The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07
Fnrm nnd Garden Notes.

Dahlias should be we'll staked, or the limbs
will fall over II they make heavy growth. IL
stakes cannot be procured tie the limbs to-
gether with strings.
IL you can't pillow your land 10 kill weeds
NOV them down, which will prevent them from
going 10 seed. Under no circumstance allow a
single weed 10 seed.
The cabbage patch and the tomatoes should
be exempt from poultry depredations. Nearly
oil other vegetables may be picked over by the
hens.
Put the young cucumbers in brine a. fast as
gathered until sufficient number have been
secured for picking with vinegar.
The heavy rains have seriously interfered
with watermelons, the fruit failing 10 'set," and
the blossoms beaten OIL. Catalogues are more
fortunate, as the vines are in better condition.
Sweet corn should be plentiful now, and @
small patch may yet be planted for a late sup
ply. During the warm days il will grow very
rapidly, and should be ready in seven or eight
weeks.
Although It is late for sowing seed to produce
crops, sorghum, millet and buckwheat should
be grown and plowed under as remedy for
weeds and also 10 manure the soil.
The Scotch creepers are a short-legged breed
Of fowls, compact, excel in breast meat, can
not fly high, lay well and mature early. There
are two varieties-the white and the barred.
They are nearly as large as the Plymouth Rock.
One OF the most beautiful sights is a lawn
composed entirely OF pOrtulaccns. which bloom
until frost, and are of all coors of flowers.
They seed the ground for the next season, and
make green appearance when not in flower.
Keep something growing on the land and you
will then keep down the weeds. IL does not
pay 10 take of a crop and then allow the land
10 grow up in weeds. IL Is better to pillow the
land frequently II no crop is on H. The aim
should be 10 not allow a single weed TO grow.
Rose sugs will do damage il the bushes
are not guarded. A solution Of an ounce of
pyrethrum powder in gallon Of water,
sprayed on the bushes, is excellent, but a
stream of water from a force pump, applied
daily, is one of the best remedies that can be
used.
In making cider for vinegar il is mistake to
use the partially rotten or inferior apples for
that purpose. Good vinegar not only be made
from ripe and sound apples, and where il is
difficult to ship apples to market IL will pay to
convert them into vinegar
Weeds make valuable food for hogs. II is
much better, to feed the young and tender
weeds 10 stock than TO allow them TO waste. On
some fields the weeds are often thick enough to
NOW. The pgweed and ragweed make excel
lent hog food. Purslaine and crab-grass are
highly relished by cattle and swine.
Those who practice artificial incubation claim
that October is the time to begin work for a
winter supply of broilers. Last season the
has encouraged incubator operators 10 begin
work a month sooner, as broiler-raising is q
winter pursuit.
Late cabbage require good cultivation. A
plot OF cabbage that has been worked will grow
faster, and produce better heads. than will
those that have received q larger supply Of
manure and the cultivation neglected. The
ground around cabbages should never be hard
and baked.
Old pastures that are overrun with weeds can
be best utilized for sheep, as they will eat of
the young weeds and keep them down. Many
weeds are valuable, so far as their use for food
is concerned, but are undesirable in place of
regular saleable crops. They can be utilized
when young by pas;uring sheep upon them,
and IL weeds are not allowed TO seed the grass
will again take possession of the field.
To secure young black-cap raspberry plants
the canes are bent over and tipped into the
ground, with a clod resting thereon 10 hold
each cane in position. These tips take roots
and the old vine is then cut off, The red rasp-
berry reproduces itself by sending out shoots
around the parent vine. They can be taken up
in the fall and transplanted, or il may be done
very early in the spring.
After you remove the melon vines this fall
set out red raspberry plant on each hill. The
manure left over from the supply given the
melons will induce vigorous growth of cane
next season, and the plants will be sufficiently
close, as they will soon thicken in the row.
Keep the canes clean until they are nearly
ready 10 bear, and cut them out IL too thick.