The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

it is very bountiful day. Our hum
CRY and thirsty grapevines and flow
ers are glad of every drop of wash
water, and will repay every bit of
fatigue it may cost us to give them
this fertilizer. If the sun is shining
hot when we go out to dispense our.
favor, it is best for us to dig slight
trench not far from the root of the
plant, and pour the water into it, and
cover again with the top soil. This
makes the water go further, and at the
same time does not tempt the rootletS
to the surface of the ground.
Poison FOR MICE.-If your CORES
pOndent will mix the strychnine with
butter, spread it on thin slices of
bread. and cut in small pieces, to be
placed where the mice can get it, he
win find it effectual i'll destroying
them. The fat prevents solution, and
the taste is not discovered, although
intensely bitter. | have never had
trouble in getting rid of mice when
the poison is thus used. A minute
quantity will do the business. For
rats, arsenic mixed with cornmeal and
sugar will often tempt them, but the
surest remedy is PHOSPHORUS paste,
which is usually supplied by the drug
gist, but requires caution that the hogs
or fowls do not get it, for it will kill
either one very quickly, as l have
found to my sorrow. Dogs or cats
will not eat it, and arsenic poisOns
neither cats, dogs nor hogs, as they
Immediately vomit it.-A. p. S.
PoTAToEs.-A Kansas farmer says
he raised some of the finest peachblow
potatoes he ever saw in the following
manner: In the latter part of May L
drove nv two horses aud pillow to the
patch of ground | wished to plant, and
commenced blowing around it. My
boy followed, dropping potatoes, one
in a place, every fifteen inches. and i'll
every other furrow. turned light
furrow on them, and when done, COW
cred the whole patch with straw to
the depth of three inches. They need
ed no cultivation, and i'll August,
when we were having our dry spell,
the potato vines in fields planted in
the ordinary way were drying up and
dying, these potato tops of mine were
growing vigorously, completely cover
ing the ground. l shall plant again in
this way but in the event of wet
season, l think the potatoes will be
watery. 1t will be good plan to
plant both ways.
APPLICATION OF LIQUID MANURE TO
RosEs.-Mr. George S. Wales tells of
an experiment he made last season
which proved highly satisfactory.
About June 1st he planted out twelve
small-sized plants of different varie-
ties, about foot apart each way, in
rich, heavy soil. After each heavy
rain he took from the barnyard the
teachings of the manure pile; with a
pointed stick he punched four or five
holes in the ground few inches from
each plant, and poured in the water ;
the next day, or as soon as the ground
was dry enough, he stirred the surface
with hoe, and kept it loose by fire.
quent hoeings until again watered
during the season. He applied the
liquid manure probably eight OF ten
times during the season. The result
was wonderful. They began i'll five
or six weeks to bloom, and until OctO-
Der l, when they were taken up, there
was hardly day but that beautiful
buds might be picked.
CLOVER AND RYE FOR HoGs.-In my
experience, says a writer, l have found
nothing so profitable for hog pasture
as clover and rye, and think rye pre-
ferable; and the reason they are bet
ter than timothy, bluegrass, and all
similar grasses, is, they remain more
tender for longer period than other
grasses, which so soon become wiry
and hard, partaking of the nature of
hay, and / have never known hogs to
thrive on it, although other stock does.
To use rye profitably for pasture, fall
rye should be sOwn for spring pasture,
and spring rye for later pasture and
by not pasturing too long and too
close there will be considerable head
out, which when ripe will. with the
weeds that naturally grow among
grain, make good pasture until time
to commence feeding cOrn-at least
such is my experience. AS to using
any of the grasses named for hog pas
ture, 1 would prefer good weed pas
ture, and 1 will here say that L am of
opinion if some of the weeds so eager
ly eaten by hogs were domesticated
and properly cultivated, they would
prove more satisfactory for hog pas
ture than anything used of grass kind.
APPLES EVERY YEAR, do not
know if keeping the orchard in better
condition, manuring it literally, pick
ING off the fruit buds in the even year,
keeping hogs IN the orchard to eat the
wormy fruit, etc., will have the de-
sired effect; but do know that keep
ing hogs in the orchard to eat all the
early fallen fruit will certainly have a
most beneficial effect, in the destruc-
ton of myriads of insects, causing the
fruit to be much less knOtty and i'm
perfect. Many years ago neighbOr
tried an experiment on his trees with
complete success. His trees, as usual,
bore more apples during the even year
than he could make use of, and in the
odd year not enough. So with long
pole he went to work and gave his
trees a rough beating on the south side
when the apples were about the size
of hazel or hickory nut, knocking off
all the apples on that side he could see,
and breaking the little twigs as well
The result was that his trees for many
years bore full crops annually on al
ternate sides. AS l frequently saw the
trees before and afterward, / am salts
fed that il was a success in his case.
Probably this operation would sue
coed best if performed in the even
year, or when the trees have too heavy
g crop. Breaking off so many of the
E:tle twigs will no doubt have ten
dency to cause the trees to produce
fruit buds for the following season.
~. B. CARRIER, IN Fruit Recorder.
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