The National tribune., 1881-09-17
FARM AND GARDEN,

FARM AND GARDENI
SHEEP do not impoverish land. Rugged can
yons and mountain slopes, at present not availa-
bic for other use until better roads are built to
market, may be utilized a long way in advance
of the march of improvements. Time will surely
enhance the value of these possessions as surely
as roads, settlements, and school houses draw
nearer to them: and, in the meantime the hardy
pioneer need wait but short while for their
coming.
CASTOR OIL is undoubtedly the best and there
tore the cheapest, for iron axles which should
always De wiped clean. \ correspondent informs
us that his market wagon would run only twenty
miles before requiring to be regreased. when lard
was used but with castor oil it ran sixty miles
and was good for twenty mOre-a bic difference
and worth remembering He further remarks
that "a wheel well fabricated will turn one-half
easier and wear as long again, gain of $50 per
cent" by the liberal use of oil
LET every farmer who is not able to fence =
large pasture get few boards. build few rods
of portable fence and make small enclosure for
his hogs, and move it around as circumstances
require 1t will make pork raising more profit
able than to keep hogs confined in pens all the
time.
THE MOST dangerous insect to farm crops is the
wheat mdge. Late sowing of wheat is some
times a remedy though this has its dSadvant-
ages. All insects found in cleaning wheat should
be destroyed at once, and wheat stubbles plOwed
Immediately will be likely to destroy all those
wound up in cOcoOns on the ground
To KEEP Notwithstanding the bottom of
ba IL,
will help materially to preserve the flavor of po-
tatOes and prevent sprouting.
SOWING GRASS SEED IN FALL-The CuHiratos
notes an increasing tendency in New England to
grass seeds in the fall. 1t says: One of the
leading seed stores of Boston expects to sell more
grass seed this fall than was sold by them in the
spring Their fall sales of grass seed have been
slowly increasing for several years past but for
the last two or three years the increase has been
so rapid that they now prepare for a large fall
trade. Those who are contemplating seeding this
fall should bear in mind that the sooner they get
in the seed the better Seed sown on or before
the 10th of September will make good growth
before winter sets in, and the grass will make an
early start next spring. Quite number of lots
within personal knowledge, which were
seeded early last fall, cut this spring before
some of the older seeded lots were ready for cut
ting, yielding very good crops, and now bidding
fair to give heavy crops of rOwen. bushel of
red top with peek and half of timothy, to the
acre, is about the right quantity to SOW, with also
about six pounds of red clover in the early
spring
EARLY FLOWING FOR FALL SOwISG-When
work will permit, and the ground is not too dry
it is best to plOw the land for fall sowing soon
after the haying and harvesting is over. This
avoids the drOuth-dried soil that is frequently
found later in the season, besides turning under
the weeds before they have time to ripen their
seeds Thorough use of the cultivatOr will pre-
pare the early -plOwed land for seed when sowing
time comes. The blowing under of weeds is not
made so much of an object as it should be Where
they can be got under before seeding it does away
with great deal of the next years work, which
would otherwise be. Weeds in waste places
should at least be mOwn Oft, or in some way pre-
vented from seeding.-TiibuHe Farmer.