Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-12-05
Farm and Garden Notes.
Keep no useless stock to eat NJ
the nrofits.


the cloddy wheat fields.
A good wheat crop cannot be
grown OH poor and hard, cloddy
ground.
The fodder corn will make more
and better feed, when it is not too
thick.
In keeping a horse fat there is
as much in the driver as i'll the feed.
Medium-Sized sheep usually have
the best and heaviest tleeces.
Farmers should pay more atten-
ton to the feet of their horses
than is their usual custom.
Moderate loads and more trips
is much better than taking the risk
of spelling the horses or running
their constitutions.
Many farmers make mistake in
attempting to carry more stock
over the winter than they have
feed to keep we'll.
Many a llmryman might reduce
the number of his. cows one-half
and make more clear profit than
from the largest number.
The careful shepherd will watch
his pastures ana cean up all burs,
Spanish needles, ETC.. which will
get in and injure the fleece.
Speak to horse DIS yon would to
a gentleman, but to a mich COW, as
a gentleman would to Il lady.
For cleansing milk cans, pans,
wooden utensils. etc, nothing
equals steam, and nothing is more
convenient.
Most farmers believe that the
seed ought to be removed from
pumpkins before the latter are fed
to mich COWS.
The impression is growing that
seed corn should be changed every
four years, or at least new kinds
mixed with The local sorts.
At the agricultural Schnol of St.
Remy two COWS were fed on the
same food, but one was supplied
with cold water, and the other heat
ed to 113 degrees fahrenheit. The
latter yielded one third more milk
An old gardener says that a sure
sign to find out if plants in pots
need wetting is to rap on the side
of the pot, near the middle, with
the finger knuckle; if it gives forth
Il hollow ring, the plant needs wa
ter, but if there is a dull sound
there is still moisture enough to
sustain the plant.
A few hours Can be proftably
spent in nearly every cherry and
plum orchard after the leaves fall
cutting out the limbs affected with
black knot that have escaped OBJ
servation during the summer
Every limb should be carefully in
spected and all unnatural enlarge.
ments cut off and burned.
The New York State Entomolo-
gist, Professor .Lintner, recon-
NERDS as a-remedy for the dread
ed carpet beetle, saturating cotton
with kerosene oil and pressing it
into cracks and crevices in the
floors and under the basement, or
wherever the insect is likely to
hide itself. He says that this will
kill not only the insects, but their
eggs.
An English dairy supply compa-
ny has devised u package for COLI
veying butter by rail to contain
sixty half-pound pots. The pack
age consists Of a double case, the
inner one oftin. for the butter, and
the outer one of wood. the inter
yening space bein. flied with moss,
so that tile butter may be kept cool
aud unaffected by the temperature
to which it may be exposed while
carried.
A correspondent in Home and
Farm, says: Equal parts Of powder
ed borax, Persian insect powder
and powdered colocS nth, we'll mix
ed together aud thrown about such
spots as are infested with trouble.
some insects, will prove an effect
ual means of getting rid Of this
scourge. This powder, in all cases
where it's use has been persistent,
has by long experience been found
lnfalllble.
Farmers who have been in the
habit of drawing potato vines to
their barnyard to be worked mp
into manure had better omit the
practice this year. especially in
places where the potato rot has
been prevalent. The rot is nh
doubtedly produced by q fungus
growth which originatesin the leaf,
and carrying this to the manure
heap is the most certain mode OF
spreading it over the farm.
Producing crop is a necessity
where fertility exists. Ifnot a val
liable crop it will be one Of weeds,
whose seeds are always present
and ready to terminate when OPP
portunity offers. Ifleft unplowel