Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-09-23

Farm Notes.

harrow. and give light dressing with
some fine manure.
Put in a heavy turnip crop on land
specially prepared. A good dressing of
super-phosphate makes them start off
quickly for growth.
Cows should be MIXED at least twice
each day, ard at regular hours. The
strippings contain mcst of the cream or
butter, and this poor mixer rarely OBJ
tains.
Hoeing wheat is practiced with very
good effect in England and Scotland,
and the drills are made wide enough to
admit of this operation.
1t is said that if groove is made in a
hen roost and filled with a mixture of
lard and sulphur, the fowls will not be
troubled with lice.
All tools going out of use for the sea-
son should be put away in n whole and
bright condition. Teach the boys the
habit of cleaning shovels, hoes and cul-
ivator tee tn.
A few sheep might be profitably kept
on any dairy farm. A few of the large
breed wou be best; they would give
good lambs, heavy fleeces OF valuable
wool and good mutton.
One bushel of muck about young
vine or tree, in clayey soil, will give
better results than would be obtained if
msn hoed or watered continually.
More and finer fruit can be secured by
heavy mulching than by cultivation.
Deep cultivation near the roots of small
fruits, is worse than entire neglect.
One drop of sulphuric acid in the
heart of plantain or other weeds will
destroy them completely. Care must be
exercised in its use.
There is much refuse fat from the
kitchen that can be turned to good ac-
count by feeding to the hens. or course
where soap is made it will all be used in
that way, but it is question whether it
is not much easier and more profitable
o buy the soap and make the hens lay
by feeding them the fat. Everything
that is not wanted for drippings for
cooking purposes, should be boiled up
with the vegetables for the fowls.
The following recipe TO destroy cab
bage worms is said TO be effectual: One
pound of whale oil soap dissolved in
six gallons of soft water, and applied
thoroughly several times during the
season. Another recipe is to put few
quarts of tar in n tub or barrel of water,
and apply this to The cabbage. wetting
the inside of the same thoroughly with
the liquid.
There is the good and the poor way
of preparing the ground for the reeep-
tion of the seed of the crops sown in
the fall. The large average yield of the
wheat crop of England Is due in great
measure to the great care taken to pre-
pare the ground for the best growth Of
the wheat plant before the grain is
sown. The fields that are imperfectly
plowed and indifferently narrowed are
far too common with us, and until the
soil is made deep and mellow by
thorough 'tillage, all the manure and
artificial fertilizers we may apply will
not bring sthe Iyield OF our fall sown
crops TO the most profitable point. A
little textra work in preparation will
many times bring large margin of
profit when 1t comes to gather the har-
vest.
An intelligent farmer says: The best
cheap paint fer outhouses, etc, is fire.
quently asked for. The following Is the
best thing I have ever useo: Muriate
of ammonia, one pound; concentrated
lye, one pound; water. six gallons.
This will mix with most OF the mineral
and earth paints. 1t makes n veiy cheap
and durable paint. I painted n house
seven years ago, and it Is standing all
right at this time. 1t would be good for
shingle roofs.
Farm and Garden Notes.
A pinch of cayenne. or red pepper
sprinkled over the exposed parts Of cab
bage plants Ia sure death to the cabbage
worms.
A successful sheep raiser says that II
bell be put on one of the stoutest of
the flock it will protect the sheep from
dogs.
An English grape-grower stopped the
profuse bleeding of q thrifty young vine
by forming n sort of hard cement over
the cut ends by repeated busting at
short intervals with Portland cement.
An Indiana farmer gathered old bones
and reduced them by placing them in
alternate layers with ashes, and the next
year used the mixture on melon hill,
and raised the largest crop of melons he
ever saw.
Hogs are sometimes troubled by dis
ordered stomach. The best antidote is
charcoal. Aside from ch harcoal. charred
corn cobs, or charred corn have n GOOD