The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-04-24
AGRICULTURE.

FERTILIZERS FoR HoUsE PLANTs.--
When q plant is In a bad condition, II
Is q mistake to apply a stimulating fer
%tilizer. The causes Of ill-health are
many, but the most general one with
those who bad no experience In the
care Of plants is overwhelming. Plants,
10 live, must have water; therefore the
more water the better seems to be the
reasoning, and the consequences Is
starved, nearly l~eafless sticks in pots Of
mud. In the majority Of cases with
holding the water Is the M thing
needed, and with invalids a stimulating
fertilizer is the n thing, ofall others,
not needed. When plants are in a
iOurishIng condition and making
growth, the fertilizers may be useful,
especially If the soil I'm the pots was
originally rather poor. Amy of the fer
~tiliZers used in the garden would an
swer for plants in the house, were ii
not necessary to avoid unpleasant odors
AMI to consult neatness and ease of APP
plication. For hard-wooded, slow
growing plants very fine bOne-lour
OF bone-sold by seedsmen for the pur-
pose, is perhaps the best; a few table
s~poonsfuls being forked into the soil of
the pot, for soft-wooded, quick grow
ers, a liquid fertilizer may be used.
This may be guano, a ~teaspoonful to a
gallon of water; SCOT, two tablespoon
fuls TO n gallon, or the water of ammo
mia (liquid hartshorn) of the drug
stores, an ounce to the gallon. Water
the plants with either of these instead
of clear water once or twice a week, as
the condition of the plant requires.
No invariable rule can be given.
TREATMENT OF MANURE.-SOme time
ago i had a lot of sheep wintered in a
building and yard, the yard fenced in
with high palings 10 keep out worth
less ours. In the second story of the
building hay was kept for the sheep,
and fed to them under the building,
which was open at n end, some six
or eve feet high, into the yard where
troughs were kept tor feeding grain.
During the winter I'M accumulat-
ed under the building to twelve or fif-
teen inches in depth, and extended,
gradually tapering to the ground, out
into the yard. At the edge Of the
building the manure was about twelve
Inches deep. In the following autumn,
when / went to haul out the manure
for the wheat, 1 found that Immediate
ly outside the edge of the building,
where, exposed to the weather, it had
rotted and sunk till it was only six in
ches deep, whilst that Immediately I'M
der the shelter was still a foot deep.
l took a cart and oxen and drew the
manure which was on the outside of
the building, and put it on a strip
across the field intended for wheat,
then drew the same bulk from under
the building, and put it in like manner
on an adjoining strip of the same size
and quality. All was sCwed with wheat
Of the same kind and at the same time.
The crop from those two lands was not
measured, but every one who exam
ined the crop before cutting, decided
there was twice the quantity on the
land MANURE by the covered manure
How To PLOw.-In his address on
blowing, before the State Board of Ag-
riculture of Connecticut, Prof. Stock.
bridge said "There are two kinds of
soil on every mans farm, the agricul-
tural soil and the sub-soil. The agri-
cultural soil may be two inches deep,
or it may be nine, but it is not twenty
feet. 1t Is no deeper than the air can
penetrate. If the agricultural is too
shallow, it may be gradually deepened
by lifting an inch of the sub-soil at
each blowing, bringing it up to the
air and enriching it with manure
Our agricultural society committees,
by their premiums for smooth shiny
fiat burrows, have done the comiAuni-
ty great harm. Such as oftenest takes
the premium is the very poorest kind
of blowing. The soil is best plowed
when it is most thoroughly crushed,
twisted and broken with the sod well
covered. On some kinds of land |
would have burrows Tapped an inch, as
the Canada farmers plow. Let the air
and water have a chance to circulate
underneath the surface. Light lands,
however, should have a fiat furrow, if
we wish to make such lands more COM
pact.
OLD HENs.-If you want eggs in
winter never keep old hens. When a
hen Is three years old the best use she
can be put to is to be turned into the
soup pot. No matter how well they
are fed and attended to, old fowls will
not give eggs in the winter. Give
fresh water, and so prevent them from
drinking snow water, which is very
injurious TO poultry.
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