Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-16
FARM AND GARDEN.


of the fowl-house they viii be eagerly
used by fowls TO keep themselves free
from vermin.
If ants are to be killed, sponge sat
urated with sweetened water, it is said.
will be quickly filled with them. The
sponge may then be dipped in boiling
water from time to time.
Do not neglect to tie the Young
growth of grape vines to the poles or
trellis from time TO time so that the
wind cannot whip them about the
stakes or over the wires and injure
them.
Onion seed more than one year old
possesses low vitality, and when more
than two years old is worthless for
planting New seed is soft and has IA
strong taste. Good seeds sinks in
water
The Rpral IVorH says: Hundreds
OF farmers last year by dint of careful
selection of so | and seed and equally
careful cultivation made 200 gallons of
syrup to the acre, and sold it readily
from 40 to 80 cents per gallon.
Grass will need attention very soon
if we wish to make the best hay The
best time TO NOW is probably before it
has passed its full maturity of growth.
The ripening of the seed not only eX-
hausts the plant. but the soil rs well,
An Iowa journal says: why do
farmers continue TO breed colts when
they can see every day noble specimens
of grade colts, grand in size and noted
for their advantages and capabilities?
Who should breed them if farmers do
notp"
Judge Samuel Miller says that it is
possible in great measure TO bring
about an annual habit of bearing in
those varieties of apples which are
given to oyer-bearing one year and
next year bearing little or no fruit, by
thorough thinning of the fruit during
the bearing year
1t has been the experience of one of
Iowa's successful hog raisers that the
best market for hogs in the past ten
years has been in the months of July
and August, rs rule Would il not
be advisable for some of the farmers
to delay the corn, now, little, and
give the hogs grass and try a later
market? Should not all sell AT once?
The green prolific is the variety of
cucumber usually grown by market
fnl. nb
being paid for the smallest pickles or
"gherkIns," which do not exhaust the
vines as when permitted TO grow lar
ger, a continuous crop can be gathered
till late autumn.
One of the surest causes of disease
among horses is poorly ventilated
atables. Their quarters should be made
rs warm and comfortable as possible.
but ut the same time the matter of
ventilation should not be overlooked.
Better let them feel the cold little
than to suffer from disease.
When it is understood that if al
lowed to ripen to seed perfectly ;hc
grass losses all its rich Juices, and be-
comes mere dry straw-woody iibrcs,
q little silicate of potash, and very
trifling quantity of vegetable eX-
tractive matter-the Importance Of
cutting it at the right time will be ap-
parent.
June is the great honey month of
the year, and happy is the beekeeper
this year whose tubs are right side
up This is also the great swarmng
month and great will be the perplexites
of the beekeeper who has many bees
and no hives. sections, etc, ready.
Swarming will certainly be booming
BY the middle of the month, and there
will be no time TO make up hives and
do other work that should have been
attended to during the winter.
The benefits that fowls derive from
eating charcoal Is acknowledged. The
method of getting it before them. how
ever, is not well understood. Pound
ded charcoal is not in the shape in
which fowls usually find their foo and
consequently is not very enticing to
WI Dul III Oll bllt tOD anu lUc
refuse, which consists almost entirely
of the grains reduced to charcoal and
still retaining their perfect shape, if
placed before them is greedly eaten by
them.
No farm animal chills sooner when
exposed to the cold than hog, and no
animal works more indu>tously to pro-
tect itself against cold than it, But we
think hogs suffer more from wet than
cold. A cold rain ch lis the body. drives
the blood inward, opens the pores of
the skin, and makes an animal doubly
liable to contract q seasc. When the
ground around the pig pen is thorough
ly drained. as it should be. bare earth
makes the best and certainly the most
desirable floor - Farmers RcUieW.
The bacteria! disease which was first
noticed Il year or two ago in Central H.
linois in the imported cabbage worm