Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-08-21
FARM AND GARDEN.

Regulate the feed Of your horses to
correspond with the amount of work
they are required to d..
Foot and mouth disease has lately
broken out among the animals in
France and Germany and also in six
cantons in Switzerland.
A potato has been raised at Santa
Barbara, CAL, which measured twenty
inches in circumference one way and
twenty seven the other. 1t weighed
six and a quart:r pounds.
Work horses thess hot days need
water as frequently as the men work.
ing them require 1t. In this respect
work horses are cruelty treated by their
owners. Turn over a new leafand be-
gin these hot days to be merciful.
The Berkshire hog of to-day, says
Colman's Rural, was built upon a
hardy and rugged constitution, one in
ured to hardship; the hardship of hav-
ing to hunt Its own food, and at times
to have to hunt far and long. This de-
veloped bone and muscle gave it good
lungs and the bet circulation OF the
vital fluid. In these are embraced
what we understand by constitution.
President Adams of Cornell Uni
versity, in plea for scientific agricul-
ture, truthfully remarked: Mature
cannot be cheated or outwitted. When
ever any part of her substance or en-
ergy is used it can only be transferred
from one place or form TO another, and
if man takes from land anything, it
must be restored by some means or the
land becomes exhausted or barren"
Kerosene oil applied to the roots in
small quantities will kill parasites.
Plaster OF Paris scattered over the
floors OF the fowl houses is purifying
absorbant, preventing smell which
arises. The nest must be occasionally
renewed and kept clean. Tobacco
stems covered with straw are an ex-
cellent preventive of insect breeding,
especially when the hens are sitting.
Australia is continent of many eli
mates, and there are comparatively
few products Of the soil that cannot be
produced in one or another part OF it.
A commission has been sitting at Mel
bourne to consider what vegetable
products can be advantageously grown
in the Australian colonies. Mr..
Moore, director in the Sydney Botanic
Gardens, was one of the witnesses,
and he recommended the increased
growth OF the olive, the caper, the
poppy, the castor oil tree, medicinal
rhubarb, madden, rape, indigo and
mustard.
To have crop of large, rich cur
rants, enrich the ground, make 1t
clean and mellow, and thin out the
brush. Cut away the old stunted
wood and leave the vigorous young
shoots. Let them occupy equal dis
tances from each other, and give the
bushes in some degree regular form.
No fruit is more neglected than the
currant, the bushes being allowed to
become enveloped in weeds and grass,
and the enfeebled bushes allowed to
grow into mass of brush. The diff
ference in the size of the berries raised
by the two modes is as one to four.
CARPET beds will require attention
as the plants grow to keep them in
good shape, so that the plants may pre-
sent an even and compact growth.
This will consist in pinching off the
ends at the shoots, causing them to
branch more freely. The scarlet and
scented-leaved geraniums and hello
tropes need this attention, however, to
a less extent this month than last.
Special attention of this kind is re-
quired by the achyranthes and coleus,
which otherwise shoot up tall and
spindling.
SOME one says that milking should
be done quickly, quietly and gently.
We believe this is quiet true; but in
order that it may be accomplished to
the very letter, it will he found neces-
sary to commence handling the heifer
early. We have observed that the
most gentle cows on the farm are the
ones that were made SO when they
were calves. Every heifer intended
10 be retained on the farm, should be
treated as kindly as possible from the
day she first comes into the world un-
til she becomes a mich COW.
Horseradish should be planted as
early in the season as possible, or just
! as soon as the ground can be properly
prepared, and if large roots are desired
the soil cannot be made too rich or
deep. In planting, always use sets.
These are rootlets or branches OF the
main roots, which are too small for
table use. They are cut into pieces
about four or five inches in length, and
in such manner that there will be no
danger ofsetting the roots upside down.
Sets planted upside down will never
make good roots.
The growing of carnations is quite
simple. The seed may be sown at any
time before the first of August, in any
convenient spot where the ground can
be got in as good condition as it would
be for early vegetables. Sow the seed
thinly in rows at convenient distance
to work readily. When the plants are
two inches high transplant in pots,
where wanted to bloom. Keep them
clean until the ground is lightly frozen,
then cover even with the tops of the
plants with newly fallen leaves, which
can be kept in place with some brush.
When gardening operations commence
in spring, rake away the leaves, fork
up the earth between the rows, and in
June masses OF this beautiful and fra
grant flower will be the reward OF your
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