Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-13
FARM NOTES.


alize the benefit of good garden until
they purchase once all they use.
Care should always be taken in ap-
plying kerosene among the fruit or
shade trees, for if used too strong it
the foliage, if it comes in contact with
them.
Three or four varieties of grapes will
give much more satisfactory results
than larger number; one early, one
medium and two late varieties will give
more satisfactory results than larger
number.
Every farm should have an expert
mental plot or garden. There is no surer
or more certain mode of learning the re-
quirements of the land and the kind of
crops to grow than to experiment, in a
small way, with seeds and fertilizers.
Experiments show that any portion of
the seed from an ear of corn may be
used for planting, and that there is no
advantage possessed by the butt seed
over the tip seed, nor is the middle seed
better than that from the butts or tips.
In sowing the seed in the hot bed,
take pains not to SOW too thick. If the
plants are crowded they will grow tall
and spindling and be weak; let them
have sufficient room to make thrifty,
stocky growth, and the plants will be
healthier.
When the ground is plowed in the fall
or early winter the frost goes down and
reaches the insects that have sought
| refuge therein. The clods and Jumps are
broken by the action of the frost, and
the soil put in condition for being easily
plowed in the spring.
IT from any cause the trees get gnawed
by rabbits, and the injury is small, a
good remedy is to draw up mound of
earth sufficiently to entirely cover the
| wound, SO as to keep it moist. If, how
ever, the wound is severe, the better
, plan will be to take up the tree and set
| out new one.
The following is given as an excel
lent mixture of seed per acre for a
meadow: Twelve pounds of timothy,
five pounds of Italian rye grass, five
pounds of meadow fescue or tall fescue,
four pounds of red-top. three pounds of
rough-stalked meadow grass, six pounds
of medium clover. If the meadow is
moist, bromus a1sike may be intro
| duced, the red-top increased and the
fescue and the clover lessened.
In some cases it may be profitable to
pile up the manure to rot before hauling
it out, yet on the average farm, taking
the work and the benefits all into consid-
GRAFTON, the best plan is to haul out the
manure whenever there is enough for a
load and there is time to do the work.
With the soil plowed more of the solu-
BILE portions will be taken up and held,
and the loss either by evaporation or
teaching will be less than if the manure
is applied on unplowed land.
Notes.
Within the past five years many large
poultry establishments have sprung into
Without the aid of the incubator such
they enable the poultry men to hatch by
wholesale.
1t is more profitable 70 feed the fod-
der, hay and grain than to sell it. Where
few cattle are kept it will pay better tc
buy steers and fatten them rather than
sell the hay at low price. BY so doing
the manure is left on the farm.
A Massachusetts, man found in his
bean field stalk which bore 726 beans.
Evergreens add much to the adorn-
ment of the front yard. They are cheap,
thrive in nearly all soils, need but little
care, are hardy and can be put out by
any one. They make beautiful and
lasting hedge.
! In selecting shrubs get hardy varieties
and purchase young plants, they Will
give more satisfactory results than
larger plants
Novelties are SO much over-praised
that investments should be made on q
small scale until their value is more
definitely ascertained.
No wise man will allow his stock to
seek shelter behind sail fence.