Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-05-25
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.
Around the Farm.


All colts should be broken to the halter
while following their mother.
Hoe the cabbage while the dew is on,
but never hoe beans while they are wet.
All soils, whether wet or dry, are made
more productive by under-drains.
Most seeds will germinate sooner .bv be-
ing stirred in scalding water for a minute
or two. The smaller ones the least time.
Insects must now be fought. The tent
eaterpillars, eanker-wOrms, bark-liee, bor-
ers, etc., must be watched and destroyed.
Those who have evergreen trees upon
their lawns must be careful to rake of the
pine leaves from the grass or they will kill
out all the grass, as such leaves appear to
be poison even to blue grass.
Now at the commencement of the cam
paign recOllect it is easier to kill twenty
weeds when they first show themselves
than one when it is six weeks old. Let the
work be for determination.
A man cannot produce milk proftably
without feeding his COWS liberallv with
good, sound, highly nutritious food. A
COW poorly fed and cared for only gives
watery milk, almost worthless for table or
butter.
NdJ6E bUdI EuuS OM LIE SUFFICE carries
off much of the fertility of the soil. But
water filtered through the soil to an under
drain takes none of the fertility, but leaves
in the soil the rich gases which are in rain
or snow water.
The cotton crop of Georgia, the heaviest
ever raised, was worth only $50, 900, 900,
while the butter of New York (being only
one of the many products of that State) is
worth $50, 900, 600 per year. And the pro-
duct of all the mines in California, gold,
silver, lead, quicksilver, etc., etc., is worth
only $40, 00O 600 per year. Can there be q
more thorough illustration of the impor-
tance of the dairy?
A Coon HOe.-Prof. Davis, Of New
York, gives his idea of what hog should
be, as follows; I'm my opinion the most
essential point in a hog, whatever the
breed may be, is great width across the
shoulders, back and hips; the next is depth
with legs wide apart, giving ample space
for heart, lungs and stomach, thus giving
healthy animals with good digestive pow
ers. Add to these the well-develOped ham
included under the t1rst part; short nose,
small ear, fine limbs and long, slim tail,
and, care not what the breed is, you will
have first-clasS hog. As to whether a
large or small hog is the best, l should be
inclined to prefer q medium-siZed one.
One that will dress from $50 to 450 pounds
at 8 months of age. when well fed, / should
consider the most profitable"
INA NUTsHELL.-The Knoxville Jour
nal, in the following short paragraph, en-
bodies q whole volume IN a nutshell:
Farmers, would you not do well, at least
those Of you who have only small farms, to
SOW less wheat and give more attention to
some other things. Raise more grass, save
your corn-fodder, keep more COWS, more
| poultry. Plant an acre Of onions, an acre
| Of beans, two acres Of potatoes. Have
none but the best COWS. hogs and sheep;
and give them better shelter and care.
Put your surplus acres in grass, and you
| will have more time to devote TO your
| small crop and your stock. Thus vary
your industries, and a failure Of wheat
crop, or any other crop, will not be so ser-
Gus a matter.
How TO PLANT A HEDGE.-ln planting
a hedge plow your hedge site so as to make
the dead furrow where your hedge viii be;
three or four rounds will be sufficient.
Run a subsoil or bull-tongue plOw In the
/ furrow, so as to thoroughly loosen the
ground to the depth Of foot or more;
! plow the land again, this time throwing
back furrow where the dead iurrOw was;
! then harrow and stretch your line, and
plant with dibble. A pointed stick that
/ will make hole ten or twelve inches deep,
and big enough to take the plant, viii do.
Put the plants at least three inches deeper
than they stood in the seed row; tramp
the ground on each side OF the hedge, and
! mulch if possible. or else cultivate sufi-
cient to keep down the weeds. In plant
| ING. size the plants and cut of the rOotlets
six inches of a root is as good as great
| er length, and is much easier to get into
the ground to proper depth.
TRAINING FRUIT TREEs.-Nurseryme
seldom fail to give instructions as to the
setting and transplanting Of trees; but
/ few of them, however, give instructions as
/ to the training of them after they are
| growing. The season is now at hand for
| training fruit trees, and very many farm
| ers with Young orchards-Say from three
to eight wears old-have many trees with
all their branches growing together IN a
mass, vet not too many if they could bs
separated. 1t would be troublesome task
to separate them by driving stakes around
the tree and tying the branches to them as
| directed for a leaning tree, Take some
sound, unbroken or unmashed corn stocks,
| cut them TO Y shape, Of any deslraDls
| length, slightly notch the pith OF the stslA,
and place it between the branches you Elsh
to separate. You may use them from SIX
| inches to two feet long, and convert an un-
siobtly mass of a tree into beautiful open
| tor. admitting light and air. The pith Of
the corn stalk win prevent ehafng. Let
them remain, as they viii not injure the
| tree. You may use as many as necessary
to finish the job.-Rural World.
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