Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-10-01
GLEAEInGS.

A cellar is useful place for stOr-
| ing plants that have been used for
the decoration CT the garden and
verander in summer, too large to
be kept in the house during the
winter. The stately Agave, or Cen
tury pant, and the nearly hardy
Palms, may be stored here for the
winter, as may Oleanders, and the
blooming Fuchsias, which
keep dormant during the winter /;
geraniums and other bedding
plants, which it is desired 10 keep
over; also, Dahlias and other ten
der roots. AS an annex TO the
window garden, the celler il of great
service, as 1t answers as a store
room, and as "potting she'd" If
the cellar is too warm or otherwise
unsuited, an outside cellar, or large
pit, may be constructed in "a bank,
securely timbered, or walled with
stone and furnished with double
doors.
Before the corn crop is cut up
or gathered from the stalk, a day
or two should be spent in the field
selecting seed corn for the next
years crop. a man who grows
forty acres of corn can hardly use
a day to better financial purpose
than by spending 1t in the field Sc
Letting seed. The selecting should
be done while the ears are still on
the stalks, and they are yet green.
This is necessary, that the character
of the stalks, as well as the ears, be
observed. Any one who has been
in a corn.feld knows how the stalks
vary; some are large, some small,
some short, some tall, some have
two, three, or more ears, and many
have none. This last class of
stalks should not be allowed to
exist in a field from which seed
corn is to be selected, for the pollen
from them fertilizes other ear-bear-
ing stalks.
Every place large enough to have
a garden should also have a COM
post heap. This may be made with
little cost and labor to the farmer
by putting into it all the animal
and vegetable substance that other
wise would go to waste and in
many cases poison the air and rem
der it unhealthy. The prOvident
farmer looks everywhere for ma
terial for the compost heap and col
lects it from all filthy places, such
as drains, cess-pOols, bitches, boys,
and ponds. This matter along
with the scrapings of cellars, earth
under barns, etc, collected tOgeth-
or and covered with clay or loan,
becomes harmless and at the same
time valuable.
AS rule, winter fruit should not
be gathered until after the first of
October; but the autumn fruit will
most of it be gathered before the
end Of September. The trees should |
be examined this month for bOrers,
and the young orchard should be
carefully looked over, and all limbs !
that cross each other removed
This work can be done much better
during warm weather than after |
winter sets in. After removing the |
borers a small mound of earth !
should be made around each tree |
to protect it during the winter from !
field mice.
The Poulty Monthly advises that
pOultrymen and fanciers should
encourage fall sales. Wintering a
large number of fowls, pigeons or
any kind Of pet stock is at best
very risky and expensive, as they
require more than ordinary care
aud runs. Worst Ofall to be dread
ed is the liability of disease spread.
ing among them, and the loss of
breeding stock on which 80 much
time, labor and outlay have been
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman, while admitting the adj.
vantage Of box stalls, calls atten.
ton to the evils of combining either
horses or cattle in box-pens, even
rs large as ten feet square, for three
Or four months continuously, or
even for two months or ten weeks,
taking out the manure
laily.