Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-14
Farm and Garden. Give root crops rich spot. Turkey chicks need shelter.

Farm and Garden.
 Give root crops rich spot.
 Turkey chicks need shelter.
 Poor fences make unruly cattle
 A neat farmer is rarely poor farmer. ss
 An eight o'clock breakfast won't do now on farm
 The over-worked boys are the ones who say they'll "never be farmers"
 Hops will fail in any situation that does not admit of a free circulation of air.
 If you have two weak colonies of bees, unite them into one strong one. In this shape it will be apparent, the season through, that they are better off for all purposes than if left in two hives.
 Root crops are usually sown too thickly. Beets should go into drills thirty inches apart, and carrots at two feet apart. This will admit of cultivation with horse, snd after the plants have gained some size, no hand work need be done. Beets should be sown at the rate of six pounds to the acre, carrots and parsnips at about four pounds.
 Ducks.-The most valuable breed is the Aylesbury whites, without doubt. They are ornamental, and preferable to any others when allowed to range about the garden, and have access to ornamental water. If dark breeds preferred, the Rouens can be rec ommended, but are less attractive than the first named kind.
 Spare even the Crows.-It is the serious matter of insects and their depredations which suggest this advice. When our coun- try was largely covered with forests, these afforded the forage ground of the insect tribes; but birds were abundant to keep them in check. Now the woods have given place to cultivated fields, but the insects are here ,ti 4hoy, hot k1k increase, owing largely to the short-sighted judgment of killers of their natural enemies, the birds. The time must come when the true value of birds will be better appreciated d than now. Something needs to be done to cope with the destructive insect tribe, and nothing is more sensible in this direction than to spare the birds. A crow may take some corn, but along with it he will also take grubs, each" ons of which that is now killed will save the production of hundreds Or thousands later.
 : Correct Methods are what Count. These, more than hard and spiritless work. are at the bottom of truly successful farming. Take for example the different ways of using a blow. The correct method farmer when done blowing cleans his implement, rubs the metal part dry and applies little oil over the sur face. If the blow is not to be used for a long time, he uses a little lamp black aid kerosene oil instead, and sets it away where this cannot rub off, all with view to clean mould board from the start, when blowing is next in order. His slovenly neighbor "saves work when done blowing by hauling his blow, uncleaned, to the fence corner or lane side, to be exposed to the clements, and receive heavy coat of rust. The blowing season again opens, and the one farmer has a shining blow before he has made one round of land. His horses move off with ease, the plowman follows with satisfaction, and 11s 1rh+1r1 ba neighbor has blow to SCOUT with stone be- fore he commences, and team and men may be kept waiting. When the start is made the blow won't clean, and has to push track through the earth, with heavy labor to the team and man, besides poorly turned-over ground Correct methods, cheerful labor, and good. results for the one, grinding, hard work and pBeE results for the other, all about the same matter.
 ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
 Layer grapevines.
 Thin out the parsnips.
 Weed the celery seed-bed.
 Caulifowers are thirsty plants.
 A showery day for transplauting.
 For fine currents mulch now with manure.
 In cutting asparagus be careful for the roots.
 Nssturtiums for picking should be sown like peas.
 Fifty weeds in their seed leaves will yield to the hoe easier than five at six inches high.
 If any seeds have failed, re-sow at once, and not leasve gaps for crop of weeds.
 Clean culture is fhe most satisfactory for the horseradish. The plants should not be allowed to seed, 8 thing easily prevented by pinching out the tops.
 Commdr Sense Methods with Insects-A hand to hand battls with insects will often tell effectually where washers and invigora- tors fail. Take the curculio ot the plum, to illustrate; when dependence was had on dusting the trees, and similar so-called reme- dies, plums were usually a total failure Now jarring is practised, by going over the tree each morning, and with mallet striking repeated blows against 8 limb stub, prepared for the purpose; the insects are jared into sheets spread under ths trees, and destroyed. By this course plum raising is successful. At this season tent caterpillars show ap. Gather the nests with gloved hand or wind on stick, and you can soon close them out. These are remedies that never fail, if fairly applied -
 FLOWERS Afsg THE LAWN.
 Sow the tender aanuals.
 Magnolias are in bloom.
 Agapanthuses need much water
 Crowded plants will surely receive damage.
 Liquid manure helps blooming plants greatly.
 The heiotfope is never in better color than now.
 The narcissus fn floral language signifies over-confdence; the blooms afs indeed saucy looking.
 Give sir freely to growing plants; with out it good stEc- cannot be raised.
 Tulips close at night, r will do the same if placed in a dark room in the day time.
 The seeds of coarse grasses are sometimes carried into the lawn and vegetate. The plants ef such should be treated as weeds.
 Horace Greefy used to say that the cabbage was about as interesting flower as he cared to grow.
 Catalpa trees, when grown withG tr1nk, often are not handsome. By cutting down tree to the ground each spring, many shoots will spring up, producing bush form, that with the large leaves is remarkably attrac- tive.
 Rock Work.-Most all lovers of flowers have fancy for some rock work. Rock work when well made may easily be rendered very attractive, but frequently it is net well made. The essential point to observe III It's construction is to have the stones so placed that the soil between them will always ex tend down to the body of the soil beneath Mers rock pockets of earth will not an swer. Rightly laid up, the roots of plants will reach down into the heap of earth, and with having the benefit of the cooling infu- ence of the stones and of the peffee. drainage afforded, many choice Ap1nes ana Otnef kinds will thrive here that would not grow in an ordinary border. Nearly all kinds of plants succeed here, and if the rockery is a large one, even shrubs and evsrgreens may be introduced.
 Second Wind.
 From Longnian's Magazinel
 The reader may not be aware that in ordi- nary respiration we only use portion of our lungs, the cells at the extremity not being brought into play. This is the reason why those who are not "in training" and who try to run for any distance, soon begin to gasp, and unless they are courageous enough to nerseyere in spite of the choking sensation, ara fornad to ston Rut if they will perse-