Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-08-01
FACTS FOR FARMERS.


The best market is never so bad
but the best brings fair price.
Eight cents per pound is the cost
of sending seeds by mail. The pack
age must not exceed four pounds.
"A few ornamental plants will add
more 10 the value OF your home than
any other investment that can be
made.
"A closed book is but block. A
piece of land lying idle is worse than
nothing-the taxation and weeds soon
claim it.
l All newly planted trees should have
a mulch over their roots before the
| summer droughts come on. Litter of
any kind will answer, and in the alb
sence of all else, layer of finely
worked soil.
Patience must be the rule on a
farm. All improvements take time.
But there is one form of patience that
is not to be recommended; that is,
patient waiting for something TO hap
pen.
There can not be very good corn
| crop without a good stand; and there
can not be good stand without good
seed-seed that will do more than
| terminate; that will produce inherent
ly vigorous plants as well
EARLY cabbage should be set out.
The hoe shows good effects on cabbage.
as the plaE delights in frequent Gull
tivation. For an early supply only
rich land should be used, and the
ground made very fine before putting
out the plants.
DO not be induced TO retain male
pig from the cross-bred litter because
il is fine specimen. The male should
be thoroughbred, or there will be no
uniformity in the offspring, The mis-
take of keeping over cross-bred males
is one that has largely aided in de-
generating the swine on some farms.
The man who rents farm must
Il necessarily add much to the farm from
which he can not derive any benefit.
III he attempts to crop rented farm
without doing justice to the land he
will suffer loss as we'll as the owner.
There are many improvements of the
soil from which the owner receives the
benefit, in the course of time, at the
expense of the renter. All farms
should be rented by mutual agreement,
and all conditions plainly stipulated.
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 "a piece Of
wire. If holes appear in the leaves,
worms are at work. DO not delay
day or an hour, but apply white helle-
bore, an ounce to pailful Of water;
first use boiling water, enough to thor
oughly wet the powder, and then fill
the pail with cold water. This may
be applied with any of the garden
syringes or sprinklers. A second APP
plieation may be needed for those that
escape the first Plant-lice are readily
killed by tobacco ater-American
Agriculturist.
-Thump-pruning may be proftably
applied to the grapevine early in the
season. when needless shoots are just
starting out, which if cut off after be-
ing allowed full growth with broad
foliage, would give a serious check to
the vine by removal The same treat
ment viii be proper in pinching off
the ends OF such shoots as are To re-
main, to stop their growth, instead of
the more detrimental practice of cut
ting off large portions of the shoots
and leaves after they have made a long
growth, and which when blindly and
freely done have sometimes ruined
whole vineyards.