Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-30
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Ear is oad. Work on the scrub stock. Milk in any form suits hens. Keep the calves growing rapidly. Insufficient water may cause hens to stop laying. Bad smells in the stable affect the milk and butter.
 Morning milk is superior in quality to evening milk.
 Every man may keep bees to forage where they will.
 It pays best not to keep steers beyond two years old.
 In most cases self-sucking COW should go to the butcher. The hay crop of this country in 1882 was estimated to be worth twenty-three million dollars.
 Boys don't leave the farm as often from distaste of the work as from forced restraints placed upon them. The finest honey is secured by removing the boxes as fast as the combs are filled and capped over.
 One of the heaviest losses from forest fires earth. This is matter that greatly affects the future value of the land for the farmer. Less carelessness on the part of smokers and brush burners would save some heavy losses from forest fires.
 Whether honey is extracted or kept in combs for marketing, better prices may be obtained by keeping the different grades sep arate This is not necessary with clover, raspberry and basswood honey, which are nearly alike, in their light color, but is i'm l portant as concerns the later kinds which run darker.
 Weeds in the Hoed Crops-It is the late weeds which escaped the last hoeing that make the most trouble in fouling the land tor future crops. Such weeds have chance to grow strong and perfect full crop of seeds. Even if standing widely apart enough seeds may be scattered to occupy the entire surface next year. The fields of hood crops should be gone over several times after the fast hoeing to render them perfectly clean of the late rank weeds. Hams in the Summer.-Wen cured hams are not difficult to guard from the flies if only they properly covered. Hams that are bought covered with cloth need no other protection or care than to be hung in a dry, cool place. Home cured hams can be simi- larly covered with cloth at 8 trihing cost to ensure freedom from flies. Even placing them in bags of heavy paper, and tieing these securely with piece of twine, by which they may be suspended, answers we'll. 4 dry atmosphere is important to their well doing.
 Subsoil Plowing-No tiller of the earth who has ever tried the subsoi1 blow fairly can esteem it's value lightly. Through loos- ening the compact soil which lies below the reach of the common blow, it extends the range of the roots of plants, thus ensuring additional safeguards against the suffering of crops from drouth The texture of the soil is improved throughout and to a greater depth by the admission of air more freely to l 1t and the readier escape of surplus water that falls upon the surface. It is not rare | thing for the direct benefit to the crops from subsoiling to be equivalent to an increase of 1 from thirty to fifty per cent. The most thor l T. Il. blow is made to follow in each furrow of the ordinary blow. Should the farmer find him. self short of help or teams, by subsoiling in every alternate, or even every third furrow, 1 results not distantly approximating the most thorough work would follow. Still the best kind of work in this line should be the aim. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. Gather the pickles daily. Allow no weeds to seed. Let squash vines take root. Keep sweet potato beds mellow. Good culture will add to the growth many fold.
 Raspberries readily stand a richer soil than the other small fruits Mulching the surface now may save the 1 newly set cherry trees. The free use of fruit lessens the tendency to levers in malarial districts. foundation of success in pear growing. Object Teaching at the Fairs.-Let exbibi- tors of fruit who want to educate the peo- pie to the importance of proper culture show one lot of suitable products labelled,
 Fruit grown by careful treatment" Then
 pick another lot from neglected trees and la
 bel, "Fruit allowed to raise itself" Such
 lessons would be helpful to many people. Layering Grapes.-It is an easy feat for
 anyone to propagate the grape by layering
 A shoot of the present seasons growth is
 bent down with the middle portion in an opening several inches deep in the soil at the side of the old vine. The earth is returned to the opening, and by it's weight keeps the middle part of the branch down. The grow ing extremity extends upwards out of the earth and may be staked If the season is dry the ground should be mulched to pro- mote moisture and free roofing. By fall there will be we'll rooted plant, or perhaps two of them, which must then be severed from the parent stem before planting else where.
 FLOWERS AND THE LAWN. Gather flower seeds. Tie up the gladiolus. Keep the lawn weeded. Shrubs may now be layered. Remove all sprouts from budded roses. l Pot plants should be pruned to give neat 1 forms
 Plants for winter towering in the house should not be allowed to produce bloom in l the summer. | Flowers will be finer and more enduring | if the plants are kept shaded from the mid | day sun.
 ! Beauty and utility go together in the gar | den. Even where there are no weeds pres l ent in flower bed the bed looks handsome1 l for having the surface made mellow with a | rake, after each rain, than to have it in g beaten-down and baked condition. The plants will do vastly better for this treat ment
 | Double Flowers from Seed.-F1ower grow
 1 CTS often feel disappointed after having sown l seeds of what they took to be double flowers to find the plants producing single flowers. l This in measure must be expected, as sin | gle flowers usually have part to perform in l the fertilization and producing of all seeds
 very worst case of "double seed coming sin
 gle'' is not so bad as it appears at first, be- cause of all the plants from such seed those
 l destined to yield single flowers come in bloom earlier than the others. Then again l it often happens that the plants which pro- 1 duce flowers that are single or nearly so at 1 first show an improvement in the bloom and l possibly complete doubleness later on. In
 I dealing with these cases the right course to pufsue is to pull up as they show bloom all plants with flowers that are decidedly single, 1 leaving the semi-doub1e and late ones to l stand. Then what at the first promised to 1 be lots of single flowers may after 8 few weeks turn out to be entirely satisfactory as
 regards being double.
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