The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-07-05
a GOOD GARDEN.

Years ago Horatio Seymour told me
how to have a good garden. His plan
was-and it has been mine ever since
to have a small sunny patch where let
tuce and tomatoes and early peas may be
started, and then in the field plant ev-
erything else Here, with horse culture
and good tillage, vegetables will grow and
beat the fussy, pent-up neglected garden
ing way of most farmers, who generally
grow hundred weeds to one vegetable.
Before breakfast and noon times the
time allotted to the garden), grow less
and less as hoeing time and harvest press
upon the hours and energies. and 30
when she most needs it, the good house
wife finds garden sauce scarce and at the
very time it ought to be plenty, and she
must set table scanty in variety, and
often in iullness when the voracious ap'
petites of long days and growing boys
come into the kitchen-and they are
sure to come, and often with dissatisfied
looks, if not complaints, A few rows
across the cornfeld set apart for squash
es, peas, beans, beets, early potatoes, &c,
would have made Woundrous differ
ence. 1t is no more-not so much Of a
task to hoe garden stuff in the field as
corn, for coming good dinners lend a
helping hand, but working in garden,
pulling weeds and grubbing up the ground
with hoe is hard work, and every far
mer's boy will shirk it If possible, and
the paterfamilias too, unless he be pos
sessed of rare grace and goodness,-E d.
Curtis.
LET me speak for the crow. Last year
as was narrowing corn with vibrating
harrow having teeth (you know 1t is a
noisy thing it uncovered great number
of white grubs which you could see all
about the ground; they are very destruc-
tive to vegetation Of all kinds. They ate
or destroyed thousands of hills Of corn
that year. You could see the track of
the grub as he travelled to get something
to eat, for they travel when in search of
food. You could see the surface of the
ground a little elevated and checked
when the surface is hard and dry. Well,
yoursee when / was narrowing, as soon
as the crows heard the harrow at work
they would come and light on the ground
that was being narrowed, and the fresher
the better they liked it; when going one
way they would light after | had passed
along, when returned and came within
six or eight rods of them, they would rise
gently and circle round in the rear ragain.
have counted as many as IL grubs that
one crow picked upat one lighting. They
any and everything, large and small,
that is, worms, grubs and beetles. Crows
can't pull corn when planted with ma
chine; we have no fear Of them from that
source Finally, wherever civilization is
there are rocks or croWs.-C ChatauquG
Farmer.
II is possible to raise calves without
giving them fresh, new milk, for, with
little skinned milk and hay tea, they
will thrive almost if not quite as well as
upon the lacteal fluid. Fifty years ago
Sir James Steward Denham, OF Scotland,
made experiments in raising calves with
hay tea, taking them from their mothers
when three days old, and those expert.
ments were eninently successful, Two
pounds of hay we're stepped in five gal
Ions of water, and then boiled down one
half, and to this was added a quart Of
gkimmed milk. In some instances mo-
lasses was added also, to give sweetness,
and the calves not only thrived upon
this diet, but preferred it to fresh milk.
Farmers Union.