Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-18
Farm and Garden.

Replapt missing hills.
 Get the harvest tools ready.
 Sow thirteen pecks buckwheat per acre. Water young turkeys twice day.
 A cock is in his prime at two years old.
 Shelter the shorn sheep in chilly days.
 A little salt in the food benefits geese. In Georgia new flour is made as early as May.
 There is no certain time to tell when bees will swarm.
 Corn for fodder may be sown any time this month.
 Feed teaspoonful of ground hax-seed once week to each fowl and see how nice the feathers will come.
 We like the practice of running the culti- vator through the corn rows once week, until it is to large too admit horse between the rows.
 It is bad notion that because an individ- ual fowl is not worth much money, it's not worth looking after when sick. Better than all, let the poultry be properly tended, and there will seldom be sickness. Very few swarms of bees fly away to the woods in a well managed apiary. Should any attempt to leave, don't make an out landish noise with kettles and pans, but throw little water or dirt among them. Once in the hive, by closing the entrance so worker can only ''squeeze" in and out, they will not leave it, for the queen cannot pass out.
 If pools of brown-colored manure water stand in the barn yard or lanes after rains, apply it to the last drop, to the garden or field crops. Apple trees in not over rich soil are delighted with treat of this kind. What selfish, careless and awkward thing e. s- G. nished she would eat everything if she could, never having any care to get her young to eat. Young chicks should be watched at first, and if any do not eat, feed by hand un- til they learn.
 Remove the Potato Flowers.-The seed is ordinarily not wanted, hence 1t is better that no nourishment should go to developing it. To give more strength to the tubers some cut of the tops of the haulms, but this is wrong, as the leaves are all needed for elabo- rating the sap. The absence of leaves pre- vents that degree of perfect maturity which causes mealiness in the potatoes. Taking off the flowers to prevent seeds, on the contrary, can do no harm, but only good.
 Swine in the Summer.-For yielding the latest profits at siaughtering time, advantage must be taken of the summer season to push the animals ahead. No kind of feeding is so successful at this season as that which com pines moderate allowance of grain, with  test it was found that of Awo lots of pigs, equal in number and weight, and fed the same quantity of grain, but the one lot con fined in pens and given no green food, while the other had the run of a grass pasture, the latter gained 174 pounds in the same time that the former required to gain 78 pounds. Then to test this result, the order of feeding was reversed for period, those before with out green food were turned to pasture besides receiving grain, and the others confined and fed grain only. The difference in the results was quite as striking as before. The lot without grass gained but twenty pounds in the same period that the other, with pasture and grain, gained 103 pounds. Fed on grain alone there comes hardly profitable gain during the summer, which is also true of swine that are pastured and no grain. But with both the grass furnishes a nutriment for maintaining existence, and about all the grain goes to increasing the growth. To thus forward pigs it is found that there is | twice over more profit in such as are ready to slaughter at seven months old than in | those kept two summers in the more com mon way. Those who must, for any cause, con6ne their pigs constantly may reach sim