Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-06-20
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Prompt wedding of garden crops will
pay.
Wood-ashes are excellent on moist
soils.
Use powdered hellebore for the currant
worm.
Feed the young chicks often but not
too plentifully.
Give good feed and extra care to the
horses that are at farm work.
Oats is the great staple horse feed 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-abused crow is also one of
the best aids in exterminating the white
grub.
Western farmers say that grain ration
must be used with alfalfa to produce
good milk.
Care should be taken to supply 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 refilled and kept clean. Hens
drink little at time, but often.
A well-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 trees of all kinds,
and if borings or sawdust are seen on the
ground hunt for the hole and probe out
the grub with piece of wire.
A falling off in 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-
posure, 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 a perfect
and long-lived tree, serving more than
one generation faithfully.
Ducks grow very rapidly and it is
claimed that person who goes into tue
duck business Systematically and takes
advantage of all the good points of a
duck can turn his money over very
} quickly.
The question is discussed whether il
pays to save leaves for bedding and alb
sorbents, and our answer is that, at least,
it is better to get leaves and use them
than believe there is something better and
not use anything.
It is authoritatively stated that eau
celeste (blue water, simple solution o.
sulphate Of copper with ammonia) is mo-
. only remedy for mildew, but at the
same time rids plants of the rose beetlt
; when they are so infested.
! With good roads it would be as easy tt
draw two tons of farm produce to market
: as one ton under present conditions, ye
the good roads in farming districts mus
i wait until the persons chiefly interested
: have greater development of public spirit
e Any land upon which water stand
IS more than twenty-four hours after rain
g fall, however heavy, is pronounced b.
excellent authority to be unfit for any OF
e chard without thorough tile-draining
IS and not safe even with it, because ther
i is always the risk Of the tiles being OF
,r structed with roots, and the trees becom
h ing unthrifty in consequence.