The Hope pioneer., 1886-09-24
FARM AND GARDEN.

them off Injuries the vines.
When fowls are kept in q yard it is
best to dig up small corner OCCASION
ally to let thcm hunt for worms.
Let your onions grow until the tops
fall, then pull them up. They should
be allowed to become dry and be stored
in cool place.
As soon as the ears have been taken
from the sweet corn the stalks should
be cut up and fed to the COWS in as
green condition as possible.
To kill moles an Illinois farmer puts
strychnine in pieces of liver the size
of hickory nut, placing the pieces at
different points in their runs.
If the soil is dry, the early matured
potatoes may remain in the hill, but if
wet, they had better be dug and stored
or rot will surely ensue.
Try buhach or Persian insect powder
for the cabbage worm. Wet table,
spoonful of powder with alcohol; stir
this in pailful of water.
Japan clover is gradually but surely
taking possession of the otherwise
waste lands of the South. 1t makes
the land more fertile the longer it occu-
pies it.
Look to the branches of pear, apple
and peach trees. If thinning the fruit
is not desired, see that supports are
provided to prevent the branches
from breaking.
Resources of the soil do not end ab-
rubtly at four or five inches in depth,
yet there are hundreds of farms
where all beneath is terra incognita,
because no effort has ever been made
to explore.
1t may be pretty big job to keep
the flies out of the stables entirely, but
it ought to be done if possible. The
annoyance from flies while in the sta
BILE is often harder on the horses than
hard work in the field.
Whenever fowls can run at large
without detrimcnt to the garden, they
should be allowed to do SO by all
means. Nine-tenths of the trouble
and diseases among poultry are the
result of keeping fowls too close.
Perfectly clean and dry wool con-
tains about 5 per cent of sulphur, and
a nine pound fleece about seven ounces
of potash, about six of which can be
recovered by well washing the wool
and evaporating the wash water.
In buying pigs for breeding stock the
best is the cheapest, though it cost
little more money. The reason why
breeders justify themselves in saving
runts, is because some men are thought
less enough to buy them at low price.
All small apples and others defective
in form or damaged by worms have
their best market on the farm as food
for animals. If packed with sound
fruit, even in small proportion, they
reduce the price of all even to the point
of loss.
Bees do not work as we'll in a hive
exposed to the sun. In midday, when
very hot, all work on the inside, such
as comb building and storing honey, has
to be suspended. Sometimes combs
melt down, and the brood dies in the
sun.
The wheat crop of this country thirty
years ago averaged only nine bushels
per acre. Lately it has increased to
twelve or thirteen, but it is still much
below the crop of England, which for
many years has averaged twenty-nine
bushels per acre.
Soapsuds may be advantageously
used around the pear and peach trees.
1t is quite an undertaking to carry them
to an orchard, but there are trees and
grapevines usually growing near the
house and kitchen which will be greatly
benefited by the use of the suds.
Turnips will stand frost better than
any other root except the parsnip.
They are best stored in pits, but all the
white kinds must be got ont early and
sold, or they will become pithy and
worthless. Yellow turnips, especially
of the Swedish variety, are better late
keepers, but they also should be stored
in pits.
Binders on a horse are always worse
than useless. This animal has intelli-
gence enough to be more afraid of what
he can't see than of what he can. The
binders invariably chafe the eyes when
horse is in motion; and if they do not
injure the eyesight, as they often do,
they are perpetual source of useless
discomfort.
The American Dairyman says that
the dairyman who buys big COW
with a view of selling her carcass for
beef when through with her in the dairy,
has been aptly likened to the man who
bought an engine several times too
large for the work he had to do, with
view to selling it for more as old iron
when worn out.
A writer in the London Ltve Stock
Journal says he believes it is essen
TALLY necessary to have stock in per-
feet health for breeding, and no matter
how well you may have mated your
mares, if they are out of health, or badly
fed on inferior dict, you can not expect
to get well-developed fetus that will
grow into good muscular horse.
No Time to Study Nature.
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