The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-07-28


5 rich ground. Some is naturally bett er |
han others, but none is nearly 90 cd |
enough without large additions of manure,
II which horse and COW have no superior.
Put on what you regard as an excess. then
iouble the quantity, and if you will con-
linue the operation every spring you will
have IL about right.
Where there is plenty of land, the pre- |
ferable form of a garden is long rectangle,
the rows the longest way permitting of
horse cultivation. Where the plot is small, |
cultivation by hand, IL Is still |
wise to have the longest rows or beds
possible, since even then the cultivation
can largely be done by hand plows.
Be sure the garden is broken up deeply
and the manure put largely near, or If It is
very fine, on the surface. The surface
ought to be worked over before planting.
by harrow, rake or roller, until there is not
clod as large as boys marble. and no
hills or ridges ought to be tolerated, even
for raising sweet potatoes. The cultivation
ought to be nearly level throughout the
season.
cranberry Culture. Years ago, when
the entire cranberry crop of the country
was obtained from the wild "cranberry
bogs," scoops and rakes of peculiar con-
struction were used in gathering this fruit.
In using these indictments the vines were
usually broksn off or pulled out by the
roots, and large quantities of weeds, grass,
aud mud got mixed with the berries, all
of which had to be picked and washed out
before the fruit was ready for use or
market. The cranberry rake is still used
on some of the wild plantations. but much
OF the fruit gathered with this implement
is badly bruised, Causing it to decay much
sooner than the hand picked. Gathering
by hand Is now considered preferable to
any other mode, not only as being the
least injurious to the vines, but also to Sc
cure clean, sound berries. AS the hand
picked fruit commands better price in
market than that gathered with scoops and
rakes, the extra expense of gathering it is
more than made good to the cultlyator.
There is pest, the peach louise, that
should be carefully looked after. An ex-
animation of the young branches of the
trees will show many of them to be filed
with scale not larger than the hull of a
flax seed, and placed very close together,
so close that they appear to overlap each
other. Under these little scales are thous-
ands of eggs that will soon be hatched out
by the warm sun and will play havoc with
the young bark and the fruit of the trees.
The best way to exterminate them is to
cut of and burn the young branches that
are very badly affected. Where the cut
ting away of the larger branches would in
jure the tree, the best way to destroy the
pests is to wash them with fish oil or with
strong suds made of whale oil soap.
The trunk of the tree may be subjected to
the same kind of washing. A few hours
devoted intelligently to this work will re-
pay the fruiG grower ten times over in a
large crop of superior fruit. and will save
his trees from destruction for many years
to come.
Watering Horses. The water given
horse should be pure. Do not have the
well in the barn-yard, for the wash will
soak into it, and pollute the water. If a
running brook of clean water be convenient
lead the horse TO drink from it. A good
cistern can be made of large hogshead
sunk half foot in the ground and the
water from the barn roofs led into IL win
be preferable for The horses than too cold
well water. A horse needs at least two
pals of water day, and If given half a
pailfuli before meal, or four times day,
1t will be sufficient. unless, when hard at
work In sullry weather. Do not give warm
water at any time of the year, but the chill
may be taken off In winter, so that 1t may
not be icy. Do not water or feed directly
after coming in very warm, and do not
work hard Immediately after eating
heartily.
In regard to getting the best yield of
choice honey try and have all your colonies
very strong when the honey flow comes,
This is best accomplished by feeding a
thin syrup OF honey each evening, com.
mencing about six weeks before the ex-
pected yield. Give room In the sections as
soon as needed, to delay swarmlng as long
as possible. Yon cannot expect to ex-
tract much honey from weak colonies
Honey should not be extracted before II ia
sealed up by the bees, or It may sour on
your LanGs.
If sprouts appear on new set trees Won
can easily pinch them off with your
thumb and finger, and throw the growth
where it is wanted. But do not cut off all
of the growth. If you'dwarf the top of
young new set tree that Is making a rapid
growth, you are dwarfng the roots. II
You allow too much top on feeble tree
you will kill the tree.
The demand for good butter more than
keeps pace with the country's growth.
There is good prospect for the daIryman
of the future who furnishes the quality of
goods the market demands.
Australia buys large numbers of
merino sheep form this country every year.
The American fockmasters have reached
the front rank as breeders of the fne-wool-
ed sheep, even Spain, the original source
whence our stock was obtained, being
among the buyers of our merlnos for i'm
provement Of the home stock.
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