Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-06-11
DOMESTIC.

when cultivation is mostly over. and
the main crops harvested or laid by,
Ne are most in danger Of allowing our
old enemies, the weeds, to go to seed.
This is a most cnlpabIe and expensive
practice, entaiIing untold labor in future
| wears. We have had In hand the
present season, An old garden, where
| every weed was left undisturbed, and
no crop was planted last year. Their
name was legion of almost every variety
that infests Connecticut soil. and some
that we never met elsewhere. Pig
weed. milk-weed, dock and burdock,
dandclion, fennel, mustard, quack-grass.
plautain, purslain, iack-in-the-pulpit.
mallows. and divers other sorts have
sprung up in their season, and disputed
possession with the crops planted.
There is only one excellence about
them. they insure frequent cultivation
of all crops, if you would have any
harvest. The labor OF subduing one
years seeding of these pests is immence.
In the garden especially, no weed should
ever be allowed to go to seed. When
one crop is off, put in another, and
when the last is gathered, pillow or rake,
or harrow, and let the frost have tree
play at the soil.
HARDNESS AND DRoUrH.-Trees OF
plants that are underred become stunted
and are neither useful DOR beautiful.
The sooner they 9 the better. Those
that are overfed make q rank, watery
growth, which does not rpen, and ID
IN no condition 10 resist cold. A tree
,yyerloaded with fruit can neither
perfect the fruit nor rIpen Its wood
properly, and IN q severe climate Is
likely to succumb to a degree Of cold
whicn, under proper treatment 1t could
have resisted perfectly. 1t Is safe to
say that millions oil trees are annually
ruined III the couuuy by over-crops.
The grape Is very sensitive In this
respect, if overloaded, the fruit will
not color nor ripen, nor will the wood
ripen. Much injury is done in tbs
city gardens by the excessive use OF
water-not only to the lawns, but to
trees ami piants, and to health as we'll.
Ripeuess, then. Is essential to hardness
is the source of hardness. Mulching
has been strongly commended, but Is
applicable only III certain cases. 1t Is
useful in the case of newly planted
trees, but even with muIching the
surface of the ground should be kept
finely pulverized.
WHITEwAsH THE OUT-BUILpISas.- -
There Is no more healthful method OF
keeping the stables, sheds, and pens
clean, than to give them a good GOAT of
lime wash. The wash is easily and
quickly made as follows: Slack q
bnshel of fresh lime in n pork or other
hsrrel with water enough to make q
thick paste, after which fill up the barrel
with ho: water, and let it stand for q
couple of hours. This wash may be
applied in various ways. It may be
spread upon the walls with q large
whitewash brush, and no pans need be
taken to do a neat job. Whatever wash
ia Is upon the floor in the operation
Is not lost, but helps to sweeten the
stable CT stall. The quickest and most
satisfactory method, is TO use q force
pump, by which the limewash can be
thrown into every crack and corner.
Soil that has lately been burned over
or otherwise dressed with ashes will
often be covered the following season
with white clover. ALI the clovers need
potash largely, and the lack or this
mineral is a common cause of failure
IN getting good seeding of red clover
on bad ~ run sandy land.
We have had hens which ate the
seeds of red peppers and also pecke1
at the skins. But in order to have
fowls get pepper, 1t is best to put It in
their cooked food. We use both the
black and red, sometimes In thick milk,
which they love. and for which they
lay eggs. Put u little salt In chicken
feed.
A DUPAIGE GIL } farmer claims that
for three consecutive years he obtained
sound apples, free from worms. on trees
in his orchard by sowing three or four
quarts OF salt under each tree, while
the iruIt on trees not so sslted was all
injured or ruined by the codling moth.
ONE great reason why so much di
laplGeted wire fence is seen is because
the wires are stretched too tightly.
Cold contracts iron, making the wires
shorter In Winter than when the fence
was made at a milder temperature, and
something has to give way.
1t is good idea to wrap the trunks
of apple trees with burlap sacks, and
to examine the wrappings every few days
TO ascertain If anv of the grubs or worms
of the codd.ing Ii Jth have found their
way into them, that they may be des.
troyed.
IN selecting paints for out of door
work, the light colors should be pre-
ferred in point of durability, though al
present fashion dicrates the darker
tints. The darker shades absorb the
suns rays, and occasion earlier decay
of the material painted.
SALT vs. GRUBs.-A New Jersey far.
mer reports that dressing of eight
bushels per acre OF salt to land badly
infested with white grubs, enabled him
10 raise good crops of corn for three
years past, which was impossible pre-.
vlous to the application.
An Indiana Farmer correspondent
"cured the worst case of self-milkins
COW" by inserting In her nose q ring o.
tive and half or three inch diameter
Coon feed and abundant pasture viii
not keep ANIMALS IN good condition
unless they have plenty of pure water
Az exchange says: "An animal read.
to die from over-feed, or q stolen v 81
to the feed bin. may be saved by q dos
of four to six quarts of bread yeast"
A VETERINARY writer says that msu.
gers should BE- nearly on a level witt
the feet, and that high managers irritat,
the throat and create a tendency h
heaves.
WHEN your monlting fowls seem Il
lag and suffer, and the new plumage il
long IN coming, as if the fowl had los
strength, then Is the best time fo
tonlcs.
TWENTY SEVEN thousand acres o
growing wheat were totally DESTROYED
III California recently by the breakin,
of levee.
GATHER purslane in the morning
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