The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
AN ACT to amend section 407, Revised
1880, so far as relates to certain Officer
Farm, Garden and Live Stock Items.

If you begin pruning fruit and ornamen.
tai trees and shrubbery while young, and
follow it up each year, you can form just
such top as you want If your trees need
spreading out cut the young shOota off Just
above bud on the outside OF a shoot, and
if you want to train upward, leave bud
on the upper side of the limb where you
cut it of.
Experience and observation will convince
any one that better results will follow the
the application of manure at the surface,
or at least within three inches of it, than
if plowed under to three times that depth.
For immediate results all well-rotted ma
nure should be Immediately mixed with the
surface soil by repeated CIVILIZATIONS or
narrowing.
The London Live Stock Journal gives
two methods of starting a balky horse
"First, tire your steed out by remaining
perfectly quiet until he starts of his own
accord. Second, when 4 horse refuses to
draw at all, put him in a cart in a shed and
keep him there until he walks out. In one
instance the obstinate one was thirty hours
in the shafts before he gave in"
Missouri paper notes that "the sheep
interest and the sheep-killiug dog interest
are as antagoniStie as fire and Water. The
two cannot exist together. One or the
other must go. The sheep is always a val
liable animal in every section adapted to
its nature and habits The sheep-killing
dog is not valuable in a community where
sheep are kept. When the domesticated
dog forsakes his civilized habits and returns
TO those of his ancestor, the wolf, he ought
to be treated as a wolf so far as he is
midnight marauder upon the shepherds
fOeks, he ought to be trapped, shot or
poisoned, in any way that is most conYe-
nient to the sheep owner"
1t is stated that 2, 252 women are engaged
in farming in the State of Indiana. 1t has
not been reported how successful they are,
but it is hardly to be expected that if the
first thousand had failed, that the second
Thousand would have gone into the BUSH
ness.
Grape vines in the open air, on arbors
and trellises, should have their pruning
finished before warm spring days set in or
they will bleed. 1t does not injure them
much, but it looks bad The pruning must
be regulated by the condition of the vine.
If the vines are young and the shoots weak,
cut them all back to make new and vigor
Gus growth.
Quinby, the welI-known writer on bee
cultuae, saws of eatnip for bees: "If there is
any article that l would cultivate especially
for honey, it would be catnip. / find moth
ing to surpass it, This is high authority,
and ought to entitle this common but little
utilized product of nature TO place among
the valuable things of the farm. It is
but another instance that goes to show that
our people fail to utilize the native resources
Of their farms as they should. They have
not learned the value of the things they
Tread upon and often ruthlessly destroy.
An exchange gives the following state
ment of an orchard successfully pastured
Dy sheep and hogs: t'The orchard occupies
.hirty-two acres, and is made the run of
.hirty hogs and $50 or 200 sheep and lambs
Turing the Summer. Enough grain or
,ran or given them to place them IN good
condition. They eat every blade of grass
md green thines close down, and every fall
en- apple as soon as dropped, for which pur-
,ose sheep are better than hogs, which sleep
o soundly as not to hear an apple fall, but
heep are always on hand and devour every
hing as soon as it touches the ground The
ruit each year grows fairer, with fewer
rormy specimens, and the manure, from
seding much grain, has givena healthy
rowth to the trees. To prevent the animal
having the bark the trunk is washed over
nee a month with a mixture of seapsuds,
lhale oil and sheep manure.