Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-24
FARM NOTES.
Valuable Hints for Farmers.

Valuable Hints for Farmers.
Germantown Telegraph.
Shrewd gardeners are ever on the alert
to get all they can out of the small plot of
ground at their disposal. Some will get
three crops of q certain kind from the
same land, but two are very common with
many. For instance the early peas can be
sOwn for q fall crop and very welcome
they are. Beans, the early and snap
varieties, may yet be planted. Lettuce
can be sOwed in drills to head spinach
for winter use the Golden Globe, the
China aui red turnip 70 )ted radish for
winter use the turnip, of course, which
We have spoken of more at length cab
bage, if planted at once, may vet head !;
and so with rutabago. But they must all
have the best attentiOn-if fair crops are
expected. If we consider for a moment
We shall see how nicely extra crops Of
these things will come in at period when
they are not usually enjoyed, or can be put
away for winter.
To Keep Very Shaded Places areen.
Especially in the front yards of dwellings
both in town and country which are much
shaded, we often see the ground complete
ly bare, not living thing being percepti-
bic. Sometimes there are many nearly
nude, struggling limbs lying upon the
ground or very near it, which are insight
ly and every way worthless, that ought to
be cut away. This would give room for
the growing there Of some plant or vine
that would be adapted to it, and which
would not only cover the naked spot and
make it i" lively green," but would be
adding much to the general appearance of
the premises. The best vine for this pur-
pose is undoubtedly the periwinkle. 1t
will grow almost anywhere in the shade
if proper attention is given to it, but not
otherwise. 1t is a beautiful vine and will
densely cover the ground, producing near
ly the whole season very pretty blue
flower. Weeds, however, are its deadly
enemies. 1t cannot fight them. Steadily
they will encroach until they drive away
our favOrite and occupy the field of battle.
A little help now and then, however, will
defeat the common enemy, and allow us
to enjoy the cool looking, popular ever
green for many years without renewal.
A Heavy Crop OF Glover.
Mr.. Alvin Devereux contributes the
following statement to the Deposit, N. Y,
Courier:
recently cut seven acres of clover which
UuAAO OuO . AOiA0A hoOiO ylOlu duu low
facts as to how we gathered it may not be
uninteresting to your readers. We cut a
half acre of it and put it in cocks, which
numbered 11S, and you can guess they
stood pretty thick upon the ground.
Nearly every day we had rain aud the
problem was how to cure such q crop of
clover and make good hay. We decided
the question by determining to put the
clover without curing into the silo, and as
We had to drive over the scales We deter
mined to know just the amount that grew
on the seven acres. On Monday morning
We commenced drawing in the half acre Of
cocks, on Tuesday We were delayed some by
rain, but on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock
the last load was weighed. We found
that it footed up Is tons, 800 pounds, aud
the question came up how much cured
hay it would make. NOtwo men thought
alike, SO we determined to know. The
last load which weighe !, $40 pounds was
spread from the wagon to dry. Leaving
it until night it was put in the cocks to
sweat, opened again the next morning and
thoroughly cured it was drawn 10 the
barn in the afternoon and weighed. The
product was $50 pounds, the grass yielding
over A per cent. of hay, which would
give a yield Of 80 tons from the seven
acres. As soon as the last load was in
the silo we commenced putting on tho
covers and at four o'clock the whole was
finished. One hundred and fifty tubs of
stone were placed on the covers, weighing
AZ, 900 pounds. The covering and weigh
ing cost just five dollars. The clover
under this weight has settled eight and
one half feet, so that it now occupies
space equal to 4,675 cubic feet. If it
takes 600 feet Of clover hay to weigh ton
then this crop made into bay would have
used up 1880 feet of barn room, and l
leave your readers to draw their own con
clusions between the silo and tho hay bay
of the barn. l will only say that it
would have requirei two bays each 3Ox16
feet and 20 feet in depth to have held the
hay.
Battle the hands in Darbys Prophylactfc
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