The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-05-19
FARM AND GARDEN.

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some measures to fight the insect dep
7 relations and fungous diseases tina
0 are SO prevalent.
Experiments with strawberries in
dictate that pollen bearing is an ex
haustive process, and that larger yields
of fruit as rule may be expected
from those varieties which produc,
pollen so sparingly that small por
ton of other varieties producing pollen
abundantly must be planted with
them in order to insure full crop.
Vigorous fruit trees of large size
which produce little or no fruit, need
root pruning to make them bear. II
checks growth and promotes blossoms.
Cut offa good lot of the large roots
now.
Virginia, North Carolina and Tenn
essee raise an average of 100000
bushels of peanuts per annum. The
annual of the crop for the past four
seasons shows an average of 100000
bushels.
Soil is seldom made too rich for
Strawberries, and probably the whole
secret is proper stimulation and re-
striction. High feeling and restric-
ton, by cutting off all but few of the
runners, are sure to produce good
crop of berries.
Whoever has control of a spring of
fresh water should obtain few water
cress plants and set in the waterway
from the spring. Place stone or two
over the roots to prevent their getting
carried away by the running water.
II is useless to plant where ducks or
geese are frequenters of the place.
"The great trouble" says some one,
'is that most farmers have too many
irons in the fire."
Many neglected apple orchards show
a row of sap sprouts from the trunk,
often extending one or two feet from
the body of the tree where roots have
been torn by the pillow or cultivator.
1t is hardly necessary to say that such
trees can not be productive of fruit
until this unnecessary drain on the
vitality of the tree is removed.
The first thing to do in invigora-
ting worn out orchard is to enrich
the ground by top-dressing the whole
surface with barn manure, if practical
BILE, at the rate of thirty or forty two
horse loads to the acre, or with less il
this amount can not be had. Let this
manure be finely broken up so as to
be evenly spread and not left in Jumps.
Some persons object to sailing but
ter, and urge as reason that salt is
useless and has no effect in preserving
butter. This, 1 am convinced, is all
wrong. Salt is agreeable to the pal
ate when not in excess. 1t il a most
effective antiseptic when in the form
of brine, and does preserve the butter,
for if there were no brine in it air
would fill all the small spaces and act
on the butter disastrously. The salt
is not only useful in this way, but it
draws the water from the butter and
makes brine, which diffuses itself all
through the fibers of it. 1t is true
that the salt will not combine with the
fat of the butter, but il does combine
with the water and envelops the par
ticles of butter, and so preserves it
and prevents decomposition of it.
II Henry Stewart.
The farmer of the future will be a
student. He will be a business man.
He will have scientific knowledge.
He will know why he must use GER
tain kinds of fertilizers for certain
grains. He will know why he uses
certain food TO produce fat and others
to produce milk. Hence he must
have education; at least, sufficient
mental training to produce these
truths.
1t often pays to pillow the garden
twice, and for the part that is planted
latest third or even fourth blowing
may do more good than can be done
with any other farm implement.
When a tOp-dressing Of manure is
buried six or seven inches deep under
furrow, to re-plow is often the only
means of mixing it with the soil and
bringing it nearer the surface. The
mixing of manure with soil enor-
mously increases its effectiveness.
On the authority of j. r. Dodge,
well-known statistician, it is stated
that "this country has not reached the
the limit of its agricultural produc-
ton. 1t has not even approached it.
One third of its area is either to dry