Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-17
Farm and Garden Notes.


Strong soap -suds will kill the lice in
the plum trees.
The sure way to break hen from egg
eating is to cut off her head.
Give plenty of pure water and green
food to hogs in pen at this season of the
year.
The Eonly gain in drilling in corn is in
planting quick and getting fertilizer IN
with the seed.
Thorough tillage pays even better when
chemical fertilizers are used than 1t does
for stable manure.
If your pigs are in a pasture where
good water is not plentiful, see to 1T that
they have regular supply.
The flower garden and the field will
be the cheapest as we'll as the loveliest
pasture for those who keep bees.
Many farmers lose half the profit, or
make none at all, from neglect to feed
properly with view to the growth of
wool and mutton.
If you have any young burdocks about
your farm, cut them down and give to
your horses At this time of the year it
will be good for them both.
For a shady spot under the trees and
shrubs, where the soil is rich and not too
dry, there is nothing more satisfactory
than lily of the-valey. To plant it once,
is to have it forever in the garden.
A churn should be scalded with boil
ing water, made alkaline with washing
soda. Every particle of milk or cream
should be removed. After being we'll
washed the churn should be rinsed by
again using boiling water.
Odors in the stable indicate that the air
therein is impure. Use of absorbents Ia
yery important in summer. Once a week
the stable should be sprinkled with
solution made of one pound of copperas
in two gallons of soft water.
| Every person keeping poultry should
keep an accurate account with his stock,
placing all the expenditures incurred
and the amount of the receipts on the
proper sides of the sheet. The losses
should, of course, be charged to the ex-
penSe account.
! To prevent bees from being poisoned
| by arsenical solutions applied to orchard
trees, such application should be deferred
until lust after the blossoms have
dropped, at which time it is also the
most effective in preventing injury from
the cooling worm.
Professor H. Muller, an eminent bot
anists. says that the best time to prune
vines is while the grapes are ripenlng,
and that the shoots should be selected
for this purpose, as they require for
their development large quantity OF
sugar, to the detriment of the ripening
fruit.
The brownish punches which appear
on red cedars are not the fruit, but a
common fungus, parasite, which grows
on these trees, but no others. 1t does no
harm. and is thought ornamental by
/ some. 1t is not worth while taking any
pains to prevent them, as the trees do
not suffer.
Plum trees will thrive we'll in poul-
try ward. and be less subject to the at
tack of the curculio. The trees will re-
ouire the usual Earring, but the insects
will be destroyed by poultry, lessening
the liability of damage the succeeding
wear. All plum trees should be in poul-
try wards, but do not allow them to act
as a roost
It is useless to look for a harvest OF
honey from weak colonies. and as the
heavy flow occurs generally in June, II
the bee keeper does not bestir himself ne
will be caught with many weak stocks
DaiIy cumulative feeding will secure
colonies strong in numbers, with pow
erful force of willing laborers, ready to
Gather the honey harvest at any moment