West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-20
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Prompt wedding of "arden crops will
pay.
Wood-ashes are excellent on moist
soils.
Use powdered helleborefor the currant
worm.
Feed the young chicks often but not
too plcntifully.
Give good feed and extra care to the
horses that are Mt farm work.
Oats is the great staple horselfeed of the
world for all classes Of horses.
If you want the best work from your
teams you must feed just right
Colt shows among the draft horse
breeders are becoming popular.
Hard, dry paths tend to comfort out
side the house and cleanliness within.
The much-abuscd crow is also one of
the best aids in discriminating the white
grub.
Western farmers say thata grain ration
must be used with alfalfa to produce
good milk.
Care should DC taken tolsupply every
animal kept on the place with all the
water it needs.
Transplant the tomato plant with care,
keeping good solid ball of earth ON the
roots till reset.
The same food, without variation,
should not be given to poultry for any
considerable length of time
The drinking vessels for fowls should
be often rcilled and kept clean. Hens
drink little at time, but often.
A wclI-known writer maintains that.
contrary to the popular notion, darkness
is not essential in growing mushrooms.
Weeds can be killed more easily and
quickly by choking out with heavy seed
ing of clover and timothy'than In any
other way.
Examine young fruit treestof all kinds,
and If borings or sawdust areAseen on the
ground hunt for the hole and probe out
the grub with piece of wire.
A falling off m flesh of farm ;horses in
summer is too often due the fact that the
pasture field is depended upon to too
great an extent for their maintenance.
BE easy with the wire-card or toothed
currycomb on cattle and horses. A stiff
brush and a wire currycomb, without
teeth, is safest ir the hand of the average
man.
A warm sandy soil, with sunny ex-
posture, will give the earliest cuttings of
asparagus, according to A. w. Cheever
but deep loan may give larger returns
during the season.
A prominent horticulturist expresses
his belief that the Wealthy apple top
grated upon the Switzer will be perfect
and long-lived tree, serving more than
one generation faithfully.
Ducks grow very rapidly and it is
claimed that person who goes into the
duck business Systematically and takes
| advantage of all the good points of n
duck can turn his money over very
quickly.
The question is discussed whether it
pays to save leaves for bedding and alb
sorbents, and our answer is that, at least
1t is better TO get leaves and use them
than believe there is something better and
not use anything
1t is authoritatively stated that eau
celeste (blue water, simple solution of
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only a remedy for mildew, but at the
same time rids plants of the rose beetle
when they are so infested.
With good roads it would be as easy TO
draw two tons Of farm produce to market
rs one ton under present conditions, vet
the good roads in farming districts must
wait until the persons chiefly interested
have greater development Of public spirit.
A case of black rot in large vineyard
was attributed by a member Of the annual
meeting Of the Western New York Hor.
ticultural Society to the use Of BARNARD
manure, the ammonia from the now
manure being thought to injure the new
canes.
Any land upon which water stands
more than twenty-four hours after rain
fall, however heavy, is pronounced by
excellent authority TO be unfit for any or
chard without thorough tile-draininQ,
and not safe even with it., because there
I is always the risk of the tiles being OBJ.
/ structed with roots, and the trees becom.
/ ing unthrifty i'm consequence.