The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-05-14
COLUMN.
FARm NOTES.

Hill, Me- credited with an aggregate Yield
Of 600 bushels Of Baldwin apples.
MIR. A. johnson, Pulaski, Ky, killed a
bronze turkey gobbler, eighteen months old
that, according TO sworn statement, weighed
fifty i've pnunds.
TO prevent sows from crushing their
young nail board about one foot wide to
the sides of the pen. The board must be put
on like shelf, so that the little pigs can run
under it to get out Of the way.
The crops that do best on rather stifi
soil are potatoes, onions, celery, late cab
bsges all kinds. When we'll drained such
soil will often produce good early cabbage.
The best runs for poultry are where grass
and gravel are plentiful. Grass runs are Of
great value where they can be had, but they
must be large if fowls have constant access
to them or the grass will soor cease to grow.
AT odd times during rainy days, ETC., it
will be profitable TO look over the machinery
and utensils used in haying and harvesting,
and see what needs to be bought or mended,
and thus be in readiness when the clover is
to be cut or when the wheat is ripe for the
harvest.
Oxen being naturally slow in their
movements they will not bear hurrying in
their work, and should be given abundant
time for feeding A yoke of oxen can be
kept with profit on most farms Of consider
able size where three or more men with
teams arc employed.
The ground above the currants and
gooseberries should be cultivated thoroughly
and given a good mulch. The worms must
be watched for, and upon their first appear
ance apply White Helebore, tablespoon
ful to a paiful of water.
-Grafting is an operation that had better
be done too late than too early. The best
time is when the buds on the stock are
swelling, and If necessary may be continued
until the trees are in full bloom.
With the hard work OF the month the
horses require the best care, which includes
carding and brushing. Too much coll feed
now makes the animals restless by pro-
ducing an irritation OF the skin. A moder-
ate feed Of green rye will be very acceptable
to horses and promote their health. If the
land is not stony the shoes may beremoved
from the farm teams for time at least with
benefit
1t is best to set blackberry and rasp-
berry plants in early spring, but It may still
be done. Some means Of holding up the
growing canes should be produced, as either
single stlk or trellises. The canes pro-
duced last year bear the fruit, and the now
ones are fruit next year, All suckers at
distance from the rows, unless new plants
are desired, should be considered as weeds
and cut away.
--phe strawberry bed should be kept
free from weeds, and the soil loose aud
mellow. Before hot weather apply mulch,
which will keep the fruit from the ground
and preserve the soil in a moist state. The
white grub sometime makes sad work with
the strawberry bed. A wilted plant is ali
indication that its roots have been eaten off
by the pest. Remove tho plant aud search
for the grub before it gets to another plant.
Tho tent caterpillars can be easily de-
stroyed if, when they are first seen to form
the web, you ascend the tree to where they
are located, either after sundown or early in
the morning, and with an old glove on
your hand just roll them in the web and
souelch them. If there are a ny Of these
pests on the end Of small twigs which trou-
BILE you to reach, tie cotton rag to the end
OF long stick, saturate it with kerosene oil
and SGT it on fire; apply this to the web and
sure destruction is the result, and without
injury to the tree.
Corn planting is now the leading work
throughout broad area. 1t is a matter of
common remark with those who observe
the weather, that, take one year with anoth-
er, the lst of June will find vegetation about
equally advanced, no matter how backward
the early part of the season may haYe been.
Corn land is to be put in readiness as soon
as may be, but the seed must not be planted
until the soil is warm, when the grain will
start into vigorous growth at once. There
is often serious loss from planting too early;
the grain remains dormant, or Iots in the
ground. 1t is often the case that a field
planted in April will, in June, be far behind
one planted in The early days of May.
Cows at pasture, as we'll as those kept
in stables under the soiling system should
have AL abundance Of fresh, pure water, and
be properly supplied with salt. This is
considered to have a corrective effect upon
the succulent food that might otherwise
produce some disorder of the digestion. 1t
is best not to let the COWS feed entirely upon
grass for the first few days, but continue the
hay and meal until the green feed is more
mature. This caution applies still more
strongly to the calves and young stock,
which are especially subject to injury from
overlooking with succulent herbage.
Farmers who are intending 10 soil
their cows this year must get in crop
OF spring rye as soon as possible. Many
who soil their cattle neglect this crop, or en-
tirely ignore it. Though spring rye does
not produce very good rye or butter, yet il
is the first crop to follow winter rye, while
ifs quantity Of cottonseed meal is used the
quality of milk is greatly improved and the
quantity increased. Rye, like fodder corn,
is an imperfect food and does not contain
nitroscnous food equal to the amount re-
quirsd by the amount of starch and sugar
which it carries. Cottonseed meal contains
a large amount Of nitrogenouS matter, com
pared with its starch and sugar; it also
contains large amount of oil, thus forming
very important feed if it is desired to
economize either the rye or corn fodder By
feeding little cottonseed meal in the com
blnation We extract more nutrition from
the eotionseed meal than if il was fed alone.