The Springdale news., 1889-05-24
HERE AND THERE.

Spring cleaning should apply to the barn and cellar as well as to the rooms of the house.
 Too much corn to horses in warm weather will cause profuse pcrspira- tion Oats should be used in prefer encc.
 When you put in melons try the icing rind watermelon. or cantaloups uso the Emerald gem. The latter is small, but of excellent flavor.
 This is the time when the peach borer is getting in it's work. Be on the watch for it, and hunt carefully around each tree.
 It is better to cut away the dead wood from trees, even if the tree is disfgured than to allow it to remain. This is especially the case with the peach, which thrives under severe cutting back.
 Bran and cotton-seed meal arc the cheapest and best foods that can be bought. They not only increase the flow of milk and induce rapid growth Of young stock, but add to the value of the manure.
 HI B. Fuller, of China, N. r., had during the past season a small dairy of four-gradc Jersey cows. He real ized l,209 pounds of butter or 3023 pounds each, besides the butter used in the family.
 Wood ashes will answer for young trees. No manure is required. Pear trees should not be forced in growth too rapidly. The second year a mixt- ure or ground bone and ashes will make an excellent fertilizer.
 All who are engaged in butter making should strip the cows clean as the strippings contain from twenty five to thirty per cent cream. If milk is left in the cows bags to dry away there will be Jumps in the teats.
 If butter is kept covered tight when put in the ice-chest it will not absorb the odor of any food lying near. There is nothing so sensitive as butter, and yet you may sec it at any time placed near to meat or vegetables.
 Old ewes may be sold if the lambs are weaned Only strong, vigorous ewes should be retained. Select those that yielded plenty of milk for the lambs for breeding purposes, and sell off the rams in order to infuse new blood in the flock.
 -Sorrel thrives at this season and crab grass later on. Keep it down at all costs in order to lessen the number off plants next season. When crab grass appears it is easily destroyed when young. Constant cultivation is the only remedy tor both.
 The clover field is tho place for the pigs that have been weaned. They will need very little other food. A mess of | skinned milk, or buttermilk, with a small quantity of ground oats at night will cause the pigs to grow rapidly if they have the run of clover. The potato beetle will attack the eggplant in preference to any thing else. and unless such plants are care fully watched and the beetles picked off they will destroy the plants in less than day. To save the plants they should be examined two or three times a day.
 When cultivating the ground to destroy grass only a few inches deep will suffice. One inch of soil, kept fine, on the top, will serve as a mulch, and in pulverizing it the grass and weeds will be killed. Never let the ground become hard and crusty if there is probability of dry season.
 There is as much art in the work of improving the drones of hive as to endeavor to secure better queens. Some swarms of bees are too inbred to endure hard winters. In the natural condition bees are hardy, but when their care is in tho hands of the bee keeper his judgment is important, and he can do much to add vigor to the swarms.
 By the use of clover and the keep ing of stock, notably sheep. land has been brought up so that large crops ot both wheat and corn are now grown When grain is sold off the farm DOT tion of the money received should bt spent for bran or other grain to be fec to stock. in order to make good the los from grain selling.