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Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes
Give to poultry good grass run If
possible.
The currant and the goosebcrry thrive
best in partial shade.
Feed plenty of charcoal mixed with
ashes and salt to your swine.
With a good breed of hogs there -
nothing like staying with them.
Young poultry should now be pro-
tected from sudden and heavy showers.
AS soon as the stem will part readily
from the tee, pears should be gathered.
A Maine fruit grower applies manure
literally to plum trees on the first iudica-
tion of black knob.
The last list of transfers for thorough
bred Berkshire swine contains fifteen
sales to 60 to eight different places.
Avoid exposure to the hot sun as much
as possible and remember that farm
animals suffer much at this season.
If cuttings of cottonwood have been
taken from the tree some time, they
should be soaked a week in water before
they are planted.
Those who have formed industrious,
persistent habits in any work of life, do
not generally abandon them when the
muscles or brains are called to different
fields of labor.
For general use the. Gregg raspberry
gives the best of satisfaction, according
to a New York farmer, being a strong,
upright grower, with entire absence of
struggling, sprawling habit.
Fruit designed for exhibition will
nearly always be finer if care is taken to
properly thin early in the season, taking
pains, OF course, to leave the incest LOOK
ing specimens when thinning
Do not forget that the present is an
admirable season for gathering dry earth
and putting it under cover in convenient
proximity to the chicken houses, for
future use as dust bath and as an ab-
sorbent.
New beds OF strawberries should be
kept clean. Sufficient cult 'ation should
be given 10 insure strong, vigorous
growth, and this implies keeping the
soil in good tilth and thoroughly destroy
ing the weeds.
Apples that are to be marketed this
month, Aould be picked as soon as the
skin begins to turn. If left on the tree
and allowed to ripen too much, there is
danger of the fruit no: reaching the
market in a good condition.
Every part of the farm must be made
to yield its share of the profit If not in
a shape or condition to cultivate, at least
a growth of gool grass cln be secured
which, while adding to the profits, will
also add very materially to the general
appearance Of the farm.
A common mistake in ploughing June
grass sod is, according to I'M ricaq Cul-
ticntDr, to bring up more subsoil than
can be used to advantage. For corn,
not an inch of soil should be brought up
below the roots of the grass, which will
generally be limited to the area rich in
We ,etable matter.
J. A. Dawson, of Pictou, Nova Sco-
tia, was reported at a meeting of the
Nova Scotia Fruit Growers Association
by the secretary as having tried with en-
tire success the application Of salt water
10 the bark of apple trees for destroying
the bark louse. One pint of salt is dis
solved in two gallons of water. A single
application is made about June 16, with
still paint brush. Care is taken not to
wet the leaves, as the salt will destroy
them. thas the inert of being very
easily tried. 1t is obviously important
to apply it at the right tilue or early in
June, when the eggs are Matching.
1t is useless to treat colt for collie as
long as it is forced to eat straw. This
coarse food does not contain nutriment
enough for growing animal; it is not
dgcsted, and consequently the digestive
organs, which are weakened. are bur-
dened excessively by this coarse food.
Collie is 70 be looked for under such
conditions. Medicine is not required; .
change of food is all that is needed.
Give the colt some oats and bran mash,
and, if hay is not to be procured, feed
no more than pound of finely-cut straw
stepped in hot water and mixed with
three pounds of bran. Give little salt
with each feed. This is for one ration
given three times day for tWo-year-
old colt.
The following is offered al a sure pre-
ventive of gapcs in chickens Put two
or three ounces of larkspur seed (sold at
druggists) in 4-oz. vial and fill nearly
full with alcohol. Shake it occasionally
for few days, then as soon as the chicks
arc ready to come off the nest, let one
person hold the chick and another with
finger apply the preparation on the comb,
rubbing it in little. Be careful not to
get it in tho eyes, as it is poisonous. and
may in ,urc them. Gapes are caused
by lousc that is always hatclicd
with the chick, and will soon crawl down
to the nostril and form the small red
worm, hence the necessity Of applying
the remedy in time to prevent the killing
of the chick.
Saws Sam Jones: "Thank God it is no
or;r,n IN II, umlv When God wants q