Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-10
FAKM NOTES.


Every farmer should SOW a patch, of
chicken food. Fowls are very fond of it,
sown before the middle of May. Hun
garian grass is a species of miliet, but it
does not grow SO tall and the grains or
tritious as the common kind, though su.
perior as fodder for cattle-feeding. If the
patch is chosen where there is little cover
near, it will afford the farmer in the latter
part of August, September and a portion
of October, to supply his table with fat,
delicious reed. birds, which millet invari-
ably attracts, generally in large numbers,
which can be shot with very little trouble
or loss of time.
Simple ana Cheap Insect Destroyer.
We regard the London Garden to be
good authority in horticultural matters in
England whatever it may be in the United
States. Still, in matters of insect remedies
they will act the Same in both countries.
1t mentions remedy for the green and
black aphides and thrips, which is found
to DO very effectual. 1t is to bruise 40
pounds of common laurel leaves and
young shoots, put in kettle with 80
gallons of water. let boil an hour, when it
becomes very poisonous. It was used last
season, and while it destroyed the insects,
no i'll results were found to the tenderest
plants. 1t was resortei to after all other
known remedies !" were tried. A
supply should always be kept on hand.
If sprinkIed over fruit upon trees, &C.,
it should be washed off before it has
time to dry upon the fruit. OF course
this requires care.
Feed the Grape Vine.
The Oldest grape growers we know al.
ways manured their vines plenteously and
never dreamed Of giving them too much
Of late years there has arisen a class of
grape growers who contend that but little
mature is needed that in fact the poorer
the land the better. We arc not among
this class. We have found that the richer
the soil the better. We have known even
dead animals to be buried about tho roots
though we think that this is carrying
the manure question little too far. Vines
win sometimes fail in rich land, We are
aware, but it is from other causes than
the soil being too rich there are other
plaques in the way. 1t may be the mil
dew, it may be the little dusty looking
worm which sometimes strips the vines Of
its foliage; or it may be the phylloxera
which attacks the roots and plays havoc
with them; others think there is some
thing in the climate. and SO on. We do
not pretend to decide the question we
only know that if We do the best we can
in the cultivation of the vines, success
will reward us in majority of cases but
when failure is the result we feel very SUI Q
that it is not high feeding. The grape
vine, We are confident, aud all our expe-
m oh 90
we run far less risk in Overfeeding than in
starving it.
Garden Labels.
II is laid down as an axiom that the
mere saving by growing ones own veas
tables is not all the profit. The pleasure
of seeing things grow, and the comparisons
which one is able to make between one
variety and another, have good deal to
do with the satisfaction which we'll kept
vegetable garden gives. Yet this latter
pleasure is often lost on account of indiffer-
ence or carelessness in labelling the va.
rietes when the seeds are sown. It is
extremely mortifying TO take a friend
through the garden, and when he admires
the particular bean or pea to be
unable to remember what they are, and
80 on all through. Sometimes we find
that piece OF chip has been stuck in ar d
penciled with the name but that is long
since illegible. Fer garden labels there is
nothing yet discovered superior to pine
sticks cut into lengths of say ten to twelve
inches, split thin, one side shaved with a
pocket-knife, and then very lightly
painted with whitehead, and firmly writ
ten on with pencil. Every garden should
be provided with about a hundred of these
and they should be kept conveniently at
hand, 30 as to be just within reach when
wanted. This il hint which may seem
to be Of tho over practical kind. No doubt
everybody feels that he knows already"
Perhaps he does, but from the number
whom we SEQ neglect it, We feel sure that
the hint will not be wholly thrown away.