Milford chronicle., 1885-05-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
sEAsONABLE NOTES ABOUT WORK
ON THE FARM.
Hints that the Farmer will Find it 20 his
Advantage 20 Profit bye

SoRaHUM.-I have no faith in Amber
sorghum, or any other kind, as animal
food, says w. Il. Bull, Of Hampden
Co., Mass. For two years I tried the
experiment of gathering the leaves
stripped from the stalks at harvest and
feeding them to the COWS. I had enough
to feed three COWS one day at each trial.
Previously I had been feeding sweet
corn fodder and cabbage leaves; but
when came to substitute the sorghum
for cornstalk, with no other change in
the feed, the milk fell off one-ffth. ]
can offer no explanation; it was a sur
prise to me. 1 have seen no advantage
from feeding the seeds to COWS or horses;
they we're worth no more than so much
hay.
CoRN AND POTATOES. Try nitrogen in
some form upon potatoes and corn; upon
the former Just as the shoots appear
above ground; upon the latter when the
plants are a foot high. Sow at the rate
Of 200 pounds to the acre. Nitrate Of
soda and sulphate of ammonia are quick
in their action. Blood is slow. Buy a
bag of each and mix them together and
SOW as above stated.
No TnE.-As a rule, says the Rural
Ne1O Yorker, those people who are so
awfully hurried that they have no time
TO plant and care for a strawberry plot,
spend more time loafDg about the cor
ners than would be sufficient TO grow an
abundant supply of all the small fruits
the family could use. Nine times in ten
it is the disposition and not the time
that is chargeable with the scarcity of
fruit.
TIE DELAWARE GRAPE.-The Della
ware has been successful. Our
frosts come early and it is desirable to
have grapes that will ripsn early, and
almost invariably the Delaware does
ripen. It is altogether the best grape
we have. have never known it to mil
dew. So says Robert d. Gardner, of
Maine.
HovEY's SEEDING SIRAwBERRY.-
Hovey's seeding was raised about fifty
years ago. 1t was the first Seeding
strawberry that was raised in America
purporting to be a hybridized straw
berry that 1 ever heard of. It is as
good to-day as it was when it first ap-
peared, and if any one will cultivate it
as we'll as Mr.. Hovey can he will be
sure to carry off the highest prize in the
Massachusetts, Horticultural Society. So
Marshall P. Wilder tells US.
ORCHARD GRAss.-There is no other
grass that can be compared with orchard
grass. Last year we experienced the
most severe drought known for years.
Fortunately large part of the farm was
in orchard grass and we had an abund-
anee of hay from it. All the orchard grass
we saw seemed to be little affected by
the drought. One acre of orchard grass
will afford as much pasture as two Of
clover and timothy.
AN OLD PLAN FOR GRowINa Gu
CUMBERs.- following is an old plan
still practiced in some sections with
good effects: Spade up a good piece of
garden soil and make o circular mound
about eight feet in diameter and ten
inches higher in the centre than the out
side. In the centre of the mound sink
an old leaky barrel and fill it two-thirds
full of barnyard manure, with some hen
mixed in. Pour the wash-water
from the house into the barrel and let it
leak through into the ground. Plant
the cucumber seed in a ring, about six
inches from the barrel; watch for the
bugs and destroy them by the usual
methods. Supply the water often
enough to keep the ground moist, to
promote a rapid growth, but not too
wet.
THE GARDEN. "A half acre can be put |
to no other possible use that will make
it pay half as much in money or COM |
fort as if planted with garden truck. If |
the rows are made long and sufficiently |
wide that it may be tended by horse |
power, it need cost but little more to |
work than the same amount of corn or |
potatoes, and there is nothing so handy |
IS a well filled garden for the "gude |
wife" who has to provide three substan-
hal meals every day.
A SnoP BARREL. no natural /
slope to carry off drainage, and all man.
ler and methods of drains failing to an |
iwer the purpose Of house drainage, we !
adopted plan which has been very sat
sfactory. A light, painted 30-gallon
barrel is set on a box near the kitchen
loor. Into this go all the kitchen slops. |
Jnce a day the man comes with q wheel |
barrow and puts the contents on to the |
compost heap in the barnyard. The |
1arrel is cleaned with soap once a week |
md keptat vered and has no odor. We |
lse it all,f ne year round, by emptyingit |
Il Diohtslli1 winter