Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-14

each plant should have three feet of room,
and when support is needed three stout
stakes should be driven about each plant
and about two and half feet above the
ground barrel hoop should be nailed to
them. The dwarf champion is of such a
stocky habit that it does fairly we'll with
out support. Celery plants can now be
had of the dealers and if set out at once
in deep, moist soil may be had fit for
the table in August. The cultivation
should be the same as for late crop ex-
cept that boards can be used to better ad-
vantage for blanching them than earthing
up. Sweet potatoes will grow best in
sandy warm soil, and placed in this lati-
tude on slightly raised ridges about three
feet apart and about one foot apart in a
row. Succession crops of peas and beans
may be sown and the seed of cabbage,
caulifower and kohlrabi may be sown for
autumn crops.-Gdrden and Forest.
FARM NOTES
Poultry droppings, we'll worked into the
soil, make an excellent manure for melons
and cantaloupes.
Always water plants in the evening, and
never when the sun is right over them.
Do not water them too often.
Do not use paris green on potatoes too
frequently. 1t requires but small guam
tity to prevent damage from beetles, which
should only he applied when required.
Do not plant pumpkins near the melons.
The pumpkins may be grown in the corn
field if the grass and weeds are not in
condition to demand too frequent cultiva-
ton.
Sheepprefer short grass and thrive best on
pastures that permit them to Craze close to
the ground. All fields with heavy growths
of grass may be moved to advantage before
turning on the sheep.
No pea excels the Champion of England
in quality, but it is not as prolific as some
varieties. 1t requires support for the vines.
The Little Gem is an excellent pea to
plant for succession, the planting to be
ten days apart.
There is nothing more ornamental to
the front yard than an evergreen hedge, if
il is kept neatly trimmed, but there is, on
the contrary, nothing more unsightly if
the hedge is neglected. All hedges should
be kept in shape and we'll cut back.
To kill the peach-tree lice two or three
applications of strong soapsuds should be
sprayed on the trees. Sometimes the first
application will suffice, but not always.
The buds are destroyed and the limbs
stripped. The young and tender growth
being preferred.
When pear trees do not grow rapidly
they should have an application of wood
ashes, while trimming the end of the young
branches will induce them to send out
shoots and thicken the tops. Sometimes
the working around the trees with Gull
tivator will give them new start.
No lawn can stand cropping continually
without fertilizer. Wood ashes make the
best fertilizer for lawns that abound largely
in white clover, while all lawns are bene-
fitted by mixture of wood ashes and SUPER
phosphate. In the fall the lawn should be
well dressed with fine stable manure.
Those who have made specially of nuts
state that it pays to grow them, more espe-
cially if the tree is of kind that can be
converted into valuable lumber in the
future. The larger such trees are the more
valuable the land they occupy. Even if
but year or two old, they add greater
| value to the land.
If seed does not terminate, procure seed
| from elsewhere. 1t is sometimes the case
that seeds are damaged, not only by ex-
posure or by age, and complete change
may be beneficial. If the soil is cold, how
ever, large proportion of seed will rot in
| the ground for lack of sufficient warmth to
induce termination.
Instead of everlastingly propping up
fruit trees, would it not be much better for
the trees and for the present crop if a por-
ton of the fruit was picked off the over
burdened branches? 1t is very hard to
believe that any tree or the quality of the
fruit can be benefited by the bearing of a
load which means destruction without
artificial support.
1t is claimed that rhubarb after it has
wllted Is much better for cooking purposes
than that which is fresh and crisp, as the
evaporating of the moisture seems to i'm
prove its best qualities and reduce those
which are considered deleterious. This
will be welcome news to the shopkeepers,
who have found much difficulty in dispos.
ing of wilted rhubarb.
However it may be with ducks in their
wild state, when domesticated they are
very tender, and liable to chill from wet
and cold. 1t is quite likely the wild ducks
thus often perish, for the duck is exceed
ingly prolific, and its increase can bear
much wastage that the successful poulterer
should avoid. A good rule in feeding
young ducks is never 10 give them water
except to drink until FIVE or six weeks old.
nor even then if the weather is chilly.
Good cattle and poor pastures will not
prove profitable. The capacity of an ami
NAL should be utilized to its fullest ex-
tent, and to fail to provide it with every
thing required to secure the greatest DOS
sible production from the animal is to
throw away the principal advantage in its
ownership. Good stock will not thrive or
prove profitable except under the most
favorable conditions, chief among which is
full supply of food adapted to the pur-
pose required of the COW.
Secretary T. S. Gold, of Connecticut,
says that apple trees should be planted two
rods apart in one direction and forty feet
in the other. He says he never planted an
orchard with trees so far apart that he was
sorry he had got them so far, but he has
planted may orchards where he has been
sorry that he had got them so near to-
gether- An apple tree will grow very
large and will spread long distance in
good soil. 1t is the large, spreading, we'll
developed trees that produce the most and
best fruit.
FLOR the REcoRD-USIoNi
THE GIFT OF GENIUS.
When shall we learn wild desire
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