The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-04-26
Farm and Garden Notes.

Sulphate of copper, it is said, will pre-
vent black rot in vineyards.
A beekeeper says that catnip planted
near the hives is fine for young bees.
Eggs should be gathered twice daily,
that hens may not break and learn TO
eat them.
Eggs intended for Matching should
not be over two weeks old, and do not
use pullet's eggs.
Where are the house slops emptied ?
II by the kitchen door, look out for
cases OF The worst sort of fever.
1t Is unsafe to feed either oats or
wheat without considerable water and
ashes, gravel or grinding substance.
The best birds should not be sold off
In the spring, but retained as breeders
to maintain the quality of stock.
Bnckwheat is pronounced excellent
egg feed, but expensive as compared
with other food. Oats also rank high.
The use OF kerosene on peach trees OF
vines is to be avoided. as it is far more
dangerous to the trees than to the in
sects.
II is now almost too late TO prune
gragevines, as the sap has commenced
moving, and bleeding impairs their W.
tality.
Affected limbs should De cut off at
once. Black knots, blight on Injured
limbs, are also Injurious and should be
Immediately removed.
Pear trees that refuse to grow NAV
be treated with wood ashes placed
about the roots of the trees. The
trunks should be washed with stroug
soapsuds.
A Wisconsin farmer thus states what
he believes the essentials for renoyating
wornout farm The first is clover
the second, clover the third clover.
A dairywoman claims that by milk.
Ing three times day she gets more
butter. snd that the noon milking has
twice as much cream as the night and
morning.
Don't delay grass seeding a day be-
yond the first opportunity, for the first
chance is better than any other, never
sure, and In every result more satisfae-
tory.
Butter at bess than twenty-five cents
poutd means a good deal of hard
work without adequate returns, no
matter how good the bseed of cows nor
now liberal the feeding.
Four quarts of timothy seed to the
acre, distributed early in March, may
be counted safely as worth more than
eight quarts in May, for the early STAR
is guaranty OF success.
Try the cows, each separately. for IN
herd OF twenty the chances are that
some will be wholly improbable, and
wise enconomy will require that they
be taken out for slaughter.
1t is estimated that there are 800 600
known species of insects which prey up
on the crops of the farmers. The work
OF successfully conbe ting these pests is
one which will keep the new Cabinet
Department busy for some time to
come.
A single error !l3aArm practice, null
tfplied by many millions, may cost this
great country enough to cover all ex-
Penses OF Government-hsncet the wis
dom Of establishing .snd maintaining
experimental stations where error NAV
Be discovered and corrected.
A fruit grower reports that having
an orchard of youastrees badly in fest
ed with bark lice, he made a solution
Of sal sode-half a pound to gallon OF
water-snd applied it with a whitewash
brush, In few weeks time they were
all dead and washed OH The trees grew
two feet year afte1ward and rem aimed
very healthy.
The farmers lnssct foes are wo rkinr
night and day. They increase ra pidly.
They breed unde-g pieces of boards,
bark, sticks, weeds, and any k ind OF
rubbish. Remove all such hiding
places. Clean yacds. ned clean farms
are good for half ihe evil. Paris green.
london purple, IT heIlebore. if thor
eughty used in spraying fruit trees,
vines and bushes;wilI do wonder with
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