Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-12-01
FARM AND GARDEN.
cow MANURE IN PASTURE.

valuable parts of their manure are left
IN the farmyard.
SETTING STRAWBERRY PLANTS.
The sooner strawberry plants are set
out in July or August the better chance
for a crop next Spring. If large
patch is TO be set, wait for rainy time,
that their growth be not too much
checked. Frequent hoeing and stop
ping the growth of runners will make
the hills thrifty. All the fruit buds for
next Summers crop must. however, be
formed this fall.
MILDEW ON LATE PEAS.
Owing TO mildew peas sown late sell
dom amount to much. Occasionally
there is q cool, moist time as the pods
are setting, which prevents mildew
from spreading; but the vines do not
set so freely as those which made their
first growth slowly early in the season.
it is poss bic that sulphur or copperas
water viii check this mildew. 1t is
well worth trying, as the green pea
reason could be prolracted until Fall.
WATERING CUCUMBERs.
1t pays to water cucumbers, provided
the work is done as it should be, as is
seldom the case. Too often the surface
OF the ground is only slightly moislen-
ed, and if water is poured on, it often
does as much harm as good. The
cucumber hill should be depressed
around the plants. Remove little of
the surface soil and gently sprinkle the
water over the plants until not they
but the soil 10 a depth of four or five
inches is thoroughly mostened. Then
replnce the surface SOL, which is the
best kind Of Il mulch. One such water
ng week will keep the plants thrifty
in the DRY est time.
TREES AS WIRE FENCE POSTS.
1t is possible to use fruit trees for
fence posts when wire is the material
employed. The wires should not be
tackled directly upon the tree, but a
strip of board nailed to it and the wire
attached to that Apple trees planted
ia rty feet apart will need light stake
between 10 keep the wire from sagging.
With trees in the fence it is not best to
try TO pillow closely to them but get the
ground seeded and leave strip Of
6 ght or ten feet in grass which should
be mown and saved. This headland in
grass IS cony vnioht for turning around
on at the end of rows when cultivating
in hoed crops.
WATERING COWS IN SUMMER.
Any animal giving milk requires fire.
quent watering. While many COWS in
Winter VII only drink once a day.
they VIII in Summer require water three
times, morning, noon and night, and
drink heartily each time. The water
even in Summer is better for standing
where It will be nearly blood warmth.
Fresh water from the well is for this
season not so good rs that from streams
or ponds. where it is warmed by the
surrounding air. Doubtless water as
cold as ice is not best for human
beings, but we have no such practical
test Of is bad effects as any one can
have from giving it to milch cows.
WHY TIMOTHY RUNS OUT.
Timothy is never cut until too late
for the good of the plant if not of the
hay. A meadow late in the Summer
IS oily dried mp stubJle with scarcely
any green Ecrbage if composed only
of timothy. The exposed dubious root
is the natural home of the white grub,
and the eggs for producing these are
laid in them, while if the field is
seeded with clover or some grass that
sprouts quickly after cutting the tim
will be protected. Timothy roots
mainly near the surface, while
those of clover strike deeply into the
subsol. With some clover sown with
it timothy sod will last two or three
wears longer than without the clover.
CoTTON-sEED MEAL.
The fact that English farmers have
largely substituted cotton-seed meal
for linsced is perhaps good evidence of
its greater cheapness. England for
many years took the refuse from our
fax seed and thus kept up to a point
where most American feeders thought
thew could not afford to use it. OF late
years linseed meal is compar atiyely
cheap, due probably in large part to
the more extensive use of Indian corn
as stock feed in England. In fattening
his beef on corn John Bull is drawing
nm an almost inexhaustible supply. But
Mt present both kinds of oil meal are
for some purposes more nearly on a
basis with corn for cheapness than they
formerly We're.
WORKING YOUNG COLTS.
A colt from draught stock or for
farm purposes alone should be broken
when two years old and may even
then be put at light work provided it
is not continued so long as to overtax
the strength. Perhaps the work done
Will oe worth little more than the time
REQUIRED to get it, but it is important
for the muscular development on which
t,e future value of a horse must de-
nend. Even when three years old the
colt should not be put at heavy work.
but more can be done with him if he
has been mildly worked the previous
hat