Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-05-18
FARM AND GARDEN.

house he ought to leaye the arranging
of the interior to his wife.
Study what your soil and the crops
you grow need, and then, as best you
can, feed SO as to make special manures
to meet the demand.
If you want TO get the full capacity
out Of your horses without injury use |
moderation at the beginning of everyI
task you impose upon them.
Water house plants only when they |
require it. This may be from two TO |
three times week, depending on how
last the soil dries out in the pots.
In Spain, when q person eats al
peach or pear as he passes along the \
road, he Immediately plants the seeds.
Fruit trees are plenty and free to every
passer-by.
Because you have such a short dis-l
lance to go is no reason why you CAM
drive faster or put on heavier load
than usual. To go two or three miles
at too rapid rate is much harder upon
horse than 1t would be to 20 five
times as tar if it was properly driven.
Onion seed may be sown very early
in the spring, in fact, as soon as the
ground can be made ready to receive
il. The soil should be well ploughed,
then narrowed, rolled and narrowed
again, until thoroughly pulverized. Ill
should then be raked tree of sticks,
stones and clouds.
The Guernseys are fast coming into
favor as rivals of the Jerseys, being
larger in size and harder. They are
said to give deeper colored milk than
the Jerseys, and though not so numer-
GUS as the latter, can compare with
them, proportionately TO numbers, in
butter production.
Many farmers in places where their
land is swept by fierce winds find it
profitable TO plant apple trees in masses
large enough TO MAKE wind-breI * on
the side OF the farm most exposed.
The apple tree branches low down, and
il bordeTed by fence four or five feet
high on the windward side, the ground
will be covered with snow almost as
perfectly as it was in the original
forests.
The instinct of fowl leads it to
scratch, even in feeding on heap of
whole grain. This causes it to stop
eating long enough to swallow. We
give fowls too mnch at time, and this
causes them 10 stuff themselves SO as TO
injure their crops if fed dampened
meal. A little whole grain scattered
among straw will make poultry scratch
for what they get and conduce to their
healthfulness.
Nearly all gardeners transplant cab
bage pla nts, but successful grower
writes that he sows the seed in rows
twenty-one inches apart, in order to
allow OF cultivating the plants with
harrow. Alter they reach the size at
which transplanting is done, he trans
plants all OF these in every alternate
row until the plants STAND two feet
apart. The rows are three and one
half feet apart. He claims that they
do as well as those transplanted from
seed in the ordinary way.
Apple trees are often starved in
other ways than by neglect OF manure
The apple borer leads to starvation
ottener than poor soil. The supply of
food is cut OIL by every move the borer
makes. Get the borer out somehow,
even if by wire and jacknife. Ii not
soon done they will quickly get them
selves out, and after they have left be
sure to keep them out. Paper put on
in May and then tarred over with tar
gas or printers ink " i'll keep them out,
One paper will last three years.
Speaking of the cultivation of wild
fruits, which may be done advanta-
geously on small areas of land, Mas
sachusetts writer says: "While beets,
turnips, potatoes and cabbages can be
bought in good condition, strawber-
rles, raspberries, blackberries, buckle
berries and other small fruits can only
be had in full perfection by growing
them in the garden. Such being the
fact, if our garden is not large enough
TO produce all these fruits and vegeta-
bles, let us buy the former, that we
may make room in the garden for the
latter"
In the process of drying grass into
hay most of the volatile oils which
give green heritage its delicate flavor
and odor are lost. But some farmers
have found that putting clover and
Oln6T BTdSStS III DhIu5 Wuiit ThtuoI
green and mixing with them enough
dry straw TO absorb moisture, not only
preserve the flavor in the hay, but a
portion is communicated to the straw,
making it much better for mich COWS.
1t is possible that farmers may yet
take to sowing sweet vernal grass for
the sole purpose of flavoring their
winters supplies OF dry hay or straw.
An exchange makes good sugges-
ton in saying that "a much heavier
sod and larger growth of either pasture
or hay is obtained by sowing different
kinds of grass seed on the same field,
as each kind will find the kind of soil
and plant food best adapted to its Wig
orous growth, and thus prevent vacant
spaces, which are only filled as nature
occupies them with obnoxious weeds."|
This rule is, however, most applicable
in the older geological formations, as
where the supporting rocks are nearly
horizontal the soils are homogeneous
over larger areas.