The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-12-23
FARM NOTES.

Management is the cheapest and most
PRACTICAL manure on the larm. |
Gather and burn all the weeds that
rave seeded. By thus destroying the seeds
# troublesome weeds, you will save your
self many days of labor in the spring.
Black berries ana rdsp5erTes may be set
ut as long as the grnund remains oren.
they start cary in the spring aud if moved
nen thu shoots are apt to be brokeu.
Do not follow corn with oats. 1t is not
deslrabls rotation. II possible take a Foot
rop after the corn AMI let the oats follow
he roots. Cloyer may be- seeded diiwn !,
| With the oati.
If you have easy access to woods, So
.ure as large quantity as 20 'sibls oi leaf
Mould. Ii is an esl e'daly good lertilizer
lr sweet potatoes. Dirt from old wood ,
lies should be carefully collected ard add
d to the compost heap.
While haniwork pres 'es,it will bo wise
o hire extra help to keep the teams At work
ploughing stubbles, drawing out and sproad'
NJ manure on the sod intended Tor com,
hauling swamp muck and doing other ex-
ra work.
Trials made at the Wisconsin Expert
, nent Farm in fer ding sweet milk to pigs
= showed that on an average, four pounds of
, GDrn meal were equal to twenty pounds ol
5 sweet skim milk, or one pound of meal
uual to five of milk, if fed separately.
: Where calves are fed by the pail, prop,
r caution should be observed to have the
;. milk as near as possible its natural tempera-
4 ture when mIlked from the COW, otherwise
I t goes into the calves stomach too cold and
o they are the more likely to gorge them
+ selves.
l.. Straw that is to be used for bedding
stock should be cut short. It is then much
more easily handled. The common practice
IS TO leave it long, when much inconveui.
,nce IS found on removing it, on account oil
q its clingipg together and forming a solid
sheet of manure.
! People are slowly learning that fruit
- cannot be taken from land year after yeal
" thout making a return, aud unless the or
ch ,rd is manured, it in time becomes near
.. ly useless. Stable manure, ashes, lime oi
z bones are all valuable, aud may be applied
7 now or IN the spring.
= A Frenchman claims to hnyo fnunr
on that tomato leaves bound about the TRUNK
and limbs of peach trees will drive away III,
% curculIo and ants becsuse OF their pecuia
s"' fragrance. He also found that water steep
IA. ed with tomato leaves and sBrlnked owe
an roses and oranges; drove the insects from
mt them, and he thinks it will do the sam,
ler good on melon vines.
rs, Top dress the kuolls or poorer parts o
ns newly sown wheat fields Even a THU
nh coating of straw will benefit the crop wol.
s. der,ully. As it is the shelter and protection
.u that he Ps the crop, marsh hay or buck
ers wheat, straw will be serviceaOc wher,
iS coarse NJ inure is not available. On wori
n lands, where the wheat has come up poo
!. aud thin, apply L so pounds of guano or oh
hundred pounds of nitrate Of soda to th
- acre.
Leave your parsnips in tho ground al
M winter. They will be better in the spru
iiil, Lon ,han they are now. Frost makes them ten
!. der. Those that you dig how before tn
ID; general crop is frozen in should be protecte
.s., in a cool place or they may wilt. Parsnip
54, appear very fine this season. They are a
- mJigcslJle sort Of thing, many people lik
- them in pork and potato stew. They ma
- also be cut IN very thin chip slices, dippe
IN batter and fried. They are considered
deieacy in this way.
90 --SluGshes ere often stared in tho bar
5.T in one heap until they Get chilled, whc
they ase carried into warm, damn celia
@ where they soon rot and the owner is at
sF5 loss to know the reason. When stored i
~ heaps, il the storehouse be dry, the undt
q sauashes will send out moisture in cue
I. i quantities as to keep the whole heap SUI
- rounded by moisture. squashes, to kee
well, should not only be kept in dry a
mospherc, but they should be spread on ii
q por or on shelves, so that the air can reaC
lily pass between them.