Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-07-29
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


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As soon as the tops are cleared rake
onions from the ground, and, when
dried, remove to the farm loft or
garrett. fr7N
An exchange advises planting plenty
of rhubarb, tomatoes and melons as
substitute for fruits that have been in
jured by the cold weather.
If manure is ploughed in at all, care
ought to be taken not to cover it too
deep. For most annual crops, it is
enough to harrc W it in thoroughly.
A salt box does not cost much. and
should be supplied in every pasture,
where the farm animals can be con,
stantly supplied with the needed salt.
Thinning fruit is one of the practices
which will repay the fruit culturist for
the time and labor expended in the
operation. The more valuable the
fruit the better it pays to- thin it while
young. '4- 9"-'-
Farmyard manure. is often seriously
injured by allowing too much water to
fall upon it, whereby some of its most
important elements are washed out of
it. This, with the loss of ammonia by
drying, makes it useless.
See that the pigs have a good run of
clover or fresh grass. Young pigs for
the early winter market should be
pushed to rapid growth by extra
feeding. Sour milk is not enough.
Give grain in liberal quantities.
If you have hens of the right breed
and age, warm and sunny quarters for
them to stay in, and keep them sup
piled with everything they need, you
will have eggs, simply because hens
can no more help laying than they can
help breathing.
If breeder keeps several varieties,
some Of one variety will be bred as
close as possible to another, which he
may have. But few breeders possess
an eye sufficiently critical to breed
several varieties and keep them in
perfection of form, color and points, as
one breed must follow another to some
extent.
Charred corn is excellent to feed to
hens in order to increase their egg
laying capacity. 1t is not desirable 10
Iced it as their general food, but por.
ton of it every day will be found bene-
fetal. Char the corn on the cob pretty
thoroughly, taking care not to reduce
any part of it to ashes.
Grapeyines, pruned at me proper
time, win send out too masly new shoots,
which would grow end make thick
mass of branches End foliage. Rub off
in time all the needless shoots, leaving
the STRONGEST ones equally distri-
->bs.tsdf along the vine, at distances from
eight to twelve inches.
Hundreds of farmers in Pennsylvania
have turned their attention to fish cul-
ture. Many have stocked ponds and
streams, and in most cases they have
been successful, especially with carp,
and in few years they will depend
upon fish for a subsistence as much as
upon any other farm product.
A successful Boston florist says that
he seldom fails to root slips of the most
tender and rare plants. He credits his
success to layer of oats placed under
the usual layer of sand i'll which the
slips are planted. When moistened they
act as stimulant and feeder to the
tender roots of the slip. s
. Never let the weeds get an inch high.
Go over the beds once a week with
steel rake; the crops will grow faster
and the weeds will not get O start. A
few hours spent in this way will save
days OF wedding after the weeds have
been allowed to get several inches high,
by which time they will also have re-
tarded the growth of the crops. i
Crafts set early in spring should not
g Injured by shoots and suckers spring.
rp from the stock about them. As
ng the graft shows that it is alive,
o4 eli these sprouts or shoots. II
graft should happen to die, leave
1itQngest shoot to grow for re-
.||Ing, and rub off all the rest. The
. attention must be given to buds
.h are inserted last summer and the
@ek emit off this spring.
thaping young trees may be easily
|4ected if taken in time, by summer
INNING and pinching. A needless or
displaced shoot, which might become
eonspicuous distortion if left to grow,
itTubbed off with the thumb when an
inch or two long. Branches which are
running out too long are stopped by
pinching off the ends. BY these means
handsome and symmetrical head is
easily given to young tree, if taken in
time. j
s "a PFahins Melon Vines.
A practical gardner saws Last year