The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-04-22

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can be rolled down at the time of SOW
ing the seed to bring it in close con-
tact with the seed.- Clover is usually
sown in spring upon the surface, but
great deal of seed is liably to be
wasted by the practice. A warm rain
to swell it, with cold drying winds
afterwards, often destroys it before the
roots can push into the soil for sup
port. Sowing on the snow has no ad-
vantage over later sowing on the soil,
except that one can see the seed lit
tie better, and may get it more even.
Orchard grass is rather coarse, and
has a hull like oats, but it would
doubtless grow sown upon the surface
if the weather and other conditions :
were all favorable. The term rota.
ton is used to indicate the following of
one crop by some other Kind of crop,
as wheat, grass, roots etc-New En-
gland Farmer.
SETTING HENS.
To sit hens, use only eggs known to
be fresh. Eggs intended for sitting
should be kept in sawdust or bran,
large ends downward. Sitting hens
should be fed daily by the same per-
sou. at regular hour, on whole grain,
with a little soft food. Provide an
ample supply or fresh water, with a
Dust bath near at hand. The hen
should not be allowed to spend over
twenty minutes from the nest. Ifshe
refuses to leave the nest take her off
and feed her. The nest should be sit
uated in dark place. Watering the
eggs daily with little tepid water,
sprinkled on with fiat soft brush is q
good plan. The day the chickens
are expected feed the hen on the nest
early with hard food that she NAV not
become restless or leave the nest be-
fore complete incubation. TWENTY
four hours after, remove the hen and
chickens to their coop.
ASPARAGUS.
The cultivation of asparagus. says
the American Cultivator, need not be
so laborious and expensive as usually
Select a piece of
ground free from sod and weeds, ap-
ply much manure, and ashes if pos
sible, and dig the ground ten inches or
a foot deep. Plant from one to two
year-old roots about eighteen inches
apart each way. The same authority
recommends cutting down the stocks
in the fall, covering the bed with
straw, and burning it off as soon as it
becomes dry in the spring. Two or
three quarts of salt may be applied to
the square rod. Asparagus should
not be cut off below the surface of the
ground, and it should not be cut later
than the middle of July.
FOOD FOR LAYING HENS.
A good egg food feeding once or
twice week, is to boil a quart of
beans to thick soup. Then thicken
with ground oats, wheat bran, and
inc meal with little salt and pepper.
Fed warm on cold mornings the fowls
will eat it greedily, and the beans fur
1ish quite a large proportion of nitro
zen for the albumeu of the eggs.
hULCHING POTATOES.
The experiments conducted during
he last session at the Missouri State
A gricultural college fully demonstrate.
he ACCESSIBILITY of mulching potatoes.
We believe every experiment so far
reported gave similar result. The
cost of the materials for mulching is
usually very small, leaves or straw
being plentiful and cheap upon the
farm. Manuripg the ground,
md mulchiDg saves hoeing.
The potatoe requires a cooler eli
nate and mOister soil than our lati-
Jude affords. Mulching tends to Sc
,ure both. The result in every case.
has been largely increased yields of
superior quality.