Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-10-25
FARM AND GARDEN.

The following, from the American
Rural Home, published at Rochester
N. Y, will be read with interest:
1t would be well for farmers to b,
on the safe side, and save all the corn
stalks. They will help out shor
hay crop amazingly.
A mature animal may get thin II
cold weather, or on short feed, and
then fatten up again when the .condi
tions are made favorable to gain
but o month or week of lost time In
the life ola growing animal can never
be regained.
Ounce trees should be mulched as q
protection against extreme heat and
cold, as the roots are small and usu.
ally near the surface. The ounce
bears every year, but requires some
care, and may be pruned annually
with advantage.
Forest leaves will now begin 10 fall,
and are worth gathering for litter, and
to mix with horse dung for heat
where hot.beds are to be made. They
are also useful for covering cabbage
beds, celery pits; also for banking hot
beds, etc.
There are disadvantages in the top
dressing system, and It is attended
with more labor and expense, but the
results are generally more than salts.
factory. In dry weather top-dressing
acts as a mulch; if wet, 1t imparts
richness by teaching into the soil and
feeding the roots.
lfyou have hen that walks like q
Penguin and is broken down behind.
the cause Is too much fat, or it NAV be
that an egg is broken inside. Il is
difficult to remedy the evil, but care
must be taken in feeding to prevent
the recurrence of the trouble In your
fowls.
1t is avery bad plan to use concrete
Tor any hard substance) for flooring to
poultry houses, unless it is covered
with earth. The fowls. of course, can.
not scratch, and 1t keeps the feet con-
stantly ION the stretch" owing to its
unyielding nature. We should very
much prefer the bare ground.
A North Carolina farmer has a silo
built on top of the ground of heavy
plank. 1t has double walls, four
inches apart, filled with earth to ex-
clude the air. The ensilage is covered
with boards, and the boards covered
with earth, an ordinary roof keeping
off the rain. 1t is 1916 feet, and cost
only $780,.
Every time you have a scuttle of
ashes scatter them around the trunks
OF the fruit trees. If you will begin at
the end OF row and give each tree a
dressing as fast as the ashes are made.
IL will require but short time to give
all the trees the benefit of ashes, while
the labor of 80 doing will not be
Pick over your fowls and avoid
breeding from the poorer specimens. If
you have not already culled your
fiocks, attend to this very soon. Weed
them out. Set the imperfect ones aside
to istten by-and-by. Select the best
cockerels, and the finest shaped pullets
for sale, or for future stock-birds, as
breeders.
To keep up the fertility of our soil,
we must restore to it phosphoric acid,
potash, nitrogen and other substances
found in farm crops. Of the three very
important and valuable substances Just
named nitrogen is the most precious
and costly to obtain. In various places
there are abundant supplies of potash
md phosphoric acid. AS may be said,
hese are in sight. Agricultural chem
SITS are now studying on the problem
If the future supply of nitrogen for |
agricultural purposes. So far, clover
eems to be the most important factor
n this problem.