Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-16
Farm and Garden.
Shade the beehives.
 A dirty pen cannot be healthy.

A dirty pen cannot be healthy. Give the boys day off occasionally. Hungarian grass, may still be sown for hay.
 Filth, and not nature accounts for 'teowy smelling milk.
 Have the walk between the house and barn raised a little.
 Strong swarms of bees require ample ven tilation during hot weather.
 The water from a barn 40x50 feet con ducted to cisterns will answer for twenty COWS.
 Don't stop the corn cultivator when the horse can reach the leaves, but muzzle the animal and keep at it several weeks yet.
 From road-making see if you cannot turn to the barn yard, and by grading it with blow and scraper, make it dryer.
 Young turkeys should, from the first, be fed daily near the night quarters, so that they will care to return for food from their rowing tours.
 against the Essex and other breeds of black pigs, on account of their color. The argu- ments raised are not even skin deep, foI the blackest pig will dress as white as the whitest. These pigs are, a class, rapid growers when young, and can advantageous ly be worked into pork ths first year. Whether raised for market or for home use there is certainly more profit in young than in old pork.
 Cows in Summer.-When the pastures be- gin to fail some green fodder should be fed Allowing the milk flow to run down, how slightly, it is difficult to restore it again. Much suffering to milch COWS, and conse- quent loss of milk often comes from expos ing them to intense heat in pastures where there trees other provisions for shade. No animal can yield a large degree of profit to its owner if it suffers discomfort from any cause. Where there are no trees $ rude sun shelter may be easily made, if of nothing more than loose rails or boards.
 Cheap Manure.-One of the cheapest ways of increasing manure is to lay in plenty of vegetable litter during or at the end of the growing season, to use for absorb ing liquid manure. Where an abundance of straw is lacking, leaves from the woods and groves will answer as well, and cost only the gathering. Straw can often be bought of un- wise farmers cheap, and where there is chance for this, let it be made the most of. Where swamp muck is attainable, nothing can be found better than this, when dry, as an absorbent. Sawdust, refuse bark from tanneries, and other wastes have some value for this purpose, if nothing better is availa ble. Use the absorbents freely about the stables, hog pens and barnyards, and a vast
 
 goes to waste, may be retained to the benefit of the crops.
 Foul Brood in Beehives-This disease is believed to be due to fungoid growth It affects the immature brood before reach ing chrysalis state, causing the larv8 to turn dark, following with death and petrif- cation. Its presence where some progress has been made by the disease, is manifest from an unpleasant odor arising from the hive. A remedy has been found in salieylic acid, and in soda borax dissolved either in alcohol or in water, in the proportion of one hundred and twenty-eight grains of the for mer to sixteen fluid ounces of the latter This fluid is blown in 8 fine spray oger the comb, the brood being previously uncapped This remedy, while it is harmless to the bees, serves completely to destroy the fungi.
 ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
 Sow endive.
 Destroy caterpillars.
 Put in seed for late pickles
 Beans may be planted all through July.
 Treat raspberry and blackberry suckers as weeds.
 For jelly pick entrants before they are dead ripe.
 Those people who dislike large carrots and beets for winter use should SOW them now on rich soil, and they will get an article to suit.
 Summer Pruning.-With a little regard to th1S now, there need never be. much pruning to do at other times, and the removal Saa large branches, which is always harsh tt1mm ment, may be wholly prevented. S5nnp a1 pruning should be confined to the Y6lacas ar new shoots from growing in such1in noint now this can be done. A mSvide an on, pruning fruit trees is to pgIv of air and ST, head, that will readily allq
 shine reaching the interio& for Strawberries
 The Alternate Systemk has the advantaoe This system of culture fruit annually fro raising the cop of5E,on as frnitino is owe young plants., As s&ttared between the ro1 me manure III IS scss scss syorked over, and mellow ana tne space ls possible. The runners tn nP as me as Fake possession of the cultivat alio"eo Io v into this soil they root with avi serlPs; allGo llpGoward the fall the lines of old plan ny. 1Srned under, and the space they oec are is kept under cultivation, and serves pleSq1ths for managing and gathering next yea P,rop
 I FLOWERS AND THE TER LAWN. Gather sRts essarIy seeds '- '-LPOrehids are becoming popular h- City people are wild for fed daisies.
 Provide strings and trellis for climbers. >s Grow some flowers for Floral Hall at .' air.
 y Ferns are just the plants for shady corn
 about the buildings.
 ,t In plant culture avoid both extremes u over watering and too little watering. From now on no plant excels the late c y matis for profusion of flowers. 10 No part of managing garden tells bet = on effect, for labor and it's costs, than l. IL. ofa a0vr,o to