Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-12-13
Farm and Garden Notes.

Let the poultry into the plum orchard
and get rid of the curculio.
Fanny Field says to make duck-rais
ing profitable, they must be kept for all
they are worth-eggs, feathers, and for
market.
Peach trees can be most advantage
ously transplanted at one year old, as
they can then be lifeed without cutting
any of the main roots.
Fowls delight to scratch In loose
ground, and If portion Of their yard is
dug mp at intervals it will afford them
the exercise they so much need.
Soils of a close, heavy texture require
thorough drainage. A liberal applica-
ton of stable manure. with heavy top
dressing of coal ashes, is the best treat
ment.
Tin vessels 50 worn that the iron is
exposed are not fit for use in the dairy.
and should be discarded. Sour cream
will be unpleasontly affected by remain
ing in contact with the iron.
A solution of hyposulphite of soda Is
recommended as an excellent remedy for
chicken cholera. A teaspoonful dropped
carefully down a fowls throat three
times day hardly ever fails to effect
cure.
A good sheep dip is made Of twelve
pounds of tobocco and SIX of flowers of
sulphur to fifty gallons of water. To
this add little concentrated lye, say q
pound or two, and about the same guam
tity of arsenic.
1t is we'll known that pruning an Or
chard too severely does far more harm
than good. All that is necessary is to
remove the dead limbs and unfruitful
branches. An important part of fruit
culture is to know when to let the trees
alone.
It is a prevalent notion that to secure
early vegetables one must plant on poor
soil. This is false in most cases. The
ground needs to be loose, we'll drained
and to have a warm exposure. Under
these conditions very rich soil will
give early crops.
1t is well known among obseryant
poultry raisers that those breeds OF
fowls which are large layers and nom
sitters possess an almost insatiate apps-
lite for animal food. 1t is the gratitica-
tion of this appetite that makes them
such inordinate layers.
The Germantown Telegraph reminds
its readers that too much water is the
greatest enemy to the wheat crop. Wa
ter lying around roots does not always
kill wheat plants, but many of the roots
are injured, and the few that are left are
not able to do the work that all we're in
tended to take part in doing. Precau-
cautions should be taken to prevent
damage from this cause by carrying off
surplus water on level land by open
bitches or plow fsrrows.
An experienced nurseyman offers the
following excellent suggestions on the
selection of fruit trees In selecting
nursery trees farmers should look to the
thriftiness of the trees, to their age and
to their shape. Those whose trunks and
branches are not smooth and clean
should be discarded. Select straight
trees which have not had crotches, or a
crook at the root. Do not select trees
too old. A thrre-year old tree is much
preferable to one four or five years old.
1t is more apt to live, and its grewth is
not so much interfered with by the re-
setting. A well-grown two-ysar old is
usually preferable. See that the trees
are stalky. If grown too thickly in the
nursery rows the trees are apt to be
spindling and tender.