Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-01
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Provide plenty of dry fuel.
How about that farm dairy7
Milk fast and vex not the COW.
Have you cleaned out the welli
How about your Farmers Club2
Make tramps work or go hungry.
Prepare for the farmers institutes.
Take good care of the corn fodder.
Some prefer tile to s'earthing up for
bleaching celery.
Exercise your breeding animals; they
will do better for it.
Cows and cattle at pasture need more
salt than on dry hay.
A variety of farms or soils call for
variety of farm practice.
The wild grasses generally do not
thrive under cultivation.
No better or cheaper insect destroyer
ian be found than the toad.
Good books and periodicals pay large
dividends. Invest in them.
There will be no loss Of ammonia if
The manure heap is kept moist.
It pays abundantly to drain wet soils;
It makes them surer and better.
Don't allow Jack Frost to put blight
ing mortgage on any of your crops.
The man who always has strictly fresh
Eggs to sell need never suffer for mar
Get.
Corn is good feed; but something
more albuminous fed with it makes it
better.
Be careful not to bruise apples and
other fruit. The bruised spots are where
decay begins.
Old pastures afford richer and more
nutritious feed than new ones, and in
greater variety.
Clear out all the old rubbish where in
ects can live and breed next year to de-
troy your fruit.
Don't wait until the beans are half
ihelled out on the ground before you
harvest them, and then complain that
here is not "half crop"
The alert fruit grower viii endeavor to
make everything he grows bring in some
;etur1s, and will avoid waste of every
iort. Are you on the alertl
If you have any late sown peas dust
hem with -four of sulphur to prevent
nildew. The dry pods of Lima beans
Ihould be gathered for winter use as fast
IS they ripen.
If you got the turnips in too thick it
nay pay to go over the patch and thin
hem out; it Wal not be much work, and
those you pull out will not be lost, as
Fou can feed them.
Pick grapes after the dew has dried
from them, and without disturbing the
bloom upon them. After standing few
aours pack carefully and closely in bask-
ITS, if desired for marketing.
In digging potatoes get no more out OF
the ground In a day than you can get
dnder cover; it may freeze some night,
md this year people who pay for Irish
potatoes don't want sweet ones.
To obtain pansies early next spring the
leeds should be sown early this fall in
finely prepared soil. Sow in rows, two
inches apart, dust fine soil over it and
, press down with brick or board.
The winter crop of celery should have
earth enough TO keep it erect until the
weather gets cool. In earthing keep the
plants drawn tightly together so as to
ivoid getting the soil into the heart.
A chick that is not kept warm and dry
| Tor the first five or six weeks of its exist,
ence will become stunted aud stop grow
ing fast. This is where brooder Matched
birds grow the best and avoid dampness,
1t is a very important matter to the breed,
er to look after.
Plymouth Rocks, barred or white, viii
always have admirers; slowly but surely
have they won the admiration of the
farmer and breeders, and to-day they
rank among the first and best. Tn:
Brahma is also very popular fowl, aud
deserves its position.