The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Water plants in the evening.

Water plants IN the evening.
The navy bean is the one unusually
grown for the market.
In handling bees be gentle; subdue
them, if 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.
Pollap, or bee-bread, is the tertilizing
dust discharged by the anthers of flowers.
The man who will find a 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 bed, 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, I'M
less you have the improved bush variety.
If all the fruit you wish to send to
market is not tirst-class make two grades
of it. Don't mix in the same case, box
or barrel.
Red clover secretes much honey, yet it
is beyond the reach of common bees, but
Italian bees store honey from it to a con-
siderable extent.
President James NJ. Smith says of
wood ashes: l have used them in pref
erence to any fertilizer l 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 hurry about plant
ing beans; after the corn and potatoes
are all in, and even under good grow
ing Roadway, will be time enough.
Grape vines should be cut back each
gear within few buds of the old growth,
NV NNSh WitCu lliio ID hCgicS DlpsI en-
oeilent crops of fruit are sometimes pro-
duced
Kidney beans are 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 acers.
toned to eating buttermilk-
butter washed white in grains, but afte:
they use it for awhile they object to the
other kind.
Butter can be sailed too much when it
is dry sailed, but not when it is brine
sailed. 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 poo: soil is not necessary to
make them do well.
Every farmer should have a supply OF
grapes. Once well started the grape vine
is long lived and very productive. SETH
good ground and trained to 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 four-years' experience in
the apiary before a State convention,
said she had found ee-keeping more
healthful, profitable and enjoyable than
hor former occupation of keeping board
| ers
| When brine saltiag there is no use in
waiting for the butter to absorb the brine
when it is put into the churn: ii you arc
ready to print or pack, give the churn
few turns, draw off the BRINE and the
butter will be as salt as If it were allowed
to remain iia the brine fog an hour.
Bees, yho fruits and poultry, make
good ion. Ii Y gu know how to
manage amy nice iiking can be OBJ
tanned. II will assist the other and
during t. different seasons the profits
of one or the other can tide over any de.
| iciency of the other You should add
one or the other to your poultry and see
how it pays.