Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-05-30
FARM, FIELD AND TIRBSIDE.
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes.
| A correspondent of the GARDENERS
Monthly ties newspapers around celery.
and bleaches it better, easier and cheap
er than by earthing up. r..
One Of the first rules for making the
finest butter, is to get the cream, out OF
the milk as quick as possible, and then
to have the cream in proper condition
for churning in the shortest possible
time after it is skinned, Suppose the
milk is SKINNED this morning and
evening, that cream ought always to be
ready for churning to- morrow morning
ready for churning means slightly sour
and thick.
Concrete may do very we'll to make a
cistern in stiff clay soil, but I fear it
| might not hold firm and might be liable
to crumble in sandy soil. Brick is
preferable, and perfectly reliable. Lay
them with the ends to the sides Of the
excavation, and give both the bottom
and sides of tho cistern two coats Of wa
ter-lime plaster. Some give only one
coat, but this is not so strong and reli-
able as two coats. My cisterns were
made thus fifteen years ago, and have
kept perfectly sound to the present day.
-Sandila.
The following points favor the set
ting of small trees; 30 Small trees
have larger roots in proportion; 90 they
cost less ;(3) expressage Of freight is less
expressing small trees is usually
cheaper than freighting large ones, and
then So much more speedily; a less
labor handling, digging holes, etc. (?')
less exposed to high winds, which loosen
roots and kill many transplanted trees ;
(6)planters can form heads and train
them to their own liking: ~ with good
care in say five years they Will overtake
the common, large sized trees. With
out good care, better not plant any size.
Mr., T. D. Baird mentions, in the
American Garden, his course in pursuit
of early cabbage. What he says of fire.
quent culture is almost equally true in
respect to ali hoed crops: Il cult
vate my cabbage every few days
sometimes until they are nearly
re,dy for market. When insects modest,
T apply q sprinkling OF SCOT, If to be
had; otherwise, ashes IRE used. The
best remedy against the cabbage worm
Is to induce quick growth, and if the
plants are set ont early, they Will be
more likely to come through unmolested
than if planting is deferred till the sea
son is more advanced"
An old Pennsylvania farmer says the
simplest and easiest way to prevent
birds, small vermin, &c., from pulling
up the corn crop after it is planted, Is
to tar the seed corn. Put the seed into
a vessel, ard fill it with q solution Of
copperas water. and then stir either gas
or pine tar through, so that all the seed
is tonched. Then drain off the water,
and roll the seed in dry plaster, ashes
or superphospate. Plaster is best to
dry the corn, and render it facile for
dropping or drilling This is an old
method, and it is said neither squirrels
nor birds will disturb seed corn treated
in that way.
There is 4 considerable difference be-
tween the Wild and the cultivated pars-
nip, though they have the same botanic
al name (pastinaca sativa), the root Of
the latter being larger, without
branches, softer and more tleshv. The
wild parsnip has an acrid taste, and
sometimes malignant consequences
when eaten; the cultivated assumes the
same acrid taste as soon as it begins to
grow in spring. According to author
tiles on the subject, cultivation makes
all the difference