Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-19
FACTS FOR THE FARMkR.

Nows and Notes Of Interest aud valas to
Husbsndmen.
From tho Germantown Telegraph.
A rat-proof corn.bin may be made by lin
ing tho inside of an ordinary bin with No.
wire.
A good lesson to fix In the mind Of chill
dren Is that all flowers, even the most conf
mon ones, are beautiful.
IL has been determined that 8, 100 pounds
OF corn products, including grain, cobs, and
stalks, Is equal in untritive value TO 9,6l2
pounds OF hay.
They have goose iarm In Massachusetts,
Of sixty acres, where geese and ducks are fat
tened for market Some 1900 goslings are
hstchcd each year and grown into geese to
be eaten.
Cattle have four stomachs the bsrnysrd
fowl two, the crop and gizzard. Gravel acts
In place OF teeth In fowls. This serves
to help grind down the food In the gizzard.
Keep them supplied. The sharper the gravel
the better.
The celebrated botanist De CandoIle net
the age OF the elm at 1856 years. The age Of
some palms have been set down ut coo TO 100
years, that OF an olive tree at 700, that of a
plsLe tree at 40, OF q cedar at 800, OF an oak
at 1880, of yew at $500, and OF a bsobsb
tree at 5,0OC
II YOU have let your work horses unfor-
tunstely get thin during tho winter lose no
no time In feeding up. The full strength OF
the animals will be required In plowing and
seeding time. Ii Is poor economy 10 stint
animals upon which 50 much depends In
successfully prosecuting the labors OF the
farm. 1t is in TACT, poor economy to let any
farm animal get thin.
Abandoning some Old Modes.
Very many OF the practices Of farmers de-
scend from one generation to another, and
are continued as a sort of necessity. 1t has
generally been considered almost a matter Of
necessity that cabbages, tomatoes and some
other vegetables should be transplanted in
order to secure the best results Tho idea is
being eradicated from the mind by results
coming from a different course. Joseph
Harris, the veteran farmer, grows cabbage
where the seed was planted that is, he
planted the seed In rows and then thinned OF
a. the plants were needed. to set in other
places, leaving sufficient 10 grow In the rows
and, as a result, those left In the rows headed
full as we'll as those that were transplanted.
Thus by planting the seed whore IL Is in
tended that II should grow, the annoyance
and trouble Of transplanting isavoided, which
sometimes becomes necessary when the
weather In dry and the operation becomes
difficult. Some of the earliest largest and
best celery grown by Mr.. Harris last year wss
without transplanting. Expert cultiyators
ray that their earliest and best tomatoes come
from self-grown plants from seed Of fruit that
had rotted upon the ground. At the New
Soik agricultural experimental station, ex-
periments have been made In growing toma-
toes without transplanting. These plants
that were grown entirely in the open ground
matured fruit in twenty-five days earlier
time than those that were cared for in a hot
bed for two or three months time.
We have invariably succeeded better with
plants growing where planted than with any
that were transplanted, but our chief trouble
has been In obtaining the fruit sufficiently
early. Our experience has been that the
plants standing where planted were much
that its tendency Ia ripen seemed to he de-
layed but, notwitbstandi ding this condition, we
prefer this course, and may yet discover some
point or practice that will hasten maturity.
1t Is probable that transplanting will be q
thing OF the past and that much labor will
thus be saved.