Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-07
Farm and Garden Notes.

Clean and thorough culture tells.
Prune grape vines to two or three buds
of last years growth.
Though fat pork is more costly than
lean it is not so good.
Buckwheat is recommended for soil
infested with wire-worms.
Radishes are divided into two classes,
summer and winter. The spring radish
must make rapid growth to be crisp
and tender.
Remember that no lawn can be main.
tanned in good order long, without sue.
cessive rolling. Rolling should be done
before the ground becomes dry.
Good, well glazed earthern jugs are
excellent packages to keep maple syrup
in, if filled full and sealed perfectly; but
they are inconvenient and unsafe to ship.
The enormous quantity of ensilage
corn which can be grown to the acre,
and the cheapness with which it can be
put into the silo, makes it commenda.
BILE fertilization against our summer
drouths.
The carrot should always be furnished
good, deep, rich soil. Sow in drills
about an inch deep, the drills about one
foot apart. At thinning the plants
should be left four to ten inches apart,
according to the variety.
A swamp containing rich muck is
great help in restoring land to fertility.
The muck may be used for litter in com.
posts and decomposed by lime, and one
load may be made worth more than the
ordinary COW manure on farms.
An experiment made at the Michigan
State College IN feeding steers of differ
ent breeds, gives very good showing
for the Holsteins. This test, though not
conclusive, shows that Holsteins are
worthy aplace among beef breeds.
Trees in the poultry yard grow very
rapidly and afford shade to the fowls in
summer. Peaches and plums are less
liable to disease when grown in the
poultry yard, while the hens greatly as.
sst in preventing the attacks Of insects.
To plough we'll and deeply is but half
the work. The seed must have place
in which the little sprouting roctlets may
take hold upon and assimilate the ele-
ments of plant food that can come from
nowhere else. and without which vigor-
Gus growth is impossible.
The story is told that Connecticut
farmer, some years ago, captured some
wild geese, and after clipping their
wings crossed them with native geese
The grade was much larger and the meat
of a finer flavor than the native, SO
much so that they brought price full
as high as tarkeys.
Pigs often evince strong appetite for
coal or charcoal. 1t is natural desire
! for some corrective of acidity of the
stomach, to which hogs fed upon sour
and otherwise decomposing food are
subject. A handful of charcoal once or
twice week would be very useful to
hogs under any circumstances and we
do not think soft stone coal will be found
at all injurious to them. But we would
rather give them some charcoal or
charred wood. No medicine is re-
quired.
For several years, says farmer, have
dissolved bones with unbleached wood
ashes, putting them in a vessel in alter
nate layers of two parts of ashes to one
Of bones. Keep them as wet as possible
without draining, and while you are
about farming you are making fertilizer
that will be valuable. Put a little of
this mixture in the hill or drill of crops;
e it is especially fine for melons and GU
cumbers. Another way is to place I've
L in waterproof vessel and put the bones
, this until softened.