News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-18
FARM AND GARDEN.

ONIONS. - Planted onion setts ar,
often drawn out of place at night by tn
earth worm tugging at their tops O.
roots, for this subsoller is extremel,
fond of them. AS preventlves of thi
annoying mischief the setts should b.
pressed firmly down, and the mould
also pressed closely around them, JUS
covering the bulb. A sprinkle of lime
or lime water will kill or repel the
worms. A little salt may be added
All bulbs are the better for light
dressing of it.
A LITTLE GARDEN.-It is the season
for carrying out the advice to give the
children a garden. Choose convenient
narrow little border unshaded by trees
and unrobbed by roots, yet not SO fan
from the shade, the playhouse, the see
saw, and the swing. Show them how tc
plant onions, lettuce, dwarf peas
things that will soon show their charm
ing green and growth to the impatient,
expectant little wonderers, and which
will soon have real value, either for
meals or for gifts. Let them initiate in
their own ground-having little
spade, or hoe, or large spoon to
move the soil with, and don't forget to
go along to see how they have cleaned
these and hung them up so as to keep
bright and pleasant to use again. Later
show them how to hoe and weed, and
give some peturnias or phloxes or other
flowers to be set here and there between
the early plants, to make the garden
gay the season through. Nothing bet
ter can be done to secure to children q
happy life.
SAVING TREES. Alfred Smith
so well skilled in all orchard processes
sends timely reminder of the method
of saving trees gnawed by mice or rab-
bits by connecting the bark above and
below with a few scions of good ripe
twigs of the same kind, cut wedge-shape
at each end and sprung SO as to fit
tightly into smooth cross incisions made
through the bark into the wood the
wound to be covered with wax or earth.
He remarks that as the scion will grow
equally well whichever end is downward,
these bridging scions inversely as, if
covered with enough soil, the bud will
develop downward into the roots. But
young roots will issue alike in either
case from any part where much callus
forms under cover of sheltering and
damp soil. If cart-load of soil can be
dumped around an injured tree he sug-
gests thatstrong seedlings can be planted
in it, and their tops grated into the
wood where the bark yet remains and
is healthy. This would add to the root
power and protect the parts, and do
much to increase the chances of saving
the tree.
CUT-woRMs AND CABBAGE PLANTS. -
Eaa1ne cabbage plants newly transplant-
ed may be preserved from cut worms bT
wrapping the stems in brown paper and
leaving the paper around the plant like
an inverted cone AS the plant grows
the paper decays and melts away, but
as long as it lasts it will protect the
plants from the cut-worms. In planting
the cabbages, the brown paper, cut in
strips three inches wide and about five
inches long at the top and two inches
at the bottom, should be wrapped
around the plant so that half an inch is
below the surface of the ground and
the remainder spreads out like vase
around the plant. This will not only
keep off the worms, but it will protect
the plant from dry winds and other
injurious accidents.
OATS AND PEAS FOR FODDER.
mixed crop of oats and peas makes one
of the best green folders for COWS, and
comes in as soon as the rye has passed
its best stage for green feeding. AS a
rule, one should depend upon clover
next after rye, but if oats and peas are
sown early upon good soil one can dis
pense with the green clover and save il
for hay.
SEEDING Down TO GRASS. - The
method Of seeding down to grass de-
pends somewhat upon the kind of soil
and the season. As rule it is best to
seed down to grass seed alone, in the
early fall, about the middle Of August,
and SOW half a pound of turnip-seed
with the grass. Timothy and clover
more often make good catch in this way
than when sown with or upon grain, or
even alone IN the spring. Spring SOW
ing had better be done with oats or bar
ley, as dry time in June or July will
soon destroy the young grass if it is ex-
posed without protection to the full
force of the hot sun. Spring sown grass
cannot be moved the same season. But
fall sown grass may, especially ii 1t is
orchard grass. An excellent mixture
grasses for sowing alone in autumn Is
five pounds of timothy, ten pounds or
chard grass, three pounds meadow
fescue, three pounds each of yellow and
tall oat grass, and five pounds of red-top
per acre. This makes dense sod and
gives early and late moving or pas.
ture.
How MANGELs ARE GROWN.
are the best root crop and most easily
grown. The ground should be well
plowed at once, well manured broad
cast, the seed sown in drills thirty
inches apart, and the rows kept free
from weeds. When the plants are up
they should be cut foot or ten inches
apart. To get stand thick enough tc
be evenly spaced four pounds of seed
per acre should be sown. After the
plants have been thinned out the ground
requires clean and frequent cultivation.
Superphosphate of lime is the best fer
tilizer.
SWEET Corn FOR FoDDER.-The best
varieties of sweet corn for fodder are
evergreen and mammoth, these are as
tall and make large stalks. Evergreen
corn planted in rows three feet apart,
and with five or six seeds together, is
inches apart in the rows, will make q
very heavy crop Cf fodder and produce
a large quantity of ears. A ton of sweet
corn fodder is worth two tons of com
mon corn for feeding, as it is very sweet
and the whole of the stalk is consumed.
1t should be planted early for begin
ming and the planting repeated at inter
walls until the middle of July.