Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-11-28
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES


FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Don't your we'll need cleaningG
Choose cool day for picking apples.
Keep right on cultivating the straw
berry patch.
Fight weeds, briers, etc., until they
cease growing.
Now is good time 10 make mutton
as well as pork.
Put implements under cover as soon as
done using them.
For permanent pasture, timothydoes
not do we'll alone.
The best egg-maker is good food.
Feed the hen no other.
The same fence should not enclose
young orchard and cattle.
Get your ground ready for those trcei
you mean to set out this fall.
Save seed from any novelties that have
proved satisfactory with you.
Harvest the onions as soon as ripe.
When dry store in cool, dry place.
Black cap raspberries do better set out
in the spring. Put others out this fall.
Stop cultivating the grape vines. The
wood must be given chance to harden.
Put no "wind falls" in the barrels OF
No. apples. 1t will pay In the long
run.
If there is marsh hay near you get'some
in readiness for covering the straw
berries.
Currant and gooseberry cuttings will
do better set out now than to wait till
spring. Try it and see.
Begin your intense.farming this fall by
burning all the weeds about the place be-
fore they shell their seeds.
If you can put out some grape vines
this fall do not wait till spring, you may
be crowded with work then.
You need not wait till the frost drops
the leaves from currant and gooseberry
bushes before making cuttings.
Where are the mower and horserakei
Better have them housed to-day. They
will be of better value next season if they
are.
While the corn is curing in the shock
is good time to get out the manure that
has been accumulating during the sum-
mcr.
BY the way, do you make your wife
an equal partner in the N plans2 She
may be the "better hi of the firm il
you will.
Every farmer should look over his
farm often and examine his fences SO
that his stock will not destroy his crops
or be found in his neighbor's lot.
When a man wants an idea, b.
scratches his head. When farmer wants
a crop he scratches his land, and the
harder he scratches the better the crop.
Don't let any green tomatoes 60 to
waste. Apples are scarce and green
tomatoes make excellent pies-are good
fried, are good several ways. Save
them.
Very often the surplus product of
farm can not be more pro6tably invested
than by putting into under drains, till
the thorough drainage of the cultivated
land be accomplished.
Where thorough and clean culture has
been practiced one can see how the crops
lay hold of the fertilizers and are CORE,
spondingly larger. Itpaysto be energetic
in fighting the weeds.
The size of the tile should be in pro.
portion to the length of the drain and
the amount of fall in the ditch. But the
flooding of drain tile depends somewhat
on the depth to which ii is sunk.
A correspondent of the Orange Judd
Farmer complains that on his farm
manure has been a detriment rather than
a help to his crops. The number OF
farmers that have this experience is very
small.
Flax seed that has been exposed in the
field to the suns rays until it is dry to
brittleness, still holds latent moisture,
which will develop when the seed is con-
fined in a mass and result in heat and de-
composition.
A farmer should take care to keep easy
and safe ways of ingress and egress to
his cultivated fields. More wagons are
broken down by going through deep fur
rows or over ridges than by twice the
travel on smooth highways.
It is time that western farmers wero
taking warning from the experience OF
their eastern brethren. When they are
under the necessity of buying fertilizers
to keep up the fertility of their lands
they will sing more doleful song than
they do now.