The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-10-25
FARM AND GARDEN.

THE manure of cows and pigs resists
decomposition for longer time than
that of the sheep and horse-both the
latter being dryer than the former and
decomposing more readily in the soil.
| A CORRESPONDENT of the Massachs-
sets Ploughn,an has had continued sue
cess, year after year in raising plums,
where hens were confined in the yard,
where the. trees we're planted. The
hens ate the curculio he supposes.
ONE great leak on the farm is found
in the way stock 10 kept. Some try to
stop the leak by seeing how small a
quantity of food will sustain life, and
often @eceed by,haying their stock> al
most 6nfirely leak away, whilst their
neighbor. who feeds b0unteouslY, -does
not have this leakto contend with, but
generally has s=pro6tsto apply to the
stoppage of other AAks.-Kdnsds Farm
er.
TIE UP THE GRAPh VINES Valuable
grape vines, planted with great care,
are often left to take care of themselves
at this season iof the year-When they
need care most. For the first two years
a good, stout stake, say six feet long, IL
all that is necessary for > support. This
should be firmly set in the ground and
the vtnes kept. tied to Il. Should other
shoots start from the old wood, rub
them off and keep lateral shoots pinched
back to one or two leaves. Remove all
injurious insects by hand, and dust with
flour of sulphur should mildew appear.
-RuraS NeU Rorher.
Now is the time that sspussley" viii
get ahead of iyou-especially in the
strawberry beds-Aud other weeds as
well as pussley, unless you are on the
alert. ind il cheapest to kill all weeds
before they are large enough to be seen,
in fact before they get above ground, BY
cultivator, every week or ten days. This
is also quite beneficial to the plants, as
it stimulates growth and prevents
drought from penetratin9 the soil.
Plants are now making runners rapidly,
and if the largest and finest fruit is de.
sired, they should be pinched off as they
appear causing the plants to form large
''stools' with mature crowns for fruit
ing. Should plants. bedesired, it is we'll
to press the small plants about to form
roots intothe ground slightly, and place
clods on the stems to hold them still.
This will cause them to root quickly and
make large strong plants, and viii pay,
particularly II you have something new
or rare that you desire to, multiply rap
idly.-Rural NeW Yorker.
OCCUPYING ALL THE GROUND.--Dr.
Hexamer gives in Moore's Rural Life
the following mode, in substance, for
preventing any waste ground in the
vegetable garden: Very early sorts are
planted so as to form alternate rows
across the garden, with other interme-
date rows OF varieties of large growth
and long duration. These paintings
need not be all done at q time, but at
intervals Of q week or more as may be
convenient, preserving the alienation.
The earlier and smaller sorts are re-
moved after comparatively brief peri
cd; the later, strong growing or traill-
ing ones then fill the vacancies and &C
cupy all the ground. The advantage of
this mode Is that the early sorts grow
on ground while the larger sorts are yet
too young TO fill it. Among the early
sorts to be removed first, are early po-
tatoes, spinach, early peas, radishes,
bush beans, lettuce, ETC.. while the later
sorts, which are to extend over the
spaces left vacant by the disappearance
OF the earlier ones, are squashes, toma-
toes, cucumbers, melons, late potatoes,
etc. 1t often happens that by simply
observing this mode at the time of
planting, at no additional cost, much
utilizing of space may be effected.
THE VALUE OF RED CLOVER An
observation extending over period of
Is years, writes . Western Rural COR
respondent from Galloway County,
Mo. teaches NE, or rather confirms the
teachings of my boyhood, that clover is
one of the most valuable, il not the most
valuable, forage plant that we have for
this climate. But for clover, this year,
our hay crop would have been almost
total failure; as it is we have clover
meadows that will make two tons of
hay to the acre of good feed. In those
meadows that are mixture of clover
with the grasses proper the only grass
that stood the drought, and made any
thing like crop, was red topand or
chard grass. These grasses hold long
time and this year gave the second
growth Of clover time to mature sufR-
ciently to make good hay. l SOW it in
the woods, on old pastures, in the mead.
ows, in fact everywhere l find q bare
place or spot where the grass is thin.
My father has been raising the mann
moth for Is years, prefers it to the small
or common. My practice has
been to mix. The mammoth
nearly all dies when the seed is permit
ted to mature on strong land. 1t (he
mammoth) is equal to crop of buck
wheat for cleaning up the land, and bet
ter for rotting the stumps out Of new
grounds. have seen raised in this
county between four and Eve bushels
Of seed Of this variety per acre on very
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