Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-01
Farm and Garden .

Good tools are the cheapest Clean pigs make sweet pork l Fouls dislike sloppy food. 1 One weed killed may prevent thousands
 next year.
 Fat COWS give poorer milk than moderately ] lean ones.
 A laying hen will eat more than one that l is not laying
 If animals get stung by bees or hornets. apply warm vinegar and salt, rubbing the
 parts thoroughly.
 Weeds are great absorbers of moisture from 1 the land, and if tolerated, often rob the crops injuriously in dry weather Preparatory to weaning colts, they should be taught to feed on fine hay, meal and oats. so that there need be no shrinkage of flesh after leaving the dam. Summer and early autumn is good time for laying drains, especially through wet, swampy land, for with the earth being dry and light, it can be handled with less labor than when loaded with water Sometimes bees are disposed to build their combs across the bars. By the use of two inch wide strip of foundation set lengthwise ! under the top bars this may be prevent ed.
 Fast Walking.-In training horses great
 
 fast walking. This is the cheapest and most economical pace, and it is strange that it is not much better appreciated. A fast walker may readily be worth twice as much a slow one, other things being equal, for such one gets over vastly more ground in day, even with heavy load and without any special effort
 Food for Hens-Barley is perhaps the best staple grain, especially if mixed alternately with wheat, buckwheat or corn. Corn, while it is excellent US change, is not good regu- lar diet. Rice, well boiled and mixed with barley or corn meal, will be useful as change once in a while. Brewers grains, if fresh, are greatly relished, and the same is true of malt sprouts or dust if there is a malting es- tabhshment near, from which these be obtained.
 Manure Going to Waste.-Manure is the foundation for all successful farming. The soil should be looked upon the vehicle that holds the plant food, and unless the returns to it are full equivalent for what is taken off in the shape of crops, decreasing fertility must ensue. The aim on the farm should be to constantly increase the richness of the ground by manuring. Among farmers gen orally much extravaganza undoubtedly pre- vails in managing the manure. Some allow the chicken dung and night soil to lie about in heaps till 1t has lost it's most valuable fer tilizing qualities. They seem afraid of it be- cause 1t is a powerful article, forgetting that it can be applied in small quantities, like
 guano or soot. Others allow the stable man
 ure to accumulate all summer without shel- ter, to be weakened by the autumnal rains to such extent that by the time it is carried to the fields a large portion of it's manural value is lost. This last kind of waste should be stopped by providing sheds for the pro- lection of the manure, and shaped, as to the floor, to be basin-like, so there will be no chance for the liquid portion to flow away Then it should be made strong point to conduct all the urine from the stables into the manure basin to aid speedy decay. render ing it available as plant food as early as possi- ble. Manure should never be allowed to lie around many months unused, for, aside from the considerations of waste, it is too much like capital unemployed.
 ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
 Save seeds from the best plants l
 Keep the sweet potatoes stirred. l
 The fight against weeds counts best in dry l weather.
 If beetles appear on the asparagus cut it ! down.
 Experienced growers prefer to set raspber- l ries and blackberies in the fall
 The only way to get the better of the large tomato and tobacco caterpillars is to hand l pick them, and it will pay to do it.
 When windfalls and other inferior fruit \ are worth twenty cents bushel, and the ! same evaporated would produce six pounds { of fruit worth twelve cents per pound, con { sider if it would not pay to set up an evapora- tor.
 The use of liquid manure on squash or melon vines will tell on the growth wonder fully, as these plants are rich feeders.
 Layering in Pots.-If plantation of strawberries is to be made, by layering the ! young plants into three inch pots, for retain ng all the roots that will form during the | next two months in the fall, and then plant ng them into the beds, the plants will bear a good crop of fruit next year, and far better han if the pots had been used.
 Applying Poultry Manure. Where high ! is desirable, sometimes poultry ] manure will be used too heavily to do the l ,ood aimed for. This is more apt to be the ! ;ase if it is less than six months old. Per laps the best way of using it is to mix 1t with COW or other manure, for then it be omes diluted in a sense and then loses none ! f it's value.
 Layering Gooseberries, Currants md Grapes. It is still time for this operation and noth- ng is more simple Scrape out an opening 1 n the earth an inch deep and three or four nches long for each shoot. Bend these down I nto place and fasten them there by laying I tones on them or with crotched sticks, after yard covering them with soil By lsyering he grape shoots which have length, in and ut a foot apart, O number of plants may be aised from one cane.
 FLOWERS AND THE LAWN
 Hoe the roses we'll.
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