The National tribune., 1888-06-14
OUR RURAL TOPICS.
Some Practical Suggestions for Our
Agricultural Readers
AN EARLY GARDEN.

It is always desirable to secure the products
of the garden at as early date as possible, and
where this can be secured by the aid of the
greenhouse or hotbed it is well, but it must be
remembered that early planting for open air
culture will not always insure the desired re-
suits, as may be learned at the cost of the first
planting. The conditions must be favorable in
order to secure speedy termination of seed and
n rapid subsequent growth. Two very essential
conditions are reasonably dry soil, warmed
by the heat of the sun, and a warm tempera-
ture. These conditions can sometimes be So
cured by taking advantage of a favorable
locality for the making of the garden. The
present season. with its late chilling rains, en-
phasizes the importance of taking advantage of
favorable conditions for planting, rather than
to exercise too great haste. We have known of
many instances in which sweet corn has been
planted at different times quite widely apart,
and that of the second planting produced corn
suitable for table use the soonest We have
frequently heard farmers remark that if they
could get their crops in early they would be
roofing and when warm weather came would
grow all the faster; but experience teaches
that where corn is planted late enough for the
soil to become thoroughly warmed it grows
more rapidly and outstrips that planted much
earlier, and that which has been retarded by
cold aud wet weather. The same principle APP
plies with equal force in the garden. We have
sometimes planted beans early in hopes to ad-
vance the crop but have found that picking
could usually be secured first from those con-
siderably later planted With potatoes, peas
and some others, the case is different, as they
will grow even with q considerably low tenn
perature.-G Germantown Telegraph
FAT AND ANIMAL HEAT.
Animal heat must be maintained in order to
secure health and thrift, aud the advantage Of
keeping animals aTtifcially warm in Winter
is very clearly illustrated in the Summer. If
IN Winter an animal has an insufficient supply Of
warmth or rather is exposed to the cold, it
draws heavily upon the fat of the system to
maintain necessary degree of heat, the same
as the farmers supply Of fuel is more heavily
drawn upon in severely cold weather. and so if
not added to will in time become exhausted.
But in the Summer, when the heat is more
nearly that of the normal heat Of the animal
system, the food consumed is stored up and the
animal becomes fat-a result illustrated again
by the farmers fuel supply, which will increase
rapidly if added to daily in Summer, because
none is required to heat his dwelling This
idea the Swiss seem to understand fully in the
construction of their stables, which are very
much warmer than those of theaverage Ameri-
can farmers. Under ordinary circumstances
animals will preserve a good, if not fat, con-
dition under ordinary feeding; and the fact
that they will fatten during Summer demon
strates the importance of due regard to proper
maintenance of temperature during the Win
ter.
SCRAPS AND CURDs FOR POULTRY.
The american Grange Bulletin has the follow
ing paragraph: THE scraps from the table
| make admirable poultry food, and little
care should be taken to gather them up. Feed
on boards and keep the boards clean Boards
or oil md aaaia Gau
clean. If you have it, Curds added to scraps and
allowed to stand long enough to soften the
crusts will add to the value"
Farmers having skim milk can produce
good food for fowls or chickens by making
eurds, which can be easily accomplished by
| using rennet the same as for cheese making.
Put suitable piece of rennet to soak in large
nouthed bottle or glass fruit jar for use as
wanted. Warm the skim milk to a little more
than blood temperature and pour into it little
OF the rennet water In little time il will
have curdled and may then be cut or broken
and placed ia q strainer to run off the whey.
1t affords an excellent food for chickens and is
| liked as well by hens. The more pains one
takes to give a variety of food to fowls
the better results they may expect in the line
of egg production. Exchange.
INJURIOUS INSECTS
Bulletin No. of the Ohio Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station treats of the above subject
and describes the round-headed apple tree
borer, the fat-headed apple tree borer. and
| oyster-shell bark louise, which are usually de-
| stroyed By an application of strong solution
of soft soap and little crude carbolic acid the
| apple tree louise, which is destroyed by kero-
sene emulsion and tobacco decoction; the apple
| leaf caterpillar, which is killed by spraying
with any Of the arsenites. Spraying apparatus
| is fully described. Spraying is recommended
| just after the blossoms fall
NOTES.
An avenue Of well grown trees by the
roadside makes farm vastly more attractive
and costs little except che labor of setting. On
| high ground the sugar maple thus set will make
| sugar grove after few years.
The grain crop in Buenos Ayres during
| the past season was the largest on record. and
win more than compensate for tho deficiency
| in the wool clip. The shipment in frozen NUT
| ton for the past year from that port summed up
| 100000 carcasses.
When cow leaks her milk 1t indicates
weakness of the strietor muscles which close
the, milk duct. Apply strong decoction OF
tan-bark or alum TO the end of the teat when
the milking is finished, and then put little
photographers collodion over the opening.
This contracts it dries and draws the mus
Giles so as to close the orifce
Easy and profuse perspration with the
horse is an indication of weak digestion and
malnutrltlon. Give the horse quart OF raw
linseed oil with one ounce of turpentine and
| feed bran mashes with dram doses of sulphate
of iron daily. Give no new oats, and be care
full not to use musty hay.
The green aphis which infests the young
shoots of the rose is easily destroyed by tobacco
water, applied with soft cancels hair brush
when only few plants are grown when there
are many, the decoction may be applied with
| syringe. If four ounces of sulphur be mixed
| with the hot decocton of pound of tobacco
| stems in two quarts of boiling-hot water, and
heliquid is kept hot and often stirred for three
or four hours, it will make the best insecticide
known. This will kill sheep ticks, lice, bugs,
and all pests by mere contact
ENGLISH AS VOLAPUK.
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