The Penn's Grove record., 1885-05-30

something, but not so mueh as cabba-
ges. Very green grass cuttings from
the lawn. cured IN the shade and scald-
ed in Winter will be greatly relished.
ORCHARD grass is an excellent kind,
and when sown with clover is better
thar timothy as it is in the best stage
for cutting at the same time as clover,
while timothy is too long behind the
clover. Orchard grass will STAY in the
ground and yield good pasture or hay
20 years, and longer if MANFRED occa-
sionally. 1t is the earliest grass for
pasture in the Spring and grows late In
the Fall 1t also stands dry, hot weather
far better than timothy.
PEAS answer best early in the season,
and are suitable for cattle and sheep.
They are usually sown with oats, and
fed directly from the field to the stock
in the yards, under the soilIng method.
Such a crop may be fed and got out of
the way for a late corn-fodder crop, or
for turnips. In attempting to grow two
crops on the same location, however,
the land mnst be MANFRED heavily, or it
will be injured, though the exhaustion
will not be SO great as when such crops
are allowed to mature and produce seed.
A I'M in vigorous growth sends out
a lateral at every joint, and these should
be nipped off beyond the first leaf when
the best results are desired for grapes,
says John Watson, and should be done
early. By this means the main cane,
with Its fruit and leaves, will receive the
sap instead of Its being wasted in the
production of useless l~aterals, and will
greatly enlarge and strengthen the leaves
and give more light and air among
them.
A WRITER has been very successful in
propagat1ng cucumber plants from cut
tings, and finds he gets fruit earlier and
is sure of the character of his plants,
which is not the case when raising them
from seed. The cuttings are taken from
the ends of the vines and often contain
buds which bear fruit In a short time
after the new roots start. This method
would seem especially adapted to green
house culture where vacancies are to be
filled in allotted space.
The eggs of fowls bred in-and-in for
years rarely hatch. You must introduce
new blood IN the flock from some out
side yard of the same strain. And still,
if one is very careful in his breeding,
the same family will do well a good
while. The selection of proper cocks
for breeders is important. Among the
Brahmas many well-shaped ROSTERS are
incompetent as breeders. Weed them
out. and you can tell which they are by
a little watchfulness.
THE peach tree is becoming quite
short-lived, but one full crop will pay
cost of trees, planting and cultivation,
and for the first two or three years,
paying crops of corn, potatoes, beans
or squashes can be grown upon the land,
We think it would be well. on good
peach land, to plant a small orchard,
detached from all others, every year.
Then when older orchards begin to show
symptoms of yellows, dig out the trees
and burn them, and put their ashes
around the young trees. If potash is
not a certain remedy for the yellows, 1t
is good to promote the growth of trees.
CRoToHED fruit-trees of any kind can
be kept from splitting down by twisting
together one twig from each of the main
braches, These thus twisted will IN five
years grow into a solid branch that can.
not be broken. Twigs which grow from
the lower part of the branches are pre-
terable. If there are no such twIgs on
the branches, a water sprout' or suck
err should be allowed to grow; or one
may be started by nicely inserting a
scion into the slit between the bark and
wood. and securely waxing it. Twigs
from the size of a lead pencil to half an
inch in diameter can be nsed for this
purpose.
The objection is often urged against
harro wing winter wheat In the spring
that 1t will uproot and destroy faIl-sown
timothy. In practice, however, this fear
has not been verified. Possibly some OF
the timothy plants may be injured, and
this also is true of the grain; but the
remainder will grow so much better that
the sod will be thicker the following
year where the narrowing has been most
thorough.
TIE great trouble with the celery
growing is that the plants, at one stage
OF growth or another, are permitted to
suffer for water. This invariably causes
tough and hollow stalks. Keep the
plants growing from the time they ap-
pear above the ground IN the seed bed.
Transplant them TO rich soil-give them
water as often as they need it, and give
1t in abundance, and you will have ten
der, plump celery,
THE National Laue Stock Journal
suggests that bulls should be exercised
by working them in the tread-powers,
which not only renders them setviceable
but more useful and gentle. They
should be made to do the pumping of
water, grinding of food and cutting of
hay, which will do them no injury and
keep them In better condition.
Coon registered bulls can be procured
from reliable breeders at prices that are
reasonable, and the butter dairyman
who does not avail himself of the
opportunity to thus improve his stock
and enhance the value of his dairy pro-
ducts and increase the demand is losing
valuable time and opportunities to dou-
ble his capital IN a few years.
In Prussia the servant gIrl of the
house often stays with q family as long
as forty years. She must be waiting
for the old woman of the house to die.
Nothing can be more foolish than an
idea which some parents have that 1t is
not respectable to set their children to
work.
PREVENTION better than cure.-'No,
/ never beat a strange dog when he
comes into my yard and scratches up
the flower garden" said the mild-faced
gentleman; II shoot HIM. An OF
prevention, you know, is better than a
pound Of cure"
In LUoK.-A gentleman who boards