Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-06
Farm and Garden.
Farm and Garden. Change nest eggs daily. Dig wells in dry weather: Clean the harrow teeth. Nail up the loose fence boards.

Scala and sun the milk pans every day. Water isn't apt to hinder ditching work il the summer.
 Save all of both the coal and wood ashel for the land. In packing butter sprinkle little clear white sugar between the layers. To dry off COW quickly milk only enough to relieve a painfully full bag. Now is the time to coat cave troughs in the inside with mixture of coal tar and land plaster.
 Swine and sheep in the apple orchard will consume the wormy fruit as it falls, before the larva escapes, with gain all around.
 Farrow cows to be fattened this fall should not be mixed much longer, but by drying off give them a chance to get in condition before cool weather.
 Bucks often have bruises and sores about the horns which become infested with mag gots in hot weather. They should be exam ined, and when any are found, tar as hot as it can be and not burn should be applied also wherever the skin may be broken.
 White clover is in many districts & chief source of honey in the summer, the amount gathered from this plant being in favorable weather very great It is during the glut ot such crop that the great advantage of ex- tracting honey from the combs and returning these for re6lling again and again is best seen. No time or material being expended on comb building, all the work applies to storing honey, with great gains as to the re- suit.
 Weaning Colts and Calves.-August is the weaning month with many stockmen. The weaning Of any young animal must be grad ual or the animals health and condition will suffer. During it's progress there should be for colts and calves no stint of good grass or fine hay, clean, fresh water and salt. Con-
 fine in clean, small 1l-sized yard where there will be no inducement to run. At first let them suck twice a day for few days, then once day for a week; then several times at two days apart; then extend the intervals still more for few times, after which let sucking be stopped for good. By this course neither the mother nor her offspring are much disturbed by the weaning, and the lat ter will not run poor as by abrupt weaning.
 Composing Bone Dust.-Bone dust, like barn-yard manure, does not yield up it's es- sential qualities of nitrogen and phosphoric acid to the roots of plants at once after ap- plying to the land. It must be decomposed before it is available. Decomposition occurs more or less rapidly, according to the degree of fneness of the bones, and the pre- vailing moisture and heat with which it comes in contact. Often many of the parti- cles of bone in commercial bone manures are so coarse that months pass after it's applica- ton before the crop derives any great benefit from it. Such, or any bone-manures, may be rendered more quickly of use to plants by mixing them with barn-yard manure some time before they are to be applied, letting both ferment together in heap. The bone dust aids rapid decomposition in the manure and this in return softens and dissolves the former. Both the manure of the stable ano the bones are rendered richer as well more directly available for being thus brought to gether Where these fertilizers are both te be applied to the land just before wheat, by adopting this process at once, the interven 1 ing time will aid along the design suffcientl, to make much better showing for the whea by winter than otherwise would be the case ORCHARD AND GARDEN. Sow winter radishes. Keep down every weed. Look out for tomato worms. Save your own sweet corn seed. In drouth water the beet bed. For young carrots in the fall SOW now. Scatter turnip seed where there are gap in other crops.
 Pull coarse weeds from asparagus; smal ones will not thrive owing to the shade. Treat the strawberry bed well now witt culture and manure, and it will treat yol we'll next season.
 The effects of drouth may be lessened b | the free use of the hoe, rake and cultivator 1 Be sure and try it.
 Think we'll before discarding the old Will l sons Albany strawberry for some new com l CT. This is really noble fruit; the mos | that is said against it's sourness falls to tn ground when the berries are allowed to ripel before picking, as should be done for hom use.
 | Raspberries.-A little care bestowed upol 1 the plants at this season would make thi
 fruit more highly prized. The new growt
 should be occasionally nipped off through l out this month to induce the breaking o new branches. The more branches mad this fall the more fruit next year. Summe
 pruning also induces stocky growth tha
 requires no stalking. When all the fruit gathered the old wood should be cut away
 This is important and if left undone diseas 1 and decay to the root is invited. A shove l full of ashes thrown around the base of tn plant now is wonderfully helpful to it's fu ture well-doing.
 FLOWERS AND THE LAWN. 1 Layer roses.
 Clip the box edgings.
 Fuchsias slip well now.
 Fix up heap of potting soil
 Train the new growth of climbers
 In wedding don't forget the flower pots The seeds of perennial flowers may l I sovn.
 Hedges should receive their summer prul
 ing.
 Seeds of garden flowers should only