Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-07-15


Roasted in paste, a haunch of mutton
Might make ascetics play the glutton.
Farm anu Garden Notes.
An exchange says if hens get into the
habit of eating their own eggs the surest
remedy is to cut off their heads.
Cellars thoroughly treated with
whitewash made yellow with eopperas
will not be considered desirable habita-
tions for rats and mice.
A half gill of soft soap and water, one
part of soap to twelve of water, poured
at the roots of cabbage plants, is recon-
mendec as sure death to white grubs.
Potatoes are frequently spoiled by
being exposed to the sun too long after
| digging. They should only be opened to
light and air long enough to dry them,
and then stored away in as dark place
as possible.
| The soil for a fodder crop should
either be naturally rich or made so by
manuring, or it will not pay to prepare
it for any of these quick growing grains
which have but little time in which to
make their growth, and must get to a
good size in order to be profitable.
/
An old gardener says, in the Detroit
Tribune, with regard to cultivating
onions, that if care is taken to draw
away the earth gradually from the bulb
until they are quite uncovered and only
the fibrous roots are In the earth, you
/ will never have scullions, but very large,
sound onions.
Potash dissolved in water, or lye from
Il 10 ha
trunks and large limbs of fruit trees.
Whitewash should not be used, as it
closes the pores of the bark, which
should be kept open in order to insure
| healthy tree. Potash or lye answers
every purpose which whitewash would,
with none of its objections.
The ox-eye daisy is very fashionable
| flower in the city, but vile pest to the
farmer. 1t is propagated by the seed,
and may be destroyed by moving be-
| fore the seed is formed. Two or three
seasons may be required to subdue it,
| but it is standing reproach to any
| farmer to have his fields overrun with
| this weed.
The advantages of spreading manure
from the wagon as it is drawn out are
saving of labor, and a more even distri-
| button of the double salts (ammonia,
potash, phosphates, etc in the soil by
rain. II the manure is heaped on the
field, and gets heavy rain before
spreading, the ground under the heaps
receives an undue share of the best part
| of the manure, which not unfrequently
renders these spots barren for season
or two.
The farmer who always takes particu-
lar pains to put up his produce in neat
attractive packages, and never mixes
the second with the first quality, will
have to spend but little time to find
good men ready to buy all his products,
and pay him fair price; but he who
mixes three qualities together, and
tries to sell them as first quality, will
always be troubled to find buyers, and
usually have to sell at low prices.
Formerly it was considered best to
let grass stand until the seed was full
grown, before cutting, but of late years
it has become almost the universal Gus
tom to cut when most of the grass is in
full bloom. The advantages claimed
for early cutting are: First, better hay,
which is more readily eaten by cattle
second, less injury to the grass roots
third, q better chance for a second
crop.
| Benefits from HOefng.
One of the greatest benefits from SOW
ing our garden seeds in drills Is the op-
portunity it affords us of hoeing tre-
quently and thoroughly between the
rows. Too many persons who use the
hoe suppose that the chief benefit derived
from it is to kill the weeds. That, GER
tainly, is an important work, and which
is greatly neglected. Weeds are not
only in the way OF cultivating the crops
which we want, but they rob them of
much of the nutriment which they
need. Hoeing, then, is an essential SER
vice in respect to destroying the weeds.
There are ether ad yantages, however,
| which are quite commonly overlooked.
Let us see.
| The loosening of the soil in the opera
tion of hoeing is beneficial to the plants !;
as much as the destruction of the weeds
or more SO.
Moisture aboues in the atmosphere
during the hott it months, and it is
| absor bt d and reta ned mo It abundantly
by soil which is in the most friable
state. Professor Schluber found that
1000 grains of stiff clay absorbed in
\ twenty-four hours only thirty-six grains
of moisture from the air; while garden
mold absorbed forty-five grains; and
! five magnesia seventy-six grains.
Then, again, pulverizing the soil en-
ables it better to retain the moisture
absorbed.
The soil, in order to be healthy and
active, must breathe. A light, porous
soil admits the air Ind thus it is fed
and greatly invigorated by the atmos-
phere.
The suns rays heat hard soil much
quicker than loose one, and the hotter
the sun is, so much greater will be the
evaporation from it So that the hard
soil is deprived of its moisture much
sooner than one of a loose texture.
i The roots of plants can find their way
through moist, loose soil, in search 0l
food, much better than they can through
a hard, dry soil.
A soil that is kept loose near the sur
face by the action of the hoe will receive
and hold the rain water tlat falls, while
a hard soil will allow most of it to run
off into the valleys and streams as il
falls.
Household Hints.
! Wooden hose should be soaked all
night and washed in hot suds with
beef's gall, tablespoonful to half pail
of water Iron on the wrong side.
i II troubled with wakefulnes on re-
firing 10 bud, eat three o. tour small