News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
FARM AND GARDEN.

SeUAsHEs. Hampshire" says
he has succeededin raising good squashes
for two years past by the following
method: "The soil is we'll drained and
loamy. The hills are made three feet
apart and one foo: deep, and are ma
nured with night soil. Then a hand
full of corn cobs are we'll mixed in
with the manure. These prevent the
worms from gnawing the roots; cover
with about two inches of earth and
put in about twenty seeds. After they
come up, visit them once a day to de-
stroy the bugs. About noon is the
best time, as they are most destructive
then" l have heard before that corn
cobs would drive away worms, and
knew one man who thought he must
have piece. of corn cob in every corn
hill, when planting upon ground that
he thought was likely to be infested
with worms. I had not much faith in
it, but it is easily tried, and may have
facts to back it up.
WHAT CAN BE SowN IN JUNE.-Those
who have time of "making garden" in
early spring, and doing up the sowing
all at once, do not get the greatest good
from their gardens. There are many
vegetables of which the season can be
greatly prolonged by making successive
sowings. A striking example of this Is
sweet corn, which, by iudicious SOW
ings, may be had every day until frost
stops its growth. In many localities,
the most thoroughly tropical plants,
such as Lima beans, okra, and the mel
ons, do better if put in now than if sown
earlier. For succession, after the first
sowing, put in bush beans, beets (allow-
ing plenty to be used as beet greens),
cucumbers, and other pickle plants.
Carrots, kohl rabi and satisfy are among
those that may still be sown and make 8
crop before frost arrives. american
AgriculturiSt.
ENsIIAeE. +. W. Eldridge
Taunton, Mass, reports this experience
with ersilage: 81 fed heifer OF
nothing but ensilage and two quarts o
meal per day for seventy days, and she
gave nine quarts of milk per day. Afte
the seventy days she was fed on all tn
best quality hay she would eat, anC
hree quarts of meal and three quart
of shorts per day, and she shrank from
nine quarts to seven per day. I hav
fed ensilage to six COWS, and they al
did well. I made butter from my COW
while being fed ensilage, and it was a
good as any butter that could be bought
and ii did not have any favor of en-
snage."
PRUNING IN JUNE. Americui
AgricultuTiSt says: We have trie,
pruning in almost all months of tn
year, and on the whole prefer June
This being about the busiest month @
the year, there is usually little time TO
pruning, and so the favorite time i
early in spring, and many of our oil
orchards, in their rotting limbs an
decayed trunks, bear testimony to tn
mischief wrought by the ill-timed use {
the saw and ak. Small limbs, an inc
in diameter or less, can be taken off a
any time with comparative safety. Blu
the thorough pruning called for in
long-neglected orchard is best done i
early summer.
The sap is absorbed by the rapi
formation of wood and leaves the WOO
laid bare in pruning large limbs 500
becomes scared, the healing process
around the edges of the wound begin
Immediately, and in few years tb
, wound will be completely covered wit
new wood and bark. There is no chanc
for decay as when large limbs are r,
moved in the early spring. There is ia
too little pruning done in the farr
orchard. A dead limb should not b
suffered upon the fruit trees. Goo
pruning leaves no stubs, but cuts clos
to the trunk or branch to which til
pruned limb is attached.