Milford chronicle., 1883-09-01

III similar Necessity httoNN llllD ana
learned the art himself, and now can d
|. such job in ten minutes. The chow
u OF it he explained in The IolgQ Honi
stead, and says any boy can become q
Il adept by little practice
'sUnravel eight inches Of the ends {
;. be spliced; interlock them so that n
: two strands of the same piece will be tC
gether Beginning with the strands {
c one piece, put each over one and unde
g the next strand of the other piece; dra'
all the ends up tight; repeat this thre
a times, then fray out the short ends so a
{ to reduce them one-half, and continue a
} before. Treat the upper end the sam
way. Lay the splice on the floor an,
roll it under foot to press it well to
gether, and / will warrant it to breal
anywhere else rather than there. I
hardwood stick sharpened smoothly a
one end viii be needed to open way un
der the strands. This is all that is nee
essary for a common splice.
EXPERIMENTS WITH As.-Experi
ments have been made this season, al
the New York Agricultural Experiment
Station, at Geneva, N. z, on the period
of growth of peas and the relative value
of seed matured from the earliest and
the later pods. It appears from expert
ments with sixty-eight so-called varieties
the earliest edible pods were obtained in
fifty-five days from planting, and of fif-
teen others the latest required ffty-nine
and half days. OF seed peas gathered
from the first pods and from the latest
pods, the average difference in the vege-
! tation of the seeds was fourteen and one
| half per cent in favor of those earliest
matured, and in favor of earliest pro-
duction of edible peas a difference of
five days in favor of the earliest matured
seeds. In productiveness, also. the diff
ference in favor of those from the earli-
est matured seed is considerable, from
an equal number of plants the earliest
seed vines producing in the same time
thirty-eight well filed pods to only thir-
teen well filed pods from the later ma
tured seed.
KEEPING CARRIAGES OVER WINTER. -
Cabbages are usually preserved through
the winter in trenches. But care is re-
quired in putting away a large quantity,
as they are liable to. heat if packed in
masses. An excellent way to do it is as
follows Plow out a long double fur
row until it becomes a trench. In this |
set the cabbages with the roots in the
loose soil and close together some straw |
maybe laid on the cabbages and more |
cabbages on these, but not more than |
three deep. Straw is laid over the heap |
and the earth banked up over the straw.
a few holes should be left here and there
for ventilation. When some of the cab
bages are to be taken out in the winter
one end is opened and afterward the pit
is closed. 1t is better to make several
pits for a large quantity than one large
one.
To THE WE'LL far is it from
your house to your we'll the year round %
was the question I asked a farmer the
other day.
well, said ne, sit is about fifty feet
in good weather, but when the snow
drifts are deep and have to shovel
through them it is great deal fur
her. -
"Fifty feet to the we'll and fifty feet
pack again; and suppose you haze to
lse about ten pals Of water day, don't
you ?"
''I don't know how many we average.
)ut the women use a lot of it when
nybody is here to lug it for them" he ,
eplied.
Ten paiis Il Z. day Is Toia a llaTge allow
lnce for a family of six or eight persons,
specially where there are milk dishes
o wash and scald, and all the other
Of the farm house to supply. s
f you use that you must travel a thou {
and feet a day, OF more than sixty-nine
niles In a year.
It seems like quite a tramp to go }
hirty-tive miles and bring back a pail t
t water. Of course you can shorten it a
y taking two pals at time but that n
axes more strength. Can you not con- :
rive to have pump that will lift that 4
'ater directly into the kitchen? It n
i'll cost something, but it will save v
q
PLOwING IN CLOVER. summing v
p the advantages which may be de- G
we'd from plowing in clover sod-and 6
e may say at the same time q crop of =
lover grown for this purpose the fol-
wing are the chief points to be noted L
1. Glover, from its habits of growth, Y
ay be produced upon soils too poor for Y,
ny other crop, because it gathers its nj
Iod from sources beyond the reach of =
ly other crop. u
2. Clover gathers from the soil more P'
otesh, lime, phosphoric acid, aud other NJ
ineral matters, and also several times
ore nitrogen than any other crop.
3. Clover, in its decay, sets free from
e soil a considerable quantity Of min
al matter, aud also gathers from the tc
during its growth, a con- pi
lerable quantity of nitrogen. he
4. All these accumulations are
ought to the surface, where they are III
ade available for the use of the sue SO
eding crops.
5. That in this manner clover affects Gu
sensible and valuable improvement Of bo
e soil, both directly by its actual con- os
buttons to it as well as indirectly by -
favorable chemical action upon it. wt
s. That these contributions of a elo- Du
r crop to the fertility of the soil are
t only in an Immediately available q
m for the use Of succeeding crops, De
{ that they are additional to the very gr
and indeed equally valu- gi
le contribution in the form Of fodder an an
the feeding of stock, which is re- II
med in great part to the soil in the Zee
m of manure.
Her Head Got Turned. vi