Milford chronicle., 1883-07-13
FARM AND GARDEN.

CANADA IHISTLEs.-I have tried al
kinds of experiments in killing Canada
thistles. Seeding heavily with clover
and moving it, is one of the best. The
poorest way to kill them, and the best
way to spread them, is to put the land il
hoed crops. Every little broken joint
makes a new thistle and starts a new
bed. Hence the less they are disturbed
the better, unless the ground is plowed
so frequently that they cannot grow at
all, and this extra labor is so out of
joint with ones inclination that it is
seldom done. A bed of thistles which
had exhausted all efforts to kill them,
have been finished effectually. They
were allowed to grow without any dis
turbance until August. By this time
they had headed out and just before the
seed was ready to fly, they were moved,
and when the tops were dry enough, they
were gathered in piles and burned. The
ground was then plowed. This treat.
ment seems to have exhausted the
thistles and killed them all. The ground
was sown with wheat in the autumn,
which is now very rank and not thistle
to be seen. For twenty-nine years
have worked at this batch of thistles
without getting rid Of them, for there
would always be enough left for renewal.
F. D. CURTIS.
AN EXPERIMENT IN WHEAT. Last fall,
says F. d. Curtis, told the readers of
an experiment in sowing wheat so late in
the autumn that it probably would not
grow, but remain dormant in the ground
through the winter. There were a few
warm days after the seed was put in,
md here and there a blade appeared. |
Nearly all of it, however, did not come
up until this spring, the ground appear
ng perfectly naked when the snow went
)ff The wheat is now a foot high, and
hick and rank, with every prospect of
rood crop. I expect this wheat will.
produce as well as if it had all grown
asst fall, but if it had not been swollen
nd frozen through the winter it would
ot have headed out at all. This is one
f the phenomena of nature. Ifthe win
er grain is swollen and kept frozen
trough the winter in an icehouse, and
len sown in this condition in the spring,
will come forward and mature its kind
le same season. OF course, such late
owing at all takes the plant out of the r
ay of the ravages of the Hessian fly or
ther insects which pray early in the
il. These facts are helpful in the di-
,ction of a profitable late sowing of
heat Or rye in these seasons in which
lrious insects ravage upon the products
the early sowing. Better to follow q
e above plan than to SOW early and
Sc the most of the seed and the benefit +
the labor. These facts can also be =
ade available when work presses so L
at wheat cannot be sown earlier and :
hen it is desirable to put wheat on =
ound on which other crops are grow S'
g. n
ONE WAY TO HARVEST ONIONs.-Ben- u
min Ware, a Massachusetts farmer, III
vises, if onions are stiff necked when c'
ey ought to be ripened off, to roll the m
ms down with a barrel drawn over the al
VS. by hand. When ready to harvest, I'll
Il six rows, throwing the onions to- p'
ther in large heap, after which pillow al
cultivate the ground where they grow
kill the weeds; then pull six more "
VS. and throw upon the freshly culti- B
ed earth, and so proceed, pulling and Sit
tivating, until the crop is all gathered ba
o rows and the ground cleared of ae
eds. When thoroughly dry, store in lil
S thirty inches deep. Wis