The Russellville Democrat., 1885-08-20
Agricultural Items.
From Rural and Workman.

From Rural and workman.
Have you looked after the brial
patches and the fence rows? Please
bear in mind that according TO the
old farmers tradition, that the dark
of the moon in August" is tho best
tune TO kill trees, grubs, briars
elders, &c. Try it.
The apple and peach trees need
looking after sharply during the
present month. The moths are de
posting their eggs, on the bodies
and limbs Of the apple, and at the
surface of the ground the peach
borer is beginning his work. Scrul
the bodies OF the apple trees with a
strong solution OF I've and soap suds,
and remove the surface soil from
around the peach. and give the body
and root crown good scrubbing
with strong ashes deposited at the
roots.
1t will but few weeks at most
when our cotton bolls will begin to
mature, and we desire while 1t is
yet time, to impress upon om farm
ers the necessity of selecting their
seed from the first and best bolls as
they mature. BY this method, if
intelligently pursued for few years,
the yield of cotton could be largely
increased, we believe. This is the
best course pursued by seedsmen
and the best class of our farmers in
their selection of seed from the vege-
tables and cereals. The result is
we'll known to every intelligent agri
culturist, and sincerely bespeak an
effort in this direction, on the part
of our cotton growers.
IT is now a leisure season with
our farmers and many matters of in
terest to the farmer can be attended
to leisurely which will be real sour
ces of profit or comfort hereafter.
Among which, is the preparation of
wood lands for pastures. This can
be done by grabbing out all Of the
underbrush, removing or burning all
rubbish, stones &c, and the cutting
out o: all the larger and most inferl-
or of the timber. After this Is done
and the firewood off, and the brush
burned, then the whole should be
bull tongued thoroughly, after which
it should be narrowed and cross.
narrowed until there is bose soil
enough for ''catch" for the grass.
After this a mixture of blue grass
and orchard grass should be sown,
together with any other grass seed
that is found to do we'll in the shade,
after which the whole should be
brushed in. The sowing of grass
seed for woodland pastures may be
done during the latter part of August,
and from that time on until Febru-
arv next.
We desire to again urge upon our
farmer friends the necessity of fall
garden. The old garden, as rule,
has matured its crops, and Is fast
growing to weeds. This should not
be, for the reason that here is plot
of ground, usually the most fertile
upon the farm, maturing grass and
weed seed by the millions, which
will rise up to plague the gardner
the ensuing season, which ought to
be growing a crop of fall vegetables
instead. Turnips, lettuce, onions,
raddishes, waxbeans, cucumbers DC,
can be successfully grown yet, be-
fore frost, which will furnish the ia
BILE with wholesome food which is in.
deed as much OF a luxury in late au-
tumn as in early spring. Try it,
friends, and our word for 1t, If we
have seasonable autumn, you will
succeed in reaping a fair crop OF
vegetables. If not you will have
banished a weed crop, and rendered
an unsightly spot into something
more pleasing, aud meantime placed
your garden in better condition for
next year.