The Penn's Grove record., 1885-11-21
FARM NOTES
FARM NOTES

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SEEDING 10 GRAss.-our greatest
need now is, to grow more grass ; not
more acres, but more TO the acre, leav.
ing q larger area Of ground for fodder
and other crops raised on q mixed farm.
This can only be done by better prepar-
alton Of the soil, and better seeding,
Instead Of throwing the seed IN a hap
hazard way upon the hard, weather
beaten surface of the ground in the
spring, the seeding should be postponed
until the grain is cut and harvested.
The soil is then to be plowed with a
| shallow fnrrow, thoroughly well har-
rowed. and made fine and compact.
The seed must be sown, and immedi-
ately brushed in with the smoothing
| and brush harrow, which is easily made.
This levels and firms the soil, as well as
| spreads and covers the seed. 1t is well
to use this harrow crosswise of the har
row marks, and across the line of sow-
ing, so as to spread the seed more
evenly. 1t is better still to SOW the
| seed both ways, half each way, IL the
| sower is not able to spread it quite
evenly. The even sowing is very M
portant, because bare spaces are a great
injury in two ways one, that the
ground is vacant, and will produce
weeds in the bare spots ; the other,
| that the grass is too crowded where it
Is too thickly sown. Grass seed, If
| sown as here directed, will start up
quickly and grow rapidly +; if the seed
ing is done in July or early in August,
the young grass will be strong enough
to resist the winter safely, and a heavy
| crop VIII be the result.
PLANTS IN PITs.-The following
good practical directions for the man.
agement of plants in pits, from the
Gardeners Monthly, are appropriate
at the present time: Plants stored
away for the winter In cold pits require
more care for the first month or so b
at any time during the winter season.
Many of them have unripened shoots,
or shed many of their leaves, and unless
| they be cut off and removed, gangrene
and decay commit distressing havoc.
Air should be given at every opportu-
| nifty and nothing emitted that Will in
any way tend to harden the plants and
set vegetation to rest. No more water
| should be gwen than just sufficient to
prevent whitening, and the temperature
should be kept as neal forty degrees as
possible, and every chance taken to
render the air about the plants dry.
When frost actually does come, no
further care than protection from its
embraces will then be required. Plants
so hardened may stay covered up for
weeks without any light OF air, and Sc
cure from the slightest injury. Mice
constitute the most troublesome enemy
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vet we have found nothing better b
to take peas and soak them twenty-four
hours IN water, then roll In arsenic INC
SOW In the pit as if in the regular way
of seed sowing. A few pees SO prepared
should be placed in the pit before per-
manently closing up. The mice usually
make for these peas at their hrst en-
trance to the pits. If placed in the soil
they seem to guess your secret and Will
not "bite.o
THE German, Flemish and Dutch
women who help husband or father In
his fields, are strong, hardy women Who
rear a stalwart race. Half the line Ia
dies who now find a few turns on the
piazza almost toe much for them, would
be all the better for a graduated scale
of garden work. Beginning with a
quarter of an hour a day they would
/ ind at the close OF a month that they
could easily do their two hours, and
that they ate and slept as they never
had done before, while they forgot that
such evils as blue devils and nerves
ever had any existence.
Do not attempt to get a mich COW
very fat. A COW cannot fatten readily
and produce milk at the same time.
Cons quently when the COW is noticed
to be taking on fat she is correspond
ingly lessening her quantity of milk.
A HEALTHY fowl will drink fifteen
to twenty times per day, and IN a close
coop. or IN hot weather, still %oftener.
Therefore when fowls are shipped, all
possible pains should be taken to prop
erly fasten water cups IN their cages.
A LITTLE charcoal fed two or three
times o week to the pIgs.is beneficial IN
| correcting acidity in the stomach, to
which hogs are liable when fed upon
corn and confined in q pen. They will
eat 1t greedlly and fatten much more
RAPIDLY with charcoal than without.
THE average weight of milk is eight
anil tive-eights pounds per gallon of four
quarts Richness slightly varies it;
the more cream the lighter theproduct.
This is, however, the standard usually
accepted in this country and Europe.
In ordinary calculations, we reckon
two pounds to a quart.
If turnips are fed to COWS imnedi-
ately after milking they will give no I'M
pleasant flavor to the milk. The food
is eaten, digested and passed off before
the bulk of the milk is secreted in the
bag. Even onions nHp be fed to COWS
without ~flavoring the milk If given long
enough before milking.
Some time ego it was stated that an
ozonometric paper could be used with
effect in determining the presence OF
certain diseases in the atmosphere.
NM. Bornis and Daniel, however from
observations conducted on the Senegal
during five years, conclude that there
is no relation between the indications
OF this paper and the intensity of bilious
and yellow fevers. The simple fact is
that the reaction on the paper is slight
when the air ia dry. and intense when