The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-18

that nurservman will knowingly send
out poor stock. The failures are more
frequently the result of ignorance or
neglect. 1t is not uncommon to set
young trees liz sod without mulch. Ot
course, trees so planted have little
chance for living.
The popular expression "pigs in clio
ver." as synonymous with an abundance
of everything good, is very misleading:
Pigs will eat clover, but if not well fed
otherwise they will gain little, or If
thrifty when turned out to pasture Will
fall away. The only place where pigs
can profitably be pastured is the orchard,
and then the profit is more from the
insects they destroy in fallen fruit than
from the grass that they eat.
An Ohio farmer contributes the follow
ing in regard to growing radishes IN a
water twenty -four hours. Then put 1t
in bag and expose to the sun. In the
course of the day the termination Will
begin. The seed must then be sown In
a well-manured bed and watered from
time to time with lukcwarm water. by
this treatment the radishes will soon ac-
quire sufficient bulk to be good to eat.
Most of the early built barns were
much too narrow. This is the mere re-
markable because timber in the early
days was plenty and large frames could
be built nearly as cheaply as small ones.
A width of at least twenty-four or TWEEN
ty-six feet is necessary in grain barns to
make drveways for threshing machines,
which will be cramped in shorter space.
With Easements under barns and drive
ways only on the upper side, greater
width is required than where teams can
be driven through.
Barn doors should always be made to
slide rather than swing on hinges. The
first cost is slightly more, but If well
done the sliding doors will last enough
longer to make them the cheaper. Sliding
doors have the important advantages
that they are not liable to blow of by
heavy winds, and the door can be partly
opened to admit light without having it
swung open to it's full extent. Every
barn should have a basement, and the
doors to driving floors above these
should always be set on rollers.
In brief way an agricultural authors
ty tells how some extra good premium
butter was made, and is worth rcmem-
bering. The milk is set in pans upon
slated shells, and after twenty four hours
SKINNED and churned, after slight &C
tivity is discovered, in Il barrel churn at
a tcmperature of sixty degrees. The but
ter is at once put into a wooden pail with
ice water, salted and washed, handled
with ladlc only. This process IS re-
peated twice, and the butter packed or
baled as required. also sailed to suit,
but never touched by the hands.
DIR. Sturtevant says that careful ex-
periments have shown that unripe to
mato seed will grow and give gain of
fifteen days in earliness over ripe seed
from the same plants. Peas and corn fit
for table use will grow and produce
earlier crops than ripe seed, but plants
from immature seed are more feeble than
those from ripe seed. Earliness seems
to be in proportion to the state of ripe
ness of the seed from which the plants
have been raised. The practical question
to be determined is how to combine both
earlincss and vigor in the same plant.
On the Rural Ncw Yorher's expert
mental grounds land plaster has never
shown any good results when used on
strawberry plants. Among the many
materials tested, good unleached wood
ashes and phosphate or pure ground bone
have proven the best fertilizers for straw
berries. One to two thousand pounds of
bone or phosphate and fifty or 100 bush
els of ashes to the acre produce excellent
results Superphosphates will start plant
growth more quickly but is not as cheap
and trustworthy as pure ground bone,
which is more slow in becoming availa-
bic as plant food, but its good effects
always show the next season at fruiting
time.