Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-29
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm and Garden Notes.

poultry. and Is better Tor small cnlcgens
than corn.
Milk should stand at least thirty-six
hours before skimming to get good re-
suits. Farmers take notice.
It is now claimed that potash in lieu
of ashes or the potash salts is excellent
for grape vines if fruit is defective in
color.
Kill the dog first and hunt for his
owner afterwards, is the maxim of GER
tain Georgia farmers who mean to
make sheep-raising profitable.
Cookie seed will remain in the ground
many years il untouched by the pillow.
As soon as brought to the surface they
begin to sprout.
If sulphur is we'll busted around the
sheds and hog-pens it will effectually
drive off lice. Put it on the hogs, also,
and leave little in the trough for
them to eat. hf -es
Horseradish is profitable crop to
grow, as it finds sale at five to six cents
per pound unprepared. It is bought
readily by manufacturers of the pre-
pared article.
Nearly all kinds of fruit do we'll on
mixture of superphosphate and wood
asher. Lime is not suitable for straw
berries, but excellent around apple,
peach and pear trees.
Every farmer should select a portion
of rich soil, clear from weeds, which
should be devoted to roots, such as
beets, turnips, rutabagas or carrots for
feeding cattle End hogs. They are
good starters for fall feeding,
| Our farmers can raise one hundred
loaps of pumpkins with very little
trouble. Put the seeds into the corn
planter with corn and there is no
trouble to get crop enough to feed all
the cattle Oh the farm during the fall
months. Try it.
John A. Phelps, Of Connecticut, incul-
Gates in his | oys love of country life
and the paternal acres, by renting them
plots of ground for potatoes and other
crops, selling them manure and taking
pay in labor, teaching them to make
their own sales, keep their own &C
counts and handle their own money.
Experiments In Southern Corn CaIture.
4 The Southern Farmers Monthly gives
some experiments by Professor Browne
which are worthy of attention not only
in Georgia, but in other states. The
professor says: ~ made some expert
ments in corn during the last two years
hich as the experience of the last year
verified that of the year previous, au-
thorizes me to attach some Importance
t to them. First, as to manure, I made
four plats. l. MANFRED with stable
manure; 2. With rotten cotton seed; 8
With green cotton seed, and T. With
ammoniated superphosphates. Of these
!. that with the superphosphate produced
t most; next, that with rotten cotton seed
next, that with green cotton seed, and
last, that with stable manure. 1t il
. proper to state, however, that the burn
ing of my stable with my manure celia
last year. and the absence of such con
vience the previous year, caused me tt
o use manure which had lost most of it
ammonia; therefore the test of the com
Q parative value of stable manure canno
: be said to be reliable.
1 Second Experiment--As to Distanc
. Between Rows and Between Hills in tn
J. Row. Rows 4 feet wide produced a
. the rate of 15} bushels per acre; feet
! 15a bushels; 6 feet, LA bushels, and
y feet, IA bushels. The land was vel
d prepared and VIII MANFRED, and tn
! hills about three feet or 30 apart in tn
+ rows. For ordinary upland, properl
l. cultivated, with good seasons, woul
J. recommend five feet as the best distanc
# between the rows.
i Third Experiment Subsoiling fe
!. Corn. I have carefully tested subsoi
TT ing land for corn as compared with thu
e not subsoiled. A plat well plowed wit
two-horse turn pillow and followed b
IL subsoiler, produced at the rate of IL
bushels per acre, while an adjoinin
d plat plowed. MANFRED and cultivated
g the same way, but not subsoiled, pr
If duced barely fifteen bushels.
ID Fourth Experiment-As to Deep an
l lie Shallow Culture of Corn. One pla
y plowed with long shovel, and on a
he other with sweep after the first plo'
ns ing. Igathered from the first 16
$, per acre, and from the second To-
at bushels. On stiff, red land l wou
always advocate deep culture, for b
IT. lieve that, though few rootlets may
ed injured by it, the improved filth al
Wy the consequent permeability by air al