The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-04-28

Economical manuring requires a
knowledge of the soil and of fertiliz-
ing ingredients.
Clean out and destroy all the waste
from the cellar. Millions of insect
eggs and disease germs are thereby
rendered harmless.
If you have a windmill, by pro-
wiling an elevated tank, you can al
ways have water with a head for
the sprinkling garden and lawn.
There arc G2,000 women in America
interested in the cultivation of fruit,
and among them are some of the most
successful orchardists in California.
The Grange has made additional
proof of the idea that our education is
by no means entirely product of or
ganized schools, or teachers or printed
books.
Sheep will improve the land if the
management of the pasture is intelli-
gent. 1t the sheep arc pastured upon
pasture that is so short that they will
destroy the roots.there viii be no inn
provement.
Currants require good soil and
clean culture. The addition of COM
post in which ashes are mixed will
insure crop every year. By plant
ing currants on both sides of light
fence their season of ripcning can be
prolonged ten to fifteen days.
What is plant but a structure to
be builded by Natures forces, under
prescribed conditions, cut of mstc-
rails furnished on hapd e. Ao. pf9p BUR
pee --EeOaa Inc plas y then, with
that which is needed for its growth.
What more simple problem that this
The nests will be the first Matching
places for lice. Keep them clean
from the beginning and One-half the
labar of avoiding lice will be saved. |
Insect powder should be freely used |
over the material in the nests, and the
nests should be cleaned out and new
material added frequently.
1t is stated that there is an element
in the common pineapple similar to
Rpsin, and of such remarkable
Npgth that the juice of single APP
Jill digest ten lbs. of beef. 1t is
= ier stated that the juice, ofA the
fruit is a very active solvent or ,sb
membrane found in diphtheria.
When there is trouble about the
of the butter from the
milk, correspondent of the American
says that adding
quart of water at sixty-four degrees,
in which a teaspoonful of salt has
been dissolved, to each four quarts of
olcam; When ready to start for the
churn, with him reduced the time
If churning from three hours to
,wenty-minutes.
All pruning done before buds start
nto growth stimulates those that re-
main so that they grow all the more
Pruning trees when in leaf
S, on the contrary, a check to the whole
plant, and does not stimulate what
S left. 1t is quite apt, however, with
very vigorous trees, to cause buds to
start, and may thus be sometimes adj
7isable to bring young orchards more
quick into bearing.
MANURING FRUIT TREEs.-Wc saw
/ day or two since farmer putting
)iles of stable manure at the trunk of
rees, which is very much as if man
we're fed by placing food at his feet.
Tsa feeding roots Of trees always cX
tend farther than their branches
Long before the branches meet, the
roots interlace. The proper way to
feed such trees is TO deposit manure
In the middle of the rows between the
trees where the feeding roots are,
rather than at their base where the
rcots are too large to assimilatc nour-
shment.-[Am. Cultivator.
FEEDING CABBAGE TO SToCK.-
cabbage has been cultivated for
az,.dree}s of years principally as a
Able food. Now, however, it is being
|9own as field crop for stock.
<fofitable cabbage soil should contain
.lphates, phosphates, soda and
,aiash. Ordinary barnyard manure
sains these elements. Sixty tons
abbage have been grown to the
va. Cattle and sheep will do
easonably well on cabbage alone, but
etfer when mixed with other-feed.
rssch cows, hogs and all kinds of
oultry will consume much cabbage
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