The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-01-17

before it heads. which win help to enrich the
land. From two TO three canes to a PLANT will
be as mHeh as win be desirable With your close
planting, and hoe down all suckers except those
10 be retained. Berries cannot DO grown to
perfection on poor land, no matter what the
treatment otherwise may be.
SoTELErs.
lit sometimes happens that house plants i'm
cold ROOMS are liable TO get bitten by frost. A
very slight protection, such as can be Afforded
BY piece OF newspaper, viii often be ali that is
needed. Shape the paper by bending like q
eonieai cap, and place it over che plant If
the plant Is small, so that the cap may dc the
outside Of the rim of the pot, the protection
viii &c more complete.
The leaves Of the oak tree contain q much
larger quantity Of mineral matters and fur
nlsh ashes when burned which amounting TO
eight per CENTS considerably richer In potash
than the ashes produced by burning the wood.
Grooming never should be done 50 vigor-
ously as not TO be pleasant to the animal.
Whenever an animal eTinges under the errry-
comb, no good IS being done. II is too much OF
good thing ike too mnch bathing
An exchange says thar a poultry house
should De large enough to be airy, but If is is
kept strictly clean and sweet it viii do no
harm to be somewhat crowded. house
twenty-six feet long. ten feet wide, five feet
high behind and eight feet in front, and hav-
ing four rcosting poles, all on a level, aad only
foot from the floor, viii hold sixty fowls.
This manner of arranging the roOsts prevents
good deal OF quarreiiug TO get on the top perch
An old florist recommends mixing horn
sbavings in soil for pOtting piznts-aboRt one
pound of the shavings mixed with barr0S-
load OF soil. Its effects are visible in the clean
healthy growth OF the plants. The shavings
help to keep the SOL in good mechanical condi-
ton, and IN their gradual decay furnish last
ing stimuiant to plant growth
IF. ID. Curtis. of ElrSly Homestead. states
that an economical manager of a paner-nsill
told hin that they obtained fifteen per cent. OF
the cost of the rye straw they used in the grain
that was left in it. They always thrash the
straw before using it for paper making. and
tins reduce its cost. The lesson to be learned
from this is obvious. There should be less
hurry about the thrashiRg machine and its
+ feeding should be slower n order to insure a
more perfect Smelling Of the grain.
Mir Green, of New Albany, Ind, sealds his
peach trees With wafer poured from the spout
of 3 teaketJle. In five weeks be went over
/ eighteen acres Of peach orchard and was not
troubled with peach borers. He treats his
apple trees IN the same manner and with like
success.
/ The American Pathological Society Is re-
corded as passing the opinion that certain
grape was not fit to eat, but good TO sell This
I looks as If the society was run by market gar
deners and fruit growers, and not for the inn
provement of fruits Is has generally been sup
posed.
I There is no economy Of land in planting
I trees too close together. More trees can Do
crowded on the land by close planting but the
yield OF fruit viii not be greater than from the
/ wider planted trees which have plenty OF space
for the roots TO spread and extend into fresh
+ soil.
/ Plants that are kept in eold-frames during
+ winter should always receive ventilation dur
ing mild weather. No greater evil can befall
+ them than TO be confined in i heated atnOs-
/ phere. Plants thus protected are usually those
that viii not be injured by few degrees Of
/ frost, but the object SHOULD be to merely pre-
vent them from severe frosts; slight frosts viii
do no injury.