The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-07-22
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Farm AND GARDEN NOTES.
Every rod Of useless fence is useless
tax.
The younger the weed the more easily
killed.
Rye makes good pasture-better than
timothy.
Commercial manures are best for
potatoes.
Thoroughly clean, air and whitewash
your stables.
Manure well il you waut a good crop
Of lawn grass.
Fewer acres and better culture should
be the motto.
The value Of manure depends on what
it is made from.
Have a system Of rotation in the gar
den, as elsewhere.
Begin to cultivate corn as soon as you
can follow the rows.
Only the finest manure should be used
on the asparagus bed.
Flowing in green crops is the cheap
est method of manuring.
The best prepared soil is the most
favorable for termination.
Whenever the sheep comes to the barn
give them water and food.
Put in succession OF crops of green
peas; the same of green corn.
Old strawberry plants seldom produce
as large berries as do young ones.
"Sawdust diminishes the efficiency of
stable manure"-but only so far as 1t
dilutes it.
The greatest potato yield at the Mich.
igau Station was with seed planted one
inch deep.
Farm products that excel in quality
and have an attractive appearance never
| have TO hunt a market.
1t would do no harm, but likely
destroy vermin and microbes, to fumigate
your stable with sulphur.
Cabbages ought to be cultivated often
and stimulated with fertilizers if the soil
is not sufficiently mauured.
Many couiferous plants are increased
by cuttings on a large scale, especially
retinosporas, arbor-vitaes, and the like.
Cuttings of plants which root with diff
ficulty are sometimes grated, with
good effect, upon those which root
easily.
The rhubarb plant may be increased
by divisions. Professor Bailey says that
each division must contain at least one
bud on the crown.
Produce something out Of season, make
il attractive aud delicious, and see how
quick it will sell and how soon there
will be call for more.
The soil for beets should be plowed
from twelve to fifteen inches deep, aud
as much of the beet root grown beneath
the surface as possible.
Gluten meal is a very excellent feed.
1t is the corn meal with the starch taken
out of it, and consequently has a better
feeding rate than the corn meal itself.
The black walnut is designed to cut
an important figure on the farm In the
near future. 1t eau be made as profitable
as the apple tree wherever it will thrive.
Leaf mold is a natural fertilizer for all
trees and shrubs, and wood flowers, or
any plants that like shaded place. 1t
is also very useful as an addition to pot
ting soil.
Freshly laid sod IS much more likely
to succeed If covered with about an inch
of fine soil. This will save it even in a
dry time, when otherwise it would fail
to get good start.
1t is true, much OF the breed goes IN
at the mouth, but to know the best kind
of mouth TO put it In is the rub, and
necessitates full knowledge of the herd
book and score card.
Paris considers milk pure when II con-
tains one pound Of butter and four
ounces of solids per quart, says and Eng
lsh journal, but such proportions seem
irregular to dairymen here.
The advantage OF Matching guinea;
under common hens is, that properly
managed, they are usually more gentle
than If the guinea hens are allowed to
hatch them out and raise them.
While old hens usually lay larger egg
than pullets the shape of the egg ha
little or nothing to do with the life germ
aud if the broad end is smooth and the
egg is properly fertilized 1t will hatch.
The duration of a raspberry plantation
depends upon the variety cultivated a.
, well as upon the nature of the soil aud
care given the plants. Ten to fourteen
, years is about the average under good
: culture.
A good time to apply fertilizers to as
paragus is just when we cease to cut tn
shoots. This causes a luxuriant growth
of the plants during summer and autumn
and this, in turn, gives thick fat shoot
the next season.