The banner-enterprise., 1883-06-28
Farm and Garden Notes.

Sunlowers are recommended for
producing shade about the hives OF
bees.
If you have no young turkeys to eat
the sour and loppered milk scald ii
into curd for the chicks.
Catnip and motherwort are both
good honey plants. The setting out of
Eastwood trees is also highly recon-
mended to those who would harvest
fatted hives.
J. A. Dodge, in the Joun0l Of Agri-
culture, says he cures hog cholera ly
giving half a teaspoonful Of carbolic
acid in a gill of milk. Administer
from a long-necked bottle.
An exchange says that a New York
farmer declares that an acre of Hub
bard squash will fatten ten more hogs
than the corn that can be raisel on
the same ground. He has gathered
from six to eight tons from AZ acre.
If you want fat lambs to turn off
early, provide small troughs in a yard
adjoining the sheep fold, with entrances
a little too small fer the old sheep to
60 in, and put in a few oats CT a little
cornmeal Or ~cottonseed meal every
day. The lambs will begin to eat
when about three weeks old, and will
gain rapidly.
A writer in the NeW England
Homestead says that he knows BY ex-
perience that a tablespoonful of salt
peter dissolved in a pail of water and
sprinklei on cabbages will keep off the
worms and not injure the cabbage. 1t
will also free cucumber and squash
vines from the striped bug and borer,
if occasionally poured on the earth.
Farmers who propose to improve
their fields by increasing the depth of
the blowing, should, says the Farmers
Home Journal, do so gradually, year by
year, if the subsoil is to be brought to
the top. The depth may be increased
an in Ii a year without detrim Mt. If
the subsoiler is to be run in the bottom
of the furrow without throwing out
its cut the greatest depth may be given
at once.
Sheep will do better on inferior food
If fed regularly than on good food if
fed irregularly. Attested experience
is In favor of feedingth three times aday
morning, neon and night. In this
many of the best breeders agree. Some,
however, feed but once a day, and
think it be t. When this is done, the
last feeding should be a considerable
time before dark, for sheep do not feel
well after dark. Salt must not be
neglected.
Should a fowl become e~rop-bound
work the crop well with the hand, and
endeavor to force away the obstruction
in the Usage way to the gizzard.
Should this fail, draw the skin to one
side and cut the crop sufficiently to re-
lieve it of the contents. Sew up the
wound with silk, and the fowl will not
be seriously damaged. After the cut
ting besure that the obstruction in the
passage is removed as well as the con-
tents.
Where trees are not mulched the
ground about them should be fire.
qugnty hCe or spaded to keep weeds
away and to keep the surface of the
groin dry and light. Dry earth is a
good mulch, but it should not be al
lowed to get dry down among the
roots. Weeds and grass among trees
rob the sol of the fertility the tree
needs, and serve as a harbor for borers
and other insects which deposit their
eggs on the bark of the trunk.
ID. z. Evans, the well-known hen
fanci r, ~discourses in tie american
Agri ulturist in this wise: During
many years experience with poultry
of all Kinds, we have f jund the White
Leghorns to stand at the head of the
list of layers, and not only do they
produce an immense number of eggs
each year when well fed, housed prop
erly and cared for as all fine stock
shoull be, but they are hardy and pro-
duce lively and vigorous chicks.
A good manure for fruit trees may
be made by mixing four loads of dry
peat or swamp muck with one load of {
stable manure, and one barrel of dry '
ashes or two barrels of leached ashes. {
Let 1t lie in a heap a few weeks and {