Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-06-27
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Be ready to fight the curculio promptly.
Nothing is gained by cutting potatoes
until planting time.
Rag weed, motherwort and golden
rod are spoken of as good honey plants.
There are few foliage plants easier of
propagation and cultivation than cannas.
A grape grower recommends lime
mixed with muck as very good for vines
on poor soil.
Small chickens kept and fed with
those much larger than themselves are
very liable to injury.
Prevent slugs on rose bushes by spray
ing the foliage with white hellebore-
half an ounce to a gallon of water.
Sow two or three small boxes with let
tuce seed and set in the kitchen window,
20 have green food for the early broods.
Some beekeepers consider raspberry
bloom not only rich and good for bee
pasturage but the surest that can be had.
Manuring in the hill is like heaping
manure about the stem of fruit tree.
Better spread it out as far as the roots
extend.
Keep the pigs growing rapidly. The
cheaper the animal the less the cost of
each pound of flesh made, generally
speaking.
The foliage of the plum is so sensitive
that spraying with Paris green should be
trusted to sIzilful hands only, or injury
will follow.
The cucumber requires considerable
moisture. Dry soil and drought de-
creases the crop and is also thought to
give a bitter flavor.
A chick Matched in March and April,
is worth two hatched in June, and three
in July. Do you know why some farm
ers make poultry a success?
Feed the meat you give to your dogs,
and kill your worthless ours, and buy
market basket to gather your eggs in,
aud keep the profits for rainy day.
Pounded crockery, shells, or old NOR
tar, arc good to be fed to hens at any
time, as the mortar not only contains the
mill for grinding, but the bag to hold
the feed,
Don't feed too much corn, at least not
more than three times weekly and that at
night. Corn produces fat, a fat hen'is
poor layer; eggs from fat hens will sell
dom hatch.
Combinations of Indian corn and skim
milk afford a most economical ration for
young pigs, shotes and breeding stock
where good bone and muscle are essential
to the highest results.
If turnips will not grow without being
wormy, if cabbages have the club foot,
If the onion bed is infected with mag
gots, put the land in dandelion one year
and the trouble will disappear.
The smaller the field the more fence
required and the more land taken from
cultivation. The more oblong the field
the more fence required to enclose
given area; conversely, the nearer
square is the field the less fence is re-
quired.
In mixing whitewash, use two table,
spoonfuls of crude carbolic acid to buck
etful of whitewash, mix thoroughly and
use at once. Do not wait until your
chickens arc moopy and dead, and Won
der how, and write your editor for re-
ceipe to kill lice.
There are few things that will improve
the appearance of a home more than tree
planting. Every rural and suburban
home should be marked by a nice grove
of forest or ornamental trees, hedge rows
for wind breaks and an orchard of stand
ard and small fruits.
1t is always the active, energetic fowls
that are most prolific of eggs and the
surest of breeders. The eggs of very fat
fowls will not hatch. If not infertile at
the outset they have less vitality, and
besides are apt to be somewhat oiled by
brushing against the feathers of fat hen
in the nest. Most of the active breeds Of
fowls have high combs, which are very
sensitive to cold.