The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-04-14
FARM AND GARDEN.

of good quality will soon establish a
home market.
Through traps in stable floor over
cellar OF driveway, manure may be
loaded into cart or on sled with
only one handling.
If a farmer has fences to control his
animals, barns to house them, when
they should be sheltered, and practices
system in his operations, he will not
waste food or effort.
Every year the peoples taste for a
better quality of meat improves, and
every one who learns to distinguish
between good and inferior meat,
makes the production of this latter
kind of meat still more Improbable.
Horse and Stable says one of the
sensations of the year will be the
driving three horses abreast by G. j.
Hamlin. He is going to put Mocking
Bird, 2:l68, between Justina, 2 :20,
and Belle Hamlin, 2:123. The two
last named hold the team record of the
world, 2 :13.
Experience shows that to do the
most good plaster or gypsum must be
dissolved. If sown after spring rains
have mostly passed, little or no benefit
is derived from its use. Many farm
ers go so far as to sow plaster before
vegetation starts in the spring, and
, even sometimes on the snow, and they
affirm that it shows better results than
can be had from later sowing.
Bees work all night whenever there
, is work TO be done, says Gleanings,
: and there is always more or less to be
[ done during almost every month of
: the year. Brood is fed at night, as
much as in the daytime. Cells are
.H,repared for the queen to lay in, and
i no queeaa goes on with egg-laying
1 n"Se 'ne same 'IG ne honey season
more more COM. ut during the
r. riSil ht than at any Otbe, ttime, and both
pollen al abb honey are taken f, from. tn the
cells, where the'bere the W. kers de-
! post it during the day., led where
wanted, properly packed away an!
sealed over.
The sugar maple grows rapidly,
and in ten to twelve years after plant
ing its body attains size enough to adj
init of topping if done with proper
implements so as not to make wide
gaping wound. 1t is often urged that
young trees do not yield so rich sap as
older ones do. The first year of tap.
ping the sap is less sweet, be the tree
young or old. After that sweetness
, of sap depends on the richness Of soil
] its freedom from superabundant
water, and the exposure of its top tC
sun anu all lICco III uCllsC NOOue
t do not give as sweet sap as those
= where the woods have been thinned
+ or the outer trees in the grove Am.
7 Cultivator.
We find in the n. f. Farmer the
following taken from paper read re-
Gently by f. S. Wood to Massachu.
sets cultivators: The strawberry
does best on a we'll drained friablC
soil everything clay. High manuring
is essential to success, so is deep cult
walton. Plants may be grown in hills
rows OF matted beds, the latter method
being preferable if the plants are not
too crowded. Hill culture requires
too much labor, and too much mulch
; in winter. Where two tons of hay
would protect beds three would be
, needed on hills or narrow rows. The
weak point in strawberry farming al
present is not so much in culture as il
marketing. Too many berries are
handled carelessly and bring low
prices in consequence. Berries picked
by careless children in the heat of thu
!, day, with stems or without as happens
= and more or less bruised, will never
, bring high prices. No one would
I think of exhibiting berries for prize
! that were picked the same day. The!
? should be picked between four o'clocl
a and ten in the morning while the dew
7 is on and the fruit firm and cool
! Then it will bear handling and lool
' fresh through the day and bring gooC
a prices. They may also be picked il
!. the afternoon between four and eigh
o'clock. Berries should not be pulled
. from the stems in picking; the stem
should be carefully nipped witt
thumb and finger nails. Adul
women are cheaper help than children
I" As rule the best varieties for one +
y grow are those which originated i
u vicinity; few do well both east an
" west. Varieties run out, or at leas
II, q 900 al ;, 80 40 ron 4