The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-07-04
Farm and Garden.

4 correspondent complains that barns
are often deficient in window glass. Why
More from thoughtlessness than niggard-
illness. Experiment shows that abundant
light, good water, and pure air, always
Weld an ample return in both the health
and comfort Of cattle aud poultry.
NJ. Chatot recommends common salt
as an antidote for mildew on vines. BY
sprinkling a handful Of salt around the
base of each vine, the effect he says, was
marvellous and vines hitherto covered
with this fungus grew luxuriantly, and
had an abundance Of grepes entirely free
from oidium.-Parls Paper.
When planted in very rich soil, toma-
toes often produce much wood and little
fruit The best crop OF tomatoes l ever
saw was furnished by main stems as free
from side growth as walking stick. All
growths except the leaves and flowers at
tached to the principal stem had been
pinched off as they appeared.-Ihe Car
den.
If you have upon the farm horse that
is bad to catch, try what virtue there
is in the following treatment: You may
club and peIt him before you catch him,
If you will, but after you get him fully in
hand give him Il feed of oats, curry and
brush him, and call him a good fellow,
and it will have visible impression upon
the horses mind.-Chicago Tribune.
We are often recommended not to give
manure water to grape vines until the
fruit is swelling. l always apply it freely
from the time when the young shoots are
one inch or two inches long until the
fruit is c0loriug, and | find it does far
more good in Strengthening the shoots
and produces before the punches are in
flower than at any subsequent period
Northern Gardener.
An epicure writes us: "Gou may talk
about your spring chickens, but for me,
give me sitting hen, or rather a hen
that has had Matched three broods sue
cessively-got down to the skin and bone
then heen fed literally until the bones
are covered with flesh. " hen she is in
condition, ready to begin laying, off with
her head You will have the chicken
flesh in its prime" Journal
In order to fatten young pigeons quick
", put them, on the twentieth day, or
when they commence to get feathers, into
a basket with soft layer of moss or hay
on bottom, in place which freely admits
the air, but excludes the light. Feed the
birds three times daily, at intervals of
five hours each, with cooked maize, open
ING their beaks and making the,8 swallow
successfully thirty to forty grains each.
The maize should be warm but not hot.
He prepares mashed or ground raw
potatoes by sprinkling thereon Paris
green, and scatters around on shingles or
chips throughout the fields at a distance
of ten feet apart, commencing as soon as
the crop Is in the ground. He atfirms
chat where this plan has been adopted,
thousands of Colorado beetles have been
slaughtered before depositing their eggs,
which not only does away with the old
settlers, but prevents the immense in
crease i'm numbers which would otherwise
occur.--W aterville Times.
To obtain success in the cultivation of
roses select the best fitted sort of plants
raised and kept in pots, and not from the
open ground; keep IN room not too dry,
at a temperature about seventy degrees
IN the daytime, and fifty degrees or more
at night, using liquid manure if the soil
is poor, avoid overwhelming or soaking
with standing water, showering once or
twice week, and turning the ball of
earth out sometimes to see if there are
angle worms, or watering with lime water
10 repel them. Remove plant lice with
tobacco water Cut back a shoot that
has blossomed, to good bud. Avoid
cold draughts, which cause miIdew. Fork
up the soil and keep it mellow.
1t frequently happens that, after the
Lima bean is planted, a spell of wet
weather destroys it, owing to its large
size and the amount of pulse it contains.
We have known it to be replanted twice
from this cause. Now there is remedy
for this, and very simple one, which We
have actually applied for the last twenty
years with success. 1t is to grease the |
seed we'll with lard before planting, and |
then put in tie hill in the usual way on
an edge. The poles, in all well regulated |
gardens, are set before making the hill /
and inserting the seed, a crow bar being |
used to make the holes for the poles, I
which should be set firmly, in order to
stand the storms when the vines are in
tull bearing.
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