Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-19
Farm and Garden. Keep ahead of the work. Late aown Deas will be buc-frea.

AabS 5oWA PcnS VIII Do buk-AGc0. Animals need variety in their food. Spirits of heartshorn will relieve bee stings Flax requires a rich, clean, pulverized soil Clover hay is better than timothy for but ter.
 If hens in confined places cannot have the best of care, better~not keep any. Breeding sews should have access to good pasture before and after breeding at this sea- son.
 Butter should be kept cool from the time it leaves the churn. The churniug should be done in the morning.
 It is poor economy not to keep buildings well painted, for the moisture that paint would stop soon causes rotten boards and timbers.
 Root crops should early be gone over thinning them out where standing too close and setting in some of the spare plants where vacancies occur. This should be done in { moist time if possible.
 Movable Poultry Quarters.-With the ust of such some poultry can be kept in confine 1 ment in small grounds, to ss good advantage | almost as when they have 8 free run on { farm. For dozen hens make 8 structure l ten feet long and six feet wide. Four feet & one end should be boarded up, roofed anG utt6u N1In HUT, 1couIAB 1Ao OtAoA OOhSCh fences the remainder should be only two feet high, and made of lath or narrow boards l for yard, but without floor. This struc ture may be easily carried by two men, or il 1 might be fitted to move on rollers. It should | be located on grassy patch and moved eve ry day or two. Packing Butter.-When the churning is done the butter should be carefully washed | in cold water, after which the process of salt ing may take place. Some add a small quan- tity of nitre also After this it may stand about an hour in a cool place when the work ing may begin. This should be thoroughly done. by going over it three or four times at intervals of half day. The frkin to re ceive the butter must be scalded and then rinsed and cooled with cold water. A hand full of fine salt should be rubbed over the in- side and this will prevent the butter from sticking Fill in firmly to within an inch or SO from the top. smooth it and cover with a linen cloth. Until the butter is to be mar keted the space on top should be kept filled with salt, with water added to form brine Then the cloth and salt over it are removed the brine is drained of, washing the top of the butter with clear water, and the firkin is headed.
 Buckwheat as 8 Farm Crop.-While for blowing under as green manure single crop may not be as good as a crop of clover, 1t has the advantage that two such crops can be had in one season, and 1t can be grown on soils unsuited to clover. The flowers yield honey for bees, the grain is valuable both for human and animal food. Poultry thrive on the product and if mixed with corn hogs fatten rapidly on it. From twenty to twenty five bushels per acre is an average yield i; much larger crops coming on rloh than on poor soil The straw if well cured makes excellent fodder for cattle, while sheep will thrive on 1t about as we'll as on good hay Sr ,,suallv eoUn in the northern States the latter part of June or the first of July In the South it may be sown some weeks earlier and later. Sandy loams are the favorite soils, and these should be worked up mellow. Fresh mannres are obJectlona- ble to the crop. For curing after harvesting it should be placed in small stacks of several tons each as 1t heats readily. Several crops of buckwheat grown in succession on patch- es of Canada thistles have been known to kill them out entirely.
 ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
 Grow young grapes 10 one cane.
 Thin out the soweG vegetables.
 Gut out the flower stalk of rhubarb.
 Fruit trees need feeding and care.
 Direct straw berry runners for filling va cancies.
 Cease cutting asparagus when early peas come.
 As soon as currant worms appear powder the plants carefully with white hellebore.
 Profits amounting to $400 per acre are oft en realized from strawberries.
 A mulch of two inches of short manure on the surface around spring planted trees will help them more than anything else to with stand the drouths of summer.
 Till the Bookkeeping down the weeds will not be the only gain to come from thor ough hoeing. By having layer of finely puI4erized soil at the surface evaporation Of moisture will be prevented drring the day, while absorption will go on through the night. After every heavy rain the soil of the garden should be gone over with hoe or rake to prevent erustipg.
 on the vine, but on any plants where signs of mildew appear, this remedy should be fresly applied with a bellows or by dustlng, when the leaves are vet from dew or rain. It is possible to get rid of mildew even after it has strong hold on 6 plant, but only by the greatest pains in repeatedly dust1nR every part of the foliage. Where there is ten denoy in young grapes to rot, the addition of about one-tbird of air slacked lime to the sulphur to be applied is found to check the disease.
 FLOWERS AND THE LAWN.
 Propagate shrubs by layering.
 Peg down the verbens shoots.
 Never put a new plant into dirty pot.
 Wild flowers are very popular for wearing
 F or EOOLA GAO ~J made into links and these into chain, with good effect.
 The night blooming cereus sometimes has over one hundred of it's large flowers In one season
 Old fashioned shrubs like the towering currant, honeysuckle, sweet brler rose, etc., are being planted more than formerly.
 Moss on the Surface.-Somet1mes moss and kind of green lichen grow on the sur face of the soil in canellia or other pots This is harmful rather than otherwise and should be dug out, afterwards facing the sur face with fresh soil.
 Summer Watering.-We often see pot plants, hanging baskets and vases suffering badly from dryness, and yet are watered ev- cry day perhaps. This may come from care Iessly giving them dash of water, most Of which escapes down the sides, instead of ap- plying it slowly and enough to soak to the center of the soil. When once the bulk of the soil gets dry it absorbs moisture slowly, and if this is not taken into account at water ing damage to the plants will ensue. It should be remembered too that when soil in flower pots or vases gets dry it shrinks in size with the effect of leaving a little space around the ball next to the receptacle, and through this the water escapes in watering when it is thought to be going into the soil. If ahonld be made & standing rule in every