farmer. The farmer feeds it for its
nutriment and as a principal food,
while the city man regards grain the
cheapest food and only gives sufficient
hay to make bulk in the stomach and
for the purpose OF health. Coarse well
matured timothy serves the purpose
better than the early-cut and fine
grasses. They do not desire such hay
as will tempt the horses to eat too much
of it. Straw would answer this pur-
pOSc Ii cut auu AiiACu Win thC Biaih
about as WELL
Do Nor CHEAT Your HORSES.
domestic animals are as keenly alive to
their own interests as a man of bust
ness. They can make bargains, stick
to them, and make you stick to them
also. / have little mare who used to
require six men to catch her in the
pasture, but carried corn to her for q
long time without trying to take her,
leaving the corn on the ground. Next,
l induced her to eat the corn whilst /
held it, still leaving her free. Finally
1 persuaded her to follow me, and row
she'll come trotting half mile at my
whistle, leaping bitches, fording brooks
in the darkness and rain, or in impene-
trable fog. She follows me like q dog
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