Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-14
Farm and Garden Notes.

Nocs eat insects
cqrcnts ike a little shade
Tobacco liquid kills sheep ticks.
Keep the weeds from your root crops.
Brown lcghorn fowls are great layers
Berkshire swine make superior hams.
Kerosene oil kills insects in hen
uses
Hereford cattle breed well at an ad-
nced age
Two vines TO a hill are enough for
atemclons.
Mares in foal should have oats, which
bike bone.
Wash hen roosts and the bottoms of
Ms with kerosene.
Cmding cattle adds to health as well
TO beauty 1t saves feed.
Pinch back Lima bean lines and they
i'll raise larger if fewer pods.
Never throw feed on the ground for
Attle to dirty and scramble for.
In the winter time there is a. great deal
value in cabbages for mich cows.
Put blood on the bases of trees where
hbbits guaw They will not go near
ood
Market gardeners find the growing Of
mall cucumbers for pickles one of their
post profitable crops In most farm
trighbofhoOds patch Of cucumbers for
Ga
better prices than the market garden
D. obtain at wholesale for their crops.
Properly speaking corn for fodder
boud not be sown, but put in with the
sril, preferably in rows fifteen inches to
wo feet apart, SO as to allow cultivation
Aal sunlight. The old idea that corn
0idcr was growing too coarse if allowed
i ear is exploded. 1t is all the better
\ Fed for caring.
Il A correspondent of the Fruit Recorder
Rays he has boiled leaves and stems of
omato plants until the juice is all eX-
.Racted, and finds the liquor deadly to
Naterpllars, lice. and many other enc
nles OF vegetation. 1t does not iniure
4 lhe growth of plants, and its odor remains
aora long time to disgust insect n,arau-
iers.
So soon as the sheep are shorn, the ticks
aalch have found hiding lace in the
Thick wool betake themselves to the ear
pest and best lambs whose wool affords
tae best protection. Dipping the lambs
] u water where tobacco stems have been
stepped will greatly relieve the lambs
too prevent the whole flock going the
o"n-hlll road on the approach of winter.
10 pr vent haystacks firing. scatter a
lew haadiuls of common salt between
,aeh layer. The salt, by absorbing the
humidity of the hay, not only prevents
u fermentation and consequent heating.
ogl II also adds salty taste to the forage.
@meh all cattle like; beside, it stimu-
a'eS the appetite and assists their diges-
9 -. and so preserves them from many
diseases.
Inc advantage in letting hogs run at
aFge IN summer is found chiefly i'm the
s'sSs, weeds and other bulky food that
e1ey pick up, which distends their stom-
aSns and keeps them in healthy condi-
Hon. If pigs are kept in the pen during
summer they should have COOLING Iaxa-
we food rather than grain. Wheat bran
: snip stuff with milk viii make rapid
s'oWth without undue fattenlng.
inc easiest and in many soils the best
eN 70 destroy weeds in potato hills is 20
= through the rows with shovel pillow
~ completely cover the tops SO soon *
~ appear above the surface. In a few
es's the potatoes will push up AGAIN
IN greater yigor than ever. while the
"a. 'l'aa weeds on the hin will be Killed
eae,ight This operation should NOT he
N, when potato vines arc wet bv
either dews or rains. 70 y
I,a y very rich roll in gardens or who .
~ ! more valuable than labor Tho
sg OF potatoes Ia rows one way s
s ,1se'llnes advisable. A larger cron can
e-aoaoeedly be grown III this way hnt
sseater expense IN cultivation Tbare
so much difference III variefies
als SORTS that nave small tons viii l,sa~
saslns twelve to fifteen inches a,,sr ~,N i,
- soNs Later and more nrodnct;xn
sssa 70 be nearly three feet anart
case 1t il Of course aav;eals1e :,