Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-10-04
Farm AND GARDEN.

ORCHARD Ayp FRrrr. GAg-sES De
eide whether to dispose OF surplus AMI
inferior fruit by making i. into vinegar
or by drying or evaporat;ng it. Tree.
viii be brokea bv careless pickers; sa~H
of all injured limbs The appleworEi
may be diminished by picking UP and
destroying fallen i,nit or allowing tho
pigs 10 do it. Bands OF carpet. baggfng
Or other fabric, fastened around the
trunks OF apple trees with n siEgE long
tack. will catch many apple worms. tx
anime weekly and kill. II trees set last
spring suffer from drouth. mulch them.
or keep the soil loose. The fall web
worm spins It's nest III summer also. Al
It's first appearance cut away the twig
to which the nes. is attached and crush
The worms. Young trees may iase their
shape controlled by pinchirg tue ends of
shoots that grow too vigorously. When
the blackberry and raspberry crops arc
off Gu; away the canes that have ho.'ae
| fruit. The new stems Of blackberr,es
should be stopped when five feet high.
those of raspberries 1T three or four feet.
Keep strawberry beds free IF weeds.
Plant new hex with plants rooted in
pots. Whltish 81 pots on the under side ii
grape leaves are midcw. Dust sulphur
with a sulphur bellows n once. Largo
caterpiiIars and beetles must he hand
| picked. Continue to pinch later als.-
| Agricui5uriss.
CARE OF MEADOWS, "A farmer visit
ing me last spring remarked: Il can
not understand how you wlntered 80
much stock, when You had oily six
acres of grass TO cut. / kept ahont
three times as much stock as yon iia
and moved over just ten times Is much
land" Bv this time our "Wa,ks AMI
Talks" had brought us to the six acres
I which is TO be moved this year. 'fon
have been rolling this, he said, "Sn,
replied, lit looks as though il had
been rolled, but those are the swaths o:
of the 6-foot mower used TO cut the
rowen last fall after wheat We had a.
most two loads per acre Of pretty good
hay" "Well, now l begin to under
stand" said he. Il wondered, II ."'s
bad wheat there last year, what had be
come of the stubble Bnt, my fries.l. ]
cannot do snch thing "a that. Grass
will not grow like that for me-
Knowing that it wonld If ii had fair
chance, / began to question HIM to .in.i
out where the trouble was. ] !onad
that he carefully saved til. MANURE male
on his farm and used il 10 good advap
tage His rotation was a COOL one. ami
he was wtlI supplied with improved
tools, and was in the hali. Of using
them freely. But the tronble came on:
at last; he let his stock run on tic
meadows and wheat s.ubble in the fall al
| wavs, and sometimes, when b. was
short of hay III the spring. Now. Iii
his case, as / frankly told him, this waa
probably the main reason wny he WA
short of bay: shy he lad to 'aow over
80 acres to pet what might bnve been
/ grown On 20 acres. No man could.
} think Of turning his stock nj LIS vAe.s.
or corn or oalss, although ;hey might or<
dure 10 be gnawed OF and 'rau plei o'l
: for time and aftegwari make par, ns
crop. We give .hern mellow frnnti II
, grow on. protected from the .ranpliilr
. of stock. and from heing isi,'en II atI
injured while ihev were yors.a a5sd scn-
der Why not treat the rroei'F rrats
as well? Why Lot give J: the is.e: 81
- sible chance 10 grow ar.i ,!e!i lar. =
crops If hay instead oi sisasitf ss II,
every way Tue grass IoI. j: pr"r"s!s
nsei-if given a fair chanc. --Ts : tl..li
about as mscii Ies Iro:i. S. 's'sy .i....s 4
the farm offentime-. although ;hs
4 money does not cous. ~ directly. T-<,-
4 hay4. a. from the wzosat Or r-s.a.o cfs=t'.
= Wv Is i ,nas. ~ mary s3 ~. s. !
I allow their cattle 10 pick AMI 'ras4'sl -
{. .heir grass grosLi- fsfj pts'use. sF.,
a often iuinreu a. wc.i 4s r3o4tisy >s".<
o during :l.. .all and .siu..r AL sp.s ~
s Il; il rarity, perhaps. because they do
: ID. real;z.. tha. they are losing by the
. prac.lc-: f.ar''v 10 sa~e wofk-shey do
i 10. keep l4e.p euougii ~ run the farm 70
= ita In. capacity ard partly because
! ,hey have "'oo many irons in the fire. 81
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