Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
If you want good fruit thin the
peaches.
Peach borers ought to be hunted up
and destroyed.
Prinulas seed may be sown now for
winter Towering.
Fine, rich compost is an excellent fer
tilizer for flowers.
The Duchess of Albany is rose that
has many advocates.
A deep loan and sandy soil are
suited to the cherry.
Azalias may be summered in well
shaded spot out of doors.
The poorer the soil the more seed is
required, and the smaller the crop.
If the COWS teats get scratched or
cracked grease them after each milking.
Young chickens that are just beginning
to run about should be fed regularly
every day.
The Farm. journal advises cutting hay
closer when about one-half of the heads
are Drowned.
Grass cut while it rains, or just before,
Is ready to dry and cure when the sun
and wind follow the rain.
If the egg shells are fed to the poul-
try, care should always be taken to crush
them thoroughly before feeding.
A wide cut mower, six or seven feet,
and one that leaves the grass standing as
much as possible, is the right sort.
The more solidly hay is packed in the
bays the better it will keep. 1t is the
admission of air that spoils (browns) it:
A hen pays in proportion to the num-
Der of eggs she produces; therefor it is
an item to feed so as to secure plenty of
eggs.
Half-cured grass is wholly spoiled by
rain and about half spoiled by a heavy
dew If suffered to receive it when spread
on the ground.
Cut hay in the late afternoon, tedder
as soon as the dew is off the next morn.
ing, rake and draw in in the heat of the
early afternoon.
Ip shipping young poultry at this time
see that they are well watered and fed
before coping, and do not crowd too
many into the coops.
One can depend with close, careful
plucking upon an average of one pound
of feathers pei bird from flock of com
mon geese per annum.
When desired 10 fatten poultry rapidly
there is nothing that will equal good corn
meal. Fowls should be given all that
they will eat up clean.
The Fruit Grouer says: "When red
rust appears upon raspberries or black
berries the canes should at once be care
fully cut away and burned"
The sulphite of iron has proven in
some cases to be fair tonic for plants
with weak iower-stems. Weak solu-
tons should be given at first.
AS a rule hens learn to eat eggs from
having them broken in the nest. In ar
ranging the nests have them convenient
/ for the hens, so that in getting ia and out
there will be little if any risk of the eggs
being lroken.
Any plot Of ground that Is not required
for regular crop should be seeded down
to SOME green mandrial crop. Millet or
Hungarian grass answers well; and the
crop may be plowel under just before
the seed head forms.
( 1t is not always possible or convenient
TO cultivate closely set ounce orchard,
but it is not difficult to mulch it, and no
fruit appreciates more what is for the
benefit CT all. Done once per year little
other attention will be necessary.
Fruit groves must study their mark
cts and decide whether they will work
for the average trade or for the fancy
trade only; whether it is quality or guam
tlty they want; whether it is size or
flavor, using different bait for different
fishes.
Fine, rich compost, or rich earth, is
the best fertilizer for flowers. Roses
should be cultivated by raling the sur
face of the ground around them. 1t in
jures some varieties to stir the ground
deep. Super phosphate is an excellent
fertilizer for shrubs and other hardy
bloomers.
Tho only way to destroy the apple
maggdt fly appears tic be by disposiug of
the af1ec'ed fruit before the worm has
time to cutter the ground after it falls.
1t may not pay largely to make pork, bat
in the orchard hogs surely earn good
wages. Make preparations to herd them
against green apple time.
Would you have an extraordinary de-
velopment of fine foliage in cannas,
caladiums; castor-oi beams, eulalias,
reeds, ailanthus, pawlonia, etc., Thea
rely on an abundance of manure in the
soil and abundant summer watering
These conditions provided and it is very
easy to make a grand success with this
class of plants. Try it.
The verbena midew has been very sue
cessfully combatted at the Cornell Ex-
pertinent Station with asolution in water
of potassium sui phide, at the rate OF
quarter of an ounce to the gallon. The
plants were occasionally sprayed with the
fungicide, and, while traces of the
disease still appear at times, it is rem
dered practically harmless. This pre-
paration has also been applied to cucum-
bers infested with the same, Or a simlae
fungus, with very satisfactory results.