Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-14
Farm and Garden Notes.

The robin destroys the cutworm, and
the yellow bird eats the cankerworm.
DO not place beehives too near each
other Queens sometimes get mixed up
when they go to meet drones.
DO not set out verbena plants so that
they are too close. Four or five feet
should be given to them. They are
wonderful spreaders.
Spick and span men, who grub up all
sorts of wild bushes, do not always have
picturesque farms, but they make more
money than their more romantic neigh
bors
Farming is an art which requires
thorough practical knowledge of many
arts and sciences to bring it to high
degree OF perfection. Yet there are many
whose knowledge is confined almost ex-
clusively TO one profession, art, or trade.
who affect TO look with contempt upon
the farmers calling as being one which
any ignoramous may follow with success.
Plow up the old cow-yards, running
the pillow deep, and, SAYS the German
town Telegraph, as many loads of earth
rs YOU can remove so many loads Of
rich fertilizer YOU will have We have
read of an enterprising gentleman who
MANFRED ten acres of grass land with the
earth from under an old barn, and got
enormous growths for several years
after
Plant plenty of sunflowers. We plant
alongside chicken run, in order to
afford little shade to the fowls 1t is
said that they purify the air and prevent
fever and ague. We have seen some of
the Russian mammoth sunhowers, of
which il is hardly an eXaggeration to say
that they were as big as the bottom of
milk pan. The seeds are recommended
very highly as chicken feed Strangely.
our chickens would never eat them.
Other people, however, do not generally
find any cause for complaint.
To find the number of tons of hav In
long or square stacks, the following is
the rule: Multiply the length in Yards
by the width in yards, and that bv half
the altitude in yards, and divide the pro-
duct by fifteen. To find the number CT
tons in circular stacks: Multiply the
square of the circumference in yards by
four times the altitude in Yards and di-
vide by 100. The quotient will be the
ntAber of cubic yards in the stack Then
divide by fifteen to get the number of
tons. Michigan Farmer.
Peter Henderson says "If garden
seeds when planted in the spring are
firmly pressed when under the earth
by the bali of the foot, at the time the
gardeners are putting them into the
ground, they will invariably grow,
drouth or no drouth !; and what is
still more important, they will spring
up earlier, and grow faster and mature
better than any of their kind which have
not been subjected to this discipline. This
same rule of pressure holds good in trans
planting trees. shrubs and plants"
Gurrant bushes are propagated by
planting seeds, by bending down the
bushes and covering part with soil, or
by cutting of suckers some distance be-
low the surface of the ground and re-
moving them with the small roots. Gen
erauv they are propagated by cutting.
TT cuttings should be formed of wood
of he same years growth, or of the pre-
vtous season, if they are taken off in the
spring. They should, to grow to the
best advantage. be cut early in the spring
befors the sap starts. The cutting should
be done with sharp knife, and the di-
visions made at the axis of bud
4 correspondent of the HQS5aadDa0n
says that sulphur is a preventive Of po-
tato rot, and this is confirmed by the cx-
perience of a Vermont farmer. who
rolled his cut potatoes in fine sulphur al
planting and busted the plants as they
appeared above the ground Neither
rot. worm nor insect touched them,
though potatoes on neighboring farms