Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-22
Farm and Garden Notes.


Fruit trees or plants will not take care
OF themselves.
Annual pruning will largely avoid the
taking of of large limbs from the trees.
Our best honey-yielding flowers are
decidedly modest in color and appear
ance.
The verdict of honeymen is that kegs
for honey should not be burned out by
the cooper.
When you have to buy seeds, as every
one must, buy Of men of established
reputation.
Have everything ready early. and get
all in readiness when it can be done with
the least outlay of valuable time.
One advantage with good drainage is
that the fruits will usually come 20
maturity earlier than on undrained land
Water is necessary for bees when rear
ing brood, for diluting the honey, or
when liquefying it after being granu-
lated.
In Missouri, elevated, nearly cleared
land is best adapted to peach growing.
Twenty feet is about the right distance
for planting.
AC SISdtCSG III any ldILlCI las
ever done TO his soil is where ne has
starved the crop and soil by not using
enough fertilizer.
The best remedy for black knot is
good soil and good tillage with care
taken to cut off and burn each knot as
soon as possible after its appearance.
Farming comp res very favorably with
other branches of business. One can do
any amount of hard work in it. The
more one does intelligently the better he
will succeed.
In trying novelty the prudent farmer
will not plant largely till he has proved
the merits of the new article and its
adaptibiIity to his soil and climate, by
trial in small way.
If you did not mulch the Strawberries
fore the thawing and freezing of spring
comes; that is what heaves the plants.
Corn stalks will do nicely.
To make a success Of farming, a young
man must start out in a small way. His
chances are then as good as the boys
fifty years ago had, but he must not ex-
pect to make fortune in short time.
Most of our best seedsmen test their
seeds before selling them, and know
what they are selling; but they cannot
be expected to warrant good seed in the
hands of careless or inexperienced gar
deners.
An inferior queen that has mated with
vigorous, well fed and healthy drone
will give decidedly better results than
had the cross been vice versa. More
good queens are ruined at mating time
than we are aware of.
Professor Maynard is quoted as saying
that birds do more good than harm to
the farmer and orchardist, and that
more trees should be planted that they
may have a due share of the fruit and
leave some for the grower.
There are enough horses killed every
year on bad roads, and enough damage
to wagons and harness and the tempers
of drivers to make our roads very much
better than they are if the cost of these
damages was put upon them.
Professor Galloway, of the Agricul-
tural Department, has prepared for the
Paris Exposition, number of hand
painted charts showing the effects of
disease on fruits, ETC., such as black rot
in grapes, rust upon apples and cherries,
etc.
The young man who thinks to buy
vineyard and make an easy fortune will
find himself mistaken. He may take as
a basis for his estimates what others have
done, and his figuring may be right, but
his calculations" are all wrong. Those
who have done we'll as vineyardists have
understood their business and attended
to it. 1t is delightful occupation, but
demands hard work and careful atten-
ton.