Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-09-14
FARM AND HOUS EHOLD.

Ing pastured In the helds.
The best interests of dairyman is in
the line of encouraging greater
home consumption of cheese.
Cultivation of the corn land should
not cease until the crop is harvested.
Then the land should be plowed and
seeded to rye.
While abundant crops are promised
the United States, yet a diminished
harvest is the prospect in most sec
tions of Europe.
$4,000 have been spent by the Alge-
rian government in destroying crick-
cts that have devastated large sec
tions of country there.
Soapsuds are valuable. For celery
there is no liquid manure superior to
it, and as an invigorator for melons,
squash and cucumbers it is excellent.
Chinch bugs are reported in i'm
mense numbers in the Miami Valley,
Ohio. Recent rains checked their
ravages, but the pest is now in the
oats and corn.
The Department of Agriculture will
have 100000 to expend in sorghum
sugar experiments in New York, Kan
sas, Texas and Louisiana this year.
Better have two we'll titled acres
than four neglected. Better have
one hill in fine growth than two starv-
ed. Better one good animal than two
poor ones.
Farm horses should be worked
steadily. \ horse that is kept at reg
ular service, and not overworked, will
last much longer than one that is
given periods OF rest.
Radishes will grow during the whole
of the growing season. y late crop
can be put in for winter use. This
Vegetable can be had in abundant
supply if successive crops are sown.
When cleaning out purslane not a
leaf should be left in the ground. 1t
is persistent weed, and can only be
destroyed by exposing every part of
the plant TO the sun, so as TO scorch
ii.
One sheep for each COW can be kept
without additional expense, as the
sheep will consume much that the
cows will refuse. Sheep readily eat
young weeds and other tender her
bage.
Hay should be of the best quality.
Grass is no more valuable for hay
when cut in the bloom. If allowed to
seed it loses a portion of its feeding
value. Hay should never be over
ripe.
When it is desired to make the foil
age assume a deep-green, healthy
color, or the flowers a brighter hue,
judicious applications of SCOT water
will accomplish it better than any
thing else.
Prepare a plot, have it thoroughly
clean and SOW it to turnips, broad
cast, to remain on the ground until
next spring, and they will provide ex
cellent.and early greens long before
cabbage comes in season.
No flower is more popular than the
aston, and few have held so high a
place in popular esteem for so many
years, and it is still growing in favor.
For an autumn show of flowers we
have not its equal.
Where old strawberry fields seem to
be dying out NOW off the tops of the
old plants and scatter wood ashes
freely over the bed. If fertilizers be
used literally and the old bed is burnt
over after frost comes a new bed may
be secured without the necessity of
setting out young plants.
Caterpillars are doing great harm
in Maine towns on the upper Penoh
scot. Fences seem TO be alive, so
thickly are they covered with the
wriggling fuzzy things. Orchards
have been stripped clean of leaves,
and now the worms are taking to the
woods and clearing the forest trees.
The proper temperature for sweet
potatoes in winter is about 60 degrees
If they are not exposed to tempera-
ture lower than Sc degrees they will
keep easily When first stored in the
cellar they should be kept at 20 de-
grees until well dried, gradually low
ering the temperature to 60 degrees
1t is better to pinch off the extra
shoots of trees rather than TO allow
them to grow, as less injury is done
the trees. Trees can be pruned with
the fingers if the new shoots are
tipped. 1t is a waste of vitality to
permit shoots to grow until they are
SO large that knife or saw is required
for their removal.
The root crops some times are enor-
nous on rich land, and can be grown
at low cost compared with their
value. AS many as 1000 bushels of
beets have been grown on one acre,
and at cost of only four cents per
bushel. For milk COWS they are in
valuable, and should be made spe-
cial crop on all dairy farms.
There is nothing more highly relish
ed by hogs than charcoal. They will
help themselves to it, and it will pre-
vent disorder of the bowels. The best
mode of giving it is fresh, and if placed
in the fire and heated occasionally
it will be more serviceable. 1t cor
reefs the acidity of the stomach, and
as it is cheap a supply should be kept