Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-12

Farm and Garden Notes.
Secure good seed corn early.
| Starving hens make lean egg-basket.
Baby lambs and calves need good care.
Succulent food makes succulent milk.
Stables should certainly be cleaned
daily.
Pears do well where the land is half in
grass.
A good tree well set needs no tyingto
| stakes.
Add scalded milk to oatmeal for grow
ing calves.
1t is not we'll 10 allow cattle and swine
| to run together.
Dirty boots are as much out CT place
on hay as on the carpet
Buckwheat is recommended for soil
infested with wire-worms.
Old orchards should be MANFRED and
plowed, using lime and ashes.
Wood ashes, where available, are the
cheapest fertilizer for fruit trees.
1t is usually necessary to moisten eggs
a little just before Matching in nests built
high and dry"
For the first month five times day is
recommended for feeding young chick
ems, by a correspondent OF Poultry World.
Sulphur, insect powder and kerosene
should be used freely in preventing the
spread Of and in destroying poultry
vermin.
Currants would give better satisfaction
if not so generally sighted. They repay
very literally for pruning, manure, and
culture.
Lay in a stock of copper sulphate and
whatever other materials are needed, at
an early date. And don't forget the
spraying pump and nozzle.
On many farms it will pay better to
build large poultry yard to pen the
chickens in, than to build much longer
fence to pen the chickens out.
1t may be pleasure for farmers to try
some of the fancy breeds. but the most
profit comes from adopting one of the
, general purpose kinds and breeding it
straight.
Old pear trees that have apparently
been worthless have been revived by the
application of peck of salt and ashes
scattered around the base. Now is the
time TO try the method.
! In pruning roses cutting back closely
produces, as a rule, fewer blossoms of
finer quality, while from those not SO
closely pruned will be obtained larger
quantity of smaller flowers
In planting peach and ounce trees
they should be given rich mellow soil.
Old trees may be materially benefited if
the branches are carefully thinned out
and a good dressing of well-dccaved
manure is given over the surface of the
roots.
. Says the Ne@ England Farmer: "a
!, farmer will spend day in carting some
, fertilizer for which he has to pay good
price, when for the same time spent he
might have Lad something Just as valu-
! able by carefully collecting the drop
/ pings from under the roosting fowls"
Plant raspberrics in rows five feet
, apart and three feet in the row. Black
| berries IN rows eight feet apart and three
) 1eet IN the row. Strawberries NAV be
set In rows three feet apart, and twelve
A inches IN the row. The soil should be
f fctlle, but good cultivation counts much.
+ However great possibilities there NAV
ne IN poultry raising, the plan adopted
by many farmers causes loss OF far
I more fruit, and garden truck and
i gram, than the CHI c&ens are worth. IN
!. telllSent management and feeding are as
G necessary with chickens as with other
, livestock.
NO one need expect to get sound,
, healthy chickens from eggs laid Ly hens
that have been coddled into good for
nothlngness all through the winter
y months. The constitution as well as the
I other characteristics of chicken is de-
y termincd by the health and condition or
T its parents.
: Speaking OF pasturing, a New Eng
! lander says: SIN my opinion a farmer
/. can keep sheep with every COW with
y out any additional expense. A farmer
y Keeping twenty cows will find he Ia,
= Just as much food if he has kept tweaty
# sheep with them, and they are lust a.
= well nourished.'
n Wood ashes are one Of the hest noss;.
TT PIE lcrtliizers for young trees, wheihe.
IF lrult or ornamental trees. Ii shou.d ~,
he ne put directly ON the roots but worse,
ot INTO me soil, as it is filed in after ths
ry 1iee has been set. and plaster miahl
a also pc used IN the same way, cithe
ID alone or IN connection with the w.,ue
IN ashes. The ashes and plaster night i,
a pe oroadcassed about the trees ane
I'd plowed or spaded in.
ey ne best treatment for mango in pir
rd Is 10 apply amixturc OF flowers Of sulihu
ne ana common lard. Apply this ointnen
o. o. 70 every part OF the animal, rubbing