The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-08-03
TIMELY HINTS.
aaH Farm Houses Can BE Made to Lsck
Pleasing I'm Winter.

aaS Farm Houses Can BE Made to Lsok
Pleasing I'm Winter.
Farmers of moderate means and
small farms, who wish to have pleasant
homes, and to make them pleasant to
their children, should keep the sur
roundings of their dwellings neat and
6dy till the SHOWS of winter close the
autumn work. 1t happens too often
that in the hurry of late autumn opera
lions, various kinds of rubbish are
scattered and left on the ground, such
rs straw, leaves, pieces of boards and
the various refuse materials from the
winter storage of apples, potatoes. corn,
etc. 1t requires no more work In the
send to keep the ground clear OF these
detacing objects, than to clean them
upA sitter they are half decayed at some
Future time. Such work Is controlled
by habit: and the owner who acquires
the habit of keeping everything clean
and neat, does il without effort and
with very little additional time and
labor. Among other matters, many
dwellings, are rendered somewhat re-
puisive all winter, and in late autumn
and early spring, by the necessary pro-
lection of their cellars from frost, and
BY the unnecessarily rough manner in
which this protection is given. Some
bank up earth and sods against the
underpinning outside; others pile
straw, and secure it with stakes or
brush. and others. again. adopt the
still less ornamental practice of heap
ing manure against the cellar walls.
We have referred to this matter on
former occasion, and we recur to it
again as a matter of sufficient import
apce TO bear repetition. Ii cellar
wis. or such portion of them as
are above ground. are properly built,
SO as TO enclose an air space, or
TO include a stratum of tan, sawdust
or ashes, they will need no additional
outside covering; but where this pro-
vision has not been made neat pro-
section NAV be made by heaping dry
leaves up against the walls, and then
keeping them in place with the
branches of evergreen trees, in the
form of neat green thatch. The
branches should be cut so as to be just
long enough to reach from the top to
the bottom of the sloping bank of
leaves; and they must be placed in-
yerted to shed the rain. Since the
time when nurservmen had made ever
green trees abundant and cheap, and
of the many which have been set out in
the last twenty years. more or less re-
quire sharpening or shortening in to keep
them within bounds, or to preserve
L., Nd
inlthe late fall, gives good supply OF
branches for the work here mentioned.
as well as for the protection of the
strawberry beds, half-tender roses, and
for other purposes. A neat covering
may be given to the circular flower
beds of the lawn, by placing evergreen
branches in circle. radiating from
the center. For plants which retain
their green leaves in winter. no other
covering should be given, as it might
cause smotheriRg and decay; but if the
leaves of the plants die or drop before
winter, q few inches, or even foot of
dry leaves, may be first placed on the
bed, and then held in position with the
eyergreens.
Lawns and surroundings of dwell
.ings are sometimes rendered need
slessly repulsiVe with coarse manure
spread in layers over the surface. where
il. remains all winter. IL manure is
aled at all. it should be in a finely pull
verified state and very evenly spread.
On large lawns, after old manure has
been applied. il may be finely pulver-
lied by passing a smoothing harrow or
similar implement over il several times,
mixing it with the grass and rendering
it inconspicuous.-Coastry Gentleman.