Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-18
Fam and Garden.

Weed th foo6 crops.
 1 Drain logs in dry spells. l A stole wall makes the best fence. | Glen and thoroughly air the cellar. Crt the roadside weeds and brambles. l < filthy COW stable is an appalling sight. l Take a note book to the fair to jot down new ideas in.
 No live stock can suffer for want of pure | water and thrive.
 Don't SOW timothy with wheat as it will l retard it's growth; wait two weeks later. | It's mistake to feed milk COWS heavily | with grain. Two quarts of grain or meal at
 a feeding are better than six. Seed-wheat that is infected with smut | should be purified before sowing. This may be done by washing it in brine and after ! wards strewirg airslacked lime over it, stir l ring it in and drying.
 | To feed field beets will yield more milk, | but carrots will make the most butter in the | winter time. This is because the beets are l less rich as food; the milk thinner. Ventilate the Grain Bins.-No bin is com plete if unventilated from the bottom. One of the best and most simple VentilatorS con- sists of galvanized iron cone about six inches across at the base and . foot high, punched full of holes over the entire surface like @ cuIlenuer. TO accumu1ttu tiIfo oUIItri vance saw a circular hole five inches across in the bin floor, over which place the cone,
 securing it by few nails. This ventilator is cheap, convenient and effective. To aid circulation there required also small win
 dows in the side of the grapary near the cell
 ing These should be covered with coarse
 wire netting to keep out vermin. September a Butter Month.-This is
 usually conceded to be the best month for
 butter making. Much more, however, than
 the time has to do with the matter. First
 there must be good cows, remembering that in a larger degree than many seem to think feeding makes the breed. Good, sweet rich and abundant pasture is a necessary element to the best ends. If this is lacking owing to unfavorable weather, the shortage needs to be made up from soiling crops. There must
 be perfect cleanliness in the dairy house in all the vessels used, well as ill the air that circulates through the milk room. Shallow pans, a low temperature and working ont all the buttermilk are among other essentials. With all these things provided September
 cannot fail to prove the best month of the twelve for butter making. Curing Corn Fodder.-Many farmer whose heart has been glad over a handsome crop of corn fodder has later found grief in discovering mould and decay unexpectedly as result of bad curing. But the curing can be done so thoroughly as to avoid this | The best way is to bind in bundles when it | is cut and place these in shocks of seven each. Here they may stand for three weeks, when they should be put in shape for win l te1ing large mass of fodder either in a stack or now is almost sure to heat and spoil. Let the shocks be brought to some l high and dry grass spot near the stock barn l and be set two together, here to remain until l they are cut up fed. On grass the butts l will not freeze fast. The double shocks | should be kept together with willow or straw l bands, and if closely tied will stand until | wanted. In hauling to this wintering ground | the shocks can be handled whole and in an l upright position usually.
 ! ORCHARD AND GARBEN. l Save garden seeds.
 | Finish budding peaches. l Always hand-pick pears. l Earth up celery regularly now. 1 Gut the bass from early budded stocks. 1 Hoe runners from newly set strawberries. If apple tree shoots make a growth of less | than two feet in a year manure the trees. !. Pruning will do no harm at any time after !! the summer growth is completed. If an orchard is to be set out this fall it is | none too early to get at making plans for 1t, ] ordering the trees, etc. Plant any but the l stone fruits in the fall.
 | Pears for Sandy Sol.-It is generally known that pears like heavy soil, but those | who have only sandy soil need not despair in l l large experience correctly mentions the Buff l fun and Flemish beauty as we'll adapted to sandy soil. But this list may be enlarged to
 embrace Osband's Summer, Skinless, Buerre | d. Amalis, Washington, Onondago and Tyson. l Harvesting the Onions.-After the tops l have for the most part withered down gather | the crop. Experienced growers have no faith in the old notion that better bulbs form | if the tops are bent down after the growth is
 about completed. A potato hook is a handy 1 article to pull them with. Leave them on ! the ground until cured then cut the tops off and market or else store. The storage place must be dry and airy.
 FLOWERS AND THE LAWN. 1 Start early slips.
 l Lift the bouvardias.
 Repot the winter stock. l Raise plants to pinch them. l By another week it will be too late to SOW 1 pansies.
 There is right way as we'll as wrong way of growing every flower. l Violets for winter flowers now need care | full looking after in one respect, namely to | keep down runners.
 l It's the flower one knows the least about 1 that is the hardest to grow; therefore to suc- 1 ceed let us be well informed. l Manure for Flowers.-It must not be fresh, l for most plants cannot stand such. If it is l two years old all the better, but there is no
 harm in having it older still. With age ma
 1 nure becomes as fine earth, and in this condition it may be used very freely on all
 plants needing fertility
 | To Start Lawn-There is no time of the
 year in which we prefer sowing lawns to the
 month of September-wheat sowing time l with farmers The cool and moist season
 which will soon be at hand, together with a
 similar season in the early spring. is very fa- l vorab1e to the grass plant, and with present
 l seeding a fine lawn is certain to result by
 l early next summer. There is no secret about
 making the lawn. We must simply bear in
 mind that grass seed is fine article, calling for fine preparation of the surface to be
 | sown. Sow at the rate of about three bush
 els to the acre. Rake in lightly and the rairf will do the rest.