The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-03-12
ISRICULrURAL NOTES.
I,sms Relating TO Farm, Live stock, Vr-
chard, Garden and Lawn.

There is a double oxalis-
Neatuess is its own reward.
Prune the grapes at once.
Plumbs do best on clay loan.
suupose you ge, up stoDeboat now
One florist forces sweet peas in win
ter.
Hens are early risers feed to cores
pond.
All flowers naturally turn towards
the light.
Plow one year 20 the trees the next
away from them.
The most active roots of a tree are
far from the tIurk.
Early orders at the nurseries VIII Sc
cure good selections.
Kill every plant louise these increase
rapidly from now on.
Plant the Favorite or the Optimus to-
mato and you'll not miss it.
The sweet vernal grass in pastures
gives fue flavor to dairy products.
Eggs laid without shells come from
overlooking. and lack of lime in the
food.
For a sure catch, many prefer to SOW
clover seed in February than to do 1t
later.
Hens eggs hatch in twenty days, tur-
keys and ducks in twenty-eight days,
and geese in thirty days.
A dab OF mucilsge around the base OF
camellla flowers will hold their petals
much longer from falling.
For the hot-bed choose soil from
nice, rich patch where there were neith-
or many weeds nor injurious insects
last season.
II your farm doesen't pay consider
whether it owes you anything. You
may not have given it the plant food
and substance that would entitle you to
large returns from its bosom.
Rats are a pest about the chicken
yards. Cats sometimes are almost as
bad when there are young chickens
about Do you know how the former
detest chloride of lime? If this is
scattered about their runs freely they
will clear out.
In starting Gamma seeds, first soak il
warm, but not hot, water for four days
Then plant in pot of light earth in th'
warmest window you have; with thi'
treatment they will shoot up like peas
The fact is we always enjoy growing
these plants from seed they com
along so finely.
A York State farmer raised 100 bush
els of shelled corn to the acre. 1t wa
from land that had been two years i
clover. Under each hill was placed
handful of hen manure, busted wit
lime. This is fertilizer that wi
bring good returns every time, but
must not come in direct contact wit
seeds and roots.
Notwithstanding the many new sor
of peas offered, our readers will not mil
It by planting the First and Best fC
extra early. Others that should De use
are American Wonder for dwarf, PIT
MUM Gem and Yorkshire Slivo Fl
general crop, and Champion Of Ems
Ian1 for late. Abundance, SJratager
Esen- bearing and Market Garden, a
all worthy of trial.
Some men have great diff Guilty
marking out, and are obliged to use
line and reel in order to get the ro'
straight. A good way to do this is
use a wheelbaIrow as a marker. Mai
crosspiece against the front board
proiect on both sides Of the barrow
To this, at such distance from the ce
tire on each side as you want the ro
apart. attach a piece of chain to dr.
on the ground. Then pass back a
forth across the patch to be markt
being guided by the last mark made.
The idea in using a wheelbarrow
that there Is little chance OF its diVei
ing sideways, and straight rows N
easily be made.
In speaking of exercise for hens,
exchange says: With laying beg
there will be an appetite for more foe
with more food there should be more
ercise. But the weather is unfaVora
to this outside, so there should be g
tan nm some kind OF a scratching
for chickens. Most any kind of a lig
drv material in The box into which go
grain has has been scattered, and wo
ed in a little with the foot will do. !
m.mber now that hens, more than q
other live stock, naturally exerc
themselves in gathering food. /
roam. scratch and peck almost consta
". 1t is policy now to meet this nat
al want. How easily done.
After coming up through the u
into the house during some OF Tn
fierce 'andbiting gales, take emo ugh
your leisure time by the warm nres
TO plan for setting out some snect
evergreen wind screens this spring
Don't know what kinds to set
tell v5u freely that the White pi
Austrian pine and the Norway spr
are among the quickest growing so
and they are not at all expensive. 81
with Young trees, say planting I'VE
aDart and not too regular make
soil rich, keep it clean of weeds,
the trees will be eight feet high
few years. Then the addition to
comfort and beauty of the home VII
worth a hundred times more than
cost amounted to. A word to the
is sufficient.
One objection often raised to bill
-, % that Won have TO paw n