Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-10-31
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

nests.
The market is seldom overstocked with
the best.
A light and effective movable fence is
a deslderatum.
Cut the burs and cookies before turn
ing in the sheep.
Keeping the weeds cut is better than
pulling them out.
Rats destroy millions of dollars worth
of grain annually.
Wait until the frost kills the file be-
fore painting your buildings.
The fall is the seeding time for weeds.
Destroy them before the seed falls.
The toad is one of the best friends of
the farmer and destroys many insects.
To kill blue grass growing between
bricks around the lawn, wash the bricks
with salt water or strong solution of soda.
1t is said that typhoid fever has been
traced to a dirty pig pen, the virus COM
ing into the house on the unwashed feet
of flies.
Care should be taken to keep castor
beans out of horse or cattle feed, for they
are fatal to stock. Horses will not, how
ever, eat the stalks while gathering.
Bright oat straw run through cut
ting box and mixed with bran and
little ground oats, slightly moistened,
makes one of the best folders for
horses.
| In cutting seed potatoes cut the eye
with slant toward the butt or stencnd,
and cut past the middle of the potato
leaving as much of the eye on the potato
as you can.
Be careful that your hay does not be-
come heated in the barn. Hay, to keep
well, should be well cured and dry be-
fore storing, and it should not be packed
too heavily.
Professor Augur, of Connecticut, rec
ommends sprinkling cabbage with brine
strong enough to bear an egg as remedy
for the cabbage worm. 1t is also good
for the cabbage.
1t is only in exceptional cases that it
will pay the average farmer to breed
horses for speed. Generally, all things
| considered, good draft horses will return
a safer and better profit.
In plowing stony land for seeding to
grass, put all small stones into the furrow
and cover them, and lay all larger ones
out on the furrows and afterward draw
them off on stone boat.
Three quarters of an ounce of salt to
the pound of butter will be the right
quantity for most markets for immediate
consumption, and one ounce to the
pound for packed butter.
When tomatoes are on stakes or trel-
lises it is good plan to nip off the tops.
Side shoots push out the sooner, and
from these come the fruit. There is no
advantage in SO much height.
Kickers among colts and calves are usu-
ally bred, not born. Handle them gently
and kindly and kickers will be rare.
Teasing by needless boys and hired men
originates most of the farm kickers.
Teach the boy to do his farm work so
that it will be admired, and you give him
something to think about that adds zest
to his work. Teach him to be as neat
and tasteful in his work as in dress, and
you develop valuable qualities, such as
may hold him to the farm.
If the corn crop is not harvested and
sliced when there is moisture in the
stalks to start rapid fermentation, we
should certainly, says Hoard's Dairyman,
add water to the contents of the pit, and
if the water was hot, it would be all the
more effective in starting the fermenta.
ton.
Early cabbage are not usually as hard
and large as the later kinds. They are
intended to afford supply while wait
ing for the better varieties to come in.
They are but of little value unless early.
1t is time to have the seed for early
plants sowed in the hot bed, and the
young plants should be set out as oon as
possible.
The introduction OF the bush lima bean
is valuable aid to the bean grower. The
chief expense in growing lima beans is
the poles, which require labor in stalk.
ing and replacing when affected by
winds. Those who have tried the bush
beans claim that they are fully as pro.
life as the pole beans, as well as being
equal to the latter in quality.
To make thorough work of the weeds
they should be carted off the land at
once and burned up if dry enough, or
dumped in pile and worked over for
two years before returning to the land
as compost. This working over may be
done with cultivator and harrow in a
large pile; it does not take much time,
but needs attention every ten days in the
growing season.
One of the reasons why peaches do
not succeed on land long cultivated, ia
lack of mineral plant food. The peach
is usually planted ON light or sandy land,
that has at best very little mineral. The
seed cannot form without potash, and
lacking this the seed fall off soon after
setting. 1t is believed by some that lack
of Y,otach tho y>ral ;cnocipu oax,ea ~