Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-07-01
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

| FARM AND aAhDEN NOTEb.
'rwo-year. grass seed is not worth
sowing.
"stump the World" is popular Few
Jersey peach.
In light soils level culture is far the
best for corn.
Sowing clover aud timothy together
increases the yield.
The "Columbus" is new gooseberry
attracting attention.
Corn should be cultivated once week
until too high for it.
Drill l-plantiug of corn increases ths
yield 33i to fifty per cent.
The ice-plant is pretty annual for
rockery or hanging basket.
Fertilizers are better for corn than
manure, unless the latter is plowed in
the fall.
Nearly all of the improved breeds of
cattle originated within a stones throw
of one another.
All young animals need exercise in the
open air. Too close confinement is sure
to breed disease.
Cut out the old wood from the hardy
roses and shorten last years growth, but
not too severely.
If the sows can have comfortable
quarters in which to farrow, February
pigs are better than March.
TIE ration that only sustains life with
out growth is always fed ut loss and
should always be increased.
Separate the brood sows and feed
them less corn and more bran and oats.
Make the change gradually.
Keeping dairy is business that the
farmer should know something about
before investing too largely.
Dry air sackened lime scattered over
wet, will kill the rose slugs.
The deeper the plowing for corn, so
long AS the soil Is manured or fertilized
to the full depth, the better.
Economical feeding involves knowl-
edge of the needs of the animal as well
as of the composition of foods.
Most grass seed is bad. Not more than
fifty per cent. of that sold will germin-
ate, and III some cases not more than five
per cent.
A popular orange in California is of
pear shape. and is called the Joppa orange,
because the seeds came originally from
Palestine.
Green manuring is an economical aud
effective metto for restoring worn land,
and rye is one of the best crops to use
for this purpose.
Powdered white helebore is the remedy
for worms on currant and gooseberry
bushes and should be applied promptly
at their first appearance.
A hen that costs 81 to keep, and pro.
duce 100 eggs per year, besides raising a
brood of chickens, pays as good divi-
dend as any stock you have.
One noted wheat grower says that for
wheat he wants the ground fine and firm,
and that there is little or no danger of
having the ground too firm.
Barnyard manure contains every ee-
ment that is found in plants, hence it is
\ the one complete manure. Don't waste
/ ii, and then buy commercial fertilizers.
A week may be gained in time by
| sleeping seed corn in solution OF four
ounces OF saltpeter in gallon OF water
and having it all soaked up by peck of
seed.
Diversity the poultry business, as we'll
as the balance OF the farm industries.
Ducks, geese aud turkeys give as good
return as hens, and sometimes pay much
better.
DO not be persuaded that there Is no
profit ia washing your sheep before
shearing. II we'll done the added value
! OF the wool will pay exceilently for the
time aud labor required.
A number OF small pastures are better
than single large one. They go farther
aud give more feed when the cattle eau
be changed from one 20 another, thus
giving each period of rest.
IL is said that in firm land the frost
will 60 much deeper than in land that Is
loose. As It Is desirable that the frost
should go deep il would appear very ad-
yanlageous to have the land a. fifm as
possible.
Draining is generally admitted to bo
the correct remedy fof vet lands, aud foF
the bad effects from wet seasoas. Now
We must learn that ID Is almost equally
efficient in preventing damage from ca
eesslye dToughls,
nalTyiag has iouTlold Advantage
over most other branches Of farming. II
brings spot eash, il yields more money
lof tbs feed consumed, Il saves the
natural fertility OF the farm, aud Il makes
Increased fertility easY.
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