Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-07
FARM AND GARDEN.


Timely Hints for the Husbandn,an and Hor-
ticuiturist.
From the Germantown Telegraph.
Trees whose roots seek water should
never be allowed near the drains. The roots
entering the pipes choke them. The willow
has been known to travel one hundred feet
to enter we'll.
One of the most successful of Illinois dairy
men keeps one hundred cows but never
raises pound of hay. He feeds his cattle
corn folder cut when in blossom, bound and
set up till cured, or till winter, when it is re-
moved to the barn. He gets seven tons of
this dry fodder to the acre, and Claims it is
worth rs much as the best of hay.
IF posts are bored with few holes from
one foot abo-e the ground line and down.
ward, and filled with crude petroleum, the
wood will be saturated and decay retarded.
Then paint just before setting, from one
foot above the ground line downward, with
thick of raw linseed oil and lampback or
finely pulverized charcoal. Sound posts will
remain intact for years after; posts not
treated are decayed.
A New York farmer who has been testing
Holsteins as mixers states that in herd of
twelve the highest yield was twenty pounds,
and the lowest fourteen pounds of butter.
The daily yield of five OF them was over
half for the lowest lie thinks the Holsteins
can be made to rival the Jerseys in produc-
ton of butter, while for milk, butter and
beef combined, they are superior to all other
breeds
AS general thing the summer season
through horses can do more work than oxen
for this reason, If no other-they can stand
the heat better. Both are important on
large farm, and if the oxen is found to be
worth the most when age suspends labor,
the horse will have made up the difference
by the celerity of his movements, and the
mors diversified uses for which his labor has
been available Both are good in their
places, and no extensive farmer IS properly
equipped for business who is destitute or
either.
Weeds win ,irur
There Is no seeson of the year when the
farmer bends all his energies to the accom-
plishment of one purpose as is the case dur
ing the securing of the hay crop. With all
the modern appliances TO aid in this work, IL
is laborious still and severely taxes the physi-
cal energies. That the hay may be secured
in good condition is the earnest desire OF
every farmer, since upon this largely de-
pends the successful wintering of the ami
mails upon the farm, and so undivided atten-
tion is paid to this harvest. But while the
farmer is thus putting forth his efforts in this
direction, it sometimes seems az though Ma
ture was putting forth her best efforts in
other directions, and the garden, the root
crops, etc, will often show sad evidence of
neglect.
As the garden, onion or carrot patch are
visited on the completion of haying which
may not have occupied more than two
weeks the remark is common, sit beats all
how the weeds have grown; this ground was
entirely clean when L commenced laying"
There seems to be no condition in Nature
adverse to the growth of weeds. While it
may too wet or too dry for ordinary crops to
grow successfully, we have never been able
to discover a time too hot or too dry for
weeds to grow. We know the advice given
is, prevent their seeding and thus secure
eradication. That is excellent in theory, but
in practice 50 far as we know has never
proved successful. 1t is probable that 50
long as man tils the soil weeds will continue
togrOw, and il one or another appear to be
annihilated there are always some new
comers 10 take their places. If the farmer
can succeed in coupling their growth within
reasonable limits, he ought to be thankful.
Kindness to Herses.
The value OF our noblest animal, the horse
depends much more upon kind treatment
than Is supposed. If we go upon our busiest
streets in cities, or upon the most travelled
road in the country, we shall soon see such
treatment of this faithful servant as shows
how utterly ignorant many of the drivers are
of his nature and how to best profit by his
labor. They have no more comprehension of
the horse than to suppose that his best effort
can only be obtained by the whip. In this
respect the horse is much wiser than his
driver. One who has studied this animal can
see at once that the horse only makes pre-
tense of doing his best He knows he is
abused, and takes his own way to get even
with the ignorant, brutal driver. The horse
is capable OF strong attachment, and will al
ways do his best tor the driver that has
gained his confidence by kindness. The
whip is seldom used by such driver. His
word is all his horses need. Balky and un.
reliable horses are nearly always made so by
bad and vicious drivers. We have owned
horses that would draw the last pound for q
kind driver, but who would not draw the
empty wagon for one who had abused them