The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-07-18

benefit the soil, says DIR. Goessman.
Always plant thrifty trees if you car
! get them. Prefer the young to the over
grown. Good roots are the main thing
and with them the right sort of top car
soon be raised.
If Paris green is used for destroying
the codling moth that makes so many
apples wormy, it should be applied in
fine spray while the young fruit is SC
small that it stands up on the stem.
Trees in the poultry-yard grow very
rapidly, and afford shade to the fowls in
summer. Pelches and plums are less
liable TO disease when grown in the
poultry yard, while the hens greatly
assist in preventing the attack of insects.
To plough well and deeply is but half
the work. The seeds must have a place
which the little sprouting rootlets may
take hold upon and assimiate the
elements of plant food that can come
from nowhere else, and without which
vigorous growth is impossible.
A farmer says; 81 put into barrel
full Of sweet cider a quart of milk, about
half pint of mustard seed-the black
scotland six eggs. Mix them all up
together and pour them into the barrel.
Cider will keep sweet that way for half
dozen years. | think 1t gets better
and sweeter the longer you keep it.
Mutton should be as plentiful as pork.
There are hundreds of farms that could
be devoted to sheep, but which are now
improbable. 1t requires less labor for
sheep than for hogs, while the prices for
choice mutton and lamb are at times
very high, though the markets at such
times may be we'll supplied with inferior
grades of carcasses.
d. b. Wier claims in the Americ1a
Garden that we can grow all plums, do.
mestic aud foreign, peaches, apricots
and other fruits in every part of this
country where the fruit will stand the
climate without any damage from plum
curcuio, by properly spraying the trees
with the arsenical poisons, Paris green
and London purple.
Except for beets and mangels, which
thrive in hot weather, no heating manure
should be used for root crops. Turnips.
carrots and parsnipS are better manured
the year before with stable manure and
some mineral fertilizer at seeding time.
Too much heat and nitrogenous manure
makes the roots grow faster, besides
causing greater injuries from insects.
Hog manure is especially rich and heat.
ing, and is therefore especially oh jectiona-
BILE on any ground intended for planting
in root crops.
1t is not best in planting young or
chards to trust to labels or to memory.
Both may fail The only sure way to
know what trees are planted is to make
n record at the time of laying the orchard
out in a map and marking on that each
variety. Some kinds of trees need
greatly different treatment than others,
both in pruning and manuring. 1t does
not pay TO wait until the orchard begins
bearing to know what varieties it is com
posed of. as those whose orchards are not
mapped are often obliged to do.
Sheep are close feeders and can get a
bite earlier than any other domestic ami
NAL. But ewes sucking lamb will need
grain early to keep them in flesh, while
the succulent grass stimulates milk pro-
duction. Later in the season the lamb
demands more milk just as the failing
pasture makes less. 1t is then that an
armful Of cut clover in bloom to each
eight or ten sheep makes a valuable ad-
dition to the pasture feed 1. may be
varied with occasional cuttings of green
oats, which Just before they head out are
very rich and succulent feed.
Mulching consists in the application
OF old straw or something of the same
sort on the surface around the tree, for
three or four feet on each side, and 70
the depth of ten or twelve inches. This
retains the moisture for the benefit of
the tree, instead of allowing it to evap-
orate; and if the season be dry it will
save the life of the tree, while if Il hap
pens to be wet no injury will take place.
Newly planted trees often live without
mulching but the danger is great, and
the hot, dry summer frequently proves
fatal; so that the careful planter will not
run the risk of neglecting it.
The garden, flower or vegetable, will
not show any weeds on recently planted
ground if that garden is properly cult
waited. Weeds are most easily killed
before they reach the surface This is
killing them none too soon, and recently
planted ground should be stirred often
enough to keep them from appearing.
/ or this work, where hand work must
be done, the steel rake is, think. the
best implement 1t is three times rs
speedy as the hoe. Unless the ground
is in bad condition the rake destroys
the weeds as well as the hoe, and its
action in the soil is more favorable to
the plauts. There is no need of deep
stirring until the plants have made con-
siderable growth and the ground has
hardened, and, for surface-stirring, the
steel rake, sharp and bright, is the in
strument par excellence