Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-13
Farm and Garden.

Farm ana Garden. Haul out muck
 Mow the roadside weeds.
 Cultivate beans only when dry.
 Good crops demand good seed-beds.
 Till the carrot patch for several weeks yet.
 Stagnant water at the roots winter kills wheat.
 Fifth is a common cause of failure in poul- try keeping.
 In buying strange fowls be careful you are not getting diseased fowls. Before firing the stubble blow several fur rows around it. The difference in single crop sometimes nearly pays for understanding Denmark will soon be included among countries that will need American farm pro. duets
 An experienced milkman states that one secret of his superior products is regular feeding of all the salt the cows care for. Flow drained land with as few furrows as possible. It will aid in pulverizing the seed bed and save the loss of plants in the de- pressions.
 A childrens day at the fair, when children are admitted free, is good feature which western enterprise is in many cases adopting. Cows with light fore quarters as compared with the hind quarters should not be chosen for milkers. Such proportions indicate 8 lack of digestive power with thinness of milk
 The average old-style farmer will refuse to pay more for the service of a blooded male than for the veriest scrub. Yet the improved points in the former required generations to fix. This type of farmer is the one whose complaint is oftenest heard that farming don't pay.
 Dampness and Fowls.-Because hens en- joy paddling around in the rain sometimes is no proof that damp quarters are unhurtful. Being out in the rain does no harm if they have access to dry, airy quarters afterward. Roasting in house that is always damp is as bad as can be and opens the way direct to such diseases as colds, sore-eyes, croup, can ker, rheumatism and consumption. Swine in the Summer.-f hog cholera is prevalent keep a sharp lookout for any symp- toms of it's presence in the herd. Sleepiness and desire to hide in quiet places by them selves are about the first signs of an attack. This seen, no time should be lost in getting those affected in pen and giving four ounces of salt per head with some Hnseed meal in soft food. Swine at pasture should have access to clean water and ration equal to half an ounce of salt for each one daily. Shade is of great benefit to pigs at this sea- son. It is not too early to commence fatten- ing store hogs; one pound of meal will now count much as two would in November for little food-fuel is now required to keep up animal heat. Boars should not run with sows unless pigs are wanted before the first of next year.
 Travelling Humbugs.-At this season look out for the soil-testing chemist" He will offer to test your farm from field to field, and by taking soil from each into his mouth as he passes along, pretend to tell what "ails the soil'' if it is not in good order, and what %<h ha1%N oat, To 11O the hidden riches it contains. His price is from thirty-ive to fifty dollars per farm, but he may be prevailed upon perhaps to test your acres for twenty-five dollars. Save the money for approved fertilizers and let him pass on to pastures ''green." Another man has been getting subscribers for a book which explains the secret of making any quantity of manure out of almost nothing. The book sells at ten dollars. He got over forty sub scribers in one town. When the book came it advised saving the sweepings from the house, soot from chimneys and all the dead things around. Evidently the fool-killer will not run out of employ ment for long time yet
 ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
 Save the best for seed.
 Celery may yet be planted.
 Cut blackberry canes at four feet.
 Work beets until the tops prevent.
 Give egg plants some liquid manure.
 For red spiders on pear trees syringe the foliage.
 When the tops of onions begin to fall har- vest the crop.
 To have fine lettuce during time of drouth soak the bed occasionally of an evening.
 One after the other as the pot herbs come into flower the tops should be cut and dried in 8 shady place.
 You will find tomato plant here and there with some of it's branches leafess Perhaps the trouble is not in sight. Look sharply until the large green worm is some where discovered, and when found, with tweezers made of two laths, convey to @ stone-heap or the hog-sty.
 Work in the Garden.-When the ground is kept thoroughly clean from the spring the weeds seem no trouble at all; let them come up thick and get half foot high before starting the hoe, they prove great torment and much work only will clean them out. A loss that cannot be remedied on the present crop also comes through the exhaustion of moisture and nourishment by the rank grow ing weeds.
 Neglected Spots and Corners.-It will not take many patches of these weed breeders nor very large ones to furnish the garden thickly with weeds next year, however clean may be the culture of the crops. Every such spot ought to have thorough clearing out and not weed allowed to go to seed. A little labor applied now will save twenty fold next year.
 FLOWERS AND THE LAWN.
 Weed the vases.
 Till after every rain.
 Lift early chrysanthemums.
 Plunging the pots saves much watering.
 Cinerarias now do better under white washed sashes.
 Wild flowers and ferns of fine sorts have market value in large towns.
 If the white candidum lily is wanted for forcing next winter pot up the bulb now.