The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-07-30
FARM AND GARpEN NOTES.

The navy bean is the one unusually
grown for the market.
In handling bees be gentle; subdue
them, il necessary, with smoke.
In handling queens never catch them
by the body, but by the wing.
The best protection against moths and
robbers is to keep all colonies strong.
Pollen, or bee-bread, is the fertilizing
dust discharged by the anthers of flowers.
The man who will find perfect,
simple remedy for the cut worm has made
his fortune.
Two weak families, when united, will
consume little, if any, more honey than
if left separate.
Give the girl flower bsd, the boy
vegetable garden; or change about if
their tastes choose that way.
Keep the garden frequently stirred; if
you don't you will soon have to stir to
get any crop-except weeds.
1t is the best to plant the poles first,
then the beans, when you raise limas, uu-
less you have the improved bush variety.
If all the fruit you wish to send. to
market is not first-class make two grades
of it. Don't mix in the same case, box
or barrel.
Red clover secretes much honey, vet it
is beyond the reach of common bees, but
Italian bees store honey from it to con-
siderable extent.
President James NJ. Smith says of
wood ashes; have used them in pref
erence to any fertilizer 1 could get for
potatoes for many years.
Plant the late potatoes just as soon as
you can get the ground ready. In this
way you get ahead of the bug and save
much work and expense.
You need not be in a hurry about plant
ing beans; after the corn and potatoes
are all in, and even under good grow
ing headway, will be time enough.
Grape vines should be cut back each
year within few buds of the old growth,
but even when this is neglected most ex-
cellent crops of fruit are sometimes pro-
duced.
Kidney beans arc sometimes very
profitable, but the market is more liable
to be overstocked with them than with
the white marrowfat, the pea or the
navy bean.
Some of those who have been accus-
toned to eating buttermilk- favored
butter washed white in grains, but after
they use it for awhile they object to the
other kind.
Butter can be salted too much when it
is dry salted, but not when it is brine
salted. The latter method requires the
most salt and the least labor, besides
being sure to salt the butter evenly.
Don't plant beans with the supposition
that they require poor soil to make good
crop. To be sure, they may produce a
paying crop, where wheat or corn would
not, but poor soil is not necessary to
make them do we'll.
Every farmer should have supply of
grapes. Once well started the grape vine
is long lived and very productive. Set in
good ground and trained to a trellis, or
on an old wall even, they are almost sure
to produce fruit every season.
Adopt some good pattern of hive and
stick to it. Choose those that are so
exact that every part of each will fit with
that part of another. This is important,
as many advantages are gained by the
interchange of frames and other parts.
Mrs. L. B. Baker, of Lansing, Mich,
in relating a four-years' experience in
the apiary before n State convention,
said she had found bee-keeping more
healthful, profitable and enjoyable than
her former occupation Of keeping board
ers.
When brine salting there is no use in
waiting for the butter to absorb the brine
when it is put into the churn; if you arr
ready to print or pack, give the churn I
few turns, draw off the brine and thu
butter will be as salt as ifit were allowed
to remain in the brine for an hour.
Bees, small fruits and poultry, make
good combination. If you know how t,
manage a very nice living can be OBJ
tanned. Each will assist the other anC
during the different seasons the profit
of one or the other can tide over any de
} ficiency of the other. You should ado
one or the other to your poultry and Sc
how it pays'