The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
HOUSE AND FARM.
Agricultural Hints worth Knowing.

Agricultural Hints worth Knowing.
Now SOW tares.
Young scions, unless they do well,
should be treated literally with whack.
Cabbage heads must be kept apart as
much as possible. They are troublesome
else.
Adams apples should be protected
during these damp evenings with COW
ering of silk.
We have never found any difficulty in
growing squash bugs, and therefore give
no hints as to their propagation.
Last years beats should now be buried
six feet deep. If not they are sure to
sprout again and give much trouble.
Old stories of mammoth squashes and
cucumbers should now DE dug about and
heavily mulched, in readiness for trans-
planting in the newspapers in the fall.
There is no crop, probably, more thrifty
than the fowl crop. It grows rapidly dur
ing the early spring, and arrived at ma
turity requires no dressing.
Now top-dress your lawns; the more
odorous the dressing, the better your
neighbors will love you, and therefore
the more eficacious will it be tor pro.
| ducing an abundant grass crop.
Canker worms do best on apple trees.
The trunks of the trees should be pro-
| tected with some soft substance, to pre-
vent the bark injuring the Larvae as they
ascend in the early spring
| Farmers whould do we'll to employ
bootblack on the farm, as their boots are
apt to become soiled, while ravcrsing
their land, and the farmer, of all men,
should present at all times q cleanly ap-
pearance.
Destroy all the tobacco weeds possible.
This is usually done by burning; some,
however, adopt another mode. This is
the comminuting of the weed between
the teeth to a fine pulp. Though some
what laborious, this method is eficacious.
If any wild oats Of last seasons SOW
ing spring up, they should be immedi-
ately plowed under. When the sod is
well rotted, a second blowing, followed
by rigid narrowing, must precede plant
ing. High clover will then do. well.
"Codallnx'' the Chilarea.
Some good woman whose sympathy
outran her knowledge, took very serious
objections to our remarks last winter in
regard to the best way of making men
out of boys and women out of girls OFF
with the tippets and cumbersome wraps,
we said in substance-stop the overload
coddling and unwise care-and give the
boys and girls fair chance for free
and active life when they are out of
doors. Don't do it. says the mother.
Keep the darlings warm and dry. What
gees great healthy man know about
the care of childrena We own up to be-
| ing healthy, but were boy net so long
a time ago that we can't remember how
the lads that grew to be strong, we'll
men got their start. They weren't taken
to the school in the winter in sleigh,
nor we're the red-cheeked, 1.-the limbed,
vigorous and graceful girls huddled
into a street Car reeking> with bad air,
or wrapped up in a close carriage
like a consumptive patient. The
boys never wore an overcoat when out to
4 play, nor mufaed themselves with "com-
fortors,' or tippets around the neck.
Give us free coast or clean stretch of
ice and we could keep warm in those
daysi Coarse, thick wooden stockings,
stout boots, thick fannels next to the
skin and serviceable coat that buttons
to the chin, with pants and vest to match,
and warm mittens, was the winter outfit
that mothers of those days found sufh-
Gent. We quite agree with the tmid
mother referred to as to the importance
Of warmth, but differ as to the method of
obtaining it. A child old enough to ex-
ercise freely ought to keep comfortable
by warmth from within, instead of by
too much protection from without.
From six to sixteen, neither boys nor
girls should be coddled very much.
They ought to walk, run, play, work,
| like the happy and growing ANIMALS that
they are. Don't make the girls prema-
ture old ladies, nor treat the boys as you
would their rheumatic uncle-Golden
Rule.