The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-09-18
Farm and Garden.

While feasting on strawberries it is
well to be looking ahead little for the
crop next year. All the buds for fruit
'\ust be i'll the plant this season. and
therefore early planting and good care
are necessary now in order to insure a
full crop.
\ correspondent who has tried field
corn soaked i'll poison and placed in
the drain for killing moles. found the
corn untouched. In another expert
ment he placed grains of sweet corn in
a strong solution of arsenic in the run
ways and succeeded.
Fresh, cut-green grass makes the
best mulch for either currants or goose
berries. It lies close To the ground. and
will keep down weeds better than any
thing dry or coarse like straw. Goose
berry bushes need to be on moist
ground and have their roots kept cool
as possible by heavy mulching.
There is very little gained by turning
under a crop of timothy as green ma
nure Its roots do not run SO deeply as
hose of clover, and the crop, even when
used as green manure, does not anne
l!orate the suhsoil. 1t is, besides, more
valuable fora hay crop for market than
either clover or any other grass.
\ gardener who has an early piece of
ground remarks that green peas for the
early market are a safer crop for mod
crate but sure profits than any other.
The homegrown peas have the prefer
ence over those shipped from the
South. They can only be grown profit
ably where cheap labor can be had Ill
picking them.
Much OF manure dropped by cow;
yarded over night in the barnyard is
wasted. Unless the yard is well lit
tered the liquid cXcrement is lost, ana
the solid Groppngs dry away until
much OF their value is gone. Throwing
the manure i'll heaps and applying Il
little dry earth to the heap daily will
prevent loss.
SOlong as cows will eat gram or meal
il will pay to give them some daily.
If it don't, they are probably not worth
keeping anyway Good cows will grow
poor When kept on grass alone and in
full llow of milk. And when the pas
ture fails they will have no reserve sup
ply of flesh and fat to keep them i'll
condition for milking next winter.
House plants that have been planted
in the border need to be carefully
watched and supplied with water;
otherwise i'll dry time they will suf-
fer far sooner than plants with THEN
roots unconned. AS these make THEN
growth they will also need some care i'll
pinching and training with reference
to their future forms.
Ants can be trapped with pieces of
coarse sponge sprinkled with sugar
Place the bits of sponge near the ant
holes and visit them several times a
day, picking them up quickly and drop
ping them into pail of water carried
for the purpose. Persistence in this
course for short time will clear ants
away from lawn.
/ Cows often chew corn cobs, not fol
/ their nutritive value but for the min
cral they contain. just as they will chew
old bones In such cases wood ashes
I o:. better still. ashes from corn cobS
/ will be eaten rs grecdily as salt. Ashes
for COWS when on green feed corrects
acdity OF the stomach. and a few sup
piled occasionally will do good.
The farmer who rises early and get:
his team out while dew is heavy on tn,
grass or soil gains increased fertilit.
to his soil by his earliness. Dew con
tains a considerable amount Of am