News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
Hints About Work from the sAmericnn
Agricuituristo for May.

PLANTING CoRN.-Do not plant corr
until the soil is warm and settled weather
has come. A field planted the middle o.
April may be less advanced in June thar
one planted two weeks later. The corr
crop makes nearly all its growth within
hundred days, and requires food IL
abundance and close at hand. Corn re-
spends rapidly to any available plant
food, applied either as well-rotted manure
or as quick acting commercial fertilizer
Soak the seed in tar water and roll IL
plaster before planting, to keep off the
cut-worms. Brighten away crows with
bright strips of tin, small clapping wind
mills, and fine Irvine stretched from pole
to pole throughout the field. Ii the
ground is weedy, plant in hills, otherwise
drills will be the most profitable. Man.
gels should be sown this month on rich
mellow soil Other kinds of beets may
be sown early next month. Every farm
should have root crop as a part of a
rotation. A root crop cleans the land of
weeds and furnishes an abundance of
food for farm animals. Do not pasture
meadows in the spring; this is asking to
much of any field. 1t is cheaper to buy
| fodder than to rob the meadow. If any
tramping of the meadow in early spring
| is allowed by animals, let it be done by
the horses while drawing out good top
dressing of fine manure Potatoes should
be planted as soon as the soil is ready,
and if early sorts are grown, the crop
may get ahead of the beetles.
LIVE Stock NOTES.-The work horses
need the best of care and an abundance
of wholesome food. The shoes may be
removed from farm horses if the fields
are free from stones. All horse labor
should be pushed forward rapidly, so
that during the hot weather of next
month some leisure may be taken at
MONDAY. Oxen are slow of motion, but
most useful for many kinds of farm
work. They need considerable time for
| feeding, and cannot be hurried much at
their work. Change the COWS gradually
from dry feed to pasture. Bring them
to the stables early, and feed hay with
some roots; give dry fodder the next
morning before turning the animals out
| to grass. Calves need special care, as
this is the time when ''black quarter"
and other serious troubles come upon
them. Ewes, with their lambs taken
from them, sometimes need some of the
milk removed from their udders. After
shearing, the ticks gather on the lambs,
and may be quickly destroyed by Dip
ping in tobacco water or some other
effective dip. Tag the sheep before
they leave the sheds for the pasture
Pigs thrive with a good run of clover.
The orchard is the proper place for
swine; they have good grazing and de-
stroy many insect pests. Keep young
chickens clean and dry. There is no
better place for the coops than in the
vegetable garden, where the young
chicks will destroy many injurious
worms.
| ORCHARD AND FRUIT GARDEN.-Trees
| that have been heeled-in may be retarded
by shading them. Planting should be
| finished as soon as possible. If the trees
have started, great care will be needed
in handling them. Such trees should
be trimmed at planting. Grating for
the renewal of old trees may continue,
taking great care in cutting away the
branches to make no bad wounds, as the
bark now peels readily.
GRATING WAx.-Four parts of rosin
and one part each, bees-wax and tallow,
make good preparation. If too hard,
| add more tallow, or if too soft, take less.
The best way of using it is upon cloth.
Take an old sheet or the skirt of we'll
worn dress; tear it into strips two inches
wide, make the strips into rolls, and let
them remain in the melted wax until
thoroughly soaked through; remove and
let them drain and cool. This waxed
cloth may be torn off in pieces of con-
venient size to cover the wounds, and
can be applied to make complete cover
ing. Squashes are a good crop for a
young orchard. Potatoes, mangels,
turnips, or other roots may be grown
between the rows of fruit trees.
TENT CATERPILLARs.-If any eggs es-
capped, their ''tents" or webs will soon
appear in the trees. Remove them
while small. Curculios attack the young
plums soon after the blossoms fall, and
the thorough Earring of the trees should
begin early.
MULoHING is far better than watering
to save newly planted trees. Cover the
ground over the roots with bog hay, old
straw, or litter of any kind.
STRAWBERRIES. = Beds that were
covered last fall should have the straw
left on them until after the fruit is
picked. The straw should be pulled
away just over the plants. Pull up such
coarse weeds as appear through the
mulch of the bed.
WATCH for the first appearance of
holes in the leaves of currants and
gooseberries, and use White Hellebore
busted on, or better mixed with water,
large tablespoonful of the powder in
painful of water, and apply with sy-
ringe or pump. Repeat few days later,
to destroy those which escaped or have
Matched since the first application.
YOU'VE grape vines set this spring,
should be allowed to push but one shoot.
If two or more buds were left, to guard
against accidents, rub off all but the
strongest, and keep the shoot from this
tied up to a stake. Rose-bugs destroy
the flowers of the grape, shake off these
pests in early morning, catching them
in pan in which there is thin film of
kerosene floating on little water.