The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-11-25
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Give the pigs 4 good, warm bed, blu
under no circumstances allow the bed L
be composed OF hay.
A Treasury decision last week declare.
imported beet, carrot, cabbage, onion ant
tnrnip seeds as being within tho cate or,
OF garden seeds and dutiable ut 20 per
cent.
A Maine farmer says his experience In;
convinced him that tengood grade Merinc
sheep catl be kept OH tho same feed thai
would keep one cow-and arc more profit.
able.
II you feel disguised with Tho present
outlook for wool, remember that sheer
grow quickly, mature early, cost little IA
raise, Keep up the fertility OF the furm,
and pay dividends oftener than my other
live stock.
TIE Germantown Telegraph gives in do.
tail III account OF tho mode for successful.
" sending plants by mail, long since
known mud adopted by nurscrymen, but
not 80 widely understood by others. The
following ARE the essentials: Keep the
roots damp md uninjured pack In moss
cover this with two or three layers Of the
oiled paper male for this purpose, aud
cover the whole with stout Wrapping
paper well coded on. Or they may be
packed III n stout pasteboard tube or box.
Wood. houses that arc made SO tight on
the sides that Il current of air cannot
sweep through tho ranks Of wood are ex-
coedinglv improper places for storing fire.
wood. It is well always to have d tight
roof on a w%oodhouse, but the sides should
DO so constructed that tho air man can
blow through the pile between the sticks,
and thus sweep away all the moisture md
dry out the wood so that 1t will burn like
a finder and roll out the heat like a red
hot bar OF iron. ~
There Is nothing better for clover than
plaster, in fact. seed sown upon land con.
tanning none Of It would not grow to any.
thing. Plaster is the sulphAte OF lime,
and its valuable effects arc owing to It's
supplying the soil with line and sulphur.
as good u time as any to SOW plaster IL
after the frost has left the ground in the
nnd the amount required is alto
owing to the fertility OF the soil
say from fifty to one hundred pounds per
mere. 1t should be- sown upon a still day,
Rich or w%cll-manuerd land does not re.
Quire it.
Before winter closes tho work OF the sea.
son-for some geraniums are yetin bloom
in the gardens OF New York City-thcre
are some smaller items OF work which are
easily performed, but which are often for.
gotten or arc not remembered at the right
time. Among these are mkinc I'm div
or drawing them from the, woods, !
for litter and protection from frost; cutting
and burning the dead seeded stalks OF
burdocks along fences, and committing
them to the brush heap; applying winter
mulching to such trees and plants
is are better for it; spreading
manure between the rows OF straw.
two inches thick; laying down
srapeyines and holding them flat on the
ground without covering; cleaning dead
stalks from asparagus, and applying three
Of manure; cleaning, polishing and
billing all metallic tools; asserting apples
before storing them for winter in the
Iruit.room; protecting young fruit trees
mice with a compact mound or cone
Of earth; cutting gratis and securing them
Tor winter; making currant and goose
cuttings; registering newly set
orchards, and covering strawberries and
other green plants with branches OF ever.
green's. 49,,