Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-06-03
AGRICULTURE.

CoRS is another excellent fodder crop.
but the lest fodder is that consisting of
small. tender stalks, which are usually
juicy and succulent. In order to add TO
the quality, the fodder should be sown
thickIy in rows and cut while quite
green. Some prefer to cut corn fodder
when the corn is in tassel, and others
at the time the young corn begins to I'LL
ont. when IT is cured, stored and fed,
after being cut into small lengths. 1t
is suggested, however, that corn be cut
when about three feet high and tied IN
bundles. The advantage of this method
is that two crops may be grown the
same season, aud If properly cured and
stored It does not crumble so readily.
1t Is an excellent, clean food for horses,
and NAV be ted in the bundle or In the
manner mentioned for oats.
ALL the Indifferent cabbages raised
on the farm, or enough of them, should
be saved for the fowls next Winter. In
that way they get green food, which
they need all the year through. Hang
up the heads, so that the hens must
reach up a little TO get mouthiul. If
Won raise no poor heads, then save some
good ones. IurnIps may be worth
something, but not so much as cabba-
ges. Very green grass cuttings from
the lawn, cured III the shade and scald-
ed IN Winter will be greatly relished.
ORCHARD grass Is an excellent kind,
and when sOwn with clover Is better
than timothy as 1t is in the best stage
for cutting at the same time as clover,
while timothy is too long behind the
clover. Orchard grass will stay in the
ground and yield good pasture or hay
20 years, and longer If manured occa-
sloually. 1t is the earliest grass Tor
pasture in the Spring and grows late IN
the Fall 1t also stands dry, hot weather
far better than timothy.
PEAS answer best early in the season,
and are suitable for cattle and sheep.
They are usually sown with oats, and
fed directly from the field to the stock
IN the yards. under the sollIng method.
Such crop may be fed and got out OF
the way for a late corn-fodder crop, or
for turnips. II attempting to grow two
crops on the same location, however,
the land mnst be manured heavily, or 1t
Will be injured, though the exhaustion
Will not be so great as when such crops
are allowed TO mature and produce seed.
4 VINE in vigorous growth sends out
a lateral at every joint, and these should
be nipped of beyond the first leaf when
the best results are desired for grapes,
SAYS John Watson, and should be done
early. BY this means the main cane,
with It's fruit and leaves, will receive the
sap instead of Its being wasted in the
production of useless laterals, ana will
greatly enlsrge and strengthen the leaves
aud give more light and air among
them.
a WRITER mas been very successful in
propagaung cucumber plants from cut
hngs, and finds he gets fruit earher and
is sure Of the character of his plants.
which Is not the case when raising them
from seed. The cuttings are taken from
the ends Of the vines and often contain
buds which bear fruit IL short time
after the new roots start. This method
vouid seem especially adapted to green
house culture where vacancies are to be
flied in allotted space.
THE eggs OF fowls bred in-and-in for
gears rarely hatch. You must introduce
new blood IL the flock from some out
side yard of the same strain. And still,
If one Is very careful in his breeding,
the same family Will do well a good
while. The selection of proper cocks
for breeders Is important. Among the
BraInas many well-shaped rosters are
incompetent as breeders. Weed them
out. and you can tell which they are by
little watchfulness.
TIE peach tree is becoming quite
short-lived, but one full crop Will pay
cost OF trees, planting and cultivation,
and for the first two or three years,
paying crops of corn, potatoes, beans
or squashes can be grown upon the land.
We think it would be well, on good
peach land, to plant small orchard,
detached from all Others, every year.
Then when older orchards begin to show
symptoms of yellows, dig out the trees
and burn them, and put their ashes
around the young trees. If potash is
not a certain remedy for the yellows, II
Is good to promote the growth of trees.
CROTCHED fruit-trees of any kind car
be kept from splitting down by twisting |
together one twig from each of the main
braches. These thus twisted will IN five |
years grow into a solid branch that can |
not be broken. Twigs which grow from
the lower part of the branches are pre- |
ferable. If there are no such twigs on |
tile branches, water sprout' or suck !
er' should be allowed 10 grow; or one |
may be started by nicely inserting |
scion into the slit between the bark and |
wood, and securely waxing it. Twigs
from the size of a Rad pencil to half an
inch in diameter can be nsed for this |
purpose.
The objection is often urged against |
narrowing winter wheat in the spring |
that 1t Will Uproot and destroy fall-sown |
timothy. In practice, however, this fear |
has not been verified. Possibly some OF
the timothy plants may be injured, and |
tins also Is true of the grain; but the |
remainder will grow so much better that |
'ho SUI VIII DS tulchcE tue lOdlOWinR
year where the narrowing has been most |
thorough.
THE great trouble with the celery |
growing Is that the plants, at one stage
OF growth OF another. are permitted to
suffer for water. This invariably causes
tough and hollow stalks. Keep the |
plants growing from the time they ap-
pear above the ground IN the seed bed.
Transplant them TO rich soil-give them |
water as often as they need it, and give !
1t in abundance, and you will have ten
der, plump celery.
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