The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-05-28
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.


seriously cut by the frost, will not make
a satisfactory growth.
Plant the first sweet corn rather shall |
low: the SUI will warm and cause quick
er sprOuting than if deep.
Cucumbers can be planted under some
slight protection and make gain OF two
weeks over those planted later.
The early six weeks bean is more
hardy and will sprOut and grow in
lower temperature than the wax beans
OF the Lima.
Judfcious use of even a small quanti
tv Of glass for early plants will make
great difference in the earliness of the
garden. To guard against loss by frost
a succession of all crops specially liable
to injury should be planted.
IF you have an old grapevine that /
Yields poorly and has seen5Its best days, |
cut it entirely off close to the ground, !
manure heavily and let it throw up two !
new leaders, and the following year you |
will see that it is as good as young !
vine.
Professor E. NJ. Shelton considers
Unity lDdtS VI AuALAAC eBEAA~NA ~ tA4N
acre equal to forty spread over twice as
much surface, and bases the idea on
reasons similar to those employed in
proving large crops more profitable than
small ones.
a correspondent Of the Canadian
HorticltIt,rist says his Flemish beauty
pear trees showed signs of blight, prob
ably caused by vigorous growth and
heavy bearing He gave the trees a
heavy dressing of wood ashes and cop
peras, and they entirely recovered and
bore fruit,
To prevent the splitting or bursting
of cabbages, J. J. II. Gregory recon-
mends to go frequently over the ground
and start every cabbage that appears to
be to mature, by pushing them over side
ways. Heads thus started are said to
grow double the size they had attained
when about to burst.
The rule about feeding hens varies
with the breed. The Asiatic varieties
are easily overfed, especially with corn,
grow fat, lay but few eggs aud work off
their fat only by sitting. Leghorns and
other non sitters can scarcely be fed too
much if given slowly, and so the hens
are compelled to scratch for it.
Seeds of tomato planted where the
plants are to stand will be nearly as
early as those raised under glass. Beets
will not suffer even if the ground should
freeze a little. Onions planted as soon
as the ground is dry are safe for CROP
they endure a low temperature. Cab
bage and all of that family are quite
hardy. Seeds of lettuce germinate at a
low temperature, Pepper and egg
plants must have heat to do we'll: they
fail to sprout in a cold soil.
a chicken, # properly treated, shOult
continue % grow without interruption
from the time it is Matched until it i
fully matured. The most common caus
of stupted chickens is not want of food
as might be supposed, but is usuall
owing to unsuitable quarters in whicI
they are kept, and which are eithe
filthy. cold or damp, if not positivel
wet. This condition of things produce
disease and lice. which alone would stO
their growth, if, indeed, it did not sto
their breath.
A correspondent of the Nations
St0cknlun advises that much of the sue
cess of turkey raising depends on tn
manner the eggs are gathered, and say
s'In the early Spring months the egg
should never be allowed to remain
the nest until cold. Have basket line
with soft cloth, take it to the nest at tt
time of day the hens are about throug
with laying, and remove the eggs gent
with the hand. Have the hand dr.,
clean, and free from grease. Many pc
sors keep a clean, soft mitten in the eg
basket, to be used only when remOvir
eggs from the nest. Too much care ca
not be used in handling eggs for sittir
purposes. Cover the eggs with a so
cloth to carry them to the house. Ket
them in baskets, with soft cloth und
and over them, in the room where th
cannot chill at night; turn them two
three times during the week. MAJ
people complain that their eggs hat
poorly, when the cause of it lies wi
them not using care enough in gathe
ing them"
Perhaps it is not generally know
that barley like the pine tree) grows
over the world. It is grown alike
Arabia and Norway, and it will veg
tate and grow at lower temperate
than any other small grain. 1t new
blights nor rusts, and will make son
thing on almost any kind Of land a.
under any circumstances, though go
rich. dry soil suits il hest. 1t is fl
feed for horses and mules, and VIII
cut before it is fully ripe the straw
equal to the best Northern hay.
The editor of the Farm, Field, q
Freside says: We have realized
much as five dollars from a single be
and as the hen was valued at only fiji
cents, the gross sum derived was eqU
to one thousand per cent.
Most purchasers of trees want
largest size. This is nearly as foolish
was the man who went to the shoe stC
and called for the biggest pair of boz
that could be got for So. Young tn
always have most root in proportion
top, will grow fastest and VIII CO.
soonest into bearing, other things bel
equal.
When butter is properly chuIned, bC
as to the time and temperature, it
comes firm with a very little workil
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