The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-06-21
FIRM IND HOME.
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NOTHING is palmer than that under
our present mode of farming wheat grow
ing will cease to be profitable within
few years. Already Michigan wheat has
lost its once popular standing in the
Eastern market. Detroit Tribune.
The Massachusetts Ploton,au says:
"Oxen should be cafded and cleaned
every day, especially while shedding
their coats; increase their allowance of
grain as their lab5r increases; aid re-
,ite1nbet that they are slow feeders and
require long mornings"
THE best time to kill a weed is as soon
as it is born, before you can see it.
When the seed has germinated, and is
just ready to break through the ground,
then the least disturbance of the soil dis
arranges its connections and it dies in
hot sun; but if it grows until it makes
roots, if it is disturbed considerably you
do not kill it; it has a hold upon the
soil and it lives in spite of you.-petroft
zlSbusse.
MANY young fruit trees, especially
pears, are burned to death during the
hot season. Even when the ground is
kept wet,' and their roots are moist
enough, young and newly set trees upon
which the bark is thin and tender are
cooked by the SUI as by a fire, ahd
the branches and trunks die while the
roots remain alive. This may often be
prevented by winding the trunks with
cloths, which shuts out the srln.-1Iir-
7'or and Farmer.
A Coop SELECTION following
list of hardy flowers is recommended for
a small garden, as they will stand
neglect, yet do well: Asters, balsams,
dianthus, petunias, phlox, calliopsis,
sweet peas, verbeiias, iitigh6nette, zin-
MAS, ihafigolds and portulaccas. These
plants will afford a profusion of flowers
from June to October Phlox will be
the first to blossom, and then petunias
will come on, and both of these flowers
continue to increase in beauty until
hard frosts come. Asters Will be in per-
fection in August and September. Cal
iopsis begins to blossom in July, and
nearly all the others come on early in
that month If old flowers are removed
and not allowed to go to seed, you will
have a 1hjich greater profusion of
bloom. If you do not remove faded
flowers, but allow them to perfect seed,
you will soon see that your plants are
losing a large share of their former
glory. You can't expect a plant to
ripen seed and blossom profusely at the
same time.
SowING SEED ON HoRsEBACK.-Nu-
merous as have been the instructions of
late preserving the almost ''lost art of
sowing grain by hand, there remains one
mode that has escaped mention, and
which, when mentioned, will probably
be derided by those who have not tried
it. [ allude to sowing on horseback.
Sulky rakes, sulky rollers, ETC., are re-
garded as useful contFivances fol- the
saving of human labor; but none of your
correspondents appear to have thought
of making the horse perform the labor of
walking and carrying the seed bag and
sower to and fro across the field during
the operation of sowing. And yet, after
a long experience, the writer has found
that he could distribute seed grain more
regularly from the saddle than on foot,
and with far more ease and comfort, as
any good scotsman will find after short
practice. Grass seeds, however, being
lighter than grain, are best sown on
foot.-COrrespoadence Country Gentle
man.
KEEPING POULTRY IN LARGE NUMBERS
Keeping poultry, as a business to sup
port family, has often been tried in the
United States and England, but with
very poor success. The difficulty seems
ty be that the fowls, when kept in large
numbers, a1e much more subject to dis
eases, and to become infected with ver-
min. That is the experience of all per-
SONS who have kept fowls extensively.
Beside these difficulties, a large num-
Der of fowls cannot be made to extend
their foraging over sufficiently extend
ed surface of land, twenty to thirty rods
from their house being about as far as
they can be made to roam, and ZOO or
more, would soon exhaust their locality
of all the bugs and worms upon it, eat
every spear of grass, and begin to sicken
and fall off in laying eggs. If fowls
could be kept in lots of about 100 each,
forty rods apart, there might be enough
kept on farm to support the owner, as
the profit would average about 81 per
fowl.