Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-22
Farm and Garden, hz hou far ahAnn

hOFs6S nave TeAcQ6Q SIxGy years.
 Shelter young chicks from sun and rain.
 Start on preparing buckwheat soil early.
 To raise good calves feed the whole sea- son.
 Farm animals appreciate notice and pet ting.
 Procure farm seeds from a different local ity sometimes.
 Diseases in live stock in most cases is due to inattention and stupidity.
 Beans have been proftably grown with corn, by planting hills of the two against each other.
 To raise potatoes to a pr oft, manage by good tilling with the aid of improved machin- cry before and after plantin E, to avoid much land hoeing.
 Swarming bees that seem disposed to make for the woods can usually be stepped by throwing dirt or water among them to cause confusion.
 Dust Boxes -Dusting to hens and turkeys is what washing is to other animals, and pro- per provisions should be made to meet their want. Road dust, ashes and snl- phur placed in box in 8 convenient place is all that is required.
 Where to Under Drain The time to test the land is in the spring. or any time in wet weather. If pit three feet deep will hold water longer than few hours, or will collect some at it's bottom after rains. the land needs draining. If water stands in the furrows
 when blowing. or upon tke surface after
 rains, draining is greatly needed to fit the land for full cropping. Quack- -Grass.-It is singular that the near est relative to our most useful grain, wheat, is the quack or couch-grass, our wo st weed, Many a farmer sees this pest gaining on him with RorroW, for if acquainted with his habits rightly he we'll knows that no weed entails harder work without reward than this. How to get rid of it when once it has hold is a standing question. The true fighting line Is, not to let a green blade show it's tip above ground. In small patches it has been wholly smothered out, by covering the soil heavily with straw for one season to the loss of one crop of any kind.
 Training colts.-This is pleasure to the boys, and need not be otherwise to the ami
 mals by right course. Let them first get used to wearing a halter both without and with tying Curry them gently each day, and occasionally put light harness on 1 for an hour or two in the stable. After they are used to this, they may be hitched before
 8 sulky or light wagon and driven out for several hours each day. Soon they may be put to the lighter work about the farm, but must not be counted on much yet the first season.
 Pumpkin Planting.-In the cornfield | planting should ba deferred until after corn 1 planting. Then go over the field putting l two seeds in every fourth hill of every fourth row across the field where alternate hills 1 may have seed added. Here they will receive | more sun and larger number can be accom- modated. Pumpkins are sometimes planted l with potatoes, by skipping hill here and there throughout the field and planting the l former instead. If it is desired to occupy | A. 1,fI cI,-, Ea l eight or nine fest apart with about four 1 plants to each. Never plant near squashes, | as the plant is liable to be converte5 into 8 | hybrid that Is neither the one nor Chs other l aud inferior to either, becoming hard and warty. Seed of pumpkins should not be | saved from very large specimens, as these | are less nutri tious and valuable thaa smaller ones.
 GIanders Catching to Persons.-A man should never work around glandered horse, 1 if he has at the time any sore, scratch or chapped hands, as the disease is easily taken. Indeed it is better to wear gloves when at tending the animal, and care should be taken not to inhale the least particle of the dis charge that is blown off by snorting or sneez- ing as if this comes in contact with the mem brane at the commencement of the nostrils, the disease may be imparted in it's worst form. More than one groom has lost his life by catching this ailment The stall and
  should be thoroughly cleansed by scraping, washing with soap and later with chloride of lime to destroy all germs. The same course must be taken with clothing and harness. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. Cultivate young orchards. Sqeashes are great feeders. Early turnips should go in damp rich soil.
 Tobacco dust sprinkled over fruit bushes when vet with due will rid them of in sects..
 Strawberries may be ripened earlier by placing sash over the beds, resting them on bricks OF stakes.
 Rich soil, good culture and free thinHing of all vegetables grown from seed is the secret of large and paying crops.
 Birds and Fruit.-Unpleasant as Is the sight
 of fruit-rcbbing by birds, 1t should be re- mambered that they do more good, in the insects they kill, than harm by the other Even those kinds which live partly on insects and partly on vegetable substances, de stroy | immense quantities of insects, particularly
 in the spring for feeding their young. FLOWERS AND THE LAWN. Start tender annuals and bulb now, Stir the soil after rains to prevent crust | ing.
 Plants in flower should not be watered I overhead | Everyone has flowers of their own in dan delion time.
 Pot plants standing on sand or soil should
 never be allowed to root into this substance underneath.
 Propagate New Kinds Now--It is always
 desirabls to increase the stock of t1ne new
 plants that have been bought, and 1t often If
 the case that one such would aforo cuttlnh or two now which could not have been takel