The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-15
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Kitchen Garden.


Keep the growing crops free from
weeds, and do not allow any to 20 tC
seed. Hand cultivators and steel rakes
where horse power cannot be used, ar,
very effective implements, and if they
are employed in time, and duSng a hot
day, they effectually kill young weeds
without expensive hand work. There
is no weed that grows which cannot be
exterminated by constant cultivation.
After peas have become plenty, the
asparagus plants should be allowed tc
grow up, and it will be well to fork in 6
dressing of well rotted manure. Pull
out the weeds during the summer.
Plant bush beans for succession, and
Limas may be planted, with fair pros.
pect of crop, especially If the vines are
cut off at the height of six or seven
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Plant beets every two weeks until
July, and when large enough thin, and
uss the Trimmings for green's. The early
paintings should now be large enough to
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Gather and market the early cabbage,
and prepare the ground for celery or
other late crops. Set out plants for the
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cabbage worm, which are so injurious to
these plants.
The young celery plants in the seed
bed should be thinned and kept clear of
weeds, and when large enough, trans
planted previous to the final setting.
Plant corn every two weeks at least.
until July, and crop may be had, if an
early sort is planted, even as late as the
middle of the month. Any surplus may
be easily dried for winter use.
Sow cucumbers for late crop and for
picking, taking care to SOW the seed
thickly, so that enough plants may be
left after the bugs have destroyed all
they require; covers of netting are often
used to preserve the plants from the at
tacks of the insects, but it is not practi-
cable to protect large patch. Ashes
or plaster sprinkled on the leaves when
wet, will help to keep them off.
Set out egg plants in rich warm soil,
and hoe often; liquid manure is bene-
fetal.
Plant melons at once if not done, and
give an abundance of manure, taking
the same precautions as recommended
for cucumhers.
Weed onions and thin when necessary.
Near a good market they generally sell
best If punched and marketed before
they are ripe.
Weed and hoe parsnips until the
leaves get large enough to cover the
ground.
Peas generally mildew when planted
late. If any are put in now, SOW at least
six inches deep, in rich soil, and stake
as soon as they appear above ground.
Clear off the ground where the early
sorts have been gathered, for cabbages
or celery.
Radishes may be sown in a shady
spot.
Keep the flower stalks of rhubarb
cut, and do not gather too late, as this
will exhaust the plants.
Hoe and weed satisfy and scorzonera
often; when any plants run up to flower,
as they often do, they should be pulled
out.
Clear off the old beds of spinach, and
plant with cabbage or other late grow
ing crops. During the summer SOW the
New Zealand spinach, which withstands
the drought and grows rapidly, furnish
ing an abundance during the hot sea-
son.
Treat squashes same as cucumbers
and melons.
Set out sweet potatoes at once in we'll
manured ridges, and as soon as the vines
show signs of roofing at the joints,
move them.
If tomatoes are not set yet, do it at
once, and provide some support, so that
the fruit will not touch the ground, even
though it is only hay or brush.
Sow rutabaga turnips. If insects ap-
pear, which they seldom do at this sea
son, dust lime, ashes, or even road
dust upon the young plants when the
leaves are wet.-Agriculturist.
Smut In Wheat.
The simplest and surest plan to pre-
vent smut in wheat, says the Western
Farm Journal, is to make solution by
using one pound of blue vitriol-sul-
phate OF copper-to every gallon of
water. Make sufficient quantity so it
may stand above the wheat. Stir the
whole to allow the light material to rise.
Skim, and at the end of an hour spread
the wheat on a dry floor and sprinkle
with quicklime, previously so slaked
with chamber lye as to leave the lime in
power. So continue until you have all
the wheat treated. In this state it may
be heaped and remain several days be-
fore sowing, if the heap be occasionally
turned. If the wheat remains damp, it
must be still further dried before SOW
ing, if it is to be drilled, SO it will pass
easily from the drill. Many farmers use
brine. In this case the solution should
not be stronger than pound of salt to
a gallon of water. Proceed as before
directed and ary with lime. Some per-
sons claim good success by sprinkling
the wheat with a solution of five pounds
of blue vitriol to six gallons OF water,
using this quantity for twenty bushels
of wheat, turning the same until every
grain is moistened and sowing without
further trouble. The way we have in
dicated is the surest and in the end the
cheapest, since the liquid can be used
over and over again until exhausted.