The Hartford herald., 1885-02-18
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes
The soil for corn must be dry, rich and
well pulverized.
Cows that yield the most milk, az a
rule, are never fat.
A little charcoal fed to swine now and
then proves beneficial.
The first el,men of success in the
care of livestock is fondness for the
stock.
Use the curry-comb lightly. When
it is used roughly it Is a source of great
pain.
Never clean horse in the stable.
The dust fouls his Grill, and makes him
loathe his food.
New York and Pennsylvania grow
twO-thirds Of all the buekwheat pro-
duced in this country.
1t is asserted that ''there is not one
farm hand in II, 600 who knows how to
feed live stock"
The cellar should be kept strictly
clean, rs decaying vegetable matter is
often a source of disease
Young pigs always sell for good prices
and return larger profit in proportion
to cost than hogs.
"A farmer in Plymouth, y. H., raised
last year four hundred tushels of onions
ON less than an acre of land.
Sprinkle little lime (air slacked)
over the potatoes in your cellar. 1t will
tend to prevent rot, and purify the air
Of the cellar.
Every fruit garden should have its
MANURE heap, that in the fall or spring,
when il comes to be applied. will cut
like paste.
Should you run out of axle grease
some busy time, mix two parts of lard
with one each of black lead and wheat
flour, and apply.
"A pound Of flesh lost to the brute is
twice lost to the owner, for the waste of
the body must be repaired while il is
being replaced.
Ii is said that if apples are covered
with buckwhest ehaff they will keep
well and do not freeze as easily as when
straw, sawdust or earth are used.
To procure a good coat on your horse,
use plenty of rubbing and brushing
Plenty of "elbow grease opens the
pores, softens the skin, and promotes
the animals general growth.
Keep the stables warm during the
cold weather and free from draughts.
This does not mean u to exclude all out
side air; the stable should be ventilated,
but that can be done without draughts.
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment
Station calls attention to the fact that
in its experiments, potatoes raised from
large, whole seed ripened nine days ear
lier than those from seed cut to single
eyes.
Chestnuts are usually grown from
seed, either planted during the fall or
kept in sand through the winter and
planted in the spring. The large
varieties of the Spanish chestnut, or
marrow. which do not come true from
seed, can be grated on the Others.
Every preparation should he complete
ed for making and saving the largest
amount Of manure possible. Provide
a tight shed or dry cellar for the ma.
nure. II exposed to the weather, its
most valuable constituents are washed
out and lost. 1t is the worst economy
to permit this.
Horses that have a raekful of hay
before them all the time will grow poor;
when, if feda a limited quantity, with
some grain, they will become fat. The
rack filled with hay becomes offensive
from the horses breath, and the animal
must be partly starved before he will eat
it.
y Wisconsin farmer stoutly MAIN
tains that he prevents the ravages OF
the beetles in his potatoes by planting
one or two fiaxseeds in each hill. He
says the bugs will shun the flax every
time, and that he has grown potatoes iu
this way for ten years and secured good
crops when Ote ers failed.
In the care Of fowls no one thing r.
more important thar system. There
should be daily routine II must be
somebody's business to attend to the
fowls puuctually at just the same time
every day-just as much as it Is essen
tial to the well>being of a well ordered |
family to have the meals at regula
hours, the washing dcne on Monday,
the ironing on Tuesday, the baking on
Wednesday, the sweeping on Friday
etc. Ii is just as essential as ii is to
grOo N the horses, feed and water ali
around, regularly and daily. week in and
week out