Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-09-20
Farm and Garden Notes.


Tar sleeps noses to prevent the CAD
fly.
Feed the plant and the plant will feed
you.
Don't feed the pasture or NOV the
lawn too close
Peas and oats sown together is a crop
increasing in favor.
A little hellebore busted on the cur
rant bushes keeps off the worm.
Some farmers are all brains and Others
all elbow grease, and neither succeed
Slowly and gently, in fine spray, is
a good rule for watering garden plants.
Though the season be late nothing is
gained by planting in poorly prepared
ground.
No animal kept on the farm will pro.
duce more fertility or be better for the
feed than swine.
A number OF successful fruit growers
report in favor of thinning fruit on over
loaded trees while it is young.
A man who seeds correctly and intel
ligently will save from 10 to 20 per cent.
over man who follows only haphazard
! method.
| Garden soil for tomatoes is commonly
much too rich, according to Amricna
Cmttscator, which recommends only mod.
erately fertile soil.
''As rule rocky, hard pan soil will
give better keeping apple than clay
soil or one tending to loam," says we'll
known orchardist.
Now is the season when butter taints
very quickly, and none more quickly than
the choicest article. 1t is time for
special care in manufacture, and for the
earliest practicable consumption
For breaking hefers to be MIXED.
patience and gentleness arc the only
re ,uisites. If the udder is handled oc-
casionally from a calf up to cowdom the
. heller is alrsldy broken. This course
works charmingly.
so long as the milk is warmer than the
surrounding atmosphere it is throwing
of vapor and is thereby purified. It
will not then absorb odors, but the
germs of fungi and other microscopic life
may fall into it and do it injury.
Corn and potatoes may often be top
dressed to advantage after planting, pro-
vidng fine manure is used. The culti-
walton of these crops during the season
will mix the manure with the soil much
more perfectly than it could be if plowcd
under.
Persons who keep fowls and sift their
coal ashes, as many do, will not be
troubled with poultry lice if they will
do the sitting in the hen house. The
coal dust will penetrate every crack and
crevice, and the vermin cannot live
among that.
1t is generally acknowledged that win
ter dairying pays best, and for this rea-
son farmers should give more attention
to this part of the business. To attempt
this next winter suitable feed mu he
raised this season, and good warm
stabling provided.
A vigorous opponent OF the practice Of
dehorning includes among its dement's
marked deterioration of the animal for
breeding or butter purposes The III
nois Stat Teterisar an is reported as re-
garding dehorning as a cruel act, especial
~ when practiced ON cattle over half
year old.
When spokes aud felloes shrink aud
the wagon tires become loose in conse-
quence, it is the custom to have the tires
reset, at the usual expense of fifty cents
each. 1t is far cheaper and better for
! the wheels to saturate the entire wood
work with hot linseed oil 1t can be
applied witha rag tied to stick This
fills the pores and causes the timber TO
swell and fill the tire MS when new.
With coat OF hot oil once in. a year or
two there will be no loose tires, and the
wheels viii last very much longer.