Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03
SOME TIMELY TOPICS.
Additional Garden Hints.


general garden crops of the season. No
time should be lost in doing SO, as it is
supposed that by this period the warm
growing weather has fairly set in and that
We are not likely to be visited by severe
frosts, Lima and bush beans can be
planted Early York cabbage set out
horn carrot, satisfy, cucumber, parsnips,
melons, sugar corn, cabbage lettuce, to be
followed at the end OF the month with
India or curled lettuce, which stands the
summer heat better. Tomatoes may be
transplanted, but should be protected
against cool nights, as we'll as by day from
the midday sun, until they become estab-
lished. Celery should be sowed not later
than this week.
Keeping down the weeds and stirring the
soil are Indispensable to any crop in the
garden or field. Especially should the
weeds be constantly removed from the
strawberry beds.
Young asparagus beds should never be
salted, as it is death to them-nOt until
after they have been cut one season.
Be careful not to fork at this time the
ground in the raspberry bed if you wish an
additional supply Of plants, as the young
shoots are now beginning to show them
selves. If the beds are mulcted it should
be done with caro- that the young pla nts
may not be injured.
The third crop of sugar corn should be
planted by the 10th of this month. The seed
should be put in the dry if tho weather is
moist, and soaked few hours II the soil is
rather dry.
Okra should not be planted befrre the
middle of the month. The seed is very liza
Bile to rot in moist weather before it has
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in the row, and then remove when few
sprouted any superfluity of plants.
The annual flower seeds should now be
sown up to the middle of the month. The
soil should be made rs fine and mellow as
possible. The seed should be lightly
raked under and the bed lightly pressed
with the back of the spade. Mark each
variety with a small stake, which Can be
easily done by splitting it at the top and
sticking in the paper which had contained
the seed.
Lawns have had of course their second
moving by this time, and the moving
should be repeated every ten days if per-
fectiOn is aimed at, in case there is good
growing weather. If otherwise for want
Of rain, the intermssiOnS in the mOwings
may be from two to four days longer
Keep off the lawn at all time heavy coats
barnyard manure, if you 10 not wish it to
produce coarse, rank spires and show bare
spots. Fertilizers should always be used
aud little lime every six to eight years.
Every part of the garden and yard
should be kept clear of weeds, no matter
whether the crop has been taken from it
or not. The presence of weeds anywhere
in garden, yard, or lawn bespeaks either
neglect, parsimony, or want of taste.
Feed tho Crow and Save the Corn.
The only complaint that farmers evel
had to urge against the crow was, that il
would pull up the young corn nsprouts JUS
after they make their appearance above
ground. While we freely admit that it i.
guilty of this pilfering, it still, with tht
ordinary protection we can give the corn
field for two weeks, does the farmer a dea
yea, fye times-more good than harm
in tho destruction of tho myriads of in
furious insects which we must give i;
credit for. But there is a way-a yer,
cheap and simple way-by which thi:
useful bird upon the farm can be be
friended, and at the samo time We can b;
datiOns. 1t must be remembered that the
crow never eats grain of any kind eithOu
being soaked or made soft. aud this is til,
reason why it pulls up the young ccrn
sprouts to get at the puIpy grain adherins
to the root. Well, this fact being remem
bered, We will soak half peck of see.
corn in water for twenty four hours, o
until it becomes quite soft, and scatter 4
Ooer the adjoining fields, where it will bs
found by our black friends and repeating
this once or twice, or as often as may b
necessary, we will find that the planted
corn will be wholly undisturbed. Thi
will require very small amount of labo
and an expense of perhaps not over half ;
dollar, while at the same time it will say,
other and more troublesome and cost,
arrangements for protecting the cornfield
preserve valuable insect destroyer, ant
secure to us the compan;onship of wary
glossy, useful, domestic bird, one of th'
most pleasing and desirable members o
the winged fauna of the country.