The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-07-11

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The rhubsrb plant can be greatly strength
ened by removing the seed shoots as often as
they appear. Allowing them to mature
greatly weakens the plant, which shows itself
in subsequent years by the slender stalks.
. The suds from the washtubs can not be
put TO a better use than to be poured about
the newly planted fruit trees and vines. 1t
will often literally save their lives" and
under any circumstances is valuable fer
tilizer.
The Sacramento (Cal.) Cultivators' Guide
says that orchardits in that State who have
used solutions of soap and sulphur for spray
ing their trees in fighting insects, have
claimed decided diminution in pear scab
and other fungus diseases.
A shipment of 500 bushels of red oak
acorns has been made to Germany for plant
ing on untillable lands and hill sides. This
tree IS found to do well in Europe, and its
wood is valuable. The scorns were gathered
in Missouri, at an average cost of 81 per
bushel.
As turnips will now be put in, those who
wish to grow fair crops should bear in mind
that those varieties which grow above the
ground are best for heavy soils, and only the
light, loose, sandy soils should be used for
such as grow beneath the surface.
A cheap square box without bottom and
covered on the top with mosquito netting, is
the best protection against the bugs that at
tack the squash and melon vines. When
placed over the hill see that the box fita
down on all sides so that the insects can not
creep under it.
A good horse power on farm will each
year cave many times the interest on its
cost in furnishing power to do great many
things that would else have to be performed
by hand. such as saving wood, cutting feed
crrir1 mo nfr dxxrith ~
could be made to last for years.
L, H. Bailey picks off the wormy apples
in his orchard by means of a curved knife or
hook fastened to a long pole. Wormy APP
pies. he says, seldom drop until the worms
have left them, and the popular notion that
the worms, in devouring the fallen apples
are also exterminating the worms, is a mis-
take.
Every spring peach-growers select speci-
men branches from variously situated trees,
snd these are placed In hot-hsuses and their
ends dipped in water that is kept tepid.
Then the buds are forced until an expert eau
tell, with the aid of a microscope, precisely
what the nature OF the coming crop will be.
Fruit EvsporatiDg Companies are being
organized in different parts OF the West.
There is no doubt but that these institutions
will afford favorable opportunities for the
investment of capital, and fruitgrowers in
the vicinity of them will be benefited by the
increased demand that is sure to follow for
their products.
The practice of drilling corn in rows Is in
cressing. One important advantage of this
mode of planting is that the seed can be got
into the ground sooner after blowing and be-
fore weeds begin 80 terminate. One peck
per acre, in rows three and half feet apart,
is the best quantity 10 drill for Northern farm
eIs. In hills six quarts will plant an acre.
The best farmer in Herkimer County, y.
Y. raiSes large crops of fine potatoes in soil
almost pure sand. He does it by using plen-
~ of barnyard manure, and planting from
six to eight inches deep. A clay loaR, deep
ly and well worked with plenty OF stable
manure to enrich il and loosen 1t up, meets
10 some extent the same conditions, the soil
being light at the surface, and gradually be-
coming more packed below.
The eggs OF the currant worm are laid on
the young leaves, near the root of the plant,
early in the season. The larvae first eat
through the Young leaves and then ascend
the bush. Ii white hellebore be applied TO
the young lower leaves as soon as tbs larvae
begin TO eat holes through them the bushes
will probably be spared. If poultry be fed
among the curant bushes they will usually
destroy the worms entirely.
The green covering OF so-called moss which
accumulates on plant pots is always injuri-
GUS TO the plants. "a bright pot makes a
healthy plant is the gardeners rule. This
green covering is an slga. plant closely re-
lated to the seaweeds 1t acts IN much the
same way Is glazing would act in stopping
the pores of the pot ard allowing no circlla-
ton of air. it should be scrubbed of as
often as il appears with sand and water.
Mixed husbandry is the only sure way to
success in farming. Repeated cropping with
q single cereal will bring waste of the plant
food elements in the soil that will, in the
end, so reduce the yield as o entail certain
loss uDOn the landowner. This fact will do
more toward forcing the Dalrymples 10 cut
up and dispose of their immense land areas
than anything else, though they may not
now see it in that light-New York Times
It is a common fault with many amateur
gardeners that they attempt TO raise too many
/ kinds of ornamental plants. They are at
tTacted by the pleasing descriptions in seed
catalogues, and order fifteen or twenty species
of plants which they have never tried before.
| They are most always sure to be disappoint ted
| in good part of them from their lack of tim 2
ana knowledge in managing them To get
| the most enjoyment from flowers, they should
| give as little anxiety as possible. 1t is wiser
| to learn TO cultivate one plant we'll than TO
| haf-grow dozen different kinds. Try only
/ two or three new sorts each year, and get well
. tltAuluAtu Win NuNul bElOlC blJlLE OtlNI
| sorls.-Americsn Cultiyator.
| Ewes will produce larger and better lambs,
| says writer. il they are in good, plump con-
1 dtiOn at the time of coupling. If not in fair
! coT dition they should be gaining and kept
! improving until lhsy reach the desired m
| diiion; they will not breed well when loaded
| With fat. Those having lost their lambs or
| failed 10 breed are liable 10 become too tat
| TO become sure breeders. When this is the
case they should be placed on short pasture
| 81 as - reduce their weight. The use of val
liable ewes is sometimes lost for year OF
| two by allowing them to become filed with
| fst. Sach ewes valuable; their inclina-
| ton to take or fist readily is gool point,
but requires guarding that il may not impair
! their prolficscy.
A CORE pondent OF the Gardeners Month
| IL, who has met the striped bug and basn
/ corQuere6. SAYS: Il recommend the planning
| OF enc or more seeds OF the Hubbard or BJs
ton SQUASH i'm melon hills and as the beetle
| is vely ford OF the squash plant they may
/ eat them first in their hunger; then pail
/ hem up when the danger Is over. The suT-
est method. I think. Is TO plant fifteen OF
| twenty seeds in hill, and es soon as they
! pseD above the earth dust little suDerpho5-
phste around and near. but not on the plants
| This will make it unpleasant for the beetles
and they soon quit. IT may be necessary to
repeat The dose two or three times, SIS the
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