Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-09-11
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


A DusheI OF corn IN hot weather, and
with the pigs on grass, will make more
pork than two bushels next winter.
Now that the harvest is nearly all done
by machinery it is pretty hard on the
horses see to it that they have the best
of care and generous feeding.
Go to see the sheep at least once week,
and don't fail to make them glad to see
you by taking them some salt; but your
visit will be just as welcome any other
day as Sunday.
Unless corn is good it is about the poor
Vt crop farmer can grow, and the char
acter of the crop is more within the
farmers control than any other
Manure is never applied too heavily for
corn
A slate with pencil attached, hung
In the kitchen. on which to note down
articles as you think of them, to be
bought when you 90 Ito town." will be
found great convenience, and will save
much vexation of spirit.
Give hogs little tar on their corn
once every two or three weeks till cold
weather. small quantity smeared on
heir nose and corn as it is fed to them
Put tar mixed with sturgeon oil on the
hogs to keep the ticks off
Hens that steal their nests usually
hatch every egg. One reason is that the
eggs are commonly on the ground or
where they will be occasionally mois-
toned by rains, and thus some water is
supplied to preserve life In the embryo
chick
Farmers should have the best, and in
the line of garden vegetables they have
an important advantage over city resi-
dents in getting vegetables fresh every
morning instead of those that have been
wilted in the sun for day or two before
using.
The fact is often forgotten that earth
piled around tree to the depth OF two
or three feet through the summer is pretty
sure death to it. The sunlight is shut
off from the roots, and the tree is as I'M
able to live as an animal would be with
out air.
A considerable saving of time and help
is made by drawing grain from the
field to the barn by the use of two
wagons instead of enc. One man is kept
in the field loading all the time, and one
or two more keep their station on the NOW
or stack.
Des Cars says, in his treatise on prun-
ing. that coal tar cannot be safely and
freely used for wounds on drupaceous
trees, such as cherries, peaches and
plums; but that on pome-bearing trees,
as apples and pears, it may be applied
with perfect safety.
Begin now to gather up litter and other
material to put upon the fields as soon as
the crops arc removed. Do not forget
that vegetable matter is the source of all
improvement, and so utilize all that your
farm affords. Haul it on the fields and
spread it as early in the fall as you can.
The best horses are those which are
high-strung, and these are the ones most
likely to be ruined in training. More
than half the hired help to be got in
these days is unfit to manage such lively
teams, and for their use the heavier,
slower Norman French horses are best.
E. s. Rogers, who originated so many
valuable hybrid grapes, said: lin cross
ing grapes all the blossom buds on the
cluster were removed except those to be
operated on, and when these were nearly
ready to open the caps were removed be-
fore the anthers burst and the stigma
touched with the foreign pollen"
1t is a good plan to go over the corn
fields again with the hoes, to cut down
the weeds and large punches of grass
that have put up around the corn since
the last hoeing. A large bunch of grass
near a stalk of corn will reduce the yield
os that stalk one-half very often Cut
the weeds from the fence corners and
spread them among the corn.
The inefficiency Of the common practice
Of spading small circles about trees
standing in grass is not we'll understood
The roots run as far on each side as the
;rees usually farther), and ten-year- old
tree, fifteen feet high, stands in circle
of its own roots thirty feet in diameter
A three feet circle, as often seen, occu-
pies therefore only hundredth part Of
the roots. The same with manuring
trees.
If oats or barley are sown on land
strong enough to make good crop, in
three years out Of four they win be beaten
down by rain before harvest. This, if it
happens early, is an injury to the crop,
and any way it necessitates having the
soil leveled as smoothly as possible, so
that the reaper guards may be run close
to the surface. If this is not done many
bushels Of grain per acre viii be wasted.
Every year there is q considerable
cunt of rusted wheat, generally at
cking that which is late, especially if
simulated to sudden growth nv too