Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-11-25
FARM NOTES.

Z SEEDING To GRAss.-Our Creates
need now is, TO grow more grass moi
more acres, but more to the acre, leav'
ing larger area of ground for fodder
and other crops raised on mixed farm
This can only be doae 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 q
shallow furrow, 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 crcSswise of The bar
row marks, and across the line of SOW
ing, so as to spread the seed more
evenly. Ii 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 i'm
portant, because bare spaces are 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 thickIy 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 heavy
crop Will 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 than
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 VIII in
any way tend to harden the plants and
set vegetation to rest. No more water
should be given than Just sufficient to
prevent whitening, and the temperature
should be kept as near 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 or air, and Sc
cure from the slightest injury, Mice
constitute the most troublesome enemy
in the pit for any length of time. As
yet we have found nothing better than
TO take peas and soak them twenty-four
hours III water, then roll In arsenic and
sow in the pit as if in the regular way
Of seed sowing. A few peas so prepared
should be placed in the pit before per-
closing up. The mice usually
make for these peas at their first en-
trance to the pits. If placed in the soil
hey seem to guess your secret and will
not "bite."
The German, Flemish and Dutch
women who help husband or father in
lis fields. are strong, hardy women who
ear Stalwart race. Half the line Ia
lies who now find few turns on the
,iazZa almost toe much for them, would
,e all the better for graduated scale
# garden work. Beginning with a
quarter of an hour day they would
ind at the close of a month that they
.0uld easily do their two hours, and
hat they ate and slept as they never
iad done before, while they forgot that
UGH evils as blue devils and nerves
yer had any existence.
Do not attempt to get a mich COW
cry fat. 4 COW cannot fatten readily |
nd produce milk at the same time.
when the cow is noticed !
o be taking Oh fat she is correspond !
ngly lessening her quantity of milk.
4 HEALTHY fowl will drink fifteen ]
o twenty times per day, and in a close |
oop, or IN hot weather, still OfteIer. |
therefore when fowls are shipped, all |
ossible pains should be taken to prop
rly fasten water cups In their cages.
\ LITTLE charcoal fed two or three
ines "A week to the DIGS is beneficial IN i