Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-03-16
THE HOME AND Farm

station, names Henderson s Dwarf Lii
ma bean as the best for his latitude.
In ten years upwards of $1,000, 900
have been appropriated by the New
York Legislature for agricultural pur-
poses.
Save all the poultry droppings. These
will be valuable as a top dressing for
vegetables next season, The care with
which this manure is saved will deter
mine its value. Keep wood ashes away
from it and keep it dry. A plan that
has succeeded well consists in placing
the droppings as fast as gathered up in
a water tight key or barrel provided
with G cover, and sprinkling over the
manure a shovelful or two of loan.
The latter deodorizes the mass and
prevents loss.
Prof. Dean, of the Ontario Agricul.
tural station, says on the subject of
land plaster in stables: 1--WE use con-
stantly on III floors a liberal quantity
of land plaster or gypsum, which has
three effects: 1. 1t fixes the ammonia
and makes the manure more valuable.
2. 1t sweetens the stable, absorbing all
bad odors. 8. 1t gives the stable a bet
ter appearance and looks neat and tidy.
In fact, an hour after our cows are
turned out you would scarcely know
that q COW had been in. This is accom-
plished by a liberal use of plaster and
viii tewash."
The departure in the cultivation of
the all important onion, designated as
the new onion culture consists in trans
planting the young plants, which was
formerly considered impracticable.
This transportation of the young
plants has a twofold object-namely,
increasing the yield and securing an
earlier crop. This departure, it is be-
lieved by those who have investigated
the subject, promises good results
wherever intensive cultivation is prac-
ticed. The new onion culture was
prominently brought into public notice
by the h%orticulturist of the Ohio ex-
pertinent station in q bulletin issued in
1890. A little later T. Greiner, of New
York, issued an exhaustive manual on
the subject.
Results gained from experiments with
Irish potatoes at the Louisiana station
and reported on by ]. G. Lee give some
interesting conclusions. In an expert
ment to test size of seed seven varieties
of large and medium sized potatoes
were used for seed, being planted whole
and cut to two or more eyes and one
eye. The results foreach variety from
n kind of seed r tabulated. 1.-THE
productive results obtained concur
with those of previous years; the larger
the seed planted the greater the yield.
The economical results are, however,
different, and calculating for this point
suggest that, planting on a large scale,
it is better to cut not to more than four
eyes nor less than two"
A writer of large experience has the
following to say in the Beekeeper's Re-
view: Since l built my first bee cellar
/ have modified my views somewhat
on the subject of ventilation of bee
cellars. I viewed it then as a very i'm
portant feature. It looks all we'll
enough in theory but experience does
not support the theory. l put venti-
lating tubes in my BEDROOMS and had
the satisfaction of seeing that the colo
MES nearest these tubes-these that
were best ventilated-were the first to
show signs of uneasiness. l took out
the ventilators after the first winter
and have never had any use for them
since. Until brood rearing begins, to-
ward spring, very little change of air
is needed; after this more is necessary.
The subearth ventilating fad has prob
ably about had its run.
1t is believed that nothing is gained
in earliness or rigor by keeping seed
potatoes in a temperature where the
eyes will develop materially before
planting time; certainly not in a tenn
p%erature where long sprouts will grow,
mating the tubers together SO that
they must be pulled apart when the
season for planting arrives. The OBJ
ject in storing away in cellars is to
keep the potatoesin an accessible place
and as natural a condition as possible
without their freezing. A pushing out
of sprouts that would be broken or
rubbed off in the handling must nee.
essarily occasion a check in the growth
of the tubers when planted and should
be guarded against as far as possible.
At the same time, adds the agricultu-
raj editor Of the New York World-as
potatoes are now SO generally planted
in cut pieces-it may be useful to ex-
pose the whole tubers to the light and
warmth, sufficiently long to indicate
the strong eyes as a guide in cutting
the pieces.
He thoroughly believes in it A. j.
Rutherford, Geneva Book Bindery,
Geneva, N. Y, writes: ~ received a
severe knock on my head, cutting the
scalp badly. l applied Salvation Oil,
and o few applications removed all