The record-union., 1893-05-31

OluSI crops IS also injurious. Shallow,
surface cultivation is usually advisable
tlll the crop is too large TO drive amongst
with team.
If one has neglected his potatoes till the
ground is overgroWn with weeds and the
crop Is in bloom, ii becomes "a question
which 10 choose of two evils, and one
should use the best judgment at COM
mand. Destroying the weeds will injure
the crop, but letting them alone may in
Jure 1t more. l never intend to get
caught in any such scrape. Ii | did
should have to pocket the loss as punish
ment.
In cultivating potatoes or other hoed
crops one should do all the cultivation
possible before planting. Get the ground
mellow and as free from weeds as possi-
BILE. Then cultivate often while the crop
IS small. Cultivate more and more shall
low as the season advances. When the
weeds are all killed by early cultivation
there is no call for any but the shallowest
stirring possible, just enough TO keep the
surface from crusting. An inch OF loose
earth prevents excessive drying OF the
soil beneath. Such shallow stirring is
always in order.-New England Farmer.
WHITEWAsHING.
Now that spring has come once again
and that there must needs be some white
washing done, the following will be
found to be good, ii not the best that can
be applied: Take half a bushel Of un-
slaked lime, slake it with boiling soft
water, keep it covered, strain through
fine sieve, add TO it peck Of salt dis
solved in soft water, three pounds Of
ground rice boiled to a thin paste and
stirred in boiling hot; Spanish whiting
half pound, and pound Of glue dis
solved by hanging over fire in a small
vessel inside larger one filled with
ctfir Al lar
days covered from dirt, put it OH hot and
and you will have a white coat that looks
well and wears well.
DOES IT PAY.
"Does poultry-keeping pay?" is always
an open question for discussion among
farmers. One way TO decide this for
yourself would be to invest say $40, the
price Of a good COW, in good fowls, and
then take as much care of them as you
would OF the COW, and keep account of
the expenses and receipts; but remember
that you would not let the cows stable
go a month without being cleaned, nor
wouli you expect it to pick up its own
living. Poultry-keeping does pay, but
how well depends upon the man and his
methods.
THE JERSEY COW.
An Indiana COW, on a test Of seven
y -
milk about 10 quarts, and made twenty
two pounds and six ounces Of butter, the
butter being salted one ounce to the
pound and worked dry. The COW was d
Jersey, and her food consisted, for the
week, of eighJy-tour pounds bran, fifty
pounds corn meal, fifty pounds ground
oats, twelve pounds lnseed meal and 24O
pounds ensiIage.
FARM NOTES.
That farmer is radically wrong when he
buys anything that can be raised on his
place or anything that can De saved from
other productions.
According to the Government crop re-
port for April, the loss of hogs by cholera
was reported at nearly three million-or.
to be exact, 2,g09, ,67l. OF these, 5l9, ,257
died in Iowa alone.
The Southern practice of gathering the
leaves from the cornstalks and curing
them for blade fodder and leaving the
ears on tho stalks until husking time, is
good and profitable one.
The Horticultural Times says that no
orchards or gardens should be without
tOads, as they are great insect killers.
4 hey feed on flies, ants, snails, caterpiI-
lars, moths, beetles, grubs, worms, etc.
Crops do not grow the entire year. but
the livestock can be made TO grow from
one year to another. The food should be
produced Tor winter use, and in quantity
10 permit OF keeping as many animals as
possible.
With dirty COW and a dirty, badly
lighted and ill-ventilated stable, you need
not expect to get pure and wholesome
article OF milk, no matter how well you
may feed and water your COW or how
good a cow you may have.
Watering a tree in dry weather only
vets and crusts the surface. 1! few
inches OF the top surface is removed be-
fore watering, it will last longer; but the
best way OF all is to keep the soil and top
surface constantly mellow.
III you want attractive homes. sleek
ANIMALS, farms with enduring fertility,
healthy bodies, sarvIceaOIe machinery, a
firm. healthy business activity from one
years end TO another, get out of debt
soon as you can and pay as you 20.
The COW which produces 15O pounds of
butter year is like its owner. IL is the
result OF his ignorance. the COW that
can produce $50 pounds is the result of in
teIlIgeDce and OF the latest ideas in breed
ing and feeding. ng.-EX-Governor Hoard,
Lambs can be made TO grow very large.
and III short space OF time, by extra
care. 7. =. Noel OF Rockville, Ind. rc-
ports a weight OF sIXty-seven pounds tor
Il lamb sIxlytlve days old, of the Cheviot
Oxford breed at Wayne, H., belonging
TO breeder there, reached l03 pounds.
An exchange advises building "a grape
arbor or summer house in which you can
sit Sunday afternoons during the heated
season and pour over the contents OF some
favorlte book or magazine. The fruit
Will pay you for the trouble, and you
Will have the comfort as clear profit. We
ought to make ourselves comfortable
when it is possible to do so.
Nitrate of soda is excellent for bringing
the grass out green upon the lawn. After
the lawn has been moved, and just before
a rain, an application Of fifty pounds of
nitrate Of soda, finely ground, will prove
excellent. Recent trials with nitrate Of
soda on grass show that for every tiity
pounds used upon grass land there was
a gain III grass equal to 80 per acre.
The citrus tri-folIate (three-leaved Japan
orangel IS pronounced by Professor Mas
sey OF the Virginia Experiment Station
as being superior TO the Usage orange for
a hedge plant, and that its roots do not
feed over large area OF ground, as is the
case with nearly all OF the hedge plants
now in use. 1t IS scarce, as the plants are
but recently introduced from Japan, but
no doubt the demand Will induce seeds
men TO give it more attention. II is prop
agated from cuttings
There would be less objection to spec
ialties if those pursuing them did not
abandon all other reliances Tor getting a
profitable return from their labor. At the
iirst, at least, the speciality should never
be allowed to take up all the farmers or
fruit-growers' energies. He should not
put all his eggs in one basket. Not heed
ing this rule, thousands have lost all they
had earned by a life OF previous toll. If
you find that you can surely make a
success Of the new crop or method, then
Will be time enough TO depend on it ex-
clusively.