Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN SCIESs
AVOID waste in garnering grain.
Sharp tools save time and labor.
Straighten up the sagging gates.
Lead and direct your field force.
To make corn grow-stir the soil.
A successful breeder must be good
feeder.
Assert we'll and pack neatly all fruit
for marketing.
Shallow culture of hoed crops is now
the order of the day.
The medium weight animal usually re-
turns the most profit.
Large growing trees should not be
planted in small yards.
Examine your lambs. If infested with
ticks, give them dip.
Fix your watering place so that the
animals cannot foul it.
1t is important that the corn crib be
cleaned out and fumigated so as to de-
stroy insects.
Wire screens in the stable windows to
keep out insects will enable tired horses
to rest better at night.
If you are going to save any herbs, cut
them just before full bloom, tie in small
bundles and dry in the shade.
Having begun fruit growing, stick to
it. 1t is not business to be picked up
one day and dropped the next.
July is the best month to kill weeds.
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the sun, and burn the night of the second
day.
For supplying any one of two missing
ingredients to the soil, we must have re-
course to commercial fertilizers if we
consult economy.
Be sure to provide your calves with a
cool, shady place in Which to escape from
flies. 1t will save flesh and put money
into your pocket.
So far plaster and salt have been of
very little use this year. The season has
been too wet. In dry season both have
a beneficial influence.
If possible get into that line of farm
ing which you like. You will be much
more likely to succeed than with one
that is distasteful to you.
Keep alfalfa closely cropped if the
weeds are growing among it. In this
manner the weeds will be killed, while
the alfalfa becomes stronger.
The cost of a bushel of grain or a
pound of butter on one farm is no guide
to the cost of the same on another-so
much depends upon conditions.
When cattle have to go too far for
water they will often 60 without to their
discomfort, aud when they get to the
water they will drink to their injury.
Eggs are a most excellent article of
food, and should be produced in suff-
cient abundance on every farm to meet
the daily demands for table use, if not
more.
The care required for good crop of
cabbages will raise good crop of cauli-
flowers. Abundant manure, with thor
ough and careful cultivation, are the
secrets of success.
Experiments with the Bordeaux mix
ture as a remedy for grape rot is being
made in every section this season, and it
IS believed that in a few years the disease
will be under control.
Earthworms in dry weather sometimes
work their way through the soil to the
we'll and fall in, thus communicating the
water to certain extent Ifpossible the
curbing of all wells should be cemented.
Wherever weeds grow luxuriantly, the
ground is usually fertile and such ground
should be made to produce some kind OF
crop. At this season millet or Hun.
garian grass should be sown on such
land.
If you must, or think you must, feeG
corn to the horses during the winter, dc
let up on the practice in summer. Feed
ing a horse corn in summer is a gooc
deal like building a fire in the parfol
stove on the Fourth of July.
There is never too much good butter
on the market, but there is always
large supply of inferior butter. The
prices are not relegated by the quantity
so much as by the quality. Good butter
sells at high price at all seasons of the
year.