Milford chronicle., 1885-03-06
FARM AND GARDEN.
REASONABLE HINTS ABOUT WORK
FROM THE AMERICAN AGRICUL-
TURISTD FOR MARCH.
Live Stock Notes-Orchard and Fruit Gar.
den-Kitchen Garden.


LIVE STOCK NoTEs. This is a trying
month for live stock, and they will neeC
extra care until the pastures produce
sufficient herbage All animals should
be kept from exposure to the long, colo
storms. We have seen many fiocks and
herds that were obliged to be in deer
mud continuously through the spring,
The yards should be properly drained,
and the floors of the sheds and feeding
rooms kept dry. Horses have heavy
work at this season, and need to be fed
and groomed accordingly. Much de-
pends upon the driver; let him be pa
tient and gentle. Fretting horses are
never doing their best. Mich COWS thrive
when kept clean and fed with an abund-
ing be done by careful hauds, otherwise
new COWS will be spoiled, and old ones
dried of. Early lambs, with their dams,
need warm pens. As the days grow
warmer, the ticks get more active. Dip
the infested sheep in one of the prepa-
rations sold for the purpose. For ico
on calves, pigs and fowls, nothing is
better than grease or kerosene. Speak
now for June pigs. Give brooding hens
clean nests, with food close at hand. Be
an "early bird" in the spring.
ORCHARD AND FRUIT GARDEN. TO
many readers this month is tine end of
winter, rather than the beginning of
spring, and may be devoted to COM
pleting unfinished winter work. Those
who propose planting, whether an
orchard or but few trees, should lose
no time in sending their orders to a
nursery. Look out for those glib
tongued tree-agents, who pretend to
a nursery in good repute, but
fill their orders with refuse stock, which
they buy wherever they find it, and
label 1t to suit. In an orchard to supply
fruit for market, do not have too many
kinds. For a near market, early apples
are likely to be most profitable. An
to supply the family, should
varieties from the earliest, to
those that are the longest keepers. Land
for an orchard should be the best on the
iarm, instead of the poorest. Prepare it
BY manuring, plowiDg and narrowing as
soon as it can safely be done. When |
nursery trees arrive, do not be in a
hurry to plant. Heel in the trees, and |
AXE time to plant carefully. Neglected |
peach trees grow ill-shaped, with long
limbs which often break. If each spring, |
lalf to two-thirds the length of the
boots Of the former year is cut away,
he result will be a compact head, and
more and better fruit. Prune large
imbs on all kinds of trees before the
iuds swell. Grape vines not pruned
ast fall should be attended to at once.
Plant raspberries and blackberries as
oon as the soil can beEIEka1l.. sf a pie
often donassss gne hsd been Raaif35l RPaaif35lhRg liz I
. - mss brotheF6i0D- Early, and the eions
u IN : pc exposed to drying winds will
perish: wait until the swelling of the !
,uds. If cions are not already secured,
mt them before vegetation starts.
Japker-worrns come out early. Apply |
protection to the trees now. The sim
,lest is a band of thick brown paper,
foot or more wide, tackled around the !
runk. On this paint band of pine-tar,
which shc1ld be renewed if from any |
,ause it does not remain adhesive.
KITCHEN GARDEN. wintered |
II cold frames must De udIueuSu D4 GA
3osure every day, and at night also, if |
.he weather is not severe. They may |
be set out whenever the ground can be |
made ready. Hot-beds may yet be |
made. Start seed potatoes for the |
earliest crop. If the supply of seeds |
las not been ordered, attend to it at !
2nce. As early as the ground can be !
made ready, plant out onion sets and |
potato onions, and horseradish sets. If
he soil is in proper condition, sow seeds |
IF beets, early turnips, radishes, lettuce,
,ress. parsnips, spinach, satisfy, and
other hardy vegetables, including peas.
Sow seeds Of asparagus, and plant roots
IS directed. If new planting of rhu-
barb is needed, make it early. Cut up
BID roots, securing bud to each piece,
md plant in highly manured soil, four
'eet apart each way. Provide or put in
order tools and implements, make boxes,
crates OF other market packages, and
have all properly marked. Manure
should be accumulated. Take care that
he heaps do not get overheated. Secure
bean-poles, and pea-brush before the
FOLIAGE appears. Roots and bulbs from
which seeds are to be raised, should go
into the ground as soon as it can be
made ready.