The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-26
Farm and Garden.

Keep the melon hills clean until they run
over the ground.
Fresh water is essential for all classes of
stock at this season.
Squash seed and string beans should be
planted without delay.
Keep the cows off the pasture just after a
rain If the ground Is SOFT
Plant some sweet corn again for a late crop.
1t will grow rapidly at this season.
Broodmares will keep in better health if
worked or given exercise in some manner.
Try a small patch of white beans for a winter
supply. They require less labor than corn.
Dust the nest-boxes once a week with insect
powder, in order to prevent lice from driving
the hens off,
Cut straw makes better bedding for stock
than long material, and is more suitable for the
manure heap.
This is excellent weather for picking geese.
II the wool on the sheep is long 1t will give
them comfort TO shear them.
The beets and carrots will now crowd out
the weeds in the rows, but the ground between
the rows should be kept clean.
Eggs from hens not in company with males
will keep two or three times as long as those
from hens that are with males.
The Ox-eyed daisy will overrun the clover
field unless extirpated, and il may be necessary
to 90 over the field and pull them out by hand.
Land plaster benefits all kinds of grass crops,
but more especially clover. Being very cheap
it should be used plentifully at all stages OF
growth.
Take advantage of the warm season and feed
very little grain. Stock requires succulent
food at this season, and grain is sometimes det-
rimental
Turnips may be sown as soon as the ground
is ready. Late potatoes may also be put in.
Get the ground ready, and make it fine and
| clear of grass or weeds.
The surest way to kill thistles is 10 keep them
down. As fast as they appear above ground
cut them oil, and they will wilt, in time, be-
come exhausted and die.
Because prices Tor fruits and vegetables are
| low one day il is guide 10 the prices for the
next day. Fluctuations are rapid, and the
weather often controls the market
handful of linseed meal TO the broodsow
once or twice a week will be beneficial. 1t is
also excellent for the pigs if given occasionally
| especially if the food lacks variety.
The ground is not well warmed yet, the recent
rains causing delay. As the warm days have
set in he soil must be kept loose on the surface
! in order TO prevent loss OF moisture.
Dry cows that are expected to come in soon
will fatJen very easily if too highly fed at this
season thus rendering them liable 10 milk fever
now, and but very little grain should be allowed
Rake up the fallen apples and other fruit and
| destroy them, either by throwing them in the
/ hog-pen or by burning them, as many of the
fallen fruit contain insects or their larvae. In
| some orchards the ground is already covered
| with small fruit
It is cheaper and more economical to hoe
the corn than to allow grass around the stalks
Even when corn is cultivated in check rows il
| Is sometimes impossible to get all the grass out
| except by the use OF the hoe, especially If the
corn is planted on old sod land.
| Usually when a tree or vine dies from nc
| apparent cause il may be due to the work oil
insects or parasites at the roots. At this season
of the year it will prove of advantage to dis
around the roots of trees and examine them
| Always apply air-slaked lime literally before
replacing the earth around the roots.
During warm weather live poultry suffer from
| thirst when shipped TO market in coops. The
fowls should never be crowded. Nearly all the
| coops that come in contain twice as many fowls
as they should have, and some of them die or
| the journey. Plenty of food, with drinkin.
cups at several points OF the coop, should bs
provided.
Whenever ground that is heavily covered
with green growth is ployed under il will pay
to broadcast at least ten bushels of lime pei
| acre over the ground. Lime assists in decom
posing the plants that are turned under anC
| acts on the soil in a manner TO induce il L
! yield up greater proportion of nutrition fol
the support OF the next crop.
Now that the berries have been harvested
the strawberry, vines will begin to throw ou
runners. Ii the ground is well cultivated be.
tween the rows, the runners will take roo
easily and grow rapidly. The weeds in amons
the plants of the rows must be pulled out By
hand in order TO prevent them from seeding
Crab grass will spring up during warm weather
on sandy soil, but il dies out later on. Will,
growing among the plants, however, it rob-
| them of much moisture.